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Sisyphus Office
May 8-June 27, 2009
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Skydive presents the exhibition Sisyphus Office, on view May 8 - June 27th 2009.
SKYDIVE is pleased to announce its most ambitious exhibition in scope and sprawl, Sisyphus Office, organized by San Francisco based artist, curator, and co-founder of The Thing Quarterly, Jonn Herschend. Sisyphus Office will open May 8th from 5-8:30pm. Locations of artist’s projects for Sisyphus Office include The Decorative Center, Nea House of Beauty, Copy.com, the Aurora Picture Show’s office, KPFT 90.1 radio’s offices, Caroline Collective and Skydive’s office.
Based out of Skydive, the artists involved in the project are collaborating with businesses and offices around Houston in order to centralize art as an integral and necessary distraction in our day to day life. The artists and offices involved in Sisyphus Office are working physically and conceptually with the notions of existentialism, romantic capitalism*, artistic romanticism and deadpan slapstickism as a means to examine and probe the artifice that keeps us clinging to reality and distracted from the void.
Sisyphus Office is about punching the clock, and then punching it again…but harder the second time. It’s about Laurel and Hardy helping out in a business. It’s also about transcending the mundane through the beauty and absurdity of distraction and repetition, like watching paper being fed into a printer, or waiting for a file to upload. It’s the comedy in the tragedy of the day to day… and then waking up again to do the same thing all over again the next morning.
SISYPHUS OFFICE
Alex Clausen, David Fullarton, Alice Shaw, David Keating, Elysa Lozano, Joe McKay, Brion Nuda Rosch, Susan O’Malley, Ryan Thayer, Lindsey White. organized by Jonn Herschend.
1. =SKYDIVE= Office
3400 Montrose Blvd. #907
Houston, TX 77006
Artist: Elysa Lozano, Autonomous Organization
Hours: Sat, 1 - 5 pm
2. NE'A House of Beauty
3400 Montrose Blvd.
Houston, TX 77006
www.neahouseofbeauty.com
(713) 343-8888
Artist: Alex Clausen
3. Copy.com
1201-F Westheimer
Houston, TX 77006
www.copydotcom.com
Artist: Susan O'Malley
Hours: Mon-Fri: 7am-Midnight, Sat: 11am-7pm
4. Aurora Picture Show
1524 Sul Ross
Houston, TX
www.aurorapictureshow.org
Artist: Lindsey White
Hours: Mon-Fri: 10am - 6pm
5. 90.1 KPFT
419 Lovett Blvd
Houston, TX 77006
www.kpft.org
Artist: David Fullarton
Hours: Mon-Fri: 10am - 5pm
6. Caroline Collective
4820 Caroline Street
Houston, TX 77004
www.carolinecollective.cc
Artist: Brion Nuda Rosch
7. Decorative Center Houston
5120 Woodway Dr, Suite 3029
Houston, TX 77056
www.decorativecenter.com
Artists: Ryan Thayer, David Keating, Joe McKay, Alice Shaw
Hours: Mon-Fri: 9am - 5pm
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2041 Norfolk St.
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Free event
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Dates:
May 8-June 27, 2009Times:
Opening reception:
Progressive opening May 8th
4-6 Houston Decorative Center
5120 Woodway Suite 3029
6-8 at Skydive
3400 Montrose Suite 907 (and nearby locations)
Performance by Skydive musicians Chin Xaou Ti Won opening nightRegular Gallery Hours:
Saturdays 1pm-5pm
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