This show needs you
I ran into Lori Gordon again yesterday. I think it’s interesting how the universe continues to offer opportunities for connection. She’s showing her interactive text paintings at the ICA and in a strorefront window space on First Street.
exhibition announcement for This show needs you
The ICA is currently exhibiting This show needs you which explores work that emphasizes the collective social experience (March 28-May 17, 09). Artists in the exhibition respond to our world by creating work that asks the viewer to engage in a shared experience, and to be a part of the process.
Sound familure? I wrote about How Fast Your World Is Changing a week or so ago, and this exhibit at the ICA is along a similar thread in offering the viewer the potential to participate in creating something new from the experience.
Lori Gordon’s “Believe in Me Like I Believe in You” in a storefront window on First Street.
This show at the ICA is larger in scale and scope than that at Ampersand, and as such, will take me a bit longer to digest and make sense of. In fact, I think it’s necessary to visit this exhibit again with some time to spend, as I can see that the deeper I dive in, the richer the experience will be.
Many of the artworks are off site, as part of The Distributed Exhibition, which moves art into private homes and businesses in the neighborhood and require an appointment to view them. As such, they were a little hard to make sense of from the ICA and requires a time commitment during daytime hours.
One piece on view in the ICA gallery is, How have you been an artist today? involves scheduling an interview with the artist, Michael Smit for a lunchtime conversation, another involves artist Linda Montano sitting in silence in her project Re-Seeing Blindfold:7, for the duration of the exhibit. She even invites you to sit with her. In another, a group of artists invites viewers to assist them each afternoon in their bio-active installation of preserved lemons in Lemon Everlasting Backyard Battery, 2008.
Lemon Everlasting Backyard Battery, 2008
This show features artwork that extends beyond traditional borders and sprawls out into the community at large. It’s no wonder I ran into Lori Gordon here. It seems just the type of art she is interested in participating in.
The ICA is located at 560 South First Street in San Jose.
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