12/23/2022
We're taking a break!
drip and our galleries will be closed December 24 through January 2.
See you in the new year!
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12/22/2022
As we’re about to pause before the new year, we’ve selected some events from 2022 that have shaped the way we connect with our audiences and that begin to show how we weave thoughts and approaches together.
This summer’s collaboration with the Brooklyn Art Book Fair brought thousands of visitors to our campus, and their form of organizing and alliance building infused us with a new energy. We’re excited to further nourish the relationships that emerged from BKABF. (img 1)
Liliane Lijn’s “Crossing Map” performance in September beautifully tied poetry, bookmaking, sculpture, and mythical thinking together—a kind of connecting of worlds and methods we can only strive to do more of ourselves (img 2)
Cassandra Mayela’s learnshops in spring and summer prepared us for some of the themes in “SIREN (some poetics)” but were also an experiment in collective creating across age groups. (img 3)
In August, we hosted The School for Poetic Computation’s “Sex Ed” workshop. After accompanying them in the process, we invited them to develop a public learnshop that would allow them to continue this research and that also added another layer to our exhibition “SIREN (some poetics)”. (img 4-5)
This fall, Prem Krishnamurthy and David Knowles conducted a collective reading and discussion to launch “On Letters.” The intimate format of this Dear Reader event and the way of prompting the audience is an example of how we want to create conversation and modes of shared thinking. (img 6)
We are thrilled to have developed visits and learnshops with members from SAGE Center NY and students from the Lyons Community School in our neighborhood. Through these exchanges, we deepen what learning means to us and others. (img 7-8)
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Images (1) Daniel Wang , (2) Whitney Browne , (4,5 ) Neta Bomani
12/21/2022
As we’re about to close for the end of year holiday, we’ve selected some exhibition projects from the past year that exemplify how we work with artists, research, and formats.
“Cuentos de cuentas” began as a series of stories penned by Carla Zaccagnini and published episodically on our website. They then came together into an exhibition [new works of art almost growing out of the page] and a beautiful artist book, co-published with K.Verlag. Find the stories on the archive section of our website. (Img 1-2)
For “Precipitation for an Arid Landscape,” Gala Porras-Kim's solo show last winter, we created a reference space connected to Gala’s research into the possible lives of Mayan objects taken from Chichén Itzá’s Sacred Cenote. We brought together historical correspondence, film fragments, and press clippings to add another layer to Gala’s artistic proposal as well as her own letter to the Peabody Museum director. Find imagery as well as some of Gala’s letters on the exhibition webpage. (Img 3-5)
With Mette Edvardsen’s “Suppose a Room” in April, we launched our compendio format, in which we invite one artist to develop a day of performative interventions, accompanied by sparse props and books to allowed for an embodied look back at their practice to-date. Find documentation of Mette’s work on the “Suppose a Room” webpage. (Ing 6-8)
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Images (1, 3, 6) New Document, (2) K Verlag
12/14/2022
Our Gift Cards are now available in our Bookstore.
Starting at $25, they are the perfect gift for book/art/artbooklovers.
12/08/2022
*New Merch Alert* Our 17oz BPA-free Kinto water bottles have just arrived.
Come grab yours and stay hydrated during the holiday season--the more fleurons, the merrier!
Our Bookstore is open Mon-Wed 9am-2pm and Thu-Sun 9am-6pm.
12/03/2022
On Thursday Decenber 15, our current resident Jordan Deal asks: “Will I disappear if I stand between the climax of two magnets? Or will I split apart into a thousand singular nubs?”
With this proposition, they further develop their theory of CHAOS FORCE in the context of a specific site (land, structure, institution, and dead knowledge), gaze (perception, interference, and surveillance), and filters of language. Using collected field recordings, video/film documents, and real time mythological fabrication and sound instrumentation that has partly been collected while in residency, Jordan probes how urban mythology, memory, storytelling, language, and the way we place ourselves in space disrupts, redistributes, and questions self-agency, power, violence, and authority.
This performance is part of our For Your Reference series in which residents share and discuss a key reference for their ongoing research. The presentation is free and open to all and will be followed by an informal reception at 306 Maujer.
12/02/2022
Our Holiday Sale starts on Saturday! ✨📚
Come find the perfect gift and take advantage of our special discounts.
During the first three weekends of December select titles will be reduced by 15% and Amant merch by 10%.
