RECLAIM!

Summer in New York City is steamy and filled with tourists, which is why we escape every weekend to our country abode. The country, however, cuts us off from the art world: participation in openings, parties, dinners, and TV all must be suspended.

However, this weekend we'll be in town -- in fact, off to Brooklyn -- for Art Party 3 in which my good friend Cat Mallone and I have curated a film and video show called RECLAIM: The Visual Space in Between.

Here are the details.

RECLAIM: The Visual Space in Between
A film and video series presented as part of ART PARTY 3
Curated by Caterina Mallone and Natasha Chuk

Saturday, July 19, 2008 @ 7 PM

Supreme Trading
213 North 8th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-599-4224
www.supremetradingny.com

In keeping with the transient nature of the space at Supreme Trading, RECLAIM: The Visual Space in Between is a film and video series that encompasses wide-ranging works that depict the areas between and among memory, history, tradition, identity, and spaces of liminality and becoming.

RECLAIM explores visualizations of memory as a representation of personal or collective experiences that interact with and affect the creation or evolution of new identities, concepts, and entities. We believe memory both fosters and limits change, and this series illustrates that duality, showing the many ways we experience, recall, and appropriate memory.

We've selected works that are evocative art forms which mark our time and give it the artistic flair and personality we have come to celebrate. With an emphasis on visual language, these works RECLAIM visual memory, harnessing it literally and conceptually.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Pam Kray
Jessica Lauretti
LoVid
Karl Mendonca
Sharon Mooney
Jessica Peavy
Caroline Polachek
Bec Stupak
Olivia Wyatt