Sunday, June 2, 2013

another Southernmost Situation

It's Thespian Month!


 

Swampspace is pleased to host 

La Noche i.Delicatissima
by Southernmost Situations

An adaptation of The Night of the Iguana by Tennessee Williams

Directed by Liz Ferrer and Sebastian Duncan­Portuondo, la noche i.delicatissima features a cast of local artists, dancers, and musicians, moving the play from its original 1940s Mexican setting to a dreamlike 1960s Cuba.




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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Maitejