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The Game: The Game
January 10–March 25
Amphitheater Gallery
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The Game: The Game takes the form of a dating simulator, pitting you
against six men who are aggressively vying for your attention at a bar. These
characters are based on real-life “seduction coaches” who oer tips and
techniques—ranging from condence building to psychological
manipulation—that teach men how to interact with women for the
primary purpose of quickly engaging in sexual encounters.
Composed entirely of scenarios, techniques, and language from texts and
instructional videos created by these seduction coaches, The Game: The
Game ips the script on the iterative processes of some of the world’s most
prominent pick-up artists. If their techniques are systematically
manipulative, The Game: The Game allows you to tactically explore, expose,
and defuse them. But it also makes you complicit in their frequently
dehumanizing behavior: refusing their advances results in a brief game.
Only by actively consenting to participate in your suitor’s methods—which
can range from cheesy to violent—will you be able to more fully
understand them. The game is at turns funny and alarming, an experience
heightened by a disorienting original score from Xiu Xiu.
Euclid Avenue Gallery Friday, Jan. 19 – Feb. 23, 2018
Dual opening reception Friday, Jan. 19 5:30 – 8 p.m with Rachel
Yurkovich: Black Grass
The Artist Talks: Zac Weinberg, 6:15 p.m. in the Euclid Avenue Gallery
The Artist Talks: Rachel Yurokvich7 p.m. in the Main Gallery
A lampshade is a mediating device, a compromise between functionality and
ornamentation. Glass is a mediating material, simultaneously displaying its
contents for evaluation yet denying touch. The Lampshade Variations is an
exhibition in which utility is combined with futility, the mass-produced with the
bespoke. Zac Weinberg’s series of interconnected sculptures address systems that
enable modern life as we have come to know it. Plumbing, HVAC, natural gas and
agricultural infrastructure serve as formal inspiration for hand-made glass
constructions. Found objects and household items are suspended in these systems
for which they were not originally intended.The Lampshade Variationshighlights
awkward transition of objects as goods into specimens of art, craft and design.
Zac Weinberg earned his BFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred
University (2009) and his MFA from The Ohio State University (2015). Currently, he
is working as a Glass and Sculpture Technician at Bowling Green State University.
Weinberg’s specialty is glass, but he works across mediums – appropriating
archetypical forms, and upturning expectations of archival forms and commodities
Two video works by Puerto Rico-based artists Allora & Calzadilla are on view
at MoMA PS1 as a response to the recent devastating hurricanes in Puerto
Rico. The presentation features Returning a Sound and Under Discussion, both
set on Vieques, an island o the coast of Puerto Rico that was used by U.S. and
NATO forces for military bombing exercises for over 60 years. Returning a
Sound follows an activist named Homar as he traverses the demilitarized
island on a moped with a trumpet welded to the muer, while Under
Discussion features a protagonist circling the island on an overturned
conference table retrotted with an engine and rudder grafted from a small
shing boat. Once scarred with bomb craters and severely contaminated, the
island has now been designated a federal wildlife refuge. The videos
incorporate footage of the island’s stunning landscapes as well as the residual
artifacts and ruins of its military history. Both works address the history and
politics of the island’s landscape in relation to its current status as a place of
transitional geography.
A Window to Sculpture Emerging
Artist Series 2018 Exhibition Zac Weinberg:
The Lampshade Variations
Allora & Calzadilla
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