WHITE BOX is pleased to announce the final chapter of Six Feet Under: Elections / Final Charade, a theme-driven annual Summer Series traditionally featuring six proposals by six curators over six years. With this unaccounted for, seventh year, we break all the rules- a bit biblically- extending S... Read more
WHITE BOX is pleased to announce the final chapter of Six Feet Under: Elections / Final Charade, a theme-driven annual Summer Series traditionally featuring six proposals by six curators over six years. With this unaccounted for, seventh year, we break all the rules- a bit biblically- extending Six Feet Under into its seventh and final installment, with seven curators over seven weeks, culminating in the last exhibition ever in White Box’s 26th Street Chelsea location before we move to our new Bowery location.
The purpose of the series is to offer each curator/artist team a week-long opportunity to tackle this year’s theme using White Box’s unique architecture and its six feet below ground exhibition space. Acting as a prop, the gallery space is impenetrable, the summer viewer kept at bay and exhibitions are viewed only through White Box’s sidewalk-level large window, lobby, and (VideoBox)- an outdoor window.
Elections / Final Charade- a forewarning to ‘Sedition’, our upcoming election time exhibition- brings an exciting end to this theme-induced variegated summer series with a topic on all our minds: the November 2008 Presidential Elections, possibly the most significant, unpredictable political event in recent history. Seven young, cutting edge, emerging curators are invited to select seven rather paticular artists or collectives, who will present and install a work each reflecting on the topic in their own surreptitious ways. Each team will touch upon the new realities and relationships the new societal shift may bring in this plausibly changing political environment we have coming forth.
WEEK 1
Up and Down
July 10-15
Sophie Rusniok
Curated by Claire Luna
WEEK 2
CIRCA 2012
Ruminations on a Changing World
July 17-22
Kim Holleman
Curated by Jason Goodman
WEEK 3
July 24-29
Patrick O’Dell and the artists of New York Adorned
Curated by Lori Leven
WEEK 4
NEIL BELOUFA
July 31-August 5
Curated by Jarrett Gregory
WEEK 5
Exit Poll Cocktail Toll
August 7-12
Dean Baldwin
Curated by Chen Tamir
WEEK 6
SUMMERTIME USA!
August 14-19
Curated by Ryan Finn
WEEK 7
Moving on South
August 21-26
Virginia Overton
Curated by Dana Orland
