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Difference Engine

June 10, 2011 — June 18, 2011

Thisisnotashop: The Lighthouse Project presents…

Difference Engine: MANIFESTATION III
Mark Cullen, Jessica Foley, Wendy Judge, Gillian Lawlor and Gordon Cheung

June 10 – June 18, 2011 open daily 3.30-7pm
Opening: Friday June 10 7.00pm with a live performance by BLOODYENDS at 9.30pm

Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center
107 Suffolk Street, Lower East Side, New York City 10002
www.csvcenter.com

Curated by Jessamyn Fiore and Victoria Keddie

Direct from Ireland, Difference Engine is an evolving serial exhibition, and a model of autonomous artist curation, by artists Gillian Lawler, Wendy Judge, Jessica Foley, Mark Cullen & Gordon Cheung. Each Manifestation of Difference Engine is based upon an ongoing collaboration, a kind of ‘Jamming’, between the artists. The result yields engaging experimental exhibitions combining installation, video, painting, sculpture and writing. Difference Engine: MANIFESTATION III exhibits a tendency to fictionalize, seemingly squinting at reality through a half-cocked eye. The works establish a gravitational system of sorts between them, pulling the visitor in to their stories and forms…

Difference Engine is modeled on the understanding that the exhibition is a site where meaning can be generated, ideas tested through experiments in form and display. Shared expertise, knowledge, learning & mutability makes up the DNA of the model: whilst the exhibition travels it is never repeated, it is responsive to its context and location, and to temporal and ontological frames.

MANIFESTATION III will see the first articulation of D.E. Chronicles, a serialized publication to accompany (but not represent) the Difference Engine exhibitions. D.E. Chronicles: Episode One will involve a fair bit of jamming between Difference Engine, BLOODYENDS and curators Jessamyn Fiore & Victoria Keddie.

Difference Engine: MANIFESTATION III will include a program of live readings and performance, featuring the Irish band BLOODYENDS, and workshops by the artists will run concurrently, promoting audience engagement and creative response. A night of auditory performances by New York based artists in response to Difference Engine will conclude the show.

Saturday June 11- Sun June 12 : Artist Workshop led by Jessica Foley & Jessamyn Fiore. 4.00pm-6.00pm.

Wednesday June 15 : The Literary Event: an evening of live readings featuring Irish authors curated by Belinda McKeon. 6.30pm-9pm.

Friday June 17 : The Closing Event: An Audible Response
New York artists respond to Difference Engine through live text, story telling, sound, performance and music. 7pm-10.30pm. With Rachelle Rahme, Sarah Halpern, Zac Layton, Dana Bell, and more!

This exhibition is part of Thisisnotashop: The Lighthouse Project, a series that presents contemporary Irish art in New York City and promotes cross cultural creative exchange and collaboration curated by Jessamyn Fiore and Victoria Keddie.

This exhibition is generously supported by Culture Ireland and is a part of Imagine Ireland 2011 www.imagineireland.ie

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