FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 13, 2006
WHAT: Inactive/Active places the artist in the role of inventor. The performative sculptures in the exhibition investigate the role of technology in the human environment. The role of the machine is to automate functions in order to make life simpler or enable industry to punch out products in vast quantities. Our reliance on machines also makes them a presumed extension of the human experience. The machines featured in Inactive/Active either function to comment on the idea of mechanization or serve to produce narrative and metaphor.
Sabrina Raaf's Icelandic Rift, represents a future vision of agriculture and growth in a zero-g environment. While this machine is meant to exist and function in a future dystopic environment, it also presages that nature can no longer perform without the intervention of machinery. Heidi Kumao's, Letter Never Sent, shows a weeping, moaning manual typewriter that is obviously
WHEN: August 28 - September 29, 2006
Opening Reception: September 7, 5pm to 8pm
Gallery Hours: Mon. and Thurs., 10am-7pm, Tues. Wed. & Fri., 9am-5pm
WHERE: Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash, 1st floor
COST: Free and Open to the Public
MORE INFO: 312.344.6643
Note: Digital images are available.
Media Contact: Elizabeth Burke-Dain, 312.344.8695