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 During the preparation of "Nest," a new exhibition on view at the Deitch Projects' 76 Grand Street gallery, artists Dash Snow and Dan Colen invited 30 volunteers to spend three days shredding 2,000 New York City telephone books in a grimy and most unusual installation. The group spent midnight to 8 a.m. each night wading in waist-deep shredded paper, creatively destroying everything in their process by drinking, peeing and painting while spending quality time together creating their dwelling. This performance was based on previous incidents where the artists rent a hotel room, shred phone books, string up the sheets, turn on the taps and take drugs such as mushrooms, cocaine and ecstasy until they feel like hamsters (read article in NY Magazine). Since the events took place, the gallery has remained in the condition the artists left it and will be on view for the public until August 18. Although Snow and Colen create very different works independently, Snow's work is grounded in photography and Colen's in painting. Both artists bear a gritty, raw and rebellious sensibility in their work. Snow has exhibited recently at Sutton Lane in London and Rivington Arms in NYC. Colen, a previous DailyServing feature, recently exhibited "No Me" at Peres Projects in Berlin and "Secrets and Cymbals, Smoke and Scissors (My Friend Dash's Wall in the Future)" at Deitch Projects and Peres Projects in Los Angeles. Posted by Seth Curcio at August 1, 2007 12:00 AM | Permalink | E-mail This | |||
Join the discussion:Has anyone seen this in person, yet? ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: Sam | August 1, 2007 09:24 AM The New York mag article is worth taking 20 minutes out of your day to read. Great entry. ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: Ana | August 1, 2007 11:34 AM i'm not going to lie. i think this is the dumbest thing i've ever seen. what's its intellectual value? how is it possibly creative? give anyone 30 invalids, 2,000 phonebooks and a room with a lock and key, and i promise you 'Nest' would be created without breaking a sweat. it's a sub-human, moronic, college-like party. i'm glad it's featured, though, because a pile of crap like this deserves a public punch in the face. ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: aaron | August 2, 2007 09:35 AM I guess this is what happens when you mix hippies and drugs, ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: Sean | August 2, 2007 09:38 AM hahahahaha. that's freaking hilarious. ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: aaron | August 2, 2007 09:44 AM I am glad that this is up and i do agree that this the most retarded thing ive seen yet. But when dealing with shock in todays youth art you must understand the piece is kind of a title like "For the Love of Springer" The are reflecting the late 80's, a dash of mid 90's, and coated it with the hipster cool to be hopped up on drugs as long as it seems to be "in" I personally think that it is retarded, but so was the Yale abortion girl. But these little reflections on college parties and dumbing of America are important, so the must be important to art. Baby steps are needed to progress this field, even if they are in the wrong direction. ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: barron | May 23, 2008 02:17 PM "Baby steps are needed to progress this field" -are you stating this field as contemporary art. Shit man we are ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: Mike | May 27, 2008 08:47 AM i enjoy the way dash thinks. ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: todOhree | June 23, 2008 11:00 AM i wanna be an crocodile ---------------------------------------------------------- Posted by: arcan | July 10, 2008 07:23 AM |
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