Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery
621 West 27th Street, ground floor, 212-255-0979
Chelsea
March 22 - March 22, 2008
Reception: Saturday, March 22, 8 - 11 PM
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Saturday, March 22: one night only! 8-11PM.
Featuring Amanda Riner, Billy Miller, Colby Bird, Dave McDermott, David Gilbert, David Benjamin Sherry, Dike Blair, Eric Huebsch, Jacques Louis Vidal, Jeff Tranchell, Jonah Groeneboer, Jonathan Hartshorn, Josh Tonsfeldt, Joshua Smith, Julia Weist, Kate Levant, Lorenzo de Los Angeles, Mara Sprafkin, Matthew Robert Lutz-Kinoy, Michael Magnan, Michael Smith, Nolan Simon, Scott Hug, Tatiana Kronberg, and Timothy Hull.
Music by Kingdom, Michael Magnan, and Jimmy Im Curated by Nicholas Weist
If I told you you were beautiful, would you date me on the regular? is a one-night-only group show featuring artists who have used media and its by-products to make objects. The title is a quote from Justin Timberlake’s My Love, a song that asks how little Timberlake would have to do for you to devote yourself to him utterly. Artists included in the show invert this relationship, demanding culture yield its materials to them for reinvention or repurposing.
This will be the last event at Oliver Kamm’s current location—a final dance party designed to privilege interaction and social engagement. In the spirit of a dramatic rejection of systemized forms of cultural production, and as a reaction to the speed with which media is consumed today, the show was conceived, planned, and executed in only three weeks.