11/30/2022
"*It is strange to use text in this quilt–this is, to employ written language in a tradition developed largely by silenced ones; the slave, the wife, the woman...this is my contribution to tradition, then. An expansion, not a breaking.* this quote by Stephanie Sauer from “Almonds are Members of the Peach Family” speaks to the complexities that accompany text(ile) artworks. Bia Davou's ”Untitled (Odyssey)” engages in this adjustment of tradition. it incorporates the Fibonacci sequence as well as lines from Homer's “Odyssey”, which she embroidered within the awe-inducing scale of her work. here, the spotlight is on Penelope, a reference that is threaded through many other works in “SIREN (some poetics)”. the work asserts that Penelope’s contribution is central to the development of the plot, not an afterthought.
as Emily Wilson uncovers in her translation of “The Odyssey”, Penelope illustrates the duality of textile art. her weaving practice protected herself and her son from suitors’ advances. yet, this self-sacrificing act burdens her with the exhaustive and lonesome process of daytime weaving and nocturnal unweaving. the way that Penelope navigated her suffering provides an understanding of the origin of survival through textiles, on both an individual and communal level.
artworks that have historically been classified as 'craft' are not void of language. they exist thanks to the generational teachings of the language of domesticity. perhaps these voices are hushed, not silenced, waiting for an expansion offered by those like Davou/Sauer/Wilson to gather an audience and dissolve their attempted erasure. despite patriarchal influence, this language is intimately known and intertwines us all."
This reflection is by colleen stonebrook , Visitor Engagement Representative and Education Facilitator. Find them in our bookstore or in our galleries and talk about the themes and storylines you encounter. All images taken by them.
11/29/2022
Starting this Sunday, December 4, we will offer free First-Sunday Architecture Tours of our award-winning campus designed by SO-IL
You will learn more about the philosophy behind our buildings and find out about materials as well as important references.
First-Sunday Architecture Tours start at 12:30pm at our 315 Maujer entrance. Attendance is on a first-come, first-served basis, the tour can accommodate up to 15 people.
11/23/2022
We're taking a break this Thursday and Friday to spend time with family and friends. We'l be back to our rgeular schedule on Saturday, when our Cafe opens at 9am, and our galleries at noon.
11/22/2022
“Dear On, Today I woke up at 9:37 A.M. I began these missives with a clear purpose: to correspond with you about a specific strand of your work: your Date Paintings, known collectively as "Today (1966-2013)". … My original plan was to approach them primarily from the perspective of graphic design, to unpack them as only a typographer might. But already as I settle in for today’s writing, I suspect that my letters may extend beyond this intention… Does it seem like a lot for a single correspondence, On? Am I asking too much from a set of thirteen letters? The honest answer, On, is usually *maybe*.”
These are fragments from “On Letters” which collects thirteen letters by Prem Krishnamurthy to late conceptual artist On Kawara. For its launch at Amant, author Prem Krishnamurthy and designer/publisher David Knowles rehearsed this same letter to then open the space for the audience to read together, in intimate group style, another 'On Letter' of their choice and to write individual notes in response to what they heard, to Prem or On Kawara, and to writing in general.
In this third iteration of our “Dear Reader” series that highlights the process of, and many questions underpinning, writing and bookmaking, participants became active readers, highlighting how readership also bears a level of delayed complicity with the author and their collaborators. Thanks to all who shared voices, accents, emphasis, scribbles, letters, and thoughts.
“On Letters” is published by Brooklyn-based queer-led Doman and is available in our bookstore.
Images: details of Sarah Demeuse's personal notes taken at the book launch as well as event photographs by Amant staff.
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11/21/2022
Our current resident duo, Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva use a preliminary deck of the Echo Tarot Deck--a new deck of Tarot cards they are creating while in residency at Amant--to perform a "Poethical Reading".
Beyond the principles of non-contradiction and identity, Valentina and Denise's ‘poethical’ readings redesign any given situation in a way that allows for multiple articulations of situations and events to coexist without the imposition of a single meaning or direction.
This event is part of the For Your Reference series in which our residents share and discuss a key reference for their ongoing thinking and research while at Amant. The presentation is free and open to all and will be followed by an informal reception at 306 Maujer.
11/17/2022
On Thursday December 8, our New York Studio and Research resident Ayo presents a meta-sensorial lecture performance weaving together moving image, text, sculpture, and scent. It aims to experimentally “enliven” archival materials–and im-materials–related to African immigrant Oral Histories with which Ayo is engaging during her residency.
