Group 6.0 | Everything & Nothing: Part I

Karl Erickson, Tamar Ettun & The Moving Company (Tyler Patterson, Tina Wang, Lyndsey Eugene, Maia Karo, Adrian Galvin & Guest: Lisa Park), Kimberly Ruth, Rachel Stevens, Jody Wood and No Hope aka Hedonic Treadmill (Elisabeth Smolarz & Jan Wilker)

May 10 – June 1, 2014

Spazio 522

Time, transition, utopia and dystopia are common themes that the members of Group 6.0 address in their six-minute multi media performances.

Different in their age, background and art practice, yet bound together by the idea of investigative performance art limited to the duration of 6 minutes, Part I of ‘Everything & Nothing’ will showcase on May 10, 2014 live performances by six of its members. Karl Erickson, Tamar Ettun, Kimberly Ruth, Rachel Stevens, Jody Wood and No Hope (aka Hedonic Treadmill) will question human existence, interpersonal relationships, life & death, and the suspension of time and space, as well as the nature and relevance of performance art in today’s society. What is performance and where begins performance art? What makes reality and where are the boundaries to fiction?

The exhibition will take place at Spazio 522 and will open its doors during the West Chelsea Artists Open Studios (May 10 and 11) when five of the artists will perform during the opening night, May 10.

A hybrid of an astronaut and gorilla (Karl Erikson) will interact with a series of non-linear, semi-abstract short videos, exploring the evolution of self, of enlightenment and its imperative. Kimberly Ruth will explore the idea of language, its failures and inconsistencies through a fictional space of an aircraft’s cargo, as a metaphor for the subtle actions that our bodies do in confined spaces. Tamar Ettun will perform with her Moving Company repetitive actions based on Ettun’s sculptures, while Rachel Steven’s performance is based on a combination of a physical slide show and her own interaction with the public. No Hope aka Hedonic Treadmill will open the evening with questions for the audience about fear, desire, life and death.

Everything & Nothing invites then on Sunday, May 11 on the occasion of Mother’s Day for a Brunch, when Jody Wood will explore through her performance ideas of subversive femininity and modern mother/child relationships.

Physical artworks by the performing artists will be staged during the entire duration of the exhibition, until June 1. The second part of the project will see the other members of Group 6.0 involved and will focus on ‘Objects versus Action’. Dates to be announced.

OPENING RECEPTION
May 10, 5 – 7 pm (performances begin 5:30pm)

BRUNCH
May 11, 12 – 6pm (with special performance by Jody Wood at 2:30 pm)

EXHIBITION
May 10 – June 1

The exhibition is part of  West Chelsea Artists Open Studios.

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Elisabeth Smolarz, Untitled (Lola) , 2014, Archival ink print 1/3 +2 AP, 15 x 19 in.

Elisabeth Smolarz, Untitled (Lola), 2014, Archival ink print 1/3 +2 AP, 15 x 19 in.

Karl Erickson, More , 2013, Collage, 8 x 10 in.

Karl Erickson, More, 2013, Collage, 8 x 10 in.

Jody Wood, Duplicitous , 2014, still from performance.

Jody Wood, Duplicitous, 2014, still from performance.

Kimberly Ruth, Black Box , 2014, still from performance video.

Kimberly Ruth, Black Box, 2014, still from performance video.

Tamar Ettun, Its not a question of anxiety , 2014, still from video.

Tamar Ettun, Its not a question of anxiety, 2014, still from video.

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