Calendar and Events
All events take place at Centraltrak, 800 Exposition Ave. Dallas, Texas, 75226, 214-824-9302
Exhibitions – (archive)
Ech_o, a video exhibition
curated by Mary Benedicto
Curated by U.T. Dallas graduate Mary Benedicto, ech_o is an exhibition of video art in which new and old technology unite in a tour de force of pictures, patterns and images. Artists use video cameras and computers as though paintbrushes of yore as electronic equipment become tools for self-expression.
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Geomorph: Rethinking Landscape
August 16 - September 15, 2008
A mixed-media show focusing on varied representations and embodiments of “landscape.”
Artists include Peter Ligon, Mark Schatz, Lisa Nersesova, Lanie DeLay, and Jim Malone.
Peter Ligon, Panorama, 2007
Mark Schatz, Googling Mackinac, 2007
Mark Schatz, Perpetual Motion, 2006
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Ludic Space: Faith Gay and Ruben Nieto
September 20 - November 17, 2008
The work of sculptor Faith Gay and painter Ruben Nieto transforms everyday space into “ludic space,” or “play space.” It comes in a spectrum of bright colors. Using toys in unexpected and unorthodox ways, both artists collide abstraction into fanciful play.
Ruben Nieto, Naos 1525, 2007 Faith Gay, Untitled, 2005
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Vicious Pink
November 29, 2008 - January 20, 2009
“From frill to foe hitting the norms of pink in the head.” Curated by Mary Benedicto, this exhibition pushes pink from the subversive to the hyperreal. Artists enlist pink materials to the hilt while straddling the line between high art and camp. Vicious Pink hopes to assert that high art and camp can co-exist. The show offers thoughtful commentary on the use of pink through symbolic references, material and design.
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Lectures
ech_o Exhibition Panel Discussions:
Process and Symbolic Content in Motion
A series of panel discussions led by the artists on the subject of video and new media art!
THURSDAY, June 26th, 7 p.m.
Robert Flowers, Brian Fridge, Garman Herigstad, Greta Poulsen,
John Davenport, Tony Vincenti
THURSDAY, July 10th, 7 p.m.
Kim Smith, Frank Dufour, LeeAnn Harrington, Paul Slocum,
Kyle Kondas, Ayman Alamoudi,
THURSDAY, July 24th, 7 p.m.
Max Kazemzadeh, Jesse Meraz, Randall Garrett, Erik Tosten,
Christi Nielsen, Mary Benedicto
FRIDAY, July 25th, 8 p.m.
Digital Kinesis 01: An evening of digital video with
visiting artist Gregg Biermann.
Kinetic energy emission from the screen direct to the occipital lobes may best describe
Gregg Biermann’s digital work which has its roots in the avant-garde structural film tradition.
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May 22,2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Peter Anderson of Anderson Anderson Architecture,
San Francisco
Partners and brothers Mark Anderson and Peter Anderson started Anderson Anderson Architecture as a design-build construction company in 1984. Mark and Peter Anderson work together as the lead designers directing all of the firm’s projects, working closely with our clients and collaborators. Working directly with manufacturers and government agencies in the United States and Japan, Anderson Anderson has designed and built numerous prefabrication systems creatively exploring new construction technologies and affordable building methods. Related work on materials and manufacturing systems has extended into various projects in furniture and product design, and in industry consulting on a variety of creative design, marketing, business strategy, manufacturing and construction issues. Coauthored by Anderson and Anderson, Prefab Prototypes: Site-Specific Design for Offsite Construction was published by Princeton Architectural Press in 2006. Designed by a team of students from an architectural studio the Andersons taught at the University of California, Berkeley, “Lifebean” and “White Hot Orange” are exhibited in False Space and Time of the Apartment.
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May 8, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Nathalie Wolberg
Architect based in Paris, France
French architect Nathalie Wolberg and artist in resident at Centraltrak will discuss her architectural designs that engage space in ways that blur the boundaries between furniture, floor, and wall. Ms. Wolberg’s “Habiter dessus dessous” recalls “the function of the oblique” conceptualized by the French architect-theoretician team Claude Parent and Paul Virilio in the 1960s. Ms. Wolberg’s is a project in which floor modules tip up, open and curve to provide interior space and comfy zones in which to stretch out and relax. A video of Ms. Wolberg’s “Habiter dessus dessous” is part of the inaugural exhibition at Centraltrak, False Space and Time of the Apartment.
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May 1, 2008 at 7:00 p.m.
Warchitecture, Andrew Herscher, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan
The term “warchitecture” emerged in Sarajevo as a name for the catastrophic destruction of architecture during the 1992-1996 siege of the city. Blurring the conceptual border between “war” and “architecture,” the term provides a frame to critique dominant accounts of wartime architectural destruction and to bring the interpretive protocols of architecture to bear upon that destruction. But reflection on warchitecture can also open up new ways to examine and understand not only violence against architecture, but also the violence of architecture and the architecture of violence. Where does architecture end and violence begin? How to connect architecture "here" with war "there"? How can a politics against war inform a politics for architecture? These and related questions prompt warchitecture's examination.
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Events
