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   Kandis Williams produces large-scale black and white collages that track a deeply personal on-going exploration of racial-nationalism, authority, eroticism, magic and violence. For her show as New Capital's first artist in residence, Williams takes the recent Tanzanian folk conviction that the arms and legs of albinos can be used in magic potions, and weaves copies of a documentary photograph of a severed Tanzanian albino arm into intricate and hypnotic lattice structures. 
   
   Using collage as a deliberately hideous metaphor for violence, these repetitive and idiosyncratic nets, formed from specific incidents of sociological chaos, are set against monochromatic gradients, suggestive of deep space and the occurrence of these incidents over time, compounding the horror and fascination with both physical and ideological difference. Williams implicates both herself and the audience in the intoxication of commodity - fetishism, dramatizing the mind’s struggle for truth in moral judgment. 
   
   New Capital is a split-level exhibition space located in Chicago's East Garfield Park, along an industrial corridor. 
   It is run by artists Chelsea Culp and Ben Foch 
   Its mission is to create a space where artists can present ambitious and uncompromising works (to audiences that prefer an uncompromising atmosphere) 
   During each show one artist uses the white cube space upstairs, and another uses the raw space downstairs. 
   Programming for each exhibit includes a closing event with a performance and an international media work. 
   The closings occur in the loading dock of the warehouse.

   http://newcapitalprojects.com/

    

   Performances

   
   STRÖBEL/travis
   
   Please join us this Sunday, September 4th from 6 -9 pm (performance at 7:30) for STRÖBEL/travis, the closing reception for NEW CATALOGUE/KANDIS WILLIAMS.
   
   In the white cube gallery upstairs, within Kandis Williams’ newly situated exhibition of images of severed Tanzanian albino limbs, travis will perform excerpts from his passionate and visceral, 1980 piece, “ALBINO.” Downstairs, in the raw space New Catalogue’s artifacts, generated as content for a modern day Golden Record, will be on view with Katrin Ströbel’s two-channel video “Mission Impossible.” The video presents historical Christian missionaries in Africa attempting to convert the natives, with contemporary African Christians on the streets of a European city proselytizing to an oblivious audience of passer-bys.
   
   With varied structural approaches, each work in the exhibition stresses the role of artist as cultural anthropologist, and the role of viewership in developing content. Ströbel’s video asks that we look at ourselves through the lens of a Hollywood ‘reenactment’, while travis’ performance in the gallery removes the fourth wall of theater. The meaning of these works are regulated by a system of porous boundaries, created in part by the audience, as the frame of experience is erected, dismantled and constructed again.
   
   During this event, works in the exhibition NEW CATALOGUE/KANDIS WILLIAMS have traded exhibitions spaces. Works in this show have been particularly dependent on context. The refined white cube has lent authority to the ephemeral material produced by New Catalogue and collaborators, while the raw space has comfortably displayed the aggressiveness of Williams' bold, black and white collages. Removing those frames redefine the reach of each work.
   
   travis (born 1946, Itawamba, Mississippi) is an artist working in calligraphy, drawing, painting, sound, live art/ performance and design. He is an original member of the band ONO, an experimental noise group. He is a veteran and Vice-President/Treasurer of AVER(American Veterans for Equal Rights), which promotes the interests of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender American veterans. He received his MA in 1993 from Northwestern University.
   
   Katrin Ströbel (born 1975, Pforzheim, Germany) lives and works in Stuttgart, Frankfurt/Main and abroad. She has had travel grants and residencies in France, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa. She studied at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart from 1995 to 2001. From 1997 to 2002 she studied Literature at the University of Stuttgart. She is currently a PhD candidate. Her thesis is on the relation between text and image in contemporary art. 
   
   
   

   
   
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   SLUM is pleased to announce a one-night installation by American artist Kandis Williams.

   Williams will present a series of collages that replicate the interiors of the vagina, using black-and-white photocopies from many sources, including hardcore porn, African sculpture, and film stills.

   http://www.kandiswilliams.com/

   The night will also include a DJ set by Gonoretard.

   SLUM is held every Wednesday at 22:00, at
   Ficken3000, Urbanstr. 70, Berlin

    

   
   
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