It’s A Trap!
14 December 2018 - 19 February 2019
Opening reception: December 14, 7pm-9pm
Closing reception: February 19, 7pm-9pm
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We’re back! Like the pesky mice that haunt your kitchen, or the STI that just won’t quit, Where is rearing its head anew. After a hiatus from our shipping container HQ, we’re re-opening at twice the size on Randolph Street in Bushwick.
To kick off Where 2.0, we assembled an exhibition on traps: mousetraps, clickbait, bait cars, catfishing, pee tapes, booby traps, deadfalls, Cambridge Analytica, and our very own newspaper.
To explore how traps operate within the field of art, we engaged eight artists to lay their snares across the city: David Brooks, Nathaniel de Large / Colleen Tuite, Devin Kenny, Lucy Lindsey, Marie Lorenz, Pooneh Maghazehe, and Jessie Stead. To find them you’ll need our newspaper, whose verso is a map by Drew Gillespie of Bobo. From arcade claw-games to disappearing isles, we urge you to take the bait—by that we mean, to visit all the works in the show.
You are warmly invited to attend our opening reception for “It’s A Trap” on December 14, 7-9pm, and help us christen our new location with a celebratory garbage fire.
In addition, we will host on-site receptions for many of the works in this show:
December 16, 2:30-4:30pm: Viewing party for Nathaniel de Large / Colleen Tuite at the Crown Rooftop, Hotel 50 Bowery
December 19, 7pm: Devin Kenny screens “Snow on tha Bluff” at Wendy’s Subway
January 24, 6-8pm: Reception for Jessie Stead at Union Pool
February 4, 1:30pm: Site visit with Marie Lorenz, meet at the Staten Island Ferry (Manhattan terminal)
February 9, 6-8pm: Reception for Pooneh Maghazehe at Hard Times bar
February 19, 7-9pm: Reception for David Brooks at Where Container