Detourism: Curated by Carly Busta and Luke Cohen
Orchard47.org
47 Orchard Street
NYC, NY 10002
(212) 219′1061
Exhibition Dates: July 1 - July 28, 2007
Opening: Sunday July 1, 6-8 pm
Exhibition participants:
Artur Barrio, Carola Dertnig, Corporate Mentality, Keller Easterling, Thomas Eggerer, Dan Graham, Alan Licht, Christian Philipp-M??ller, Michael Snow, and others’
Special Event:
Friday July 13, 7pm ‘ 9pm Lenin for your Library?
Yevgeniy Fiks in conversation with Olga Kopenkina and Nicol??s Guagnini
Spectators and agents, tourists routinely vacate their habitual surroundings to occupy alternative subject positions, if not a geographical location. Yet, with pressure to ensure each vacation is well spent, the voluntary activity of tourism supports a guide industry. Barthes considered the guidebook an “objectified form of ‘immaterial labor’ ['] essentially serving as a ‘labor saving device,” ‘objective fact relegating efficient, guided, disorientation.
If tourism seeks a reliably mapped alterity, the exhibit detourism can only offer an itinerary of shifting curatorial endpoints. detourism takes topology as an impetus to highlight the interstices in the urban field constitutive of subject relations. The spatial practices exhibited underscore the line of demarcation between the subject and its dematerialization within the built environment.
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