Exhibition Program
We exhibit artists’ work in our main gallery eleven months a year, and often in our two other public spaces as well. All of the work we exhibit is developed at Location One, much of it by artists in our residency program.
While Location One seeks to nurture a critical awareness of the implications of technology for contemporary society in both our artists-in-residence and our audiences, and on a practical level, to introduce artists to the possibilities of new media in their art practice, the work we exhibit covers a full spectrum: painting, sculpture, video, digital, audio, installation and performance. It is the convergence of artists working in all these areas which is of paramount interest to us. We believe that collaborations across multiple disciplines, and conversations from many perspectives, produce rich insights and raise critical questions.
CURRENT EXHIBITION:
Nina Sobell: Internal Message Search
April 18-26, 2008
Wet Eye, by Aoife Collins
April 24th - June 14th, 2008
UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS:
Jean Shin - new works
June 2008
SELECTED PAST EXHIBITIONS:
TRACEY MOFFATT: Social Edit
February 26 - April 19, 2008
curated by Eric C. Shiner
Searching for Keywords, by Xu Tan
November 28, 2007 - February 9, 2008
What We Saw Upon Awakening, by Lida Abdul
October 4 - November 17, 2007
Crater New York: A Lunar Drawing Contest, by Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese
September 6-26
Nine International Artists Exhibit at Location One
June 2 - July 28, 2007
For a complete list of our past exhibitions, please visit our archive.
Virtual Minefield, by Martha Rosler
April 13 - May 25, 2007
StarLine Tours, Jeanette Doyle
April 13 - May 25, 2007
IRP Exhibition, Winter 2007
February 13th - March 31st, 2007with Natalie Bewernitz & Marek Goldowski, Teresa Henriques, Agnieszka Kalinowska,
Nina Katchadourian, Rie Kawakami, Alessandro Nassiri, Kaori Tazoe, Virginie Yassef.
In the Sky
November 21st 2006 - January 27th 2007Solo show installation piece by former artists-in-residence, Leesa and Nicole Abahuni.
Artbots: The Robot Talent Show
10-12 Nov 2006
Curated by Douglas Irving Repetto.
ArtBots was an international art exhibition for robotic art and art-making robots. Featuring artists Jason Van Anden, Brett Doar, Yoav Bergner and LoVid, Bob Huott & Eric Singer, Mark Esper, Ranjit Bhatnagar, James Powderly and Jonah Brucker-Cohen.
Cliff Evans, The Road to Mount Weather
14 Sep-4 Nov 2006
Curated by Pieranna Cavalchini, curator of contemporary art, Isabella Stewart Gardner MuseumA grand, three-channel moving image installation/projection (15 minute loop) by Cliff Evans. “Mount Weather” is a personal artifice assembled from ideas and images found across the socio-environment of the Internet. Its form is reminiscent of historic epics as represented in cinema and in grand panoramic paintings, while also mimicking the ubiquitous technology used for website banner advertisements. Catalog is available.Sponsored by Location One and the Peter Norton Family Foundation.
Lukasz Skapski, Video and Photographic Works
11 Apr-20 May 2006
Debut solo show in New York of Polish artist whose work concerns cultural and political issues common to many national groups: the emotional ambivalence of women and nursing mothers, people’s views of the environment in which they live, the legacy of Communist practices in farming communities, as well as the practice and tradition of film itself. In all his work, the artist demonstrates an uncanny ability for capturing people’s circumstances on film and video.
Installation sponsored by Location One and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Carlos Amorales and Javier Viver, Manimal and The Audience
8 Mar-1 Apr 2006
Mexican artist Carlos Amorales and former artist-in-residence Javier Viver and exhibit video works “Manimal” and “The Audience.” “Manimal” (2005, 6 mins.) is a black and white video animation about the transformation of animal emotions into human rationality. “The Audience” (2005, video and theater chairs, 4.5 minutes) is a three-channel video installation based on El Grand Teatro del Mundo.
Sponsored by Location One.
Javier Viver’s installation was supported in part by Consulate General of Spain in New York.
Slowscan Soundwave (III) and The Telaesthetic Finger
11 Oct-26 Nov 2005
Curated by Heather Wagner
“Slowscan Soundwave (III)” was an immense, interactive sound sculpture by artist and dorkbot instigator Douglas Repetto, consisting of enormous strips of sound-sensitive transparent mylar strewn from the ceiling, motors, and custom electronics. “The Telæsthetic Finger”, a selection of works by Kevin Centanni, Atsushi Nishijima and Heather Wagner, function as acoustic crab traps, devices that are cast out and reeled back in, filled with booty…or not.Sponsored by Location One.Open Stitch
7 Sep-1 Oct 2005Co-Curated by Claire Montgomery and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria15 artists spent seven days at Location One working intensely and in restricted conditions to produce wearable creations with only the tools and materials provided to them. A cross between art and fashion, the project temporarily removed the gallery from the appointed function of “showing” and moved it to the world of artistic production, raising questions about the circumstances, both physical and mental, of the creative process. Participating artists: Ayah Bdeir, Jessie Cohan, Barry Doss, Stefany Anne Golberg, George Hudacko, Selma Karaca, Ryan Kennedy, Miranti Kisdarjono, Katherine Moriwaki, David Quinn, Chris Sanders, Davina Semo, and Wikiwikicorp, a collective that includes Jean Barberis, Aya Kakeda and Sebastien Sanz de Santamaria.
Commissioned by Location One.
