INVISIBLE VENUE

Hello! My Name is...

 

"Hello! My Name is..."

A site-specific intervention for the College Art Association Conference Chicago, with contributions from Chris Basmajian, Michael Damm, Anthony Discenza, Charles Gute, Jamie Hilder, Scott Oliver, Susan O'Malley, Zachary Royer Scholz, Zefrey Throwell, Christine Wong Yap

February 10 - 13, 2010

College Art Association 98th Annual Conference

Hyatt Regency Chicago

151 East Wacker Drive
Chicago, Illinois 60601

Public Art Dialogue Session:
Site Variations: The Shifting Grounds of Public Art
Featuring "Invisible Venue(s): Alternatives to the Institution" an overview of Invisible Venue by Christian L. Frock
Friday, February 12, 9:30am - Noon
Regency D, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chaired by Dr Harriet F. Senie and Dr Cher Krause Knight

(Meant to be) Lost and Found

"(Meant to be) Lost and Found"
Displaced-correspondence-as-public-art by Anthony Discenza, Charles Gute, Jonn Herschend, and Jamie Hilder

October 22 - 26, 2009

All sorts of places
New York, New York

Project Description: For this collaboration with Invisible Venue (IV) Anthony Discenza, Charles Gute, Jonn Herschend, and Jamie Hilder have each created artworks that resemble correspondence. Each artist was invited to create work inspired by the accidental intimacy and curiosity of discovering someone's lost communication, such as the discovery of a handwritten letter blowing in the wind.  In turn, 100 reproductions of these pieces of 'correspondence' will be left in random public spaces* throughout the city to mediate chance encounters with an unquantifiable public audience. 

You Don't Know San Francisco

 

Introducing www.invisiblevenue.com. Invisible Venue (IV) is an online exhibition venue and forum for exchange between artists, curators and a far-reaching public. IV develops collaborative relationships to exhibit new media artwork online for live presentation and discussion in remote locations.

Invisible Venue’s first online exhibition “You Don’t Know San Francisco” presents the work of San Francisco Bay Area artists Tommy Becker, Nathan Burazer, Yin-Ju Chen, Catherine Czacki, Melissa Day, Anthony Discenza, RL Jablo, Skyler Thomas, Tim Sullivan, Sieglinde Van Damme, and Heidi Zumbrun. IV aims to facilitate a broader understanding of artists from various locales. Specifically the first exhibition presents a group of artists whose creative practices jar with broadly accepted notions about San Francisco Bay Area art and the ubiquitous brand of graffiti artists from the widely recognized Mission School.

The launch of Invisible Venue and the first online exhibition “You Don’t Know San Francisco” will be promoted in San Francisco, New York and London during October 2005—a public screening will coincide with the third annual Frieze Art Fair in London.

PUBLIC SCREENING Invisible Venue presents “You Don’t Know San Francisco” Friday, 21 October, 7pm

315 Cardamom Building 31 Shad Thames London SE 1 2YR

London Underground: London Bridge or Tower Hill

With thanks to Aaron Stienstra, Dai Nakabayashi, Catharine Clark, Sophie von Olfers and Beltran Obregon.

Click .mov files to download videos: Tommy Becker "Pulling Down the Sky to Give You the Sun" Downloadpulling320x240.mov Nathan Burazer "Outburst" Download outburst.mov Yin Ju Chen "Untitled 3" Download untitled3.mov Catherine Czacki "Centurion" Download centurion.mov Melissa Day "How Great Thou Art" Download howgreat.mov  Anthony Discenza "Controlled Release" Download release.mov R L Jablo "My name is..." Download myname.mov Tim Sullivan "Box Drag" Download boxdrag.mov Skyler Thomas "Inconvenient" Download inconvenient.mov Sieglinde Van Damme "Prayer" Download prayer.mov Heidi Zumbrun "Untitled" Download whitei.mov