An Exhibition in a Package

An Exhibition in a Package is a project initiated by Sara Ludvigsson, in collaboration with Adam Asnan, Nabil Ahmed, James Holcombe, Richard Owen, Kari Rittenbach and Joseph Clayton Mills/Adam Sonderberg.

Sara Ludvigsson has been working towards a realisation of an ‘exhibition in a package’ for Public Surface. An Exhibition in a Package is a digital file that contains all the necessary components of an exhibition, sent to the gallery for us to unpack, print and exhibit using our resources. The primary object for consideration is the premise of the package itself (ultimately, its efficacy), containing introduction, instructions, invitations, press release, e-mail addresses and 6 text-based descriptive ‘examples’ of works, to act as the artistic props in the model.

The exhibition is open November 28 - January 23

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THE PUBLIC SURFACE

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

THE PUBLIC SURFACE
SUSANNE PERSSON

Opens October 17, 1 - 4 p.m.
and will be on view until November 14

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Susanne Persson has created a visual enterprise where logos, matters, product design and historically and culturally important symbols are intertwined in a way that raises questions both of heritage and cultural relations and semiotics and the human process of creating meaning.

In two untitled mixed media works that are part of a series, elementary symbols, that historically have been used with both religious, political, artistic and commercial aims, are taken from packages for food and cleaning supplies. First isolated and magnified they are then painted on to prints of images from Persson's archives collected for their semiotic or symbolic value. The process at the same time points out and elucidate the symbol's values, as it renders them indecipherable. The collages become impossible riddles, heavy with signs they solicit a decoding, pointing to our linguistic and emotional need for creating meaning.

With Red Triangle, a triangular shape is blown up and covers one of the walls. The perfect shape, formerly a pristine logo, is made flaccid. The sculpture, carved out in foam rubber, bends from the shape of the room. Leaning against the wall, the triangular shape and its red color becomes a reminiscent of an ancient wall painting or poses as a remainder from a religious rite.

The as yet untitled installation on the floor consisting of 50 alabaster sculptures of dildos becomes a modern play with the phallus symbol. At once playing with the Greek idealizing statues of the male body, celebrating the beauty of man, but here leaving only the portrayed penis, using a replica of what's already a replica the sculpture also turns to ideas of reproduction and sexuality and yet becomes something else entirely where the portrayed body parts become separate from the body all together and is emphasized as symbol.

In White Series Persson is using the shapes of obsolete electrical and mechanical domestic appliances, where all other markers of identity is removed. The machines are combined in to new formations and covered in white paint they suggest both the ruin and the freshly formed new product alluding to cultural and consumption patterns.

Book an appointment to see the exhibition at 0705- 45 92 41 or publicsurface@gmail.com, or visit us Sundays between 1- 4 pm.

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Jacob Grönbech Jensen

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

RIT

Jacob Grönbech Jensen


An ongoing installation.

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http://www.grnbch.se/

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The exhibition will open August 29, 3 - 6 p.m.
and will be on view Aug 29 - Sep 26,
during which time it will continuously evolve and change form.

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Value Transformers: Yes You May Do as You Please

MORGAN JONES
Value Transformers: Yes You May Do
as You Please

PUBLIC SURFACE is proud to present a solo show with the american artist Morgan Jones. In a series of animated vignettes ranging from 15sec to a little less than 3 minutes we are presented with a cavalcade of images of disparate subjects that together present a bizarre parade of life and death. Value Transformers: Yes You May Do as You Please is like a digital memory bank infected by a virus.

In an interrelated, yet indeterminate stream of images we are met by disaster, consumption and the idea of the apocalypse as redemption. With a sense of being stuck in the memory of something rather than the thing itself we are led through this cathartic dream. Like a Shaman Jones enters a supernatural realm to alleviate us from our traumas.

Jones presents us with heavily manipulated digital backgrounds that continuously morph in shape, texts produced with the use of stream of consciousness, images from web archives pertaining to search themes such as nature, the internet itself, disease, waste and disaster in different capacities (one is from a dermatology website, another depicts blots of blood and cocaine on the floor), while other videos refer to blank space and basic raw materials such as paper in the form of wood, trees, sawdust and packaging. This is intermingled with abstract videos, pixelated and built up like fractals, mimicking mathematical and biological structures, together with short vignettes of real space. We see footage of a US truck stop in the desert, a giant meteor crater, a sea side village.

Jones is both a minimalist and a maximalist, presenting us with an inner/outer perspective where personal and global sentiments are merged. With themes of chaos, freedom, mathematics and transformation Value Transformers: Yes You May Do as You Please functions as an exorcism of the mind.


http://www.morganrushjones.com/mineral.html

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The exhibition will open May 9, 4 - 6 p.m.
and will be on view May 9 - June 6

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Henning Lundkvist + Christina Ouzounidis

PUBLIC SURFACE presents:

Henning Lundkvist
New Time Based Works

Come by thursday March 25 for the opening, 6 - 10 pm.

During the opening night Förskjutningar by Henning Lundkvist & Christina Ouzounidis will be performed in three parts at 7, 8 & 9 pm.

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New Time Based Works (2010) - Henning Lundkvist

skådespelare: Petra Hultberg
text, ljud, iscensättning: Henning Lundkvist
25.03.10 - 25.04.10


I Henning Lundkvists nya verk New Time Based Works, producerat för utställningen på Public Surface, har Lundkvist helt tömt utställningsrummet så när som på den högtalare som presenterar det ljudbaserade verket. Men inte heller högtalaren är i egentlig mening placerad i galleriet, utan ställs endast fram då besökare kommer in i gallerirummet för att sedan, efter presentationen av det ett par minuter långa verket, direkt plockas bort igen i väntan på nästa uppspelning. Verket, liksom utställningen i sig, existerar därför endast under de tider som det spelas upp, endast vid de tillfällen då det betraktas och upplevs av besökaren, och kan därmed till viss del sägas låna sin form från teaterföreställningen eller radioteatersändningen. Referenser till teater, inte minst till radioteater och hörspel, är också ständigt återkommande i lundkvists arbeten som ofta har beröringspunkter med en tyskspråkig tradition av experimentell radioteater och litterära ljudverk. Det är också på idén om ett “här och nu”, en av teaterföreställningens viktigaste grundförutsättningar, som New Time Based Works grundar både sin form och sitt innehåll. I detta “här och nu” kan verket sägas vara helt självupptaget av sin egen utsträckning i tid, av det nu i vilket det existerar. Det bygger upp ett slags slutet system av det självrefererande nu som sammanfaller med verket självt, och av en labyrintisk text där varje moment ger ny betydelse åt sitt nyss förflutna.

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Förskjutningar I-III (2010) - Henning Lundkvist & Christina Ouzounidis

skådespelare: Sandra Huldt
text: Christina Ouzounidis
ljud: Henning Lundkvist
25.03.10, kl 19, 20 & 21


Förskjutningar I-III är ytterligare ett steg i konstnären Henning Lundkvist och dramatikern Christina Ouzounidis samarbete. Det består av en serie hörspel som arbetar med relationen mellan texten och det akustiska. Hörspelen vill undersöka temporala och geografiska förskjutningar, bland annat utrymmet mellan avsikt och perception. Hörspelet kommer att bestå av tre delar, utvecklade ur varandra. Varje uppförande kommer att vara en iscensatt ljudupptagning som också ligger till grund för nästkommande uppförande, där texten enligt förutbestämda strukturer bryts sönder mer och mer. Ljudupptagningarna görs med delvis förarbetade ljud, en skådespelare och publik. Alla tre kommer att uppföras under en och samma kväll på galleri public surface i stockholm för att därefter föras samman till ett ljudverk som ska framföras på textival i göteborg 27 mars. Verket kommer även att publiceras på radiowy.se senare under våren. Christina Ouzounidis (f. 1969) arbetar som dramatiker och regissör och är en av de drivande bakom teatr weimar i malmö. Hon tilldelades 2009 års Mankell-stipendium och är under året aktuell med ett gästspel av sin föreställning Heterofil på c/o Stadsteatern och med en iscensättning av ida börjels diktsamling konsumentköplagen på Helsingborgs Stadsteater samt med en nyskriven pjäs på teater Galeasen.

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Human Achievements

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PUBLIC SURFACE presents:
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Human Achievements


PHIL BIRCH
PAUL CHAN
BRIAN CLIFTON
BON DUKE
SUSANNE PERSSON

An attempt to break as many Guinness world records as possible in three hours.
Banners awaiting their moment. Nations of product. Declaring commercial liberty. Hear hear evangelic sales.
SEX DEATH FLOWERS
Phase transitions in the Meaning Field.
cum yes yes yes more more do it

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Opens February 21, 3 - 6 p.m.

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