DATA MINING
Wallspace
July 6 - August 5, 2006
Conrad Bakker
Jay Chung
Dora Garcia
Chris Moukarbel
Karen Reimer
Gerhard Richter
[The voice of] Robert Smithson
Donelle Woolford
JAY CHUNG pushes the limits of perceptibility in his work,
often leaving key aspects of his projects open-ended or unknown.
¸Seeing" or ¸knowing" his work, then, requires a certain amount
of faith (optimism) and trust (risk). In describing the motivation
that compels any of us to do things as part of a work, Nickel
Tour, that was executed in London last year, Chung and
his frequent collaborator, Q Takeki Maeda, inplicitly desribe
the feeling we have when engaging his/their work: "Tour guides
will ask for attention and a certain degree of docility, but
they also allow for passivity, graciously leaving one to rest
easy in the security of a predetermined course. Given the
opportunity to indulge in abstraction, one might drift off
to find the personification of one¨s interests and motivations
in such a guide. Certainly the idea of this figure — a
version of which we are more or less discreetly following
at all times in our lives, otherwise we would get nothing
doneębecomes more distinct at times; yet it never becomes
so concrete that it stops being an apparition. One isn't being
so much led as projecting something ahead of oneself to follow.
Who does it resemble? How and in which direction does it move?
For this show, Chung is distributing The Final Unfettering,
an admiring plagiarism of Dadaist Walter Serner¨s
Handbrevier fˇr Hochstapler (Handbook for Swindlers).
All works except Star Machine are in collaboration with Q Takeki Maeda
Links
www.galleriadartemoderna.bo.it
www.moscowbiennale.ru
www.kunstaspekte.de
