What is the relationship between art and exhibition? Is it necessary to witness a performance? And what happens when the art is invisible? This project continues Schwebel's ongoing interest in disappearance, anti- and in-visibility, silence, failure and absence.
Hiding: Displacement is a performance project in which the artist hides from the audience throughout specified Peterborough locations. Whether or not we trust him to be there at all is left for us to decide. Locations and schedules of the performances will be published in local print media.
Artist Talk: November 5, 7 pm
Joshua Schwebel works between event and document, catalyzing disruptions
through techniques of public intervention, forgery, and mischief. His
work exists between rumour and fact, between an event (that may have
been missed by the gallery spectator) and a falsified, uncertain or
absent document. Schwebel plays with the designation of something as
art. He is interested in relations of exchange and valuation,
expectation, and (mis)communication. He is compelled to poke his finger
into the loopholes that art permits.
Schwebel's materials and
processes are responsive, and vary according to the particularity of the
context. Through a particular action, he attempts to crystallize
tensions inherent in a certain system of expectation. His work can be
understood through traditions of institutional critique, conceptual art
and relational aesthetics.
http://joshuaschwebel.com/home.html
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