VOLTA NY, 5-8 March 2009 : Special Projects

 

 

 

VOLTA, the Basel-based art fair for new and emerging art is back in New York for Armory Arts Week at its central location at 7W 34th street. A perfect complement to its sister fair, The Armory Show, VOLTA NY will showcase 78 solo artist presentations, inspired by this year's curatorial theme, "Age of Anxiety," a reflection of our present moment, located in the city where our financial drama was born and is being played out.

The complete list of solo projects in VOLTA NY can be found at the end of this press release.

In addition to its primary exhibition, VOLTA NY announces several additional special projects that further its tradition of highlighting local working artists-unrepresented by exhibiting galleries-that will take place in and around its midtown home as well as other locations.

A collaboration between VOLTA NY, Sketch Gallery, London, and the Tribeca and Soho Grand hotels, the film and installation project A New Stance for Tomorrow, curated by Victoria Brooks & Natalie Kovacs, moves from inside VOLTA NY's midtown elevators to various locations inside New York's famed Tribeca Grand Hotel, located at 2 Avenue of the Americas and Church Street. Concentrating on alternative visions and innovations by artists, designers and filmmakers from the 1950s to now, A New Stance for Tomorrow includes screenings, site-specific design, sound art and performative installation. The film programme, on view in the Tribeca Grand's screening room, includes work by Adrian Blackwell, Byron Broadbent, Michel de Broin, Charles & Ray Eames, Tim Etchells, Sylvie Fleury, Noam Gonick & Luis Jacob, Claire Hooper, Pierre Joseph & Philippe Parreno, Yves Klein, Oswaldo Macia, Simon Martin, Mathieu Mercier, Alain Resnais, Pia Rönicke, Robert Stadler, Mika Taanila, and Andrea Zittel. In the Sanctum visitors can view The Wild Flowers of Manitoba by Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob, a geodesic dome structure that functions as theater, screening room and performance space.

Screening times:

A New Stance for Tomorrow

Parts 1 and 2 in the Grand Screen screening room at the Tribeca Grand Hotel: Wed 4th March 4pm | Thurs 5th March 7pm (preview) and 10pm | Fri 6th March 2pm | Sat 7th March 7pm | Sun 8th March 7pm
 
Wildflowers of Manitoba in the Sanctum at the Tribeca Grand Hotel:
Daily performances: Wed 4th March - Sun 8th March | 4pm - 10pm

 

 

 

Filmstill Wildflowers of Manitoba, Noam Gonick and Luis Jacob, 2008

 

VOLTA NY is also proud to announce that -in collaboration with Creative Time - it will host a film shoot and installation on its exhibition floor by the artist collaborative the Bruce High Quality Foundation. A section of a larger film the Bruce High Quality Foundation will debut with Creative Time at its annual exhibition at New York's Governor's Island, the film will explore the connections between crazed zombies and the contemporary art world.

The Bruce High Quality Foundation was created to foster an alternative to everything. The New York-based art collective and foundation is dedicated to the preservation of the legacy of the late social sculptor, Bruce High Quality. Offering "amateur solutions" for "professional problems," their previous projects include the Brucennial, 2008; a retrospective at the Susan Inglett Gallery; and a series of musical vignettes entitled Cats on Broadway, 2007. 

Also on the premises of VOLTA NY, Grolsch, the fair's official beer sponsor, has provided VOLTA with an art bar installation conceived of and designed by the artist David Kramer. A performance by the artist will take place on Saturday March 7th at 4 pm, in the lounge/restaurant area of the 11th Floor of 7W 34th Street.

Other VOLTA NY projects include the sculpture Colección Whitney, a work by New York-based artist Trong Nguyen. A replica of medieval stocks which saw use in New York City to punish criminals publicly, the Vietnamese artist encourages visitors to spend time in his corrective device for the purposes of regaining control of the act of looking and to question the power relationships between the viewer and the object of art. Both the work's title and its given name ("stocks" and "Whitney") also ask us to consider how the financial crisis, banks and public and private collections create hierarchies for art objects and artists. The sculpture, originally intended for the lobby of 7W has-even before its exhibition-caused a minor scandal with its intimations of "torture"; it has now been moved onto VOLTA NY's main exhibition space on the 11th floor.

