Guy Benfield, Night Store, Art in General, NYC (Includes link to video interview)
Nite Store's Akademie Ceramithéque Pavillion with Guy Benfield and Constanze Zikos
Nite Store's Akademie Ceramithéque Pavillion with Guy Benfield and Constanze Zikoslink to video interview with Guy Benfield
http://www.artingeneral.org/projects/485
More images from the Night Store performance can be found on Guy Benfield's page of this website.
Guy Benfield’s Night Store will be an eight-week long performative installation in Art in General’s Storefront Project Space. Drawing on tropes of modernism, faux ceramics, sculpture, painting, collage, and references to alternative collectives, Benfield transforms the architecture of space from tidy white-box gallery to pottery showroom, to artist studio, and eventually overcrowded storage space. Through various situational episodes in this non-stop evolution, Benfield explores the relation between current artistic practice and supposedly defunct strains in performance including ritual, transcendency, and live-action painting. Imagining the “trauma of pottery” as an expressionist dialogue, Benfield considers the space of the storefront as a kiln in which failure and unpredictable success commingle while pretense is burned away.
Presented by Art in General for Performa 09.