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A one night collaboration between Craft Alliance and Transversal Project |
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On October 5, Craft Alliance and Transversal Project present Virtual Boundaries, a projected exhibition on the windows of the Craft Alliance Delmar Loop clay studio. Virtual Boundaries juxtaposes two sets of videos, one set curated by Michael Powell and Raphael Lehrer, a Los Angeles designer, and the other culled from the videos featured in Without Boundaries: Transformations in American Craft Exhibition, currently on view in the Delmar Loop Gallery. |
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| Powell and Lehrer chose work by three artists from the Americas, Mana Bernanardes (Brazil), Addoley Dzegede (St. Louis, MO) and Laura Krifka (Los Angeles, CA), focusing on how contemporary artists combine craft, narrative story telling, poetics, and digital media to generate experiences which transcend the traditional boundaries between the virtual and the handmade. In the videos by Margie Jervis (Falls Church, VA), Cliff Garten (Venice, CA) and Ray King (Philadelphia, PA) from Without Boundaries, each artist looks at how their methods have shifted and evolved over the last 25 years of making. -------- "Couched within such a discussion of the virtual, the body, and the felt that flies between, this is a conversation about how the act of making is performed - and how that performance ultimately changes the spaces within which the maker and the viewer move. These are multiplicitous times we live in-the boundaries between artistic practices, between nation states, between people on the street, are being blurred and obliterated. People all over the world are demanding greater transparency and accessibility from the institutions that govern them, and challenging dominant assumptions about the way the world works. As artists-as culture producers, how do we respond to the world, through praxis, in a way that adds to a public discourse about being in the world, in this time? The Transversal Project is a St. Louis arts initiative which focuses on nurturing the dialogue that can exist between artwork and the built environment in which the act of viewing occurs. Via single-night projected exhibitions, context, content, and form come together to create an experience which challenges assumptions about the separation between art and the spaces of daily life." - Michael Powell / transversalproject.com Learn more about Without Boundaries: Transformations in American Craft |
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