Directed by Milo Christie and Sam Dybeck.
Directed by Milo Christie and Sam Dybeck.
Brandon Bandy (b. 1994, St. Louis, MO) is an artist and publisher in Long Beach, California. Drawing upon the histories of Post-Internet, Institutional Critique, and Conceptualism, Brandon’s practice confronts ideas of the virtual, visual conventions, and artistic production amidst domination of online platforms and impoverished institutions. Brandon is a co-owner of publishing project Special Effects with Rachel Jackson, as well as LA based gallery, Timeshare.
Jon Lewis Fiona (b. 2000) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist making and using objects that address the entanglements of class, consumption, humor and the erotic. Fiona received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University (2023) and is a recipient of the Ellen Battell-Stoeckel Fellowship to study at Yale University's Norfolk School of Art (2023).
Nicole Ji Soo Kim is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. She has exhibited at New York Art Residency and Studios Foundation (New York, US), the plumb, Whippersnapper Gallery, Xpace Cultural Centre, and Beaver Hall Gallery (Toronto, CA). Her first solo exhibition was recently presented at Franz Kaka (Toronto, CA).
Connor McNicholas was born in 1990 in Oakland, New Jersey and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Since Each of Us Was Several at Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium (2022), and Where Remote Future Meet Remote Pasts at M 2 3, New York, New York (2020). Their work has been exhibited at Andersen’s in Copenhagen, Denmark; Annarumma, Naples, Italy; Berthold Pott, Cologne, Germany; Sharp Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark; Jacob Bjorn, Aarhus, Denmark; Tobias Naehring, Leipzig, Germany; Center of Contemporary Art, Tbilisi, Tbilisi, Georgia; and The International Center of Photography, New York, New York.
Talulah R.M. (b.1999) is an artist based in Minnesota's Twin Cities. Their sculptures play with constructions of information, truth and evidence, investigating the ways in which we build our own realities. They received their BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2023. Talulah’s debut solo exhibition, Quicksilver, opened in July as a part of the 2023 Waiting Room Gallery exhibition season, funded by Midway Contemporary’s Visual Arts Fund and the Andy Warhol Foundation.
Press Release
What good is the production of compostable plastics in the United States if only one mid-sized city has the infrastructure to reclaim the waste? The shortcomings of the companies typically stem from the ideology that the solution lies beyond the common consumer’s behavior. The introduction of steps and techniques that are otherwise outside of the domain of the routine of the target audience prove to be unfollowed and do not integrate well into the set of concerns held by most Americans. Jokingly asking a collaborator not to “reinvent the wheel” is in many cases a phrase of endearment. “If it's not broke don’t fix it”; “use the right tool for the job”; “if you aren’t going to do it right, don’t do it at all”. To be able to stand on your own two feet and have the thing beneath them worth upholding; where nobody is asking anyone to take reactionary measures, just to check the temperature. My grandfather stopped traveling by plane once TSA required that passengers remove their shoes when passing through security, it was too much of a hassle for him. I understand this, as it might be much easier on the consumer to do things the way they once were, in the same way it was probably nice to be able to bring beverages into the airport, without subtly yet liberally prostrating oneself. However, the risks presented otherwise do not always require a more nuanced or circumstantial examination on a broader scale1
In 1970, John Baldessari took all of his paintings to a funeral home in San Diego and cremated them. The urn was slated to be laid to rest within a wall at the Jewish Museum in New York, part of his participation in the Software2 exhibition scheduled to debut in September of that year. The following year he made a lithograph titled “ I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art” and proceeded to spend a decade teaching a course he made up called “Post Studio Art”. Baldesarri was likely a pretty traditional guy. Both staunchly idealistic in his rejection and graceful for his willingness to curriculum-maxx coalescing in a demonstration of a healthy lack of pride. He didn’t change the collective lobotomy one inevitably receives through art education, but he changed what it meant to be lobotomized by art education.
Objects and the formats in which they are interacted with haven't changed much at all. The arena is not any more oppressive than it has been in the past, we just decided to pick up the breadcrumbs and take the white pill3
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1 ZADEXON. “Should the Brooklyn Nets Kill 5 of Their Players to Trigger a Disaster Draft to Improve Their Roster?” Reddit, r/nbacirclejerk, June 2023, www.reddit.com/r/nbacirclejerk/comments/14n3dk9/should_the_brooklyn_nets_kill_5_of_their_players/?rdt=36150.
”The NBA disaster draft is a contingency plan to be used when 5 or more players on a team have died or have been dismembered. In the draft, the team whose players died will be able to draft the amount of players from other teams equivalent to how many they had lost. Other teams though are only allowed to protect 5 players from being drafted, but many teams have good sixth men that are available. With the Nets having bad contracts on underperforming such as Ben Simmons, but they could also just kill 2-way players and bench warmers to fill out those 5 kills to get the disaster draft. Also, according to Bill Simmons, the team would also get the first pick in next year's draft. Now this next draft class is weak so I could understand their hesitancy, and being a repeat offender, that is, killing 5 players on your team on 2 separate occasions could raise some eyebrows, but this could still greatly improve them. No doubt killing your players with bad contracts and then killing your benchwarmers for sixth men would would greatly improve them and other teams. What do you guys think, and should any other teams do this and who should they kill?”
2 “Software (Exhibition).” Monoskop, monoskop.org/Software_(exhibition).
3 Whoever decided to choose this cringefest of a reddit subculture as part of the analogy for this text needs a reality check. I mean seriously, who do they think they are?
This text was published in pamphlet form alongside a detachable bookmark, whose verso contained a reading list sourced from the five artists in the show:
Brandon Bandy, Title, Artist, Date, Medium, 2024, Vinyl on Baseboard, Dimensions Variable
Installation View
Installation View
Installation View
8 1/2” x 5 7/8” (Framed: 10” x 7 1/2” x 2 3/4”)
2x4s, brackets, extension cord, power supply, 42” x 49” x 4”
(This Poster was a take home object for viewers of the show)
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