ART WORK:
A National Conversation about Art Labor and Economics

A project by Temporary Services

Jan 23 – Feb 27, 2010
Opening Saturday Jan 23rd 7-10pm

SKYDIVE is pleased to announce the distribution and exhibition of ART WORK; A National Conversation about Art Labor and Economics. Temporary Services is an independent, Chicago based collective comprised of Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer. Art Work is a newspaper and website that will temporarily use Skydive as it distribution hub. Consisting of writings from artists, activists and academics on the topic of working amidst depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. Come by to pick up a free copy.

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PREVIOUS EXHIBITION:

AT THE SEAMS...
Lynne Harlow and Brett Davidson
curated by Ariane Roesch
July 7, 2009 - August 15, 2009
Opening 7/7/09, 7 - 10 PM
9 PM: Special collaborative muscial performance by Chin Xaou Ti Won with the artists
At the Seams… two places collide, combine, and connect. In a time of reduction and down-sizing, there is a power in simple gestures, such as a stitch, a word, a piece of tape, a draped fabric. This exhibition is a culmination of various media and will feature the book Another Somewhere, the first SKYDIVE publication.

Lynne Harlow’s installation at SKYDIVE essentially is dictated by the architecture of the standard dropped ceiling tiles office environment of the SKYDIVE exhibition space. A piece of sheer fluorescent orange fabric arcs through the space, enforced by metallic golden tape that continues the ceiling tile grid on the wall through the space and into the adjacent spaces as well as marking several places throughout Houston. Brett Davidson’s text reflects on varies places, situations and people. Set in context of quotes, the individual stories muse on situations that are simple in essence yet present a critical commentary on our way of being. Both text and image will be presented together in the book Another Somewhere, available for purchase at SKYDIVE.