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IN LIGHT of RECENT EVENTS
(or What to do at Art Basel if you don’t like Art Basel really)
Wynwood Arts District, December 2-5, 2010
Lions Gallery @ Museovault
346 NW 29th Street, Miami, FL 33127
Spectre Event Horizon is a 5+ year old online open-sourced research collaborative, gathering investigative research from across the disciplines.
As such, Spectrecon1 : Miami, our inaugural presentation, showcases contemporary conceptual artwork inspired by current events, juxtaposed with street photojournalism, various non-art experiments, and other relevant findings; an exhibition of genuine economic wonder, and other strange feelings about the confusions we face.
Featuring:
the Miami premiere of Jeremy Dean‘s horse-drawn Humvee [courtesy of the 21c Museum Hotel Collection in Louisville, KY], circling the Art Fairs of Wynwood all week, and otherwise parked in front of Lions Gallery, where the horses rest.
On Saturday afternoon there will be a tutorial from Mr. Dean on how to make DIY horse-drawn automobiles, with discussion of the historical precedents, like throughout the Great Depression when no one could afford gasoline. (There will indeed be horse-drawn Humvee rides given during the Fairs, to some very lucky people, but don’t ask us, it’s up to the horses…)
Additionally, artist Abigail Portner is installing a suspended graveyard of dead honeybees she’s found
while God’s pornographer Jonathon Keats is showing a live feed from CERN‘s notorious Large Hadron Collider—where tiny baby big bangs get produced as experiments—pruriently displayed in the hopes of getting God turned on again, and re-inspired into making new universes.
Non-artist’s include economic historian Stephen Mihm, showing images of pre-dollar counterfeit bank notes from his research and world-famous hacker Dan Kaminsky, whose misuse of a zoomable genetics visualization tool reveals the complicated structural elegance – but inherent vulnerabilities – found in human-written code, everything from MS Windows to US Law Statutes.
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plus many other politically taboo-subjects, objects, and entertainments, including economic tarot readings, immortal lobsters, recipes from Saharan refugee camps, and more
Meanwhile:
in observation of the Sabbath,
we refrain from conducting business, and offer instead
Friday night 8pm: an open public summit on China
with noted Chinese artists and economists,
moderated by Philip Tinari and Zachary Mexico
Saturday afternoon 1-6pm : continuing education series
including the horse-drawn automobile tutorial from Jeremy Dean, plus discussions on open-source culture with Ben Sisto, abstract quantum holography with Mark Diamond, the Chasidic underground with Robert Eisenberg, plus whispered gossip about various art world business models and Mark Lombardi‘s voluminous investigative research
Bonus:
Only in Miami : the recently discovered collection of Chasidic rabbi Aryeh Wuensch, who’s been obsessively purchasing artwork dating from the post war period to the present—including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Keith Haring, Christian Boltanski, Marina Abramovic, Beverly Pepper, Not Vital, Pier Paolo Pasolini—some not shown publicly since their respective openings, if at all
MAP: spectrevision.org
SCHEDULE: spectrevision.tumblr.com/miami2010
“If you want to be on the cusp of something revolutionary, but then instead find yourself at Art Basel, let SPECTRE EVENT HORIZON be your relief.”—Total Panic Digest
“Hat tip to the amazing folks at Spectre who routinely send me the most interesting things I read.”—Steven D. Levitt, author of “Freakonomics”
SPECTRE: spectregroup.org
“things to talk about at parties”
*Image above:
Courtesy of the 21c Museum Hotel Collection, Louisville, KY.
Image courtesy of {CTS} creative thriftshop, NY.
