Juxtaposition Arena

A combination of combinations

Experience an exhibit unlike any other gallery show for one night only! Fourteen artists join curator and director Andrew Hicks for “Juxtaposition Arena”—a dismantling of gallery norms. Experience visual art on the walls, screens, and in space as projected images overlap, blur, and create a unified meta-piece. Sound artists and a live band will perform in addition.

When: Friday September 8, 2006 at 7:00PM

Where: Mindfield Experiments, 3701 Ravenswood Ave Ste 251, Chicago 60613 map

Line: Brown line, Addison Stop

About: Mindfield Experiments is an 1800 sq. ft. unique loft space with a one-of-a-kind “video ceiling” and a programmable, interactive floor.

There is no charge for this event.

Tiny Bubbles, Catherine Forster, 2006

Fraktur, Taylor Hokanson, 2005

Mindfield Experiments

The Space:

The Artists:
Alan Strathmann
Emily Siefkin
David Edkins
Tina Shah
Taylor Hokanson
Matthew Nelson
Catherine Forster
Emily Kuehn
Jodie Mack
Todd Dunne
Katie Lauffenburger
Andrew Hicks
Gordon Kummel
Gosia Koscielak
Sandra Ridolfi Rosas

Audio Performance:
Katherine
The Beggars
Solow

Schedule:
Opening, 7:00
Katherine, 9:30
The Beggars, 10:00
solow, 11:00

This collection of artists and performers represent a rich sampling of Chicago talent. Students, teachers, curators, recent graduates, and programmers are coming together and sublimating their egos in order to try something new.

"I don't think this has been done before. Usually a piece is protected, isolated, and meant to stand apart from others around it. This is just the opposite."

"This group of artists is amazing. They have been totally open to having their work projected in combination with other's work who they've not even seen.

I couldn't ask for a more open and talented group of people with whom to work."

"Every aspect of this show is meant to bring about new combinations. From the videos to the audio performances to the design of the space, it's all meant to provide a space for unexpected arrangements."

Andrew Hicks, Curator