BOOK LAUNCH
Geof Oppenheimer
Published by White Walls
June 1, 2013
3-5pm
14a Orchard Street
New York
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The book Modular Objects Civil Society reimagines the ways which communities collectively produce meaning through the social environments they habituate. It is a reflection on the performance of living. It asks questions of how objects accrue value in relationship to one another and how ideas concerning a shared cultural patrimony are projected onto both objects and the objectified in culture.
Social meaning is not formed by a singular, concise gesture but is made in waves and in relation to other people, things or images. Modular Objects Civil Society is invested in this irrational linguistics that culture imprints upon the things that make up our world.
Today, we are in an epoch without an ideal citizen; we are without a shared, underlying set of positions. In this sense there has been a massive breakdown of social meaning and stable power relations. Rather than find this a cynical position we find ourselves in, it is a place of enormous creative impulses. Modular Objects Civil Society is an attempt to reorganize value not along the lines of the supposedly rational and the quantifiable but along the axis of social energies, the remainders after logic. In this sense it is a redemptive project.
You can pre-order your copy here.
GEOF OPPENHEIMER has exhibited at the The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; PS1/MOMA, Long Island City NY; The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore; SITE Santa Fe; The Aspen Art Museum; The Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Project, New York; MC, Los Angeles and at SF Camerawork, San Francisco. Oppenheimer studied at the Maryland Institute, College of Art where he received his BFA and received an MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. He also studied at the Academia voor Beeldende Vorming in the Netherlands. Oppenheimer's work takes up questions of civic value, the ways in which political and social structures are encoded in images and objects and how meaning is formed in the modern world. Represented by Ratio3, San Francisco, he is an Associate Professor of Practice in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Chicago and lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.
Begun as an artist-run journal in 1977 by Buzz Spector with Regan and Roberta Upshaw, WhiteWalls Inc. is currently a publisher of artists projects, usually in book form, edited by Anthony Elms. WhiteWalls Inc. books are distributed through the University of Chicago Press.
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Please note that the gallery will be closed Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26 in observance of Memorial Day. We will resume regular gallery hours on Wednesday, May 29, for the final week of Scott Treleaven's All-Nite Cinema, which closes on Sunday, June 2.
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INVISIBLE-EXPORTS is located in the Lower East Side, at 14A Orchard Street, just north of Canal. Gallery hours are Wednesday through Sunday, 11-6pm, and by appointment. For more information, call 212 226 5447 or email: info@invisible-exports.com
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