Co- Re-Creating Spaces

Co- Re-Creating Spaces surveys how artists are questioning and subverting existing contexts or spaces and contributing to their re-imagining and re-creation. The exhibition recognizes that “reality” itself can be both art medium and art object, and speculates how developments in the virtual and the actual might affect one another.

2013-01-18

Final documentation photos here.
2013-01-02

Co- Re-Creating Spaces remains open through this Sat., Jan. 5; CentralTrak will be open for regular hours on that day from noon to 5pm. Please also feel free to contact us to see it by appointment.
2012-12-13

Art Talk tonite at CentralTrak, 7pm! With artists Morehshin Allahyari, Kristen Cochran, Michael Corris, Greg Metz, Karen Weiner, and Celia Eberle and curators Carolyn Sortor and Michael A. Morris. (Image by Morehshin Allahyari.)
2012-12-10

The artist who created the Dead Drop project, Aram Bartholl, encourages people to install them, asking only that info about the installation be submitted to a database to be shared with others. You can see our submission re- the dead drop in Co- Re-Creating Spaces here. You might also want to bookmark his database; there are dead drops around the world, and it could be fun to find and use a few … .
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Art Talk this week!

Thurs., 7pm, at CentralTrak
With artists Morehshin Allahyari, Kristen Cochran, Michael Corris, Greg Metz, Karen Weiner, possibly Celia Eberle, and curators Carolyn Sortor and Michael A. Morris.

(Photo of As If the Pillars of Society (1987) by Michael Corris.)
2012-12-03

Thurs., Dec. 6, 7pm, at CentralTrak: 1-time screenings of 2 hard-to-see videos:

Strike Anywhere (2009), by Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida
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Ici Rien (Here Nothing) (2011), by Daphne Heretakis

Total run time 1 hr.
2012-11-30

Some photos from the opening.
2012-11-25

Noir Heyd photo by eteam; and they and Carolyn and Mike all offer their heartfelt thanks to the many volunteers who so generously donated their time, energy, and creativity to help make 100 meters in Dallas a success! Here’s lookin’ at you, kids (in no particular order): Jeremy Massey, Hilary Miller, Karly - Hillary’s friend, Scott Wilson, Breckett Wilson, Sean House, Andrew Birmingham, Alice Won, R.E. Cox, Stephen Blais, Michael - Stephen’s friend, Danette Dufilho, Cigi Ingram/the Cow Goddess, Heyd Fontenot, Marcy B. aka Aminah Charms, Erin Gordon, Mona Kasra, Ben Britt, and last but not least, Barbie Britt.
2012-11-20

Photo by Ben Britt of Werkberg (2012), created by sculptors Cassandra Emswiler, Kristen Cochran, and Greg Metz: “where informational mashups of studio systems and their arbiters pervasively skirt the pedagogical underpinnings of the culture capitalist institutions and exist in ‘dark matter’ autonomy and collectivity.”

The mobile installation houses projected images of artists’ work spaces and a selection of books from the OccuLibrary and was made partly in response to a call for collaboration in that project, which uses aesthetic strategies to lure awareness toward info that can empower the 99%, sometimes by creating engaging, even seductive reincarnations of the library tents that were destroyed when the Occupy camps were evicted.
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Photo by Ben Britt (click on it for a larger version), showing eteam’s project in action. There are still some appointments open to experience it this Sat., Nov. 24, 2 - 6PM. Book it here, or email carolyn (a) c-cyte dot com (the schedule’s not as full as it looks, since some appts. are for just 1 person, and they can accommodate 2 at a time). Walk-ins also welcome. Take a break from the relatives, or bring ‘em. You can also see the rest of the show while there.

We can also still use volunteers to help operate it! Sat., Nov. 24, 1:30 - 6PM.