ANSWER FACTORY

September 10, 2010 – October 16, 2010

Open Wed-Sat from 12-6

The Luminary Center for the Arts is pleased to present the international group exhibition Answer Factory. This high-profile exhibition brings together six innovative text-based installation artists in a serio-comic presentation of facts, figures, mute megaphones, vision statements, decontextualized statements of support, and a mechanical bird questioning a mechanical rabbit about the nature of reality.

Fernando Orellana’s new mechanized piece, Beta, forms a dialogue between a mechanical bird and an unanswering audience, posing questions about the body, about the infinite, about itself. Posed against this piece is the video projection, plain text, which cycles through every possible ending to the phrase “You Want ____,” indefinitely answering every question it posits.

Chicago-based Bad at Sports podcaster Duncan MacKenzie and collaborator Christian Kuras fill the exhibition with Values Values Values, which lines out an imaginary organization’s eerily familiar vision statement that is both nondescript and dead on. Kuras’s piece Drone circles a set of megaphones one after the other, forming a sphere of possibility and ineptitude, while Diagram of Itself is exactly what it says: a self-referential, utterly enclosed image.

Runo Lagomarsino’s We Support numbly projects its burned-out images suggesting war or commerce or both with the simple text announcing to us that we support…something. Bruce Campbell’s etched pieces embed their text in objects. In A Warm Breath, the viewer has to breathe on etched glass in order to see it and Light: Head: Horn: Mind offers its thoughts in the form of a gilded lightbulb.

FORM 2010 is the first installment of an annual contemporary furniture, functional object and architectural design show in Saint Louis, MO.  FORM is presented by The Luminary Center for the Arts as a forum for exceptional designers to showcase their work, connect with a community of other designers and sell directly to supporters. The event will take place over two days on August 13-14, bringing together some of the best designers and firms from around the country.

FORM is a fundraiser for The Luminary Center for the Arts, a nonprofit artist resourcing organization that that seeks to provide meaningful support to emerging artists, audiences and appreciators in the St. Louis area. Proceeds from FORM will benefit an innovative new artist equipment library at The Luminary, which will provide area artists and creative professionals with access to specialized equipment such as a woodshop, media lab, film and video equipment, and large format printers.

FORM Details

Venue

The Luminary Center for the Arts
4900 Reber Place, Saint Louis MO 63139

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VIP Preview Night

August 13th 7p-10p

The event will include a silent auction for exclusive items from the designers, complimentary food and drinks, DJ and a special speaker.

Tickets $25 in advance, $30 at the door

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Food provided by Eleven Eleven Mississippi, Vin de Set, Moulin. Beer provided by New Belgium.

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General Admission

August 14th 11a-4p

Experience cutting-edge contemporary designs and take part in DIY workshops and raffles throughout the day.

Tickets $7 in advance, $10 at the door

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Contact

For more information regarding the event, contact us at info@theluminaryarts.com.

On Saturday, July 24th from 10-4pm The Luminary will open its studios and gallery as a part of the Contemporary Art Musuem’s Open Studios event. The Luminary will be one of the official satellite locations, hosting artists from around the area in our gallery space in addition to the artists in our Residency Program.

During the Open Studios, we will have a few special events including Kimberly Wardenburg’s participatory installation, Negotiate/Collaborate and a project by designer Jordan Hicks who will be consulting with attendees on how to build specially designed furniture in conjunction with our annual FORM Contemporary Design Show.

The Luminary Installation Space (IS):

Kimberly Wardenburg: Negotiate/Collaborate

On view July 24-September 4, 2010

Opening reception to be held during the Contemporary Open Studios Tour on July 24th from 10am-4pm Kimberly Wardenburg’s treatise on the Middle East peace process, Negotiate/Collaborate, poetically engages the tangled personal and historical factors at play in the decades-long tension over the land of Israel. Community is most often though of in positive terms, but borders, parameters and common characteristics that define a community can also create divisions within or around it. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a participatory act in which the audience is invited to share Middle-Eastern flatbread with the artist. The bread is silkscreened with a patchwork of promises, pacts, treatises and agreements made throughout the process. The act simulataneously brings commonality and community to bear just before you are asked to tear and ‘break’ the bread and share it with the artist. This tension is at the center of the exhibit, which grows through print, video and handmade books dwelling on correlative metaphors of natural disaster and the long-frustrated peace talks.