Process 01: Joy

Chinatown's new multidisciplinary exhibition space P! kicks off its programming by confronting the work of Chauncey Hare, Christine Hill, and Karel Martens, while simultaneously proposing a series of parallel events.

 

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Last 16 September, Process 01: Joy kicked off the programming of P!, a new multidisciplinary exhibition space in New York's Chinatown. Featuring a unique interaction of work by Chauncey Hare, Christine Hill, and Karel Martens, the exhibition focuses on topics that periodically appear, disappear, and reappear in and out of contemporary discourse: labor, alienation, and the love of work.

Rather than attempting to tackle these themes head on, Process 01: Joy presents three extremely disparate positions that together suggest a loose and unstable thesis. The materials on view span a range of documentary, anthropological, and performative approaches to questions of labor and, at the same time, enact self-reflexive, parallel spaces of production and "off-time."

The specific enquiry conducted by Karel Martens since the 1950s is further analysed in a conversation happening 22 September, when curators Gary Carrion-Murayari (New Museum) and Kim Conaty (Museum of Modern Art) join Karel Martens to discuss historical questions of labor, disciplinary crossover, and iconoclastic approaches to printing technology.

Top: A scene from the opening of P!, a new multidisciplinary exhibition space in Chinatown. Above: Process 01: Joy exhibition view, with work by Chauncey Hare, Christine Hill, and Karel Martens. Photo by Naho Kubota

Founded by Project Projects' Prem Krishnamurthy, P! acts as an extension to the curatorial, editorial, and publishing work of the studio, and proposes an experimental space of display where possibilities of disparate disciplines, historical periods, and modes of production come together.

The self-described "free-wheeling combination of project space, commercial gallery, and Mom-and-Pop-Kunsthalle" seeks to emphasize rupture over tranquility, interference over mere coexistence, transparency over obfuscation, and passion over cool remove. The space's architectural concept, designed by Leong Leong Architecture, premieres with Process 01: Joy, and will evolve with each successive installation at P!.

A scene from the opening of P!, a new multidisciplinary exhibition space in Chinatown

23 September 2012, 15:00 - 17:00
Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kim Conaty, Karel Martens in Conversation
Project Projects
161 Bowery, 2nd floor, New York
Free entrance, RSVP required

Through 3 November 2012
Process 01: Joy
P!
334 Broome St., New York

A scene from the opening of P!, a new multidisciplinary exhibition space in Chinatown

Karel Martens, Untitled, c. 1991