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FREE PLAY
March 18 – April 20, 2014
Arcadia University Art Gallery
Curated by Melissa E. Feldman
Participating artists: Cory Arcangel, Patrick Bernier & Olive Martin,
Ruth Catlow, Mary Flanagan, Ryan Gander, Jeanne van Heeswijk & Rolf
Engelen, Allan McCollum & Matt Mullican, Paul Noble, Yoko Ono, Pedro
Reyes, Jason Rohrer, Jennie Shanker, David Shrigley, and Erik Svedäng
Arcadia University Art Gallery is pleased to present Free Play, an
exhibition that explores works by an international array of artists who
borrow from play and games to reveal social, philosophical, and cultural
issues. Curated by Melissa E. Feldman, the show is organized by
Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. Arcadia University
Art Gallery is this touring exhibition’s debut venue.
Free Play seeks the initial moment described by Guy Debord, a founding
member of the Situationist International, an international group of
social revolutionaries that emerged in the 1960s that aspired to find
ways to liberate everyday life from the strictures of capitalism. “No
vital periods ever began from a theory,” Debord stated. “What’s first is
a game, a struggle, a journey.”
All of the works in the exhibition are functioning games, which gallery
visitors are free to handle and play. Whether derived from the
playground, the video arcade, the casino, or the rec room, each example
serves to create experiences that reflect on contemporary
socio-political conditions. Collectively, the works in Free Play explore
interactivity, an expansive topic in both current art and
exhibition-making with the migration of participatory and live art forms
into the heretofore foreign territory of the gallery or museum. (Recent
precedents set by major institutions—including the 2012 Whitney
Biennial’s generous inclusion of performance works, Gabriela
Burkhalter’s The Playground Project at the recent Carnegie
International, and the current exhibition Playgrounds and Really Useful
Knowledge at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía—expand the
context for the works in Free Play).
more…
http://gallery.arcadia.edu/free-play/
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