Left: Cloud operator shredding a customer’s money, BUREAU of CHANGE’s black cloud Micro Ichi interface at Yami NYC 2, Nov. 2016.
Right: Rhizome and exonemo’s micro-edition of the Internet Yami Ichi at NADA, March 2018.
Rhizome transforms BUREAU’s Micro Ichi New Orleans concept, a performative intervention emphasizing collective ownership and anti-commercialism, into a boutique of internet-inspired wares at NADA art fair in New York City.
In 2015, BUREAU popped up in the neutral ground of the New Orleans’ St. Claude gallery district to hawk our internet-ish things. Organized and produced with Caroline Sinders, we staged a “micro” version of the Internet Yami-Ichi, a global underground art event created by IDPW. The following year, BUREAU travelled to the Knockdown Center for the Yami in NYC 2, the biggest meetup of Internet Yami-Ichi venders from New York and around the world, and vended from from our handcrafted black cloud interface embellished in glitter, silver and gold.
Rhizome and exonemo, an artist duo behind IDPW gatherings, commercialized the concept originated in New Orleans for the 2018 New Art Dealers Association art fair in New York City. “While the Internet Yami-Ichi is usually vast in size,” writes Rhizome’s Laura Studabaker, “Rhizome’s edition–like the ‘Micro’ event held in New Orleans–brings together a curated selection of 50 products on display in a small booth.”
Rhizome, a New Museum affiliate and anchor tenant of the incubator NEW INC where exonemo also is member, has been following the history of the Internet Yami-Ichi.
Since its founding in 2012 by IDPW and Exonemo, Internet Yami-Ichi has generated fervent crowds to sample cottage-made, tangible WWW goods and services in cities across the world: Basel, Berlin, New York City, Sapporo, Tokyo, and beyond, including a curated micro-edition in New Orleans in 2015 staged by Bureau of Change.
Writing for Rhizome in 2015, Lucas Pinheiro called the platform “a gripping example of recent artistic experimentations with the materiality of the web.” The following year, a Rhizome Commission supported an edition of the event at the Knockdown Center in Queens.
Net art objects and ephemera have a long history: Mouchette advertised her first public appearance via flyers on Amsterdam streets in 1996 and Rhizome founder Mark Tribe curated an exhibition of net art ephemera at Moving Image Gallery in 2002. Printed or zazzled, watermarked or hand-stitched, this edition of Internet Yami-Ichi is for net art that continues in this vein, circulating through physical networks of exchange.
For various reasons—which we see as rooted in cultural economic and philosophical difference related to the NADA fair project aims—BUREAU works by New Orleans artists and technologists were not hawked in the NADA Internet Yami Ichi booth.
Image Credit: BUREAU of CHANGE, Public Records: Nothing But the Truth, 2013. Photo by Daniela Carillo.
Material Art Fair: Nurturing art, consolidating talent
by Daniela Carillo – February 17, 2016 – Mexico City
(Translated from Spanish by Google)
Material Art Fair has established itself as one of the most important emerging art fairs of our country, held from 4 to 7 February 2016 in Mexico City. Dedicated to exhibit art pieces of 64 Mexican and foreign galleries from 15 different countries: Japan, the United States, Colombia, UK, etc.
Some of the galleries present in this edition were: East Hamptom Shed, East Hampton; Eitoeiko, Tokyo; Alter Space, San Francisco; New Galerie, Paris; Seventeen, London; Yautepec, Mexico City among others.
For four days these galleries showed immersed in a maze of stands—a singular but original way to transport from one side to another place, but alternative, fresh and inclusive trends being swallowed up by the creativity of the “side B” art. The event offered an extensive art scene; three are noteworthy:
Galería Breve, directed by Begoña Irazabal and Jorge Rosano, which had his first appearance in MAF, emerged as a “pop up gallery” performing brief statements Saturday of each month, hence its name. Today’s main objective is the dissemination and support the work of emerging and established artists.
The artist Christian Castaneda, evinced his version, analysis and architectural interpretation, consisting of two – dimensional objects intended to form part of a living space. The installation, inspired by modern architecture and Brazilian Neo-Concrete art, explores the use of new materials while considering itself as a third portal or “limbo” in a common space.
BUREAU of CHANGE of New Orleans is not a traditional gallery, exhibiting art pieces of “new” technologies that were created by young artists fresh out of college with professionals who have different ways of creation. BUREAU of CHANGE gives them space for exhibition and creation.
Among the pieces on display, a figure of a black man dressed as the Statue of Liberty is a contradiction of representation of the same statue and mockery of the meaning of freedom. In turn, another installation was made up of pieces created from emojis and phrases they might represent, representing the symbolism of these to human emotions and feelings.
The Bikini Wax space dedicated to contemporary art was inhabited by three artists who are part of this group, open to people who wish to collaborate with the project. What exhibited at the fair were a number of objects related to facilities that have been made in the house and also objects that are part of the same place, a dichotomy between what you can see and what you see through slits.
As part of the celebration of this event various cultural activities were carried out such as performances by Julia Geröcs, Josep Maynou, Kim Ye, Wang and Christina Adrian Lee.
The third edition of Material Art Fair largely met expectations, with 50% higher sales in reference to the previous year, and it apparently will continue to grow in coming years giving viewers new editions of galleries and emerging artistic proposals.
Galería:
A Review of art week in Mexico
Yunuen Diaz – February 9, 2016 – Mexico City
(Translated from Spanish using Google)
“While Zona MACO fair is aimed at international collectors and consolidated capital, other spaces have decided to to expand our vision of art. For this piece, I will review other fairs and cultural events that took place in the week of contemporary art.
Material Art Fair. Located in the building of Expo Reforma, this fair opens its doors for the third time, the best yet. The spirit of the show seems to be placed in an intermediate space between art exhibition and festival with hundreds of young people walking through the labyrinthine spaces, floating between pieces of bright colors, music and scintillating pop atmosphere. The fair takes us for a moment to a different Mexico, as if a little piece of Manhattan had been implemented for a few days in our city. Many of the exhibiting galleries came from our American neighbor, perhaps because of the proximity or the need also there, as elsewhere, to open new markets. As the dollar swings dangerously on the edge of twenty pesos per dollar, a trip to our exotic land is attractive to anyone. So the spring break of contemporary art arrived and brought all that bohemia we love; this fair reminds us that art is alive. While it is clear that some galleries just opened their doors with rebellious spirits and have a long career still ahead, other spaces’ emerging projects show the strength of their proposals.”
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“BUREAU of CHANGE New Orleans, along with other works, presented a video by [BUREAU of CHANGE] of a black man costumed as Statue of Liberty, with unconcerned American citizens showing discomfort by his presence.”
What you will see in Material Art Fair 2016
Mexico City – February 3, 2016 – The Art Fair that begins February 4 presents painting, sculpture and photographic works.
Still from the video installation Amazing Grace (BUREAU of CHANGE)
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Join BUREAU of CHANGE and CREATIVE TIME for a hyper-local and hyper-global event on the role of artist in shaping cities and public life.
Streaming from NYC – A diverse group of artists, architects, planners, politicians, activists, and theorists from across the globe examine the positive and negative consequences of the widespread belief that the arts are a necessary ingredient in the making and re-making of cities. More than thirty presenters will describe their work on and look at the ways artists might address such issues as gentrification, racialized urbanism, environmental catastrophe, and bottom-up urban planning.
On our corner in New Orleans – We’ll be talking about what’s changed on our block, what’s changed on your block and how we all feel about it. BUREAU apprentices will be here to chat and record your stories. Or you can do it yourself by making a video, writing it down, or submitting it to our Google site.
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