Mar 21, 2009, 11:00 am–Sep 7, 2009, 5:00 pm
Kidspace
CRIBS, the new Kidspace exhibition is a three-part installation project organized by Matt Bua celebrating alternative/experimental architecture. The installation in Kidspace’s new gallery, CRIBS, features an overloaded crib complete with hanging mobiles, recorded “lullabies”, and the bars that keep the infant safe. Surrounding the crib is an “outro-spective” purging of the artist’s pack-ratted material possessions – random detritus: lost gloves, found paintings, vacation slides, many guitars rescued from the streets of New York – all organized into presented collections. The installation also includes a special project by Jesse Bercowetz, and work by Carrie Dashow, Ward Shelley, Lisa Ludwig and other previous collaborators.
The second part of the installation, …To CRIBBAGE, is a piece of the crib climbing out of the second story window of the Kidspace gallery. To escape the chaos of the cluttered future that encroaches on it, the crib must breech the gallery walls, pouring itself down on the museum’s entrance below. This piece of crib can be entered outside the museum to experience the collaborative “building game” Bua calls Architectural Cribbage, a game in which he encourages others to start constructing their own small-scale visionary spaces. In …To CRIBBAGE, visitors will find a copy of Visionary Drawing Building(2009), a publication organized and produced by Bua and Max Goldfarb with support from The Joan Mitchell Foundation. This expansive collection of drawings –which originated with an invitation to a wide range of participants, including established and emerging artist and architects as well as those presenting ideas for the first time — represents unconstrained ideas about building structures. An additional library of books dealing with hand-crafted, alternative and green architecture will be available. Cribs to Cribbage to b-Home Again is a sponsored project of the New York Foundation for the Arts.
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