Apple Express: A Film by Rbt. Sps.
Saturday, January 19, 2013, 7-10 pm
Screening at 8 pm to be followed by a discussion with the artist, moderated by Joseph Whitt
INTERSTATE PROJECTS is pleased to present Apple Express: A Film by Rbt. Sps. Completed in 2005, and premiered here for the first time publicly, Apple Express is a 40-minute VHS document of a virtually parentless household in Paris, Tennessee. It is a documentary in the most abstract sense, lending its narrative direction to the filmmaker’s gradual (and some would argue, dangerous) immersion into the daily lives and illicit habits of a group of abandoned, maledicted teenagers. Subject and author are blurred to such an extent that it becomes difficult to determine which artistic choices were made by Sps. and which were deigned by serendipity. Remarkably sophisticated for the then 20-year-old artist, Apple Express remains an incomparable document of a perpetually present-tense midnight of adolescence.
Rbt. Sps. (b. 1984, Paducah, Kentucky) is a multimedia artist whose specialties include video, printmaking, and assemblage. As a lifelong resident of the Deep South, Sps.’s work deals predominately with rural eccentricities and extremes viewed through an often autobiographical, uniquely analog lens. In addition to this screening, the artist’s work has also been featured in the 2008 Vienna Biennale (Austria), in Magic For Beginners (2011 group exhibition, P.P.O.W. Gallery, NYC), at Antena Gallery (Chicago, Illinois), and at Space 204 at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee).
Interstate Projects has commissioned a limited edition print and a multi-channel video installation by the artist especially for this occasion. Both will be on view in the main gallery during the event.
Interstate Projects focuses on young, emerging artists, and works to connect artists and ideas from across the country. The gallery is located in Bushwick at 66 Knickerbocker Ave, Brooklyn NY 11237. Our hours are Friday – Sunday 12 – 6 and by appointment. For further information or images contact Tom Weinrich, tom@interstateprojects.com, or visit www.interstateprojects.com.
Directions: L train to Morgan Ave. The gallery is located on the first floor of 66 Knickerbocker Ave, with the entrance to the gallery located inside a gated outdoor courtyard.