Chris Csikszentmihalyi, Skin & Control
22 Sep 2004-26 Feb 2005
Rising out of the gallery floor and disappearing into the walls, two large-scale installations by MIT artist Chris Csikszentmihalyi explores two central technologies of our late industrial society: the airplane and the control panel, rehearsing our dependence on complex technologies and the vulnerability they engender. “Skin” was an aluminum cylinder, the fuselage of a Boeing 737 that emerges from the gallery floor, stopped in the act of flying. “Control” was composed of panels, roughly modeled on those used in Chernobyl, that wend their way through the gallery. Catalogue is available.
Commissioned by Location One.
Victoria Vesna, Nano Mandala
15 December 2004-29 January 2005
An installation by media artist Victoria Vesna, with nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski. It consisted of a video projected onto a disk of sand, 8 feet in diameter. Visitors could touch the sand as images were projected in evolving scale from the molecular structure of a single grain of sand to the recognizable image of the complete mandala, and then back again. This coming together of art, science and technology is a modern interpretation of an ancient tradition that consecrates the planet and its inhabitants to bring about purification and healing. The sand mandala seen in this installation was created by Tibetan Buddhist monks from the Gaden Lhopa Khangtsen Monastery in India. Sound artist Anne Niemetz developed the soundscape derived from sounds recorded during the creative process of making the sand mandala.
Creative Intelligence
20-27 May 2004
New work from the MIT Visual Arts Program featuring work by Carrie Bodle, Ross Cisneros, Clementine Cummer, Lukasz Lysakowski, and Hiroharu Mori.
Muntadas, On Translation: On View
30 Mar-15 May 2004
On View, a new work from the On Translation Series, conceived and shot in Japan, post-produced in New York at Location One, is about viewing, looking… waiting… as contemporary rituals. “On Translation”, a series of work begun in Helsinki in 1995, groups a set of thirty works reflecting on the concept of translation and interpretation from a perspective that encompasses cultural, linguistic, political and economic issues produced and presented in different contexts and mediums.
12 Sep-30 Dec 2003
Curated by Nathalie Anglès
The first US solo installation by French artist Claude Closky. “Television” focused on the production of signs and systems that articulate the world in a society driven by consumerism. “Television” was a caricatured reflection of the web and television networks that questioned their rapid and continuous growth, regardless of the information they broadcast.
Sponsored by Location One. This exhibition was made possible through the generous additional support of Étant donnés, The French-American Fund for Contemporary Art; Cultural Services of the French Embassy (US); and DICREAM-CNC, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France.
Gozo Yoshimasu, Poetic Spectrum: Images, Objects and Words of Gozo Yoshimasu
3-23 Sep 2003
The New York debut exhibition and special performance reading by renowned Japanese poet Gozo Yoshimasu, recent recipient of the Purple Ribbon Award from the Japanese Government for his significant cultural contributions. “Poetic Spectrum” presented Yoshimasu’s photographs and copperplate calligraphies for the first time to a New York audience, and brought the legendary poet to New York to perform after a ten-year absence.
Sponsored by Location One with generous support from The Japan Foundation.
Saoirse Higgins & Simon Schiessl, Mechanism No. 1: War & The Doom_Machine
9 Jul-2 Aug 2003
Two new interactive works by Saoirse Higgins and Simon Schiessl addressing our concerns and fears in the world as we embrace technology and its powers, both good and bad. “Mechanism No. 1″ is an interactive video projection examining the critical moments leading to war. “The Doom_Machine” takes a daily measure of how close we are to a possible end to the world via related sites on the Internet and a doom voting website.
Sponsored by Location One.
Signal to Noise
10 Sep-19 Oct 2002
Curated by Heather Wagner
A group exhibition featuring works that explored the relationship of sound and light waves. Not merely illustrations of audio-visual synaesthesia, several of the pieces act literally as transducers, that is, devices that convert input energy of one form into output energy of another. Work exhibited by Atsushi Nishijima, Erwin Redl, Laurie Spiegel, and Heather Wagner.
Sponsored by Location One.
Xu Tan, Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)
29 May-29 Jun 2002
Xu Tan’s debut solo exhibition in New York City. “Qing Hua Porcelain (Blue & White)” was a new video/sound installation in which Xu Tan explored the differences in American and Chinese cultural interpretations of what is “real” and what is “fake”. Although each culture distinguishes and classifies “real” from “fake”, neither clearly defines these terms.
Commissioned by Location One.
François Bucher, White Balance (to think is to forget differences)
10 Jan-2 Mar 2002
“White Balance (to think is to forget differences)” by Columbian artist François Bucher, is a meditation after 9-11 and an effort to uncover the geographies of power, the frontiers of privilege. It revisits this problem from different angles, creating short circuits of meaning which are hosted by improbable audiovisual matches. Media and internet footage is intermixed with images shot in downtown Manhattan before and after the September 11th attacks.
Underwritten by Location One. Additional funding was provided by The New York City Media Arts Grant of The Jerome Foundation.
Keith Sonnier, O2 = O3; Fractured Oxygen = Ozone
20 Sep-28 Nov 2001
Exhibition by internationally celebrated artist Keith Sonnier comprised of six pieces that resulted from Sonnier’s investigations into the work of Nikola Tesla during the period 1990-1997. The Tesla series “captures” raw electricity in its most spectacular form by stringing copper wires and causing the current to flow and spark between them.
Sponsored by Location One.
Life After the Squirrel
9 Sep-8 Oct 2000
Location One’s first exhibition featured many European and American artists including Janet Cardiff, Mason Cooley, Filipe Miguel, Aernout Mik, John Neff, Vincent Pruden, relax (Marie-Antoinette Chiarenza, Daniel Hauser, Daniel Croptier), Pipilotti Rist, Ugo Rondinone, Greg Simsic, Kirsten Stoltman, Tony Tasset and Pia Wergius.
Sponsored by Location One with additional generous support by The Mondriaan Foundation.