Stranger Than Fiction Synthetic Zero Art Space (now known as BronxArtSpace), Bronx, NY
April 4 – 23, 2009
Presentations and work by Yasmine Alwan, A. S. Bessa, Melissa A Calderón, Ethan Ham with Benjamin Rosenbaum, Jane Hsu, Spanic Attack with Edwin Torres and Urayoán Noel, and Angie Waller
The movieStranger than Fiction is about an author who is literally writing a real person’s life as it happens. The eventStranger than Fiction featured interdisciplinary art and literary work that fictionalizes: it follows the lives of strangers, disorients while browsing the internet, uses social networks in ways not originally intended, refers to new schools of thought, and is cryptically dispensed and dispersed. The installation of Stranger than Fiction was artifacts and archives related to the event: a networked computer, video, photographs, signage, a manuscript, clothing, supplemental books, and a comfy couch.
This was a DIY installation space. All photography by Laura Napier.
Installation view, with the work of Jane Hsu, Melissa Calderon, and Ethan Ham with Benjamin Rosenbaum
Jane Hsu, It Swims in Blue Holes, video stills, 2008, and table with supplemental books
Ethan Ham and Benjamin Rosenbaum, Tumbarumba, a conceptual artwork in the form of a Firefox extension, 2008. Commissioned by Turbulence.org.
Spanic Attack, NORICUA: the living city, presentation and installation of archival materials
Detail, Spanic Attack, NORICUA: the living city, presentation and installation of archival materials
Detail, Spanic Attack, NORICUA: the living city, presentation and installation of archival materials
A. S. Bessa, Untitled (Rockwell Hall, Emmet Till Road, Chicago, Illinois). Photographed by Mairead Case, 2008
Opening reception, April 4, 2009
Opening reception, April 4, 2009 with the work of Ethan Ham with and Benjamin Rosenbaum, and Angie Waller
Opening reception with seating area and the work of Angie Waller and Jane Hsu
Opening reception and presentation by Yasmine Alwan
Opening reception, screening by Jane Hsu and the work of Spanic Attack
Opening reception, presentation by Spanic Attack
Opening reception, presentation by Spanic Attack and Urayoán Noel
