Un/Certain Place: A selection of some exhibits happening outside the white cube for the online viewer

Un/Certain Place

A selection of some exhibits happening outside the white cube for the online viewer.
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Pretty Days: MIA

Pretty Days is an exhibition series using a group of industrial tents as its primary platform. These structures are set up in various locations and feature opening receptions where visitors can experience works installed inside the tents as well as the exterior environments. The project embraces how artworks can be nuanced and emboldened by location as well as how tents with specific conventions can be repurposed into contextual containers for these works. In Pretty Days: MIA, a series of exhibitions come together around the city of Miami. It featured work by Michael Assiff, Flannery Silva, Joshua Abelow, Edward Shenk, Loney Abrams and Johnny Stanish. Pretty Days: MIA was also organized in collaboration with Anna Frost and Bas Fisher Invitational (BFI)

http://prettydays.life/

Hot Mud

In Hot Mud, JAG projects showcase its debut group exhibition with 35 outdoor sculptures, dispersed amongst the sprawling grounds of a farm. The artworks are installed in fields, woods, winding creeks, barns as well as an accompanying exhibition of indoor installations inside the grounds farm-house. Bobo (NYC) has also contributed a program of 15 acts of music, poetry and performance making of Hot Mud a festival.

http://jag-projects.com/

Cruising

Organized by Daniel Ilnatti, Cruising took place on M/S Mariella on the Baltic Sea between Stockholm and Helsinki in March 2017. Within the duration of the 40-hour journey, 16 artists were invited to use both private and public spaces on the cruise ship as settings for the artworks in an attempt to portray the feeling of being at sea, being on board, being trapped or being free.

https://www.ofluxo.net/cruising-at-ms-mariella-curated-by-daniel-iinatti-2/

States of Flux

States of Flux evolves around four sites as its decentred stages: a hotel in the tourist resort Sunny Beach on the Black Sea; the rooftop premises of Swimming Pool in Sofia, with an empty pool; a hot spring in a mountain village near the city; and, far from the South of Europe, a self-service laundry in Frankfurt am Main. These semi-public places form the spine of an imaginary geography of flux. States of Flux was curated by Viktoria Draganova and Gergana Todorova and hosted by Swimming Pool, Sofia.

http://swimmingpoolprojects.org/

Blue Plate Special

“Blue Plate Special” is a term used in American diners and cafes, primarily in the first half of the 20th century, referring to a low-priced meal that changes daily. Popular belief has its origins in the Depression, during which a manufacturer started making plates with separate sections for each part of a meal—like a frozen dinner tray—it seems that for whatever reason they were only available in the color blue. A dictionary entry around the same time indicates that the blue plates were, more specifically, inexpensive divided plates that were decorated with a “blue willow” or similar blue pattern. The group exhibition Blue Plate Special reunited the work of 8 artists at New York’s hidden treasure, the Dead Horse Bay, on October 1, 2016

https://www.ofluxo.net/blue-plate-special-at-dead-horse-bay-new-york/

Hüttendasein

Rather than a formal presentation of a group show, Hüettendasein is an installation within which the works of artists are included. Based on the original concept design by Veit Laurent Kurz and Ben Schumacher, the exhibition gathered the work of 26 international individuals within a cardboard version of an Alpine hut that was made by the artists in the backyard of an apartment building in Brooklyn on May, 2016. While a typically rural dwelling, the hut has also come to symbolize existential retreat or a philosophical space, and in this respect becomes the contextual, as well as architectural, a framework for an artist-curated group installation/ exhibition of formal sensibilities and affinities.

http://15orient.com/past/huettendasein/

Duckmanagement

Over 15 artworks have been gathered from an open invitation to Duckmanagement, a group exhibition initiated by Peggy Pehl and Armand Lecouturier, managed by Dutz and powered by OFAJ that took place last July 15 in Berlin. These artworks were arranged aboard of a Wellange boat, subsumed into the exhibition almost as a setting experience, barely stripped of individual identification. In effect, they illustrate the assured idea of a duck being a perfect manager, “a calm and relaxed creature that swims in still waters and spread tranquility around it.”

https://www.ofluxo.net/duckmanagement-initiated-by-peggy-pehl-and-armand-lecouturier/

The Bunt

Presented by Ginny Projects, The Bunt is a travel friendly group show, viewable by train, with one artist presenting work at selected station platforms along the Hertford East to Liverpool St train line: Hertford East, Ware, St Margarets, Rye House, Broxbourne, Cheshunt, Waltham Cross, Enfield Lock, Brimsdown, Seven Sisters and Liverpool Street.

http://ginnyprojects.com/index.php/project/the-bunt/

Dog. Piss. Protection. Boards.
(Shapes Without Names exhibition #2)

Created by Martin Kohout in collaboration with Christina Gigliotti, 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 Kohout’s residency at the I:Project Space. By taking advantage of 3D scan photography Dog. Piss. Protection. Boards. (Shapes Without Names exhibition #2) presented the works of nine international artists installed onto boards that people place in front of car wheels to protect them from dog piss. The works often disappeared at a rapid speed and the surviving pieces became so trashed due to dog piss that no one bothered to pick them. At the end of the exhibition, the works were no longer the works in their integrity but rather, a bunch of collapsed leftovers ready to be rendered on your screen.

