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ICI Associates in Performance

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ICI Associates, Antoinette LaFarge and Robert Allen, will be performing in Far-Flung follows function October 10th, 11th and 12th at the Experimental Media Performance Lab, Claire Trevor School for the Arts, UC Irvine

“Far-Flung follows function is an original performance work that turns a physical space into a crashing computer whose population of finders, daemons, mice, and the like struggle to avert catastrophe. The environment in which they carry out their labors is ruled by shifting weather and time of day data from live internet feeds. Thirty cities around the world take turns choreographing the lights, projections, sound, and performers themselves. As the piece unfolds, typical computer user actions such as mouse management are transformed into playful and sometimes absurd movements, triggering cascades of accidents, errors, and crossed signals. Welcome to the commedia of the motherboard.”

ICI Friend, Pablo Helguera in exhibition

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ICI friend, Pablo Helguerra’s Librería ‘Donceles’ is on view at Kent Fine Art LLC, New York.

“Pablo Helguera’s Librería Donceles is an itinerant bookstore of ten thousand used books, in Spanish, of virtually every subject—literature, poetry, art, history, science, medicine, anthropology, economics, and politics, as well as children’s books [that] will literally be the only Spanish-language used-book store in the city.”

“To create Librería Donceles, Helguera assembled donations of books from individuals and groups in Mexico City and elsewhere, offering his artwork in exchange for boxes of books and producing an Ex Libris for each donor that acknowledges the particular provenance of every volume. Librería Donceles—whose title is inspired by the old bookstores that line Donceles Street in Mexico City’s historic center—will foster the open-ended and unhurried environment that draws people to used-book stores, where customers enter without a particular title in mind and instead roam the shelves with the hope of spontaneously discovering a book that beckons them.” Visitors to the Librería Donceles—Spanish-speakers and non-Spanish-speakers alike—will be welcomed in this spirit and invited to a brief consultation with the artist or an associate. Once their interests and “bibliological profile” (as Helguera has described it) have been assessed, they will be given suggestions on where to look. But visitors ultimately make their own choices. Only one book per customer will be allowed, in exchange for a pay-what-you-wish donation. Proceeds from these transactions will be donated in turn to local Spanish reading programs for immigrant communities.”

“By rendering visibility to the Spanish language in an American city, Librería Donceles affirms the importance of the cultural dimension of the language and raises questions about how Spanish might be reconnected to its diaspora, as well as integrated into the broader cultural life of New York. For Helguera, the idea of the “double removal” of a book, indeed of any object, is an important one, with both personal and historical resonances. Conjuring the spirit of L.P. Hartley when he wrote “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there,” the books of Libreria Donceles are messengers from other times, places, and lives. With their public and private histories, the books await new lives, new meanings, as they pass on to new owners.”

Exhibition runs  from September 12 – November 8, 2013

ICI Associates in Collaboration

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4 Hands ( A Suite) #1,
mixed media on paper 22 x 30 inches

Associates Antoinette LaFarge and Christel Dillbohner recently met at the Berkeley chapter of the ICI for an intensive residency called Seeing thru – Durchblicke schaffen.

They split their field research into two halves:

The first half explored possibilities for creating a modular system to generate figures and backgrounds without repetitive drawing. Using ink, paint, and acetate, they developed a variant on cell animation techniques.

The second half was a Gemeinschaftsbilder (collaborative drawing) workshop, during which they created four finished works on paper, one of which is shown here.

ICI Friends from Rise Industries in Exhibition

ICI-BLOGfuture_Imperfect-wWorks created by Michele Jaquis and  Jeremy J. Quinn during their period at the Institute of Culture Inquiry, as well as solo and collaborative works by other members of Rise Industries, dealing with concepts of time and perception or the structure of time, are being featured in the show Past Tense, Future Imperfect, which opens this Saturday, July 20th, from 7-10pm, at Art Share Los Angeles.

Art Share L.A. is located in the Artist District in downtown Los Angeles,
801 E 4th Place, 90013

Show runs until September 1