Intermediary

Investigations into the relationships between art, architecture, and everyday life >>>> by Lauren R. O'Connell

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Jay Atherton, Box 6, 2014. Wood and wire. 48 ft. x 3 in. x 3 in.

Outdoor installation as part of the exhibition ACTIVATING SITE at Heron Arts, San Francisco.

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Jay Atherton, Towards Time (130811 11:52), 2013.

"Diurnal cycles of sunlight syncopate to the unique rhythm of each citizen. The day is driven by the omnipresent intensity of the sun: life forms protect their pulsing bodies under air-conditioned shadows inside opaque buildings. To the onlooker, the city is quiet. Just as the sun allows us to witness life, it also obscures.

Using sunlight, the installation illuminates the constellations of the desert sky onto an ephemeral fabric. As the material moves in the wind—which at times is gentle and other times strong—the viewer sees the celestial arrangement that is invisible during the day due to the dominance of sunlight. Suspended above the viewer, the celestial bodies are cast as remainders of the sun. The best time to view the celestial map is at the brightest time of the day. "

www.jayatherton.com

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oO, a preview Created by Viktorija Rybakova Book bound by Jurga Sako Induced by Marcos Lutyens Filmed by Egle Budvytyte

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"[I]t was not my intention to make an artwork out of the house. …I’m just cleaning house. I [call] it a Maintenance Action. [I] sort of think of it as a performance, installation, kind of all of the different art forms…."

—David Ireland

Images courtesy of 500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco.

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Interview with Tony Labat

Artist Tony Labat discusses performance, documentation, the rituals of cleaning, and his collaboration in 1978 with artist David Ireland at 500 Capp Street in San Francisco.

Lauren O’Connell: In the archive at 500 Capp Street , I found pictures of you videotaping David Ireland in the process of working on his house, what he calls maintenance action. They are documents...

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"People do leave traces in their wake: the refuse and detritus of history; the variegated remnants of daily life; or dust. A trace is ephemeral, a locus of ambivalence suspended in the unstable space between construction and dispersal, presence and absence. A trace is very little, almost nothing. But it is also an index of life."

—Gabriel Orozco

Gabriel Orozco, Hand Waves, 2011. Terracotta, 6 11/16 x 14 15/16 x 6 7/8 inches. Courtesy of White Cube