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While Transformer’s project space takes a short August break, we invite the DC community to meditate on Moment of Zen: Meeting Buddha in the Road, a video work by John James Anderson that will be featured in our storefront window August 8 – 26, 2008.
JOHN JAMES ANDERSON On view in Transformer’s storefront window
MOMENT OF ZEN:
MEETING BUDDHA IN THE ROAD
August 8 – 26, 2008
About the work, Anderson states, “The route to enlightenment is a path paved with nothing, and it is nothing that the person must meditate on in order to distance himself from worldly things. These things include concepts. In the video the protagonist focuses on his concept of nothingness – television static – and believes himself enlightened before realizing that the television and his concept is nothing more than a false Buddha. The conclusion is a destructive end that observes a better path toward enlightenment.” The video was created with camera assistants Apollo Gonzales, Steven Tringali, and John Arturo.
John James Anderson is an adjunct professor of art and new media at American University, George Mason University, George Washington University, and The Corcoran College. He earned an MFA in painting from American University and BFAs in Graphic Design and Painting from Iowa State University.
Apollo Gonzales is a new media and netroots strategist for the Natural Resources Defense Council in Washington, DC. He received his BA in Communications, Legal Institutions, Economics and Government from American University.
Stephen Tringali and John Arturo are juniors studying film production at American University.
For more information about John James Anderson and to purchase DVDs of Moment of Zen: Meeting Buddha in the Road, please contact the artist directly at: johnjamesanderson@gmail.com.
TRANSFORMER WILL BE OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY AUGUST 4 – 26, 2008.
August 28 – 30, 2008
Transformer & The Floating Lab Collective present
Bartering in the Land of Abundance
An interactive, three-day event
Creating a temporary bartering locale, open to the public for 3 days, The Floating Lab Collective will set up a series of objects within Transformer’s project space, encouraging visitors to take an object in exchange for an object they leave behind.
To document and archive the exchanges, a Floating Lab Collective artist will be on site to make a quick drawing of each item as well as record its known history. These sketches will be displayed in the space as a growing record of material culture through the duration of the project.
About the project, The Floating Lab Collective states, “This project uses ‘bartering’ to create community exchange. The purpose of bartering in this instance is to subvert both its semantic value and the traditional context of the art object as mercantile in nature. This project places the object in a social interstice, basically removed from the law of profit by emphasizing the sociability of the object in the context of bartering.”
BARTERING HOURS for Bartering in the Land of Abundance are Thursday - Saturday, 1-7pm.
Transformer launches its 7th exhibition season with ID-entity
Featuring work by ten emerging Mexico City based artists,
ID-entity will be presented at Transformer and the Mexican Cultural Institute
September 12 - October 18, 2008
Seeking to further international contemporary art dialogue and build relationship with artists, curators, like-minded arts spaces, galleries, and other cultural institutions - Transformer is thrilled to be partnering with the Mexican Cultural Institute in presenting the comprehensive ID-entity exhibition.
Featuring artists whose work reflects issues of living within a capital city, urban life, as well as larger issues of identity both national and personal - Saúl Gómez, Mauricio Limón, Marco Roundtree Cruz, Xavier Rodriguez, Gilberto Esparza, Joaquin Segura, Ricardo Harispuru, Edith Pons, Amaranta Sánchez and Domestic Fine Arts – several of whom will be exhibiting in the US for the first time, present photography, video, painting, drawing, and mixed-media work through site-specific and site-responsive installations throughout Transformer and three floors of the Mexican Cultural Institutes public rooms.
This exhibition is being co-curated by Transformer’s Executive & Artistic Director Victoria Reis and Mexico City based independent curator Giovanna Esposito Yussif.
For further information, please contact Transformer at: info@transformergallery.org.
Image by Domestic Fine Arts, a project created by Jesús León.
ID-entity is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Mexican Cultural Institute, The Mexican Foreign Ministry, The Boden Group, and The Visionary Friends of Transformer.
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Recent Transformer press:
- Honest Mag issue #3 featuring Transformer
- Artnet on Transformer
- Express on Chance
- Washington City Paper on The Grate Project
- dcist write-up on Seen
- Washington City Paper review of Seen
- DC Style write-up on Drawn to It
- Washington City Paper article on Ryan Nelson and Drawn to It
- Bloomberg News write-up on the DC art scene
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