FAX
Curated by João Ribas
Faxes by over 100 artists sent to the initial showing of FAX at The Drawing Center will form the core of the exhibition, and will include seminal examples of early telecommunications art; and each institution will invite up to twenty additional artists to submit works, which will be presented at successive venues. These works may be transmitted to each participating institution’s working fax line throughout the duration of the exhibition. The active accumulation of information—received in real time, in the exhibition space—will include drawings and texts, and even the inevitable junk faxes from telemarketers and local businesses as well. All the transmitted pages will be archived or displayed together with the active fax machine, which may produce new faxes from invited artists at any moment. The result—an ongoing cumulative project—is a show concerned with ideas of reproduction, obsolescence, distribution, and mediation. Here, reproducible yet erratic production via the fax machine displaces traditional notions of the hand‚ still commonly associated with the medium of drawing, and foreground the role of drawing as a generative process.
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Matt Sheridan Smith, Untitled, 2009.
Artists
Julieta Aranda, John Armleder, Roy Ascott, Tauba Auerbach, Fia Backström, Darren Bader, Cecil Balmond, BANK, Colby Bird, Pierre Bismuth, Barbara Bloom, Mel Bochner, Tobias Buche, Ian Burns, Cabinet Magazine, Etienne Chambaud, Cleopatra’s, Peter Coffin, Jan De Cock, Collage CenterWest, Liz Deschenes, HeHe (Helen Evans & Heiko Hansen), Morgan Fisher, Claire Fontaine, Yona Friedman, Aurélien Froment, Ryan Gander, Wineke Gartz, Liam Gillick, Marisa González, Dan Graham, Joseph Grigely, João Maria Gusmão & Pedro Paiva, Wade Guyton, Skuta Helgason, Charline von Heyl, Matthew Higgs, Eduardo Kac, Matt Keegan, Zoe Keramea, Tom Klinkowstein, Germaine Kruip, Glenn Ligon, Ronald L. Mallett, Jackson Mac Low, Corey McCorkle, Josephine Meckseper, Eric Mitchell, Simon Dybbroe Møller, Olivier Mosset, Warren Neidich, Kambui Olujimi, Serge Onnen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mai-Thu Perret, Michalis Pichler, William Pope.L, Seth Price, Blake Rayne, Tobias Rehberger, Kay Rosen, Amanda Ross-Ho, Pamela Rosenkranz, Arnd Seibert, Matt Sheridan Smith, Sonia Sheridan, Alexandre Singh, Dexter Sinister, Josh Smith, Anne Tardos, Cheyney Thompson, Christian Tomaszewski, Wolfgang Tillmans, Edward Tufte, Stan VanDerBeek, Olav Westphalen, Christopher Williams, Jack Whitten, Johannes Wohnseifer, Cerith Wyn Evansr
Additional Images
FAX installation at The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Installation view of FAX at The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Touring Schedule
Dowd Gallery, State University of New York, College at Cortland
Cortland, New York
September 2, 2010 - October 28, 2010
Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil
Mexico City, Mexico
March 24, 2010 - June 20, 2010
Burnaby Art Gallery
Burnaby, Canada
March 16, 2010 - May 23, 2010
Para/Site Art Space
Hong Kong
February 2, 2010 - April 1, 2010
Torrance Art Museum
Torrance, California
January 14, 2010 - February 20, 2010
Plug In ICA
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
December 12, 2009 - February 21, 2010
Contemporary Museum
Baltimore, Maryland
September 12, 2009 - December 20, 2009
The Drawing Center
New York, NY
April 17, 2009 - July 23, 2009
Related Events
FAX Talk with João Ribas
Burnaby Art Gallery
6344 Deer Lake Avenue
Burnaby, Canada
3:30-5 pm
May 8, 2010
Group FAX
The Drawing Center
35 Wooster Street
New York City
July 25, 2009
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