vizKult
DISCRETE
POWER
April 9th & 10th
@ The NYC Anarchist Book Fair
Balcony Reception:
Sat April 9th, 6-8pm
Hsiao Chen
Lacey Fekishazy
Kristen Kee
Julia Kul
Carlos Little
Rachel Mason
Lucas Michael
Andrew Prayzner
Colette Robbins
Begonia Santa-Cecilia
Ama Saru
Antonio Serna
Pablo Gomez-Uribe
Adriana Varella
Jacob Zurilla
Judson Memorial Church, 55 Washington Square South, NYC
I. DISCRETE POWER?
Revolutions always result in the dissolution of power; the curious fracturing of what once appeared solid. No longer does the eye have a single focal point. Instead, it opens up like a wide-angle lens to reveal the millions of people at play within this movement of power. Or else it zooms onto a street corner, an alleyway, or a vacant lot for traces of a more discrete source of power. Even the outer lying suburbs are panned and scrutinized. In Chris Marker’s 1977 film-essay A Grin Without Cat/Le fond de l’air est rouge the narrator asks “Why is it that images sometimes tremble?” In this case, it is the lack of a focal point that causes the eye to tremble. The eye is given no rest.
II. TURN OUT THE LIGHTS
If you turn out the lights, the microwave will still work. Microwave the left-overs from the previous night and turn on the T.V. Watching T.V. you can smell your food cooking. Cooked. In the news something is happening in another part of the world, something about a revolution, someone removed from power? Turn off the T.V. and ready for bed. Set your alarm for 6 am. Turn out the lights, the alarm will still work. Alarm wakes you from a dream, the dream was so vivid you can smell the flesh cooking. Cooked. Turn on the radio, in another part of the world something else is happening. Something about a gain in power? Turn off the radio and ready for work. Grab your coat, turn out the lights, and lock the door behind you. If you turn off the lights at home, your office computer will still work.
LIST OF WORK
Hsiao Chen
TITLE, 2011
Plastic plant
DIMENSIONS
Lacey Fekishazy
TITLE, DATE
Wood, latex paint
DIMENSIONS
Pablo Gomez-Uribe
One Week of Accidents, 2010
Newspaper and tape
20 x 36 inches each
Kristen Kee
TITLE , DATE
Acrylic on latex
48 x 53 inches
Kristen Kee
TITLE , DATE
Acrylic on latex
54 x 106 inches
Julia Kul
Names, 2010
Offset print and ink on paper
12 x 5 inches each
Carlos Little and Antonio Serna
Pruno #1 (Master’s Recipe), 2010
Wall, oranges, ketchup, sugar
Dimensions variable
Rachel Mason
Podium with Microphone, 2008
Plaster, microphone, wood
13 x 12 x 73 inches
Lucas Michael
At Ease, 2008-2010
Box, photographs, cdr
Dimensions variable
Andrew Prayzner
Untitled (Mules), 2009
Oil on Linen
40 x 30 inches
Andrew Prayzner
Untitled (Mules), 2009
Oil on Linen
28 x 30 inches
Colette Robbins
The Head Exchange: Colette, 2011
The Head Exchange: Bliss, 2011
The Head Exchange: Ken, 2011
Graphite power on paper
11 x 14 inches each
Begonia Santa-Cecilia
TITLE, 2010
Canvas and aluminum
DIMENSIONS
Ama Saru
Patria si Dreptul Meu (My Homeland my Right), 2011
Digital video
TIME
Antonio Serna
Safe, 2010
Work on paper, work on oil, cardboard box,
lightbox, xray.
Dimensions variable
Jacob Zurilla
TITLE (new collage), 2011
Paper, Acrylic, on canvas
DIMENSIONS
Jacob Zurilla
TITLE (black collage), 2010
Paper, Acrylic, on canvas
DIMENSIONS
IV.
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V.
The first iteration of Discrete Power will take place at the 5th Annual Anarchist Book Fair April 9th & 10th, 2011. The work in this exhibition has in common the element of power. Some of them exude the energy in their materials and process, while others keep it contained like a battery. Still there are others who are more curious, testing, searching for the ever-illusive sources of discrete power.
Discrete Power- Press [text]
DiscretePower-PressKit [text & images]7.8mb
Additionally, vizkult is organizing a panel "Re-Inscribing the City: Unitary Urbanism today" in conjunction with the Anarchist Book Fair, Saturday April 9th, 4:15-5:30pm, Judson Church Balcony, 55 Washington Square South, NYC
about vizKult
This exhibition has been organized by vizKult, a loose band of artist and writers that explore visual culture. The aim is to examine how the visual operates within society and the cult-like mechanisms that manufacture, shape, and control the visual world around us. vizKult's emphasis is on the process of examining the contemporary visual condition.
When you have two circuits that are tied
together electrically, but one of them
is high current then you should direct
the ground and power paths to "feed"
them separately. You want the current
of the driver to stay on the driver
side and the current of the logic to
stay on it's own side. The thin trace
inbetween is still needed because this
is not galvantic isolation.
e->
<-e |------------|
|---------- | |
| | <<<< physical CURRENT POWER FOR
--REGULATOR LOGIC separation >>>> DRIVER DRIVERS
| | | |
| e-> | ground | <-e |
-----|--------------------------------------------------------------
^ thick ^ thin ^
traces traces very thick
from reg to traces from
logic load drivers to supply