https://www.ofluxo.net/dog-piss-protection-boards/

Paintings Roughly Reflecting On Humans And Human Habits, But Mostly Viewed By Cows

Curated by Paul Barsch, Paintings Roughly Reflecting On Humans And Human Habits, But Mostly Viewed By Cows puts a selection of international, contemporary, figurative paintings in front of a mostly animalistic audience in a working cowshed in the remote valley Safiental of the Swiss Alps, with works by Ulrich Wulff, Tanja Ritterbex, Sasha Ross, Louisa Gagliardi, Hamishi Farah, Charles Irvin, Beni Bischof, Bora Akinciturk, Alex Rathbone, Anne Fellner and Adam Cruces. The exhibition was attended by human visitors throughout the opening October 16, 2016 from 12–3pm. The opening event was embedded in the finisage of the Art Safiental and its resulting documentation can now be accessed online at:

http://mostlyviewedbycows.net/

Asomatognosia

Prompt by Treti Galexie, Asomatognosia, is a solo presentation by Guglielmo Castelli is staged in the concealed and prestigious Royal Lounge of the Porta Nuova train station in Turin, last May. While the Royal Lounge serves as a representation of a separate body, the paintings by Guglielmo Castelli bear a desire for inclusion, a neurological condition characterized by the loss of the ability to recognize a part of one’s body as one’s own.

http://www.tretigalaxie.com/

AFA(2)

AFA (2) was the second reiteration of the inaugural edition held in 2015 in Bari on a popular downtown beach. The project consists of a beach towels’ show, exclusively designed by 25 international artists, that were on sale as unique pieces, to support 63rd-77th STEPS’ exhibition program. Afa is the Italian term for mugginess, an exhausting weather condition that is explored as a subtle metaphor of our social, political and artistic scenario and turned by the artists invited into black & white artworks, digitally printed on microfiber.

http://www.63rd77thsteps.com/

Sinkhole Project

http://www.63rd77thsteps.com/

Remains of the Day: Might, Will Return

Remains of the Day: Might, Will Return was a pop-up exhibition curated by Keith J. Varadi and hosted by hotel-art.us at Dodger Stadium parking lot in Los Angeles. The exhibition showcased the work of eight artists whose work were assembled in several vehicles parked in the stadium. The show was documented with a disposable point-and-shoot camera, resembling the idea of going to see a Dodgers game on a hot summer afternoon and then start to shoot various things with a disposable film camera found at the bottom of your backpack.

http://hotel-art.us/remains-of-the-day-might%2C-will-return.html

Room 301

This marks the second mention of an exhibition held by Ginny Projects in this feature. This time a solo show by the London based artist Alexandra Metcalf titled Room 301. The works within the installation use the setting of the The Knights Inn and the world of video games to explore Alexandra’s nightmares, both old and new. The personal narrative, her sleep paralysis, comes alive in the room which she stayed in for the duration of the show.

http://ginnyprojects.com/index.php/project/room-301/

Safety Deposit Box

Lewis Teague Wright‘s Lock Up International opens shows around the world, occupying different storage units for short periods of time. The containers, installed with work by invited artists and viewable by appointment only, have surfaced in places like London, Frankfurt, Mexico City, Tokyo, Istanbul and Los Angeles, and have featured the compact solo shows of the likes of Diego Salvador Rios, Martin Kohout, Nevine Mahmoud, Yuri Pattison and many more. In Safety Deposit Box, a group show co-curated with Celena Ohmer is placed inside a bank vault in Frankfurt. All the works are stored in their own safety deposit box, awaiting the viewers request to unlock them.

http://lockupinternational.com/safetydepositbox/

Hope

I must say that picking up an online show from New Scenario for this list was a very difficult task since this curational project from artists Tilman Hornig and Paul Barsch have been almost a genre defining or at least, one of the most imperative when it comes to “non-white cube” art initiatives. From hosting a show inisde a person’s body orifices to a painting group show in a dinosaur thematic park, New Scenario is boldly redesignating the ideology of the online exhibition format. But in their latest curatorial endeavor, Hope, the viewer experience reached a new territory, an apocalyptic one to be more precise. In Hope the viewer is placed inside a panoptical interactive B-movie of a Zombie hollocaust, including all the protagonists of an university where the artworks are fully embedded in this new scenario.

http://newscenario.net/hope/

Deep Skin

Organized by Grégoire Blunt and Emmy Skensved, the Deep Skin group show is the oldest appearence in this list and certainly is still the deepest underground art show in history! This project ran for an entire year, from August 15, 2015 until August 15, 2016, and took place 2100 metres underground at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNOlab), a particle physics research laboratory in Northern Ontario, Canada. The purpose of the space is protection from cosmic rays of natural light where sensitive experiments can be undeterred. Participating artists included Pakui Hardware, Agatha Valkyrie Ice, Bitsy Knox + Christian Tonner, Visualize→Actualize, Antoine Renard, and TROI OI (Nhu Duong + Sung Tieu), among others.

http://deepsk.in/

Selection by Nuno Patrício.
All material & Photography are courtesy of their respective authors.

O Fluxo, 2017