This event is part of the For Your Reference series in which our residents share and discuss a key reference for their ongoing thinking and research while at Amant. The talk is free and open to all and will be followed by an informal reception.
11/15/2022
To us, learning is an ongoing process about valuing all forms of knowledge rather than centering a single person, idea, or way of thinking. We give space and resources towards creating experiences of exchange and dialogue.
In other words: every program is an occasion for learning. The learnshop proposes a method of collective learning with art, texts, and exhibitions: it provides a context for personal interpretation that goes beyond curatorial statements and gallery descriptions.
Find out how you can become part on our Learn page via the link in our bio.
Images: 1. Assembling a publication at "Poetics of Theft" with Shanzhai Lyric Oct 13, 2022; 2. "Heat Waves" with Miss Parker August 6, 2022; 3. Documentation Room in Gala Porras Kim's "Precipitation for an Arid Landscape" winter 2022; 4. Rocks from our courtyard gathered for "In the Spirit of Communality" with Carla Macchiavello, Cecilia Vicuña, Ricardo Gallo, November 16, 2021; 4. Conversation in our bookstore between Carla Zaccagnini and Rivka Galchen, April 13, 2022
11/10/2022
*Next Week!* Join us for a double bill poetry reading on Thursday, November 17.
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram will read form their forthcoming book of poetry "Negative Money" and Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro reads together with the wind and her new outdoor sculpture "Senti".
“As a voice is drawn from currents, as air enters the throat and rides, as temperature soars within, and daytime thins or dilates, as words fill the mouth whenever spoken, unique in each room and finding shape, as delicate a climate, a voice oscillates.” (Mayra A. Rodríguez Casto)
This event is part of our public program for "SIREN (some poetics)" our current exhibition curated by Quinn Latimer. It is free and open to all, prior registration is recommended. See link in our bio.
Image: Mayra A. Rodríguez Castro, "Senti" (2022)
11/10/2022
"Singing sand" happens when wind, sand grains, humidity, minerals, and ear align. When grains of a certain diameter and certain silica content are swept up in a certain way (either by wind or walking) the human ear perceives a whistling, barking, or singing sound. There's vibration, admiration (who would have thought other-than-humans sing?), and wonder. This phenomenon occurs in 35 deserts around the world, is a draw for tourist outings, and the Great Sand Dunes National Park in Colorado became an inspiration for a Bing Crosby song.
What happens when some of said sand grains from the Al Wakrah desert in Qatar then become the parts of a pneumatic machine with organic-looking tentacular glass shapes that produce a low hum? There's vibration, slight discomfort, yet equal wonder. Despite the eeriness, there is no ghost in this machine: like the Al Wakrah dunes this sculpture suggests that voice and song emerge in conditions where different elements dynamically align and break away--just how in the human body air, vocal cord cells, hormones, digestion, as well as many other elements and the ears of our listeners shape our utterances.
Katja Aufleger’s “Sirens (Al Wakra Vol.III)” is part of our current group exhibition “SIREN (some poetics)” curated by Quinn Latimer--come hear its hum and also find her video work “Condition 7.5 5pm (Al Wakra)” in the same gallery.
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11/02/2022
In our sixth and final meet-the-SIREN-artists post, we highlight Liliane Lijn and Rosemary Mayer.
“I wanted people to see sound,” Liliane Lijn () said in an interview with . A pioneer of kinetic poetry with her “Poem Machines”—cylinders printed with words that spun so fast as to reduce them to mere blur and vibration—Liliane’s work explores the limits of meaning in language, making visual the vibrations from which language originates. Her sculptural practice includes larger iterations of these machines, but also tackles her interest in exploring new images of the feminine. Responding to the overwhelmingly male kinetic art movement, Liliane began a series titled “She” by first returning to drawing that eventually resulted in the unnerving, razor-edged "Queens" presented in “SIREN (some poetics)”.
Best known for her fabric sculptures that droop, shroud, and float in the air, Rosemary Mayer () brings similarly ethereal colors and forms to her drawings, which often complement her sculpture and installation work. For her durational pieces, these drawings also serve as documentation, capturing both the detail and essence of the work. A cofounder of , Rosemary spent much of her early career producing text-based work. However, along with the wave of late 60s/early 70s feminism, her practicework developed to center the emerging conversations around bodily autonomy and craft as artistic practice.
