Dog. Piss. Protection. Boards.
(Shapes Without Names exhibition #2)
with Sofia Duchovny, Andrew de Freitas, Lars Holdhus,
Martin Lukáč, Estrid Lutz Émile Mold, Sandra Mujinga,
Elena Radice, Aurora Sander, Daniel Stempfer
leave a car parked on the streets in a Beijing hutong
return to find it covered in dust the morning after
It has been almost a year since we took the photos, but look closer, the cracks
and surfaces will reveal themselves in a form where time is lost.
100% zoom please. Stream the 4K into your retina.
dust—gloss—grease Repeat
It felt like attaching spam to some second hand pieces of street junk.
We installed the works onto boards that people place in front of car wheels to protect them from dog piss. Our hands got dirty. The works surfaced and often disappeared at the same rapid speed.
Sometimes the cars drove off and the works were left behind with the boards, protecting nothing. Someone partially ripped off another work, as if in protest.
Bits laid nearby on the road. Dogs still pissed on their favorite spots, and soon
the surviving works became so trashed that no one bothered to remove them.
The surrounding noise quickly soaked into the exhibition, and at this stage, the works were no longer works but collapsing leftovers of models for the models
to be rendered on your screen.
Dog. Piss. Protection. Boards. is the final form of the Dog. Piss. Protection. Attachments. group show that took place in the Dongsi hutong in Beijing on
May 4, 2016 as part of Martin Kohout’s residency at the I:Project Space. The exhibiting artists are Sofia Duchovny, Andrew de Freitas, Lars Holdhus, Martin Lukáč, Sandra Mujinga, Elena Radice, Aurora Sander and Daniel Stempfer.
Created by Martin Kohout in collaboration with Christina Gigliotti.
Supported by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (http://www.ifa.de), I:Project
Space, Beijing (http://yi-projectspace.org), and Polansky Gallery, Prague (http://polanskygallery.com).
List of works:
Dome$tic feat. Man’s Best Friend — Andrew de Freitas
Fred Flintstone / Barney Rubble — Aurora Sander
Untitled (Teflon Anyone?) — Daniel Stempfer
Una Saga Mexicana // Vol. 0 //
Through the Planet — Elena Radice
Sanity Check — Estrid Lutz & Émile Mold
DB 5C C4 96 E0 A4 52 6C 02 B5 BE BB 9C 03 27 B8 F3 9B DD
CF 67 39 E6 B2 BD 08 DB 38 30 7F 54 7F — Lars Holdhus
Untitled — Martin Lukáč
Shy, Sometimes Playful — Sandra Mujinga
Extended Expressive — Sofia Duchovny
