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House Plants May 22—May 31, 2015

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The Subject Aaron Graham, Kyle Laidig, Luke Moore, Kate Stevenson exhibition text April 16—May 15, 2015

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Maximum Sideline: Postscript Clement Valla, Anna-Sophie Berger, Jessie Hlebo, David Court, Ian Hatcher, Alex Turgeon, Sophia Le Fraga, Francesca Capone exhibition text March 13—April 7, 2015

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INTERRUPT 3 is a conference that highlights text and/or/as image, art and/or/as language, with a particular investment in digitally mediated language art. Organized by the Digital Language Arts program in  the Department of Literary Arts at Brown University.

http://www.irq3.interrupt.xyz/

In tandem with the Granoff Center for Creative Arts’ exhibition opening during INTERRUPT 3, From Line To Constellation, a group of works will be on view at Proxy, in the exhibition, Maximum Sideline: Postscript from March 13 -April 7

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Anna-Sophie Berger The Wind Sonatas (long distance) silk screen on polyester fleece, wadding, thread 2014

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Alex Turgeon Achy Breaky vinyl on window 2015

Achy Breaky looks at the relationships between love and destruction through a concrete poem collaged with song lyrics from Billy Ray Cyrus, John Mellencamp, Queen, Blondie and Britney Spears to explore the relationship of human emotion attributed to entropy and destruction in popular culture. By combining these lyrics that describe either a notion of love that is considered subversive or destructive or both (“sometimes love don’t feel like it should”), Achy Breaky looks to relate a relationship of love and desire to architecture, urban space and a viewing experience.  By creating a trompe l’oeil effect of a broken window, the work is attempting to anthropomorphize the architecture of the gallery through poetry .  The criminological theory of Broken Window Theory which describes derelict urban spaces as hot beds for criminal activity, while introduces a system of the policing these spaces through visual maintenance. Achy Breaky reflects the persistent sterilization of urban space as somehow an attempt to fight against a human condition, while equating the process of policing aesthetic value as the same as regulating individual concepts of love and lust.

Alex Turgeon is a Canadian artist and poet based in Berlin. He is also the founding editor of General Fine Arts an e-journal and platform for the distribution of poetry, prose and fiction. Alex’s publications are available via Art Metropole, Motto Distribution & iTunes.

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Jesse Hlebo In Defense Of 10 ideological texts (Holy Bible (King James Version), War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning (Chris Hedges), The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (John Maynard Keynes), Philosophy of Right (Georg Hegel), Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire (Antonioni Negri/Michael Hardt), The Phenomenology of Mind (Georg Hegel), Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand), The Torah, The Communist Manifesto (Karl Marx), Capitalism and Freedom (Milton Friedman)), threaded rod, washer’s, nut’s, spray paint 2013

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Sophia Le Fraga NOT SORRY a view-master collaboration with Rin Johnson 2014

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Clement Valla Surface Survey 74.51.2868 (Limestone recumbent lion) sintered nylon, MDF, inkjet on paper, mixed media 2014

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tex_archive on Twitter

“A new image (2129017) was added to the tex_archive on Tuesday, March 24, from Bristol”

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David Court graphics (lookinggazing out/at/on the horizonborder) laser-etched raster patterns on philodendron scandens leaves (aka “heart-leaf” or “sweet-heart” philodendron) 2015

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Sophia Le Fraga NOT SORRY a view-master collaboration with Rin Johnson 2014

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Sophia Le Fraga Literally Dead Chapbook 2015 also available at Spork Press Literally Dead is a compilation of texts and images from the memorialization of Facebook accounts of the deceased.

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Francesca Capone Primary Source Library book, video, digital c-prints mounted on canvas 2014