FRIDAY 9 AUGUST 2024.
The theme for the one time exhibition is based on Anna Kornbluh’s book
“Immediacy or The Style of Too Late Capitalism.”
She writes that the way people in the 2020s experience
culture is “Like Uber, but for art.” We lose the ability to make
connections between ideas expressed in art because of the
desire for easy consumption of the art.
Reception to creative expression follows metrics and the
attention of the “audience.”
How can we slow down time in one room?
Shkolnik
& Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Shkolnik’s collaborative effort started way back in their university journeys. In the fall of 2023, both of them took a Digital Photography course, through which they exchanged interests, from her gravitation towards Sophie Calle’s performance art and vulnerable photography to his interest in the intimate, self-contained documentary work of Englishman James Ravilious. Through the intersection and divergence of perspectives they identified between these artists, their art began to explore “how vulnerability, identity, and intimacy invert the gaze.” This interest in intra and interpersonal connection and its manifestation through social interactions around art and art spaces becomes evident in “Immediate Art.” The show stands as a field for experimentation, a complementary exhibition that elaborates on their individual concerns as first sparked during that school term, while searching for answers to the conundrum of attaining genuine engagement between viewers and their work, and in the arts as a whole.
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This plurality of media, influences, and styles, is further explored through the collective identificatory processes of art consumption instigated by the hosts and some of the artists.
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(Basta, 2024)
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UPPER WEST SIDE, NEW YORK, NY, USA
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