I'm Against It
Jodie Cavalier, Thomas Gamble, Stephen Slappe, and Consumer with YAH-EEF-AY
Curated by Tabitha Nikolai
October 25-November 14, 2014
"Reckless Reckless Rats"
Jodie Cavalier
Elephant beaten with candy and little pops and chews all bolts and reckless reckless rats, this is this!
- Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons!
Jodie Cavalier’s sculptures are objects whose functionality is put into question through arrangement and presentation, emphasizing the fragile balance of representation, context, and meaning. Reckless reckless rats, 2014, consists of two black textile pieces treated with bleach suspended from the ceiling. The back of the work has a subtle pattern that is both delicate and overtly aggressive. (video on usb) 03, 2014 contains a single video file on a usb drive which is plugged into the wall with charging device. The charging device that the usb is plugged into provides no functional service except to act as a stand-in or display mechanism. The work is discreetly plugged into an outlet in the gallery.
Bio
Jodie Cavalier (b. 1986, California) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in video, sculpture, research, collaboration, and curation. Her work engages site and objects to recontextualize images typically seen within the everyday and to draw attention to experiences both in and out of the gallery. Jodie received an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art and a BA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2011 she was selected by the Regional Arts & Culture Council to install a public work in the Portland Building in downtown Portland, Oregon. Most recently she was a resident at the Center for Land Use Interpretation Residency Program in Wendover, Utah making work and investigating questions of how images, objects, and histories in landscapes affect and influence our behavior and movement in them. She has exhibited work at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco, CoCA in Seattle, EXO Project Space in Chicago, and Washington State University in Vancouver.
http://www.jodiecavalier.com/
- Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons!
Jodie Cavalier’s sculptures are objects whose functionality is put into question through arrangement and presentation, emphasizing the fragile balance of representation, context, and meaning. Reckless reckless rats, 2014, consists of two black textile pieces treated with bleach suspended from the ceiling. The back of the work has a subtle pattern that is both delicate and overtly aggressive. (video on usb) 03, 2014 contains a single video file on a usb drive which is plugged into the wall with charging device. The charging device that the usb is plugged into provides no functional service except to act as a stand-in or display mechanism. The work is discreetly plugged into an outlet in the gallery.
Bio
Jodie Cavalier (b. 1986, California) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in video, sculpture, research, collaboration, and curation. Her work engages site and objects to recontextualize images typically seen within the everyday and to draw attention to experiences both in and out of the gallery. Jodie received an MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art and a BA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley. In 2011 she was selected by the Regional Arts & Culture Council to install a public work in the Portland Building in downtown Portland, Oregon. Most recently she was a resident at the Center for Land Use Interpretation Residency Program in Wendover, Utah making work and investigating questions of how images, objects, and histories in landscapes affect and influence our behavior and movement in them. She has exhibited work at the deYoung Museum in San Francisco, CoCA in Seattle, EXO Project Space in Chicago, and Washington State University in Vancouver.
http://www.jodiecavalier.com/
"Stick and Poke Party"
Thomas John Gamble
“Stick and Poke Party" was a performance where the artist gave himself a tattoo with a sewing needle and india ink of the logo of anarchist British punk band Crass, and proceeded to offer them to gallery attendees for the duration of the opening.
"Ringo Starr Will Not Sign Autographs"
Thomas John Gamble
1.) "Do they owe us a living? Course they fucking do."
-Crass, Do They Owe Us A Living?
2.) Dear Sally, in response to your letter of Dec.12, 1966, me favorite color's blue, and me real name's Richard.Thanks for the snapshot.
You're a real cute bird.
Love, Ringo
PS: Forgive the late reply.
-Mr. Starr, tea.
Set it over there.
-If you'll forgive me, your devotion to your fans is remarkable.
They took the time to write me. Even if it takes 20 more years, I'm going to answer every one of them.
-Ringo Starr as he appeared on The Simpsons, Episode 31, April 11, 1991.
“This is a serious message to everybody watching my update right now. Peace and love, peace and love. I want to tell you please after the 20th October, do not send fan mail to any address that you have. Nothing will be signed after the 20th October. If that has a date on the envelope, it's gonna be tossed.
I'm warning you with peace and love but I have too much to do so no more fan mail, thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed. Nothing, anyway, peace and love, peace and love.”
-Ringo Starr in a video posted to ringostarr.com, October 14, 2008.
-Crass, Do They Owe Us A Living?
2.) Dear Sally, in response to your letter of Dec.12, 1966, me favorite color's blue, and me real name's Richard.Thanks for the snapshot.
You're a real cute bird.
Love, Ringo
PS: Forgive the late reply.
-Mr. Starr, tea.
Set it over there.
-If you'll forgive me, your devotion to your fans is remarkable.
