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Exhibition @ Drift Station Gallery, Nebraska, U.S.A


mailto:

A gallery, an email address, and a printer
June 3-24, 2011   //   Opening reception: Friday, June 3   //   7-11pm 

Drift Station Gallery is pleased to announce our next exhibition mailto:, an exhibition built around the open portal of an email address. Beginning in early May, works or messages of any kind sent in the body of an email or as an attachment to anything@driftstation.org were printed and hung, up through the end of the opening reception. 652 emails, totaling over 2,500 pages were printed and installed.
mailto: argues for a curatorial practice akin to chaos theory or aleatoric musical composition – that the initiation of a specific but open structure creates unexpected and diverse results. As the digital files (up until this point infinitely malleable and scalable) reach the printer, they are made manifest as fixed, physical objects; when hung on the gallery wall they each represent a small document in a curatorial process divorced from the geographically-focused perfection of the unique art object.
An electronic catalog with all emails received, including an essay by curator Jeff Thompson is available for download see website http://www.driftstation.org/

The work " Provocation " ( Jesus had HIV ) 2010 by Paul Chisholm will be exhibited as a part of the show. 
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