ANC Opening Reception tonight in St. Louis!

Exhibition Opening Friday Night

 

Snowflake / Citystock Gallery

3156 Cherokee Street, St. Louis, MO 63118

7 pm - 10 pm

Free and Open to the Public

 

A New Currency in St. Louis will be a part of the global impact of this world-wide exhibition, under the direction of Dan Cameron (Prospect New Orleans), we will join cities such as Los Angeles, D.C., Seoul and Taipei, to explore the current trends and feelings of artists in each city.  Opening on June 26^th, 7 – 10 pm at Snowflake/Citystock, the exhibition will feature the art of several young St. Louis artists who are working to make a career in this tough economy. 

Works by Nate Chung, Eric Hall and Jennifer Wilkey are a few of the artists that are featured in the exhibition.

 

-Curated by Cole Root and Amy Bloome - 

 Drinks provided by Schlafly and appetizers for visitors.

http://stlopenings.blogspot.com/ 

Chuck Close mentioned A New Currency in New York Times interveiw

Listen to the New York Times interview with Chuck Close about how the recession will affect emerging artists. 

A NEW CURRENCY @ TAIWAN

A NEW CURRENCY ---WONDER SHOW #1

Wonder Show 01
Plug-In Video Show

2009, June 21~27
Wonder Studio Plug-In Inart Gallery (Tainan, Taiwan)

Artist:
Wonder Boyz、陳萬仁、黃彥穎、江忠倫、蘇育賢、張立人、謝牧岐、鐘亭、侯怡亭、蘇匯宇

A New Currency featured in the latest issue of Starved Magazine.

CHANGE IS SO MONEY RIGHT NOW

by william staley

From the dawn of time to the grade school lunch table, man is long familiar with the system of exchange. But somewhere along the way we all found ourselves with a bag of Fritos in our hands and no one willing to relinquish their Snack Pack. So as the capitalist society we were born into dictates, we all went out and got jobs. Why? Because jobs equal money and money equals Snack Packs. Now in the midst of a worldwide recession our none-too-full pockets have gotten tighter and tighter. So tight in fact that our greedy little fingers have a hard time getting in there and we are forced to cut back on our Snack Pack intake. But what of that surplus of Fritos sitting in the corner? Surely their must be someone with a hoard of pudding, dying for a savory, salty treat.

A small group of artists, familiar with the lunchroom trade culture, have a strong awareness of our currenct economic climate and a desire to somehow alter or at least rethink the relationship that art has to currency. They have materialized their desire into an exhibit and a phenomenon called A New Currency. Curator Dan Cameronand 31 School of Visual Arts students have started the project at the local level and will be expanding into virtue and global realms. The idea is to create "a model for applying art's experimental methods to a fundamentally entrepreneurial task: rethinking art's relationship to systems of exchange."

At 55 Delancey Street, students have garnered themselves an empty storefront on the Lower East Side (bartering for the space instead of paying) and will be using their work to discover new bridges between the economic and the art worlds. The exhibit will be open from May 29th - June 28th. Other artists in other cities across the globe are encouraged to develop their own exhibitions as well. A website by Gregg Louis (www.anewcurrency.com) and blog have been set up to follow these artists and their work. Images and videos can be posted and viewed to see how different people from different places (St. Louis, Miami, Seoul and Taipei all have exhibitors thus far) interpret A New Currency.

Ultimately, the global, virtual and local take on A New Currency will be displayed at the Visual Arts Gallery (601 West 26th Street, 15th floor) from July 11th to August 15th. Visit www.anewcurrency.com or stop by 55 Delancey to see the exhibit.

*view the article online by clicking here.

An essay on Art from The Japanese Journal of American Studies

The Japanese Journal of American Studies, No. 19 (2008)

139

Art and Urban Space: Rent, the East Village,

and the Construction of Meaning

Naomi TONOOKA*

ART AND URBAN SPACE

Art has an immediate relationship to urban space. From alternative, activist

art rooted in the neighborhood to prestige-associated art in museums and galleries,

art is spatially defi ned by its interaction with its setting, and implicated,

to varying degrees, in the culture industry. Artists are mobile on the spectrum

of spatially-defi ned prestige and value. From the space of anonymous, nonprofi

t, neighborhood-oriented cultural work to the space of the fame-, profi t-,

and institution-oriented culture industry, artists can hope to move, and this

hope often sustains their labor.

The value and meaning of art is contextually defi ned by its place in the

fi eld of display (neighborhood, alternative space, mainstream museum, gallery,

theatre, movie theatre, or DVD, among others). Thus, art is implicated

in “the processes of capitalist valorization,” even when presented as an autonomous

circuit for “the constitution of communities and collective subjectivities.”

1 Art-making is affective, immaterial labor—that is, “labor that produces

an immaterial good, such as a service, knowledge, or communication”

2—with its focus on “the creation and manipulation of affects,” and its

ultimately intangible products: “a feeling of ease, well-being, satisfaction,

excitement, passion—even a sense of connectedness or community.”3 As the

immaterial labor “in its various guises (informational, affective,...con't

Living Free in NYC...blogs about ANC

June 8, 2009

A New Currency Art Exhibit

Where:55 Delancey Street
New York, NY, 10002
When:Friday May 29 to Sunday June 28 2009
Cost:Free Donations are Recommended.

So I stumbled upon this exhibit on Saturday and totally loved it. It has some really interactive art on display that I think the even the most novice art lover can enjoy. These SVA students were crafty enough to convince the landlord to use the vacant store front as there studio space for absolutely FREE. When I heard that I knew I had to post them on the blog. By the way check out the Golden Girls display, one word Hilarious!!
So A NEW CURRENCY consists of 31 artists in cooperation with curator Dan Cameron. They will be hosting an exhibition in a vacant store front in the Lower East Side of New York City until June 28.

New York ANC show on youtube....