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DESCRIPTION:\nFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\n \n\nPost Brothers Present\n\nEXERCISES IN 
 SEEING\n\na one night only exhibition held entirely in the dark\n\n 
 \n\nSaturday, December 5 th , 2009.       9 PM – 6 AM\n\nFree and open to 
 the public\n\n \n\nQueen’s Nails Projects\n\n3191 Mission St, San 
 Francisco, California.\n\n \n\na free audio guide by David Buuck will be 
 available as a limited edition CD and will be downloadable at 
 queensnailsprojects.com\n\n \n\nFeaturing projects by:\n\nJesse Ash (UK), 
 Olivier Babin (FR), Nina Beier (DK), Francesca Bennett & Nicolas Matranga 
 (CA/NL), Raymond Boisjoly & Ryan Peter (CA), Liudvikas Buklys (LT), Deric 
 Carner (US), Etienne Chambaud (FR), Brian Clifton (US), Torreya Cummings 
 (US), Dina Danish (EG/NL), Gintaras Didžiapetris (LT), Rosie Farell (UK 
 ), Isola & Norzi (IT), Seth Lower (US), Benoit Maire (FR), Darius Mikšys 
 (LT), Tegan Moore (CA), Elena NarbutaitÄ— (LT), Daniel Oates Kuhn 
 (US/CA), Kamau Amu Patton (US), Mandla Reuter (DE), Snowden Snowden (US), 
 Gareth Spor (US), David Stein (US), Daniel Turner (US ), Freek Wambacq 
 (BE), Jen Weih (CA), and Christine Wong Yap (US)\n\n \n\n“Is not vision 
 itself—seeing abysses?” - Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke 
 Zarathustra\n\n \n\nOne cannot be certain that they have seen the Exercises 
 In Seeing exhibition, but they may have heard about it from its numerous 
 audio guides, whose authors did not see it either. Apparently, the 
 exhibition escaped visual perception completely. Originally curated by 
 Valentinas Klimašauskas and Jonas Žakaitis, a series of artworks first 
 disappeared at Tulips & Roses in Vinius, Lithuania, and then subsequently 
 vanished at The Royal Standard in Liverpool, UK. Now at San Francisco’s 
 Queens Nails Projects, the critical enterprise Post Brothers has turned the 
 lights off, inviting over 30 local and international artists to test the 
 aesthetic and conceptual potentials of the dark. An “inhibition” rather 
 than an “exhibition,” all of the works in this paradoxical exhibition 
 are “shown” without the aid of gallery lighting. Despite this 
 predicament, the multidisciplinary projects presented use this visual lack 
 to elicit alternative means of understanding, charting absence as much as 
 presence, lingering in the gaps of perception.\n\n \n\nSome of the artists 
 have chosen to place an already existing work in this cave, extending and 
 compromising their artwork’s critical capacity by purging its perceptual 
 palette. Others have contributed new projects that will disappear for their 
 first appearance; their very existence dependent on blind encounter within 
 this treacherous void. Headless sculptures, encrypted transmissions and 
 familiar objects will vocalize missing truths, creating a correspondence 
 between the shadow and the real, stretching the encounter of form to its 
 lineaments. While some artists nefariously throw caution in the wind, 
 others stretch the limits of caution itself, teasing our anxieties and 
 trust. Forebearers range from surrealist and conceptual propositions on the 
 nature of art and perception, to the use of negation in philosophy and 
 science, to many of the works of James Joyce, where lights going out allows 
 characters to see clearly for the first time, to the movie ‘Les Amants Du 
 Pont-Neuf’ where a blind woman sneaks into the Louvre at night to 
 experience the works firsthand. In lieu of standard and instructive 
 documentation, writer David Buuck has provided an audio guide to orient the 
 viewer. However, as he has not seen any of the works, his directions 
 through this nocturnal vacuum may mislead the audience into dimensions 
 unknown.\n\n \n\nFor one night only, Queens Nails Projects will become 
 "terra incognita,'' a dark space on the map, a blind spot in our vision for 
 impossible projections and amplified sensations. Here, rules are nullified, 
 orders undermined, negation celebrated. This will be an examination of 
 darkness, a probing of immateriality, a venture in non-knowledge, a 
 scrutiny of sensitivity, an undertaking in underexposure, a demonstration 
 of disappearence, a movement into the unknown, a series of Exercises In 
 Seeing. Will even the attendee's see the show? \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/30/18630865.php
SUMMARY:EXERCISES IN SEEING
LOCATION:Queen’s Nails Projects\n3191 Mission St, San Francisco, California.
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/30/18630865.php
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