October 6, 2006
Following up on the Bronco Swap Meet Biennale from earlier this year, Clancco and Outpost for Contemporary Art have joined forces, Voltron-style, to put together The 2006 Rose Bowl Flea Market Biennale, of which I'm honored to be a participant.
It's this Sunday, and there's a whole slew of super-talented people involved. As with last time, I feel I've snuck in and am waiting for someone to kick me out. The full list of artists:
Sky Burchard, Star Rosencrans, Aganetha S. Dyck, Douglas Melini, Ami Brett, Charles Gaines, Andrew Reyes, Channing Hansen, Chris Sollars, Collin Zipp, Christiane Robbins, Dani Tull, David Bunn, Dorit Cypis, Emma J. Bloomfield, Edith Abeyta, Fritz Haeg, Theresia Rosa Kleeman, Adrian Rivas, Gina Osterloh, Paul Robles, neuroTransmitter (Angel Nevarez + Valerie Tavere), Juana Menses, Julian Hoeber, Julie Lequin, Kathryn Van Dyke, Kika Thorne, Kim Schoen, Linda Pollock, Marc Fischer, Paul Druecke, Peter Cole, Renato Garza Cerver, Rebecca Morris, Robert Larkin, Annie Shaw, Shannon Spanhake, Marcy Freedman, Tim Hyde, Tom Lawson, Stephen Prina, Will Rogan, Eric Magnuson, Don Jamón, Javier Piñon, Jim Schatz, Mary Beth Heffernan, Cooper Griggs, Erik Bakke, Christine Wuermell, Kim Schoen, Phil Chang
Hoo boy, that's a list. There's also a really fascinating debate/friendly discussion occurring over in the comments on the Clancco site, between Sergio Munoz-Sarmiento and Dorit Cypis, one of the participating artists. What starts out as a few questions about the point of the Biennale ends up evolving into a discussion about the relevance of contemporary art in general. It remains a perpetually unfinished debate, but the hashing out in the meantime is pretty interesting.
In any event, it should be interesting to see how this turns out - there's quite a different audience at the Rose Bowl Flea Market, especially given its proximity to Los Angeles and its art collectors, than at the El Paso Bronco Swap Meet.
If you're in the area, I'd highly recommend you check it out and pick some stuff up.
Posted by starlen at October 6, 2006 12:02 AM
