SAY SOMETHING, Outpost's Storefront Window Project
Thank You by Paul Pescador
March 20 - June 19, 2010
Launching Outpost's storefront window project,
Say Something, Paul Pescador is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. He is a Studio Art MFA candidate at University of California, Irvine. His actions, gestures and performances deal with issues of social disconnection and communal space. He has most recently exhibited at Performing Public Space at Casa de Tunnel, Tijuana, Mexico and Workspace Selects at House of Genesee, Los Angeles, CA. He is also the co-director of workspace, a project space in Lincoln Heights.
For
Thank You Paul Pescador has collected and transcribed thank you letters onto Outpost's front window shade. Each letter is hand written and was given to him from both donors and receivers of the text. The large 9x5 foot installation will contain over a hundred letters and the subject matter of each will vary from the sincere to the banal. The letters came from people who live in Northeast Los Angeles. Through the quantity of text,
Thank You explores how social networks and communal environments interact.
Paul Pescador is interested in the thank you letter as the supplemental acknowledgment of a gesture that has already occurred. Most of these letters were originally written to be private. By placing them in a storefront window, in a public setting, he is consciously examining and invading the privacy of each letter. By removing full names or keeping the text anonymous, the gesture is reflected back onto the viewer of artwork. A thank you letter from Outpost for Contemporary Art to the neighborhood.
Join us at Outpost HQ, on April 17, 2010, 3pm, for SATURDAY VISITS with
Paul Pescador.
For more information about Outpost, please contact Julie Deamer, Director, Outpost for Contemporary Art, at
julie@outpost-art.org
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1268 N. Ave 50
Los Angeles, CA 90042
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