They took the time to write me. Even if it takes 20 more years, I'm going to answer every one of them.
-Ringo Starr as he appeared on The Simpsons, Episode 31, April 11, 1991.
“This is a serious message to everybody watching my update right now. Peace and love, peace and love. I want to tell you please after the 20th October, do not send fan mail to any address that you have. Nothing will be signed after the 20th October. If that has a date on the envelope, it's gonna be tossed.
I'm warning you with peace and love but I have too much to do so no more fan mail, thank you, thank you. And no objects to be signed. Nothing, anyway, peace and love, peace and love.”
-Ringo Starr in a video posted to ringostarr.com, October 14, 2008.
Thomas J Gamble is a visual artist hailing from Northwestern Pennsylvania, where he attended Mercyhurst University with a focus in English Literature. He is currently working and living in Portland, OR after receiving an MFA in Visual Studies from the Hallie Ford School at PNCA.
thomasjgamble.com
"1000 Skateboard Videos"
Stephen Slappe
Skateboard Video 0013 from Stephen Slappe on Vimeo.
Stephen Slappe (b. Charleston, WV) is an artist based in Portland, Oregon. Slappe's work has exhibited and screened internationally in venues such as Centre Pompidou-Metz, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's TBA Festival, The Horse Hospital (London), The Sarai Media Lab (New Delhi), Consolidated Works (Seattle), Centre for Contemporary Art (Glasgow), and Artists Television Access (San Francisco). His projects have been funded by multiple grants from the Regional Arts and Culture Council of Portland and an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Oregon Arts Commission. Slappe is an Associate Professor of Video & Sound at Pacific Northwest College of Art. He is an active curator and organizer of video and film exhibitions including Subduction Zone at The Front (New Orleans) and Out of the Great Northwest at The Horse Hospital (London). Slappe programs theatrical screenings out of his collection of 16mm films including Rolling Deep: Skateboarding Films 1965-1980, Static Age: The Culture of Early Television, and Dial D for Design. His most recent project is an iOS app entitled 8, available on iTunes.
http://www.stephenslappe.com
ttps://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id859604306
http://1000skateboardvideos.tumblr.com
"Free Dirt"
YAH-EEF-AY and Consumer
Yah-Eef-Ay & Consumer @ Surplus from SDMPDX on Vimeo.
YAH-EEF-AY is noise theater? Lauren Newey and Shawn Mallory met in Providence, RI while studying sculpture at RISD. They have been working in parallel and appearing in each other's work for over six years, but have only recently made the commitment to indulge in a fully collaborative project called YAH-EEF-AY.
"...one man zen-spaz, noise dance, simultaneous life affirmation and fuck all..." Matt Palenske, under the monicker Consumer. has produced improvised acousmatic recordings since 2008 in Chicago and manifested physically in Portland, OR in 2013 ambushing audiences with soul-thrashing savage loops.
http://vimeo.com/106544055
"...one man zen-spaz, noise dance, simultaneous life affirmation and fuck all..." Matt Palenske, under the monicker Consumer. has produced improvised acousmatic recordings since 2008 in Chicago and manifested physically in Portland, OR in 2013 ambushing audiences with soul-thrashing savage loops.
http://vimeo.com/106544055
Ad Hoc at Home
Guest Curated by HQHQ
Taj Bourgeois
"Fresh Ranch for Rotting Vegetable"
Sean Joseph Patrick Carney
Sean J Patrick Carney (b. 1982, Michigan) is a concrete comedian, visual artist and writer living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He is a member of Bruce High Quality Foundation University. In 2009, Carney founded Social Malpractice Publishing, an independent artist book label. In 2011, he co-founded the Conceptual Oregon Performance School (C.O.P.S.), a free, artist-run summer institute that focuses on contemporary performance strategies and critical theory. He is 1/3 of GWC, Investigators, a collaborative paranormal research team.
His works and performances have been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Marlborough Gallery, New York; The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles; Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Printed Matter, Inc, New York City; the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; and the 2009 Amsterdam Biennale. Carney's practice has received attention in print and online from Art:21; Artribune Italy; Gawker.com; Bad at Sports; the Oregonian; Higher Arc; Oyster Magazine, and more. He has taught courses at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR; Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA; New York University's Department of Art and Art Professions; and the Bruce High Quality Foundation University.
His works and performances have been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including Marlborough Gallery, New York; The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles; Showroom MAMA, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago; Printed Matter, Inc, New York City; the Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada; and the 2009 Amsterdam Biennale. Carney's practice has received attention in print and online from Art:21; Artribune Italy; Gawker.com; Bad at Sports; the Oregonian; Higher Arc; Oyster Magazine, and more. He has taught courses at Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, OR; Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA; New York University's Department of Art and Art Professions; and the Bruce High Quality Foundation University.