Images: 1. Liliane Lijn, “Queen of Hearts, Queen of Diamonds” 1980 and Rosemary Mayer "City Roof Tent on Wheels" 1980; 2. Detail of Rosemary Mayer, "100 Years" 2007-11; 3. Liliane Lijn "Study for Woman of War" 1984 (courtesy the artists, Rodeo Gallery, the Estate of Rosemary Mayer and Gordon Robichaux).
"SIREN (some poetics)" is curated by poet Quinn Latimer ( ) and is on view through March 5, 2023.
11/01/2022
Our Open Call for the New York Studio & Residency Program ends in two weeks!
Join us for an info session via Zoom on Monday November 7, at 10 am ET. Email [email protected] to register.
10/28/2022
... and we're podcasting! Our first season of "Meet the Residents" is now available.
The premise is straightforward: we meet our residents in their studios and talk about what they are thinking about while here, how they go about their research, and in what way our context has shaped their projects.
You can access the audio via our website, where you can also see reference images and find further references. You can also listen to us on Spotify.
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10/27/2022
Join Prem Krishnamurthy and publisher David Knowles from Domain to launch "On Letters," a collection of 13 letters to On Kawara written by Prem Krishnamurthy. Starting with thoughts on typography and form, the letters finally ponder how the solitary practice of artmaking can spark other transformations in the world.
This event is part of our Dear Reader series and takes place in our Bookstore and Café. Free and open to all. Wednesday, November 16, 6:30-8pm!
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10/26/2022
"Painting collectively is a poetic act, a collective manifestation. From the inside and going outwards, we find
ourselves with others by accident or by common agreement, and we stop being one to be collectively.
These encounters remind us that we are not alone, that together we are stronger and that to survive we
need each other.”
"In this meeting of collective painting we come together to think about the sirens as a sound of mutual
care. Sounds make us travel, reminding us of everything that surrounds us but that isn’t visible. Beyond
the alarm, we think about those sirens of collective voices, the sound manifestation of the networks that
surround and sustain us.”
This is María Bonomi y Lucía Cozzi’s impression after leading the first iteration of their family-friendly bilingual
learnshop “Sounds of Safety” on October 15.
They will present two more sessions, on November 12 (a drawing session!) and
March 5. These learnshops are free and open to all ages 5 and up. Prior registration is recommended.
Visit the link in our bio to register.
10/21/2022
We're hiring! The Design and Communications Coordinator will further Amant’s web, social media, print and digital communication. You will work on a range of projects, ranging from exhibition wall text and flyers to keeping the website fully updated, drafting creative program-related contents for social media, developing digital audience-building campaigns, and to keeping our database up to date. You will contribute with strong technical skills, an understanding of visual communication in the art world, a collaborative approach to your work, and exceptional managerial talent.
Find out more details via the link in our bio.
10/17/2022
On October 21-23, we’re joining over 250 places throughout the 5 boroughs for the 20th Annual Open House New York Weekend!
Join us on Saturday and Sunday at 2pm for English tours and at 3pm for Spanish tours. Do a self-guided family tour of our current exhibition at your own pace. Our campus opens at 9am, exhibition spaces open 12pm!
As part of OHNY our neighbors Interboro Spirits and Ales offer tours on the hour, Sure We Can in Bushwick offers in-person tours at select times on Saturday, and the City Reliquary in Williamsburg is open 12-6pm.
Learn more via the link in our bio.
10/14/2022
*Berlin!* On Tuesday, October 18th from 7-9pm, Carla Zaccagnini (.zaccagnini) is joined by Amant's Director and Chief Curator Ruth Estévez () in a book talk at K. Verlag (), celebrating this year's publication of Carla's "Cuentos de Cuentas".
"Cuentos de Cuentas" is our first print publication, co-published with K. Verlag in connection with Carla's solo exhibition of the same title earlier this year.
RSVP for the event via info [at] k-verlag [dot] org.
If you are in New York, fresh copies of the book are available at our Café & Bookstore in Brooklyn now.
10/10/2022
Our Bookstore & Café is closed today, October 10, in observance of Indigenous Peoples' Day. We open tomorrow at 9am.
10/07/2022
We are very excited to be part of the Sharon Street Block Party on Saturday October 15, 1-4pm. 🍁
Join us for an afternoon filled with fun fall activities, including a screen printing station, pumpkin decorating, pickleball, bluegrass music, children's story hour, a plant giveaway, a clothing swap, a raffle, and neighborly gathering and conversation over apple cider and donuts or a warm cup of coffee.
