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LETS PLAY NICE
SINErgy Project Space + Gallery
Curated by Diedra Krieger
contact: diedrak @ gmail.com
March 10, 2011 - April 16, 2011
Performances and receptions: 3/10 & 4/14
2310 N. American Street, 3rd Fl
Philadelphia, PA 19133
Per the Plastic Fantastic Manifesto:
“by persevering, 1% of the imagination can be realized. Strive towards it in the face of opposition. Pursuit to make environments for this cause is better than any paid work in the whole world that exists in any everyday anywhere. Immersive environments for play, created collaboratively from the waste of the world we often so deplore. It is through this process that we better our relationship with our unavoidable everyday”
friends, artists, professionals, coffee slingers, teachers, farmers and colleagues who create work that embodies play through installation and sculpture were asked to come together and push their ideas in one grandiose overwelming, hyperbolic, saturated space.
The generous results of the request are an art exhibtion titled LETS PLAY NICE at SINErgy Project Space + Gallery. Curated by Diedra Krieger of Plastic Fantastic, LETS PLAY NICE features work by:
Abby Sadauckas
Amanda Dillingham
Andrew Joseph
Dana M Osburn
Denise Karabinus Telang
Jacob Galle
Jenn Rockwell
Jesse Beamesderfer
Justin Gibbon
Kat schneck
Katelyn Ingersoll
Kelly Ann Davis
Kennedy Candra
Marta Bartholomew
Mombert
Rachael Ocelus
Rachel Brennesholtz
Staci Lynn
Sarah Dewire
The works investigate play and invite viewer participation while offering critiques of topics as varied as identity, the wedding industry, the art world, and early rave culture. Other works provide genuine entry into a reimagined everyday and crosscultural exchange through sincere invitation for engagement.
Signifiers tinker with satire, sincerity, subversive and dare we add grotesque. Visitors will be greeted by honking domesticated geese, glowsticks, belly buttons and a chance to dissect an earth worm, mirrors and baby arms, a gigantic bride and perhaps become a bride themselves if they desire, celebrities and a viewer activated dinner party, a crystal cave and “lets get mystical”, a horse and oportunity to join its horse ballet, turtle graphics, record listening, smoothies, toys, dolls, waves, wall, twister, and escape to the wizard world. It is expected that spontaneous, unscripted diversion and mock serious will be the order of the day for anyone who enters.
LETS PLAY NICE will be on view from March 10 through April 16, 2011 at the SINErgy Project Space + Gallery at 2310 N. American Street, 3rd floor, Philadelphia, PA. Gallery hours are Thursdays 6-9pm and Saturday, 12 - 5 pm. Performances and receptions will take place on Thursdays, March 10 and April 14, from 6 - 9 pm.
About the curator
Diedra Krieger’s artist practice is composed of video performance and documentation and often is consumed by the next iteration of her ongoing project Plastic Fantastic, an immersive environment for play consisting of a 16 foot geodesic dome covered in over 6,000+ post consumer water bottles. In 2009 she curated Filthy Art Show at Studio 34 Yoga | Healing | Arts and has been an active participant in the Philadelphia art and music community since 2001. Diedra recieved her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art in 2008, holds a masters in development studies from Monash University and a BA from NYU.
ABOUT SINErgy PROJECT SPACE + GALLERY
SINErgy Project Space + Gallery is a multipurpose experimental venue located on the third floor of 2310 N. American St. [at Dauphin], a spectacular historical building that was formerly a part of Philadelphia’s paper manufacturing corridor. It is managed by Justin Gibbon and Daniel Buerk, who produce digital media and music and are and also Inciting’s founding partners. Since opening in March 2010, SINErgy has hosted international events like the ViceVerse Tour, workshops with sound production companies such as Ableton, burlesque theatre, live musical performances, art installations and large-scale multimedia exhibitions like SYNESTHESIA.2. For more information about SINErgy Project Space + Gallery please e-mail sinergyspace@gmail.com. Web: sinergyspace.com
