{"id":25599,"date":"2018-02-09T16:01:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T16:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artzealous.com\/?p=25599"},"modified":"2018-02-09T16:02:17","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T16:02:17","slug":"armory-show-announces-15-site-responsive-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artzealous.com\/armory-show-announces-15-site-responsive-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"The Armory Show Announces 15-Site Responsive Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Armory Show<\/a> has announced the participating artists in the 2018 Platform<\/a> section. Curated by\u00a0Jen Mergel, Vice President of Programming for the Association of Art Museum Curators,\u00a0The Contingent<\/em>\u00a0will feature 15 site-responsive projects, including 11 new works by\u00a0The Bruce High Quality Foundation,\u00a0Sarah Cain,\u00a0Beth Campbell,\u00a0Tara Donovan,\u00a0Leonardo Drew,\u00a0Jeffrey Gibson,\u00a0JR,\u00a0Amalia Pica,\u00a0Alex Schweder\u00a0and\u00a0Ward Shelley,\u00a0Berndnaut Smilde, and\u00a0Wilmer Wilson IV.<\/p>\n

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CAIN sketch for a two day painting Armory, courtesy of\u00a0Galerie Lelong<\/em><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Four large-scale projects by\u00a0Elmgreen & Dragset<\/a>,\u00a0Sir Richard Long,\u00a0Mary Sibande, and\u00a0Wang Xin<\/a>\u00a0will make their US debut.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn destabilizing times, it feels essential to highlight art that thrives on contingency: on the assembly of different elements and ever-changing outcomes,\u201d Mergel explains. \u201cFor decades, a discourse has been building around art practices that hinge not on established conventions of genre or medium, but on shifting factors of location, time, materiality, and social climate. We have called these \u2018site-specific\u2019 or \u2018process driven\u2019 or \u2018participatory\u2019 or \u2018institutional critique\u2019 or, more broadly, \u2018context-dependent.\u2019 Today, there is new appreciation for how a work\u2019s unfixed format, unfolding development, shared authorship and multivalent meaning could actually be \u2018responsive\u2019\u2014a form of authenticity, even resistance.\u00a0The Contingent\u00a0<\/em>affirms the collective over the singular, the fluid over the fixed, the active over the passive.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Contingent\u00a0<\/em>embodies New York\u2019s identity, the piers\u2019 massive architecture, and the fair\u2019s dynamic social activity,\u201d says\u00a0Nicole Berry, Executive Director of The Armory Show, \u201cJen has organized an incredibly strong and thoughtful collection of artists whose work feels both urgent and timeless in the context of the fair and in the larger world climate. From performance to site-specific installations, the 2018 Platform section reflects the true identity of The Armory Show as a place for unparalleled creative energy, collective activity and diversity of vision.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Participating artists and galleries:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alex Schweder\u00a0(1970, New York, NY) and\u00a0Ward Shelley\u00a0(1950, Auburn, NY),\u00a0My Turn<\/em>, 2018 |\u00a0Edward Cella Art & Architecture\u00a0(Los Angeles)
\nWilmer Wilson IV\u00a0(1989, Richmond, VA),\u00a0Measures Not Men,\u00a0<\/em>2017 and\u00a0FfIiRrEe<\/em>, 2018 |\u00a0CONNERSMITH.\u00a0(Washington, DC)
\nJR\u00a0(1983, Paris, France),\u00a0SO CLOSE,<\/em>\u00a02018 | Presented by\u00a0Artsy\u00a0and\u00a0Jeffrey Deitch(New York)
\nWang Xin\u00a0(1983, Yichang, Hubei, China),\u00a0The Gallery,\u00a0<\/em>2014- |\u00a0de Sarthe Gallery(Hong Kong and Beijing)
\nThe Bruce High Quality Foundation\u00a0(est. 2001),\u00a0Ways to Die<\/em>, 2018 |\u00a0Pippy Houldsworth Gallery\u00a0(London)
\nElmgreen & Dragset\u00a0(1961, Copenhagen, Denmark and 1969, Trondheim, Norway),\u00a0Force Majeure, Fig. 2 – 4<\/em>, 2016 |\u00a0K\u00f6nig Galerie\u00a0(Berlin)
\nAmalia Pica\u00a0(1978, Neuqu\u00e9n province, Argentina),\u00a0The drip<\/em>, 2018 |\u00a0K\u00f6nig Galerie, Berlin
\nSarah Cain\u00a0(1979, Albany, NY),\u00a0two day painting<\/em>, 2018 |\u00a0Galerie Lelong & Co.\u00a0(New York) and\u00a0Honor Fraser Gallery\u00a0(Los Angeles)
\nSir Richard Long\u00a0(1945, Bristol, United Kingdom),\u00a0Untitled<\/em>, 2018 |\u00a0Lisson Gallery(London and New York)
\nMary Sibande\u00a0(1982, Barberton, South Africa),\u00a0Cry Havoc,\u00a0<\/em>2014 |\u00a0Gallery MOMO(Johannesburg and Cape Town)
\nBeth Campbell\u00a0(1971, Dwight, IL),\u00a0dah-dah-dah-dah-dit, dah dah-dah-dah, di-di-di-di-dit<\/em>, 2018 |\u00a0Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie\u00a0(Basel)
\nTara Donovan\u00a0\u00a0(1969, Flushing, NY),\u00a0Untitled,\u00a0<\/em>2018 |\u00a0Pace Gallery\u00a0(New York, London, Beijing, Hong Kong, Paris, Palo Alto)
\nJeffrey Gibson\u00a0(1972, Colorado Springs, CO),\u00a0WITHOUT YOU I\u2019M NOTHING<\/em>, 2018 |\u00a0Roberts Projects\u00a0(Los Angeles)
\nBerndnaut Smilde\u00a0(1978, Groningen, The Netherlands),\u00a0Breaking the Fourth Wall<\/em>, 2018 |\u00a0Ronchini Gallery\u00a0(London)
\nLeonardo Drew\u00a0(1961, Tallahassee, FL),\u00a0Number 123X<\/em>, 2018 |\u00a0rosenfeld porcini(London)<\/p>\n

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The Armory Show is on view at PIERS 92 & 94, Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street, New York City, March 8-March 11, 2018. Purchase tickets<\/a>.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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top image \/\/ courtesy of de Sarthe, Wang Xin<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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