We participate with "Sounds of Safety," a bilingual family-friendly learnshop led by Brooklyn-based artist duo María Bonomi y Lucía Cozzi. Drop-in participants welcome, ages 5 and up.
We're co-hosting the block party together with the amazing the Friends of Cooper Park. Neighboring participants include: drip, Grimm Artisanal Ales, Leonard Library, Pegasus Prints, Rose Wold Coffee, St Nick's Alliance.
Come say hi. we'll all be on Sharon street alongside Cooper Park!
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We are now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 cycle of our Studio & Research Residency Program. We extend this Open Call to artists who are not currently based in New York City. Our Open Call closes on November 15th. Share this post with someone you think should apply! Follow the link in our bio for more details on eligibility and how to apply. #AmantNY #AmantResidency
Heat Waves at Amant brings together musicians of different contexts and practices to bring sonic experiences into our summer public programming. Heat Waves is an occasion to gather, listen, move, and feel sound in our space. On August 6 from 4 to 6pm, Brooklyn-based DJ/Producers Via App (@appetizr) and Miss Parker (@thebussycatdoll) energize our courtyard with live, hardware-based electronic music. As DJs, they are integral to Brooklyn’s nightlife, taking the dance floor as a space for experimentation and dialogue. In our inaugural music event, Via App and Miss Parker charge the summer air with vibrant sounds weaving between tension and euphoria. On August 13 from 6 to 8pm, experimental musicians Lucy Liyou (Philadelphia, @lucyliyou) and Theodore Cale Schafer (NYC, @theodore_c_schafer) share the stage. Although their works diverge greatly in style, both interrogate what happens when traditional instrumentation becomes data, engaging in play between synthesized and raw, and between presence and absence. Entry is free, and we welcome all ages and music preferences. Prior registration is recommended but not required. Learn more about this event through the link in our bio. #AmantNY
Upon re-entry in the Netherlands in 2017, our Studio & Research resident Isshaq Albarbary (@tanaaqush_chiselcollectivity) noticed that his country of birth had been re-assigned a new status: ###, which stands for “unknown.” This experience prompted him to take his ###’ed ID card, and the ensuing conversations it brought with, as material for his artistic research. What are the ideological and material layers that are compressed into this single document? What is the history of the “X” code and how does it speak to other histories and experiences of violent erasure? Could there be hope in being “unknown”? This clip is from his “Reading X the Unknown” presentation, part of our “For Your Reference Series”, which was followed by a conversation with Naeem Mohaiemen (@naeem_mohaiemen). Full documentation to be uploaded to our website shortly. #AmantResidencyNY
Studio & Research Resident Rianna Jade Parker (@xaymacans) has spent the bulk of her current time in New York conducting research about Jamaican-born activist, feminist, and playwright Amy Ashwood (1897-1969), who was a founding member of the UNIA, the pan-African Universal Negro Improvement Association. In her conversation with writer Jessica Lynne (@lynne_bias) Rianna explains why Amy's "unruly" way of living life, beyond the ideas that she stands for, is of relevance to Rianna as she herself develops her own form of extra-academic researching into a life practice. Full documentation of Rianna's and Jessica's conversation will soon be available on our online media archive. #AmantNY #AmantResidencyNY
Only a month away! Amant hosts the sixth annual Brooklyn Art Book Fair. Over 50 publishers and artists–some local, some visiting, some emerging, and others more established–participate in-person in a three-day fair that attracts over 3,000 visitors in just 17 hours of public access. BKABF is free to the public and does not charge exhibitors fees; it has become an example that a book fair can be a model for supporting independent publishing. More information at https://www.bkabf.info/ and on Instagram @brooklynartbookfair
How do you measure the value of an object? And does objective value really exist? Who decides the equivalence between goods? In Carla Zaccagnini's @carla.zaccagnini "La plata y el plomo" (Silver and lead), an oversized mobile of everyday household objects suggests equivalences between them, alluding to the fact that there is more to them than the eye can tell. The objects are at once potential depositories of personal memories as well as vessels for hiding much-valued US dollars. This work is part of "Cuentos de cuentas / Accounts of accounting" our current exhibition with Carla Zaccagnini on view through August 21. Read more about objects like the one in this mobile in the online episodes on our website. #cuentosdecuentas #Amant
Meet Melissa Inéz Rodríguez @inezm.el of our Visitor Engagement Team: "I see a pair of hands. Behaving like dancers in a mini theater. Hands interpreting Carla Zaccagnini’s ‘The Tent’, a story about a childhood road trip to the south of Argentina and a fraudulent sales transaction. At the start of the performance, the hands paint their fingernails green—similar to the green of the tent Carla remembers." "While following the storyline, a memory of mine is triggered. I think of my abuela in the Dominican Republic. How she always had well-manicured nails (blush pink, sometimes burgundy) and how on Sundays she would gather the women in my family together to do each other’s nails. Suddenly the patio would turn into a makeshift nail salon. It was an intimate moment, where experiences were shared." "Hands have always intrigued me. I am still fascinated by how they can tell conscious and unconscious stories. They are the most theatrical part of our bodies. We use them not only for practical reasons, but to emphasize our emotions. The amount of expression we can portray through our hands is immense, which is clearly demonstrated by Marina Dubia's (the hand actor) performance. Come admire this hand theater in “Cuentos de cuentas/ Accounts of Accounting” through August 21st and share your own impression with me." Image credit: Fragment from "Cuentos de cuentas" (2022); 5-channel video installation; choreography and performance: Marina Dubia; camera and editing: Petra Bindel; music: Søren Kjærgaard @carla.zaccagnini @pessoateimosa #Cuentosdecuentas
“There’s something about how we set boundaries as women that we often don’t do until *this* point. I’m allowed to set a boundary to someone before they come anywhere near me. ... There is a certain level of agency that we don’t allow ourselves.” This is the voice of the self-defense coach in Olivia Plender’s @oliviaplender “Hold Hold Fire” that guide a group of women in a series of exercises. The video dwells on the bodily and collective tactics women can learn to resist everyday violence as well as police aggression, on how can they take ownership of the situation. "Hold Hold Fire" is currently on view at Géza as part of Olivia’s “Neither Strivers Nor Skivers, They Will Not Define Us” and grew out of her research into the history of the suffragette movement and the current concerns of feminist organizers in East London. Image: video fragments from "Hold Hold fire" (1'10''-1'30" and 6'26"-6'35")
We are excited to introduce our online archive, now available on our website! Going forward, video, documentation, and materials from our programming and events, as well as our online publications, will be publicly available here. Be sure to visit periodically! Many thanks to @linkedbyair for helping us to build this resource. #Amant
Mark the calendar 3/3/22 at 3pm! 🗓☕️📚 On March 3, the Amant Café run in partnership with drip coffee (@dripcoffeenyc ) will finally open. For the occassion, our books wil be 10% off and starting 3pm we will serve complimentary drip coffee as well as a celebratory drink. Come toast with us to this new venture, browse our books, and enjoy our two exhibitions on view, “Precipitation for an Arid Landscape” and “Revolution, fulfill your promise!” We look foward to seeing you at the Café! The café will be open during regular visiting hours: Thursday-Sunday, 12-6pm. Wheelchair accessible entry via our main entrance at 315 Maujer Street. #AmantCafé #AmantBookstore Pueden leer la traducción en español en los comentarios abajo.
When we visit archeological ruins, different time zones and historical experiences collapse into one singular moment, our historical biases become projected onto the mute stones. Gala Porras-Kim’s “Asymptote Towards an Ambiguous Horizon” (2021) interrupts this type of time-compressing in her works around the archaeological site Göbekli Tepe. New York City and Göbekli Tepe in Turkey are separated by 8 hours. To make this time difference visible and link the two sites in a tangible way, Gala Porras-Kim (@itsgala) placed a spotlight in our gallery that moves clockwise on every even hour. Over the course of 24 hours, it moves through 12 graphite drawings of the current ruins under a sky constellation of over 12,000 years ago. The ground and sky approach one another at the horizon, like curves towards an asymptote; however, they can never exist in the same plane. The gallery works as a multiple time zone clock, establishing a correspondence between the actual time in New York, and the almost composite time depicted in each drawing. This work is on view in our current exhibition “Precipitation for an Arid Landscape” through March 17 andwas originally commissioned by Kadist Foundation (@kadist). Pictured here: gallery lighting around 4pm New York and moved over clockwise to the right at 6pm New York. #Precipitationforanaridlandscape #Amant #galaporraskim #kadist #kadist Pueden leer la traducción en español en los comentarios abajo.
Unpacking our bookstore! From boxes back to shelves. 📚 Come browse our fabulous titles, many of which have newly arrived. The Amant boostore is open Thursdays through Sundays 12-6pm. #amantbookstore #booklovers Pueden leer la traducción al español en los comentarios abajo.
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