 

 

Trong Nguyen, Colección Whitney, 2008

 

 

On a lighter note, the collaborative group Sweet Tooth of the Tiger, led by contemporary artist and pastry chef Tara Strickstein, presents Suck-it!, a performative work in which sweets will be given out to visitors, artists and dealers. Highlighting the ceremonial nature of food exchange, Tara and experimental chef Adam Danforth, will explore innovative flavor pairings combined with a unique sense of social ritual based on certain art theory precepts and also reflecting on their individual studio practices. STT organizer Tracy Candido uses the public sphere as a place for eating, feeding, and talking with your mouth full, providing a "sugar high" to further spur on active dialogue and conversation.

Together with its sister fair, The Armory Show, VOLTA NY will be one of the brightest lights at Armory Arts Week. Both fairs will be connected via a bus shuttle and have mutually-acknowledged VIP and OPEN FORUM Talks Programs that will be hosted at both sites; following are the talks scheduled for the 7W location:

Friday, March 6th, 5:00pm
VOLTA NY OPEN FORUM Reinventing Non Profits in NYC
A discussion between art non-profit directors and curators who explore how New York City's non-profits are working to maintain visibility and relevance in today's artistic, political and economic environments.
Moderator: Sarah Douglas, Art + Auction
Featuring: Anne Barlowe, Art in General; Mary Ceruti, The Sculpture Center; and, Gianni Jetzter, Director, The Swiss Institute
Location: VOLTA NY, 7W, West 34th Street, Club 7W, 7th floor

Saturday, March 7th, 3:00 pm
VOLTA NY OPEN FORUM A Conversation About Public Art
VOLTA NY presents a conversation on public art featuring Adi Ezoni and Leor Grady of HomeBase Project, introduced by VOLTA NY's curatorial advisor Christian Viveros-Fauné. HomeBase Project, founded by artist and curator Anat Litwin in 2006, is an annual community-based project exploring the notion of Home.
Location: VOLTA NY, 7W, West 34th Street, Club 7W, 7th floor
 
5:00 pm
VOLTA NY OPEN FORUM The Curated Art Fair: Trend or Necessity?
In recent years there has been a growing involvement of curators with art fairs, whether assuming posts as artistic directors, conceiving projects specifically created for a fair or acting as members of a selection committee. Are curatorial practices expanding more and more towards art fairs? If so, to what extent can we speak of a "curated art fair" and an "art fair curator"? Can a curator provide a new perspective or will the actual economical situation herald the retreat of the curator to less commercial spaces. The panel includes personalities who have bridged both worlds, such as a museum director who has worked with art fairs, a curator turned gallerist and an art critic turned art fair director.

Moderator: Amanda Coulson, Executive Director, VOLTA NY and VOLTA5, Basel
Featuring: David Liss, Artistic Director Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA), Toronto; Louky Keisers, Director LMAK Projects, New York; Miguel Amado, freelance curator and art critic; and Paco Barragán, Artistic Director CIRCA Puerto Rico and author "The Art Fair Age" (2008)
Location: VOLTA NY, 7W, West 34th Street, Club 7W, 7th floor

Sunday March 8th, 5:00 pm
VOLTA NY OPEN FORUM Creative Ink: Art Writing and Publishing Today
Four influential individuals in international art publishing and art criticism will address the state of the field and the role/significance of the art critic today.

Moderator: Sylvie Fortin, Editor of Art Papers.
Projected speakers to include writer and painter Alexi Worth and others.
Location: VOLTA NY, 7W, West 34th Street, Club 7W, 7th floor

 

 

VOLTA NY 2009, Solo Project/Exhibitor List

 

Artist   Gordon Cheung   Maria Nepomuceno Eugenio Merino David Kramer Rina Castelnuovo Krzysztof Zarebski Sterling Allen Trine Søndergaard / Nicolai Howalt Benjamin Cottam Christian Curiel Schandra Singh Enrique Metinides Arnaud Maguet Tim Silver Pesce Khete Shen Jingdong Lisi Raskin Dan Kopp Zvika Kantor Heather & Ivan Morison Joe Amrhein John Strutton Alex Rose Leandro Katz Annie Kevans/ Gavin Turk John Goto Dennis McNulty Miguel Angel Madrigal Angelina Gualdoni Joshua Callaghan Alejandro Diaz Surasi Kusolwong Karen Heagle Patrick Cierpka Vicky Wright Mike Bayne Patrick Hamilton Paule Hammer Boru O'Brien O'Connell Sandra Gamarra Francisco Valdés Charlie White Igor Eskinja Matthew Porter Margarita Cabrera Alejandro Almanza Pereda Bosse Sudenburg Futo Akiyoshi Daniel Man Andy Harper Gosha Osttretsov Sebastian Gögel Regina José Galindo Tahereh Samadi Jason Lazarus Stephan Melzl Fernando Mastrangelo Machiko Edmondson Erica Eyres Josephine Halvorson Ray Smith Rune Olsen Dmitry Gutov   Marilyn Manson Christian Schoele Maya Gold Susan Collis Miha Strukelj Ioana Nemes Kaoru Katayama Lisa Sigal Hayv Kahraman Angelo Plessas Ian Davis Troels Carlsen Hamish Fulton Center for Tactical Magic Von Kommanivanh

Represented by   1/9 unosunove Galerie Adler A Gentil Carioca ADN Galeria Aeroplastics Andrea Meislin Gallery Art New Media  Art Palace   Martin Asbæk Gallery Bartha Contemporary Baumet Sultana Galerie Bertrand & Gruner Josée Bienvenu Gallery La Blanchisserie Breenspace Massimo Carasi - The Flat China Square Galleria Riccardo Crespi CTRL Dagmar de Pooter Gallery Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art Dogenhaus Galerie DOMOBAAL envoy enterprises Fária Fábregas Galería   FAS Galerie Dominique Fiat Green on Red Galería Enrique Guerrero Kavi Gupta Gallery HAAS & FISCHER The Happy Lion HOET BEKAERT I-20 Gallery Jarmuschek & Partner Josh Lilley Fine Art Katherine Mulherin Gallery KBK Laden fuer Nichts Lamontagne Gallery Galeria Leme Elaine Levy Project Loock Galerie Federico Luger Gallery M+B Walter Maciel Gallery Magnan Projects Galerie Metro TARO NASU Nusser & Baumgart One in the Other Paradise Row Galerie Emmanuel Post Prometeogallery Galerie Vanessa Quang Andrew Rafacz Gallery Thomas Rehbein Galerie RHYS/MENDES Nicholas Robinson Gallery ROKEBY Monya Rowe Gallery Ruiz-Healy Art Samson Projects SCARAMOUCHE c/o Fruit & Flower Deli Galerie Brigitte Schenk Schuebbe Projects Alon Segev Gallery SEVENTEEN Galerija Skuc Jiri Svestka Gallery T20 Frederieke Taylor Gallery Thierry Goldberg Projects think.21 Leslie Tonkonow V1 Gallery Espai Visor Voges + Partner Gallery Walsh Gallery

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Amanda Coulson

Executive Director

Christian Viveros-Fauné

Curatorial Advisor

Address:

VOLTA NY

7W 34th Street

11th Floor

NY 10001

New York USA

Dates: March 5th- 8th , 2009
Vernissage: March 5th, 11 am - 1 pm

Admission: Regular US$ 15 Reduced US$ 10
The Armory Show + VOLTA NY Combination Pass: US$ 40

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VOLTA NY
March 5th-8th, 2009
7W 34th Street
New York

 

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