This is part 2 of the interview with artist Lisa Kirk in which she talkes about her pipe bomb perfume project Revolution in the basement of the Maison des Cartes shanty. After a sales tour through Maison des Cartes, a show model “shanty timeshare” at the gallery Invisible-Exports in New York, art advisor and commentator Althea Viafora-Kress sits down with artist Lisa Kirk to discuss her exhibition House of Cards and the idea behind the private residence club that will enable shareholders to experience shanty living in the scenic Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Lisa Kirk: House of Cards (Maison des Cartes) at Invisible-Exports, New York. March 7, 2009.
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After a sales tour through Maison des Cartes, a show model “shanty timeshare” at the gallery Invisible-Exports in New York, art advisor and commentator Althea Viafora-Kress sits down with artist Lisa Kirk to discuss her exhibition House of Cards and the idea behind the private residence club that will enable shareholders to experience shanty living in the scenic Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Lisa Kirk: House of Cards (Maison des Cartes) at Invisible-Exports, New York. March 7, 2009.
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Lisa Kirk’s solo exhibition House of Cards at Invisible-Exports in New York appears as a mordant comment on the current economic crisis. Lisa Kirk’s House of Cards features the work Maison des Cartes, a show model “shanty timeshare” built from 52 separate pieces of found materials. Maison des Cartes occupies the central space of the gallery. The gallery’s office has been transformed into a functioning real estate salesroom. Sales representatives present the viewers with the chance to buy into the private residence club. Upon the show’s completion, the structure will be rebuilt in the scenic Brooklyn Navy Yard (ribbon-cutting ceremony at the maison’s new location in the scenic Brooklyn Navy Yard on May 1, 2009) where shareholders will have the opportunity to experience shanty living. After 52 weeks, Maison des Cartes will be disassembled and distributed to the shareholders as 52 separate and unique artworks.
In this video, sales specialist Susan London takes art advisor and commentator Althea Viafora-Kress on a sales tour through the installation. Lisa Kirk’s shanty is coupled with an underground installation of her updated project, Revolution (06-09) that was las exhibited at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center.
The sales specialists are Lisa Kirk’s fist attempt to incorporate conceptual theater into Kirk’s work. Lisa Kirk found Susan among 2 other actors from craigslist who were given a handbook describing a “five step selling process” (an additional part of the show), that handbook essentially outlined how to sell the product with different strategies. Each sales specialist then created their own individual approach to improvising and constructing the narrative to work with customers when visiting maison des cartes.
For the last decade, Lisa Kirk (born in New York City in 1967) has produced multi-media work and environmental installations that explore capitalism, terrorism and political violence. Lisa Kirk’s work has been exhibited at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center | Museum of Modern Art affiliate; Galería Comercial, PR; Participant INC., NY; and MOT International, London. She has also contributed projects to North Drive Press, NY; Creative Time, NY; and Charlie, NY. Her curated projects include LEGION, Bonds of Love, at John Connelly Presents, The Outlaw Series and You.
Lisa Kirk: House of Cards (Maison des Cartes) at Invisible-Exports, New York. March 7, 2009.
Links: House of Cards on Frieze.com, Left Bank Art Blog, Artinfo.com, Haber Arts, Flavorpill, Artcat, James Wagner.
PS: Coming soon: conversation between Lisa Kirk and Althea Viafora-Kress.
PPS: These are the last two weekends for maison des cartes. Sales Specialists are available this weekend and next Friday, 2pm – 6pm, and by appointment. Sales Specialists will be also be available for extended Open House hours, 11am – 6pm, on the final weekend, March 28 – 29.
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Director / curator John Pollard of ADA Gallery and art consultant Althea Viafora-Kress talk about the artists Jared Lindsay Clark (website, blog) and Bruce Wilhelm (website, blog), and ADA Gallery. ADA is an artist run gallery exhibiting contemporary fine art in Richmond Virginia since June of 2003. Scope New York art fair 2007. February 26, 2007. The Grizzly Lodge Series.
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At Scope New York 2007 artist Raphaele Shirley presented her work “Elevation in Time”, a multi-media installation composed of the elements: sound, light, infrared sensors, digiprints, wood and marble. Before creating art fulltime, Raphaele Shirley worked on the creation of public art projects and festivals, in collaboration with other artists, such as Nam June Paik and co-founding projects such as PAM Perpetual Art Machine. Art consultant and WPS1 art radio host Althea Viafora Kress talks with Raphaele Shirley about her work. Scope New York 2007, Feburary 26, 2007. The Grizzly Lodge Series.
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We are celebrating our 500th episode! With an anniversary post that is, for a change, not a report on an art opening or an interview with a dealer or an artist. Rather, this video, entitled “500” is a retrospective view on the last year and a half of VernissageTV.
This video is also available as DVD. Press Release available at OpenPR: English / German.
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Wim Delvoye (born 1965 in Wervick / Belgium) became widely known on the occasion of the documenta 9 in Kassel / Germany in 1992 with a large “mosaic” of white ceramic tiles decorated with beautifully-arranged scrolls of excrement. WPS1 Art Radio host Althea Viafora Kress and Wim Delvoye discuss the artist’s work at the Armory Show 2007. Part 2/2.
Interview also available as audio file at WPS1 Art Radio.
See also the video “Wim Delvoye: Bronzes / de Pury & Luxembourg”.
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WPS1 art radio host Althea Viafora Kress and Belgian artist Wim Delvoye sit down in Danny Meyer’s Café One at the Armory show 2007. Hear the social, cultural and political contradictions. His “Art Pig Farm” in China where Delvoye, a vegetarian, tattoos his pigs and “harvests” his art. The “Cloaca Machines” his sculpture that is fed in museums and has a digestive system from beginning to end. And Euterpe. Once you hear it and see it you can’t take their contradictions apart. It’s not classical art, modernism or formalism. It’s not high or low. What is this new pollination of practices? The Armory Show 2007, March 24, 2007. Part 1/2.
TIP: See the two videos “Wim Delvoye: Cloaca 2000 – 2007 / Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain” and “World Premiere of Wim Delvoye’s Super Cloaca at Mudam / Luxembourg“.
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Founder, Lisa Kirk of New York’s LEGION gets specific with host, Althea Viafora Kress. What started out as a simple idea has grown into one of New York’s most vibrant project spaces is Lisa Kirk’s, LEGION. Founded in 2006 Legion has produced over a dozen site-specific artists projects, to name only a few: Justin Lowe, Robert Melee, Kati Heck, Peter Coffin, Eric Parker, Ridykeulous and Elizabeth Neal. Althea Viafora Kress finds out for you, who is Lisa Kirk and what is the idea behind the Legionaires? How will this legion of artists be sustained? Scope New York Art Fair 2007, March 24, 2007. The Grizzly Lodge Series.
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Who is Laura Ford? Pippy Houldsworth of London’s Houldsworth Gallery shows and tells us. You may recall Ford represented Wales at the 51st Venice Biennale. In 2007 she’ll have a major commission for the Contemporary Art Society for Economists Plaza, be a part of Blickachsen in Bad Homburg and part of BBC’s Imagine series. Althea Viafora Kress and Pippy at the Scope art fair talk about Ford’s sometimes playful and sometimes disturbing sculptures: Riding a Cock Horse 2007, Glory Glory 5 2005, Chintz Girl 1988. Scope New York 2007, March 24, 2007. The Grizzly Lodge Series.
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