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Caribbean Crossroads Series - Space is the Place
Reception: Thursday August 14, 7pm - 10pm
Group exhibition of time based art presents new artwork that resides primarily in memory as opposed to more concrete and tangible art forms.
Exhibition Dates
August 14 - September 25, 2008
Opening Reception
Thursday, August 14, 2008, 6-9pm
Artist Talk
Saturday, August 16, 2008, 2-4pm
Location
3938 N. Miami Avenue
Miami Design District
Miami, FL 33127
305.573.4046
305.573.7675
Diaspora Vibe Gallery is pleased to present a new group exhibition of time-based art by artists based in Miami and throughout the U.S. Featuring time-based art genres including video, installation, sound, and performance, Space is the Place presents new artworks that reside primarily in the memory, as opposed to more concrete and tangible art forms. Curated by Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud, Space is the Place examines the move by many artists to locate meaning in ephemerality, and the social and cultural implications.
Highlights from Space is the Place include a live low frequency radio broadcast by Miami collective Talking Head Transmitters (Eugenia Vargas Pereira and Odalis Valdivieso) on opening night; new sound art by Odie Rynell Cash, Elizabeth Ross, Russell Watson site-specific installations by Miami-based artists Patrick de Castro, Jamilah Abdul-Sabur, Juan Griego; mixed-media works by D. Denenge Akpem, and Rosamond S. King; new video by Rosamary Berríos-Hernandez, Bibi Calderaro, Diana-Sofia Estrada, Fulana (Lisandra Ramos-Grullón, Cristina Ibarra, Andrea Thome, and Marlène Ramírez-Cancio), Claudia Joskowicz, Lara Stein Pardo, and Carolina Vasquez; a film installation by Miami-based artist Dinorah de Jesús Rodríguez; live interactive video feed by New York/ Chicago based artists Inge Hoonte and Michelle Tupko; and sonic sculptures by Brooklyn-based artist Jorge Rojas.
"There is a certain freedom, sense of play, fantasy, and immediacy associated with time-based art that allows artists to reinvent their personal narratives", states guest curator Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud. "This art jumps off the page and walls and exists in real time. These artists actively insert themselves into the foreground, instead of the background, and challenge traditional representations of figure, background, and object." Rosie Gordon-Wallace, Founder and Director of Diaspora Vibe Gallery states, "This is the first time that Diaspora Vibe has devoted a complete exhibition to time-based art. It speaks to a need to address how many artists are actively utilizing these genres to redefine personal definitions of Diaspora, through examinations of their own bodies, geographies and borders. Space is the Place frames the new social and cultural spaces that many artists of color and immigrant artists are creating with time-based art."
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