Featuring work by:
Josh Blackwell
Enid Baxter Blader
Todd Bourret
Gary Cannone
Barbara Choit
Charles Irvin
Mary Jeys & Jesse Suchmann / Brooklyn Torch
Jenelle Covino
Lisa Hanawalt
Chuck Jones
Juie Lequin
Jill Newman
Brian O'Connell
Bill Roundy
Aeron Bergman & Alejandra Salinas
Jen Schwarting
Annie Shaw
Jacob Weinstein
Information Economy is an exhibition of the variety of ways that artists manage information in their lives. Managing, encoding, and decoding the staggering amount of stimuli, tasks and demands in our lives takes immense time and resources. How do we economize these efforts? How is energy channeled and communication achieved in the most efficient means? The artists in Information Economy present different ways of approaching these questions in their artwork. Some attempt to develop strategies for simply dealing with the sheer volume of information in our lives, such as Gary Cannone' and Charles Irvin's carefully considered ultimate set-list for the band Foreigner; Barb Choit's broadcasting of extremely localized time and temperature; Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas tower of all the archival media of the artwork, and Chuck Jones' hypnotic, frenzied video of all of the images he has downloaded over the past decade.
Others look at how to be efficient with their time and attention,
including Jill Newman's dual purpose curtain that is also a painting;
Todd Bourret and Brian O'Connell's list of materials needed for their
upcoming show at DAC; and Julie Lequin's video True Stories, in which she re-enacts the advice she has been given on how to manage her life.
Bill Roundy and Annie Shaw use their art almost as journalism: Shaw
through re-purposing work-for-hire street flyers, Roundy in his
comic-strip column "Bar Scrawl," in which he patronizes and then reviews Brooklyn-area watering-holes. Similarly, Jen Schwarting's
cubicle-divider referencing sculpture looks into the boundaries of
opportunity between politics and gender. Enid Baxter Blader also has an investigative bent, as she explores the residual energies left over from an abandoned Army base in her video "The Ord."
An alternative to our existing economic system is proposed by Mary Jeys through her project to create a local currency, the Brooklyn Torch. Josh Blackwell is likewise looking to alter our experiences with everyday items, though rather than cash, he is re-purposing the common plastic bag. Blackwell will use the DAC gallery as a collection center for the bags, which will then be transformed into his artwork.
Information Economy is the inaugural exhibition in DAC's new home at 111 Front Street, suite 212. Throughout 2011 the theme of Economy will be explored at DAC in exhibitions, performances, workshops and talks.
DAC will participate in the February 3, 2011 First Thursday gallery walk event.
Gallery Time and Temp: timeandtemp.org
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