July 11. Vertical Scatteration. Intervention by Joshua Schreier
Thursday, July 11, 19:00
Vertical Scatteration
Intervention by Joshua Schreier
Humble materials (blocks of pine, commercial enamel, a vitrine found on the street) playfully deployed; cheerful, but serious, too. The best toys: wood blocks, plain LEGO bricks, pencils and paper. A reverie of kindergarten: How high can we build this tower? Tall. Taller. Even taller. Taller than us. Wow. And taller still. Until – it wobbles, falls, makes noise. Crash!
SHOPPING LIST OF IDEAS
CHEERIO DOUGHNUT BELLY BUTTON BUTTON COTTON SWAB TREE |
PLAYING CARDS CINNAMON DANISH HOUSE MOON BLOCKS CANDY WRAPPERS |
Street vendors and barbers hold more interest than La Giaconda. Visiting hardware stores for souvenirs. Looking for what is common and taking note of differences at those nodes.
mundane details
Connect the dots
Joshua Schreier
Born in Detroit, Michigan; June 1952. I live and work in New York City. In addition to making sculptures, drawings, and photographs, I teach technology in the New York City Public Schools.
My credo in art, technology, and teaching is: “More simple, more better.”
joshuaschreier.net
Manual Model Museum
MMM is an incorporation of TIER. The new space reflects on the potentialities and possibilities of micro-scale exhibition making. It is inspired by Perec’s Life: A User’s Manual, where the writer handled the building as the structure for the book’s narrative.
Photos by Benjamin Busch