Participating artists: Emcee C.M., Master of None Gergely László (ISCP alum) Yoshihito Mizuuchi (ISCP resident) Mie Olise (ISCP resident)

Reception: Sunday June 6th, 5 – 8PM with a live performance by Yoshihito Mizuuchi at 7pm

Gallery Hours: Friday, June 4, 2 – 6PM Saturday and Sunday, June 5 and 6, 12 – 7PM Monday, June 7, 2 – 6PM

‘Out of the blue’ is a four-day exhibition presenting the work of both New York based and international artists. The invited artists will produce new work in response to the short duration of the exhibition. The works in ‘Out of the blue’ do not have the character of closed or final statements – they are temporary manifestations of ongoing projects and singular fragments in larger frameworks.

‘Out of the blue’ investigates different types of systems that are characterized by generative accumulation; systems of collecting, archiving, annotating, filling in the gaps and reusing resources. A system in the included works can be understood as that which links memories, documents, objects and data in mechanical unison, and human beings together in common projects. The expression, ‘Out of the blue’, references a moment of sudden interruption, when something unexpected throws the logic of a system into a state of flux. Over the course of the exhibition, the works presented will be altered or added to. As evolving manifestations, they reveal the process of each system and point to what each interruption engenders.

‘Out of the blue’ is curated by Helga Just Christoffersen and Natasha Llorens and was chosen from an open call made by ISCP to students of the Center of Curatorial Studies (CCS) at Bard College and the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at the California College of the Arts.