Orchard
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Rhea Anastas
Moyra Davey
Andrea Fraser
Nicolás Guagnini
Gareth James
Christian Philipp Müller
Jeff Preiss
R.H. Quaytman
Karin Schneider
Jason Simon
John Yancy, Jr.
Anonymous
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Past Exhibitions:

Spring Wound
From One O to the Other
11 Sessions
Cookie Cutter
Calendar of flowers, gin bottles, steak bones
Image Coming Soon
Form of a waterfall. Sadie Benning
detourism
On The Collective For Living Cinema
Jef Geys
I Like You and You Like Me
Sylvia Rivera Law Project Art Opening
Around the Corner: Zoe Leonard, Petra Wunderlich, Christian Philipp Müller
Nicolás Guagnini: The Middle Class Goes to Heaven (2005–06)
Dan Graham: Death by Chocolate: West Edmonton Shopping Mall (1986–2005)

Reality/Play
Vera
Heard Not Seen
Having Been Described In Words
Painters Without Paintings and Paintings Without Painters
Small Works For Big Change
Michael Asher, film screening
Stephan Pascher, Lucky Chairs

Martin Beck
September 11. 1973.
Part Three, "Last Minute"
Polish Socialist Conceptualism of the 70s
Part Two
Part One

detourism



Curated by Carly Busta and Luke Cohen
Exhibition Dates: July 1 - July 28, 2007
Opening: Sunday July 1, 6-8 pm

Exhibition participants: Artur Barrio, Carola Dertnig, Corporate Mentality, Keller Easterling, Thomas Eggerer, Dan Graham, Alan Licht, Christian Philipp-Müller, Michael Snow, and others...

Special Event:
Friday July 13, 7pm – 9pm Lenin for your Library? Yevgeniy Fiks in conversation with Olga Kopenkina and Nicolás Guagnini


Spectators and agents, tourists routinely vacate their habitual surroundings to occupy alternative subject positions, if not a geographical location. Yet, with pressure to ensure each vacation is well spent, the voluntary activity of tourism supports a guide industry. Barthes considered the guidebook an "objectified form of 'immaterial labor' [...] essentially serving as a 'labor saving device,'" —objective fact relegating efficient, guided, disorientation.

If tourism seeks a reliably mapped alterity, the exhibit detourism can only offer an itinerary of shifting curatorial endpoints. detourism takes topology as an impetus to highlight the interstices in the urban field constitutive of subject relations. The spatial practices exhibited underscore the line of demarcation between the subject and its dematerialization within the built environment.

In his 1969 essay, "Subject Matter," artist Dan Graham economically articulated the exodus from the static architecture of minimalism with a hyphen. For Graham, to critically understand the modernist form, was to literally understand that form is "in-formation." Graham's extension of terms freed analysis from the exactitude of measure. "In-formation" accented an emphasis on the co-existence and fluctuating relational and directional properties between objects. Describing the complementing shift in terminology, art historian Eric de Bruyn writes, "... information is attached to a striated notion of space, whereas in-formation is connected with a smooth, deterritorialized space of drifting signs and bodies." Although the logic of topology de Bruyn observes in his study of the sixties projects of Graham and Stanley Brouwn granted the subject certain freedoms—collaborative constitution of meaning; a relative positioning of power—it simultaneously presented unprecedented indeterminacies, wherein the subject would hence forth be in danger of disorientation and powerlessness by the very forces from which he or she had supposedly been emancipated. Articulating this precarious subject position, Eric de Bruyn further observes, "The topological model of post-minimal art, therefore runs at an oblique angle to the institutional frameworks of modernism."

detourism proposes psychogeographical engagements and deviant tourisms to offer alternate routes of circulation.

1. Roland Barthes, "The Blue Guide," Mythologies. Annette Lavers, trans., (New York: Hill & Wang, 1972)
2. Dan Graham, "Subject Matter," End Moments. self-published, 1969
3. Eric de Bruyn, "Topological Pathways of Post-Minimalism," Grey Room 25, (Fall 2006).