An ART(inter)ACTION Project at CUCHIFRITOS art gallery/project space

Curated by Zeina Assaf

July 5 through July 26, 2008

Opening reception: Saturday, July 5, 4-6pm

Open daily, Monday through Saturday 12:00 noon to 5:30pm. Closed Sundays.

For more information you may contact the curator at: zeina.assaf@aai-nyc.org

A video art exhibition focusing on the human body, Corpus Kinetics brings together Laura Calhoun, Robert O’Connor and Bryan Zanisnik. The three artists portray the exertions of the human body through different narratives.

“The Rope” by Laura Calhoun documents the celebration of the biggest religious event in Brazil; the Círio de Nossa Senhora de Nazaré. On every second Sunday of October, around 4 o'clock AM, a rope is stretched by Our Lady's guards and, within minutes, is held by devotees who have been waiting to begin an incredible back and forth choreography “tug-of -war” with the rope. 

Robert O'Connor's “Now Before I Melt Away” (2007), with audio by Matt Page, is a work in which the artist  moves within a ubiquitous suburban Christmas decoration - a metaphor that points toward the body as the site of conflict between nature and culture.

"Sickness and Health" is part of an ongoing, collaborative series in which Bryan Zanisnik places himself in submissive roles. The video presents Zanisnik and two lifelong friends examining the relationship of dominance to passivity, male to female, and fetishization to banality.

CUCHIFRITOS
Gallery / Project Space
120 Essex Street
New York, NY 10002
Telephone: 212-598-4124
Between Delancey and Rivington
(Essex Street Market, South Corner)
Monday to Saturday, 12:00 to 5:30
www.aai-nyc.org/cuchifritos