Dog. Piss.
Protection. Boards.
(Shapes
Without Names exhibition #2)
Created by Martin Kohout in collaboration with Christina Gigliotti.
with Sofia
Duchovny, Andrew de Freitas, Lars Holdhus, Martin Lukáč, Estrid Lutz Émile
Mold, Sandra Mujinga, Elena Radice, Aurora Sander, Daniel Stempfer
Andrew de Freitas
Aurora Sander
Daniel Stempfer
Elena Radice
Estrid Lutz Émile Mold
Lars Holdhus
Martin Lukáč
Sandra Mujinga
Sandra Mujinga
Sofia Duchovny
leave a car
parked on the streets in a Beijing hutong
return to find
it covered in dust the morning after
It has been
almost a year since we took the photos, but look closer, the cracks and
surfaces will reveal themselves in a form where time is lost.
100% zoom
please. Stream the 4K into your retina.
dust—gloss—grease Repeat
It felt like
attaching spam to some second hand pieces of street junk. We installed the
works onto boards that people place in front of car wheels to protect them from
dog piss. Our hands got dirty. The works surfaced and sometimes disappeared at
the same rapid speed.
Sometimes the
cars drove off and the works were left behind with the boards, protecting
nothing. Someone partially ripped off another work, as if in protest. Bits laid
nearby on the road. Dogs still pissed on their favorite spots, and soon the
surviving works became so trashed that no one bothered to remove them. The
surrounding noise quickly soaked into the exhibition, and at this stage, the
works were no longer works but collapsing leftovers of models for the models to
be rendered on your screen.
Dog.
Piss. Protection. Boards. is the final form of the Dog. Piss. Protection.
Attachments. group show that took place in the Dongsi hutong in Beijing on May
4, 2016 as part of Martin Kohout’s residency at the I:Project Space. The
exhibiting artists are Sofia Duchovny, Andrew de Freitas, Lars Holdhus, Martin
Lukáč, Sandra Mujinga, Elena Radice, Aurora Sander and Daniel Stempfer.
Supported
by Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (http://www.ifa.de),
I:Project Space, Beijing (http://yi-projectspace.org),
and Polansky Gallery, Prague (http://polanskygallery.com).