Open Studio with Aaron Flint Jamison, Lisa Radon and Christoph Schifferli
On Friday, 25 October, the artist Aaron Flint Jamison will open an exhibition at the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen. Since the beginning of September, Jamison has been a guest in the project studio of the Sitterwerk, profits from the collections of Kunstbibliothek and Werkstoffarchiv, and produced the many of the works for the Kunst Halle exhibition in close collaboration with the Kunstgiesserei St.Gallen. The works of Aaron Flint Jamison are multi-layered and complex. Apparently simple objects refer to social, historical, and economic facts. The title of the exhibition at Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen is Opportunity Zones.
On the occasion of Jamison's open studio at Sitterwerk, we also welcome special guests: American author and artist Lisa Radon and the initiator of Archiv & UC Books Christoph Schifferli. Radon will read from her new book Age of Sand and Christoph Schifferli will show his collection of artist books and ephemera that Jamison has printed and published over the years.
Lisa Radon’s Age of Sand is a book of log entries that imagines impossible interconnectivities, rewritings and rewrightings of the digital and the analog, the past and the future through a cyberfeminist lens. What are the qualities of the permeable membrane between the digital and the analog, and how might exploits in the former facilitate a reshaping of the latter? More generally, while the threats at this juncture may be obvious, what might we say are the possibilities?
With Archiv & UC Books Christoph Schifferli has initiated a space in Zurich where a diversely interested audience is meeting on the occasion of exhibitions, lectures, events in which usually the books are the main characters. Schifferli modestly uses his own collection of artist books to contextualise the otherwise shown objects and books, and he does so effortlessly but with a precise focus and so initiates a dialogue on not only art- but also book-making.
Opening of the exhibition Opportunity Zones at the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen on Friday, 25 October 2019, 6pm ; then open from October 26, 2019 to January 5, 2020.