EXHIBITION PRESS RELEASE
EMERGENCY ROOM
February 8 - March 19, 2007
P.S.1 proudly presents Emergency Room, a constantly evolving
collaborative exhibition conceived and led by artist Thierry Geoffroy,
a.k.a. Colonel. To realize this project, Geoffroy has invited over thirty local
and international artists to create and install new works in a range of
media, all generated daily in response to current events. Emergency Room
is on view in the third floor Archive Galleries from February 8 through
March 19, 2007.
Emergency Room is motivated by a desire to learn what other artists think
about current affairs from varied international perspectives under strict time
constraints. By providing a physical space in which artists can display
works made in reaction to current events, Emergency Room takes the
pulse of the artistic community today. On each day of the exhibition,
artists will install new work in response to the events of the last 24 hours,
an arrangement that recalls daily news cycles. The artworks stay on view
until the next morning whenthey are moved to an adjacent archive space
and replaced by new work.
Emergency Room seeks to foster a sense of community among the
participating artists and an atmosphere in which the gallery serves as a
laboratory both for personal expression and formal experimentation. Artists
will come with very different methodologies, from the politically charged to
the personally intimate, to interact with a specific space and develop an
on-going project together.
French-born Thierry Geoffroy (b. 1961) has presented his art internationally
since 1995. Recently, he had solo exhibitions at Overgaden Institute for
Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; IKM Museum, Oslo, Norway;
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, Netherlands; Sprengel Museum, Hannover,
Germany; and Devron Arts, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. In 2006,
Geoffroy presented Emergency Room at Galerie Olaf Stuber, Berlin; and
Kunsthallen Nikolaj, Copenhagen. He received the Chevalier des Arts et des
Lettres from France in 2003. Geoffroy will present a project at the 2007
Venice Biennale.
Emergency Room is organized by P.S.1 Director Alanna Heiss.
Major support for Emergency Room at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center is provided by the
Danish Arts Agency
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