INTERSTATE ARCHIVES

Spring/Break 2013

Interstate Projects will take part in SPRING/BREAK 2013 with works by:

Jennifer Chan
Cheon pyo Lee
Rachel de Joode

For more information, visit springbreakartshow.com

Apple Express: A Film by Rbt. Sps. - January 19, 2013

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.

E.S.P. TV Live Taping - 2012

E.S.P. TV Live Taping event hosted by Interstate Projects

Featuring:
NARCISSISTER
BLACK MARBLE
HARIBO
PAUL HANEY (Rust Worship)
KIRIN J CALLINAN

and your host Mary Boom!

Video Selections curated by Interstate Projects:
Jennifer Chan, Josef Kraska, Jesse McLean, Saki Sato, and Andrew Strasser

http://www.esptvnyc.com/

E.S.P. TV is a nomadic showcase of primarily NYC-based experimental music, video art and performance, formed in January of 2011 out of Louis V E.S.P. and produced for Manhattan Neighborhood Network public television. In the summer of 2012, E.S.P. TV opened a new space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn for production of the show, development of the E.S.P. LAB project, and a regular schedule of performances, screenings and special events.

Tapings of E.S.P. TV are in front of an audience with live green-screening, signal manipulation and analog video mixing. The entire night is recorded to VHS and edited into half hour episodes for airing on cable TV in New York City. After airing, the episodes are posted online at www.esptvnyc.com for later viewing.

Co/Lab, Art Platforms LA - Sept 28 - Sept 20, 2012

Interstate Projects is pleased to present work at Co/Lab 2012 by:

Samuel T. Adams
Justin Berry
Rachel de Joode
Cheon pyo Lee
Natalie Westbrook

Co/Lab is a unique event bringing together alternative spaces, non-profit art institutions and independent art initiatives under one roof, in an invitation-only art fair which is entirely free to participate in, where artists, gallerists, curators and collectors can survey the thriving alternative art world in Los Angeles and from around the globe.

Co/Lab

Art Platform Los Angeles

SEPT 28 - SEPT 30, 2012
Opening Preview Thursday, September 27
The Barker Hangar
3021 Airport Ave
Santa Monica, CA 90405

Important Things - July 15, 2012

Important Things
("Important Things by Important Artists for lots of Important People")

July 15, 2012

5-8 pm

Rachel de Joode has invited 8 artists to “bring their own self (and Stuff to do Things with)” for an evening of presentation of the artist as self and thus the act of art making is an already accomplished task.

This is not necessarily “performance” art. The presence of the artist is performance in itself. The artists’ tool as self, and that presentation during Important Things is a means to spare down the meaning of what is art and what is required for the creative act. The presence of the possibilities and the artist as the medium is the purpose of this one night event.

50% of the performances will be held over Skype, in real time, in projected space.

Participating Artists:

Ann Hirsch
Jennifer Chan
Jaakko Pallasvuo
Dora + Maja
Meghan Gordon
Travess Smalley
Kate Steciw
Rachel de Joode

Dialogue is welcome.

Ben Gocker, Shana Moulton - July 7, 2012

Interstate Projects is pleased to host a book launch party for Ben Gocker and Shana Moulton. This will also be the inaugural event at our new location, 66 Knickerbocker Ave.

FEATURING
Performance by Shana Moulton
Reading by Ben Gocker
Music and Refreshments
Free Admission

SATURDAY, JULY 7, 8pm

Interstate Projects
“New Location”
66 Knickerbocker Ave

PRESENTING TWO NEW BOOKS

THE BLAZING FIREPLACE OF GUARDIANSHIP
Shana Moulton
“Welcome to the fantastic realm of club Freaky”

THE PISCES
Ben Gocker
“Now Palm Tree was a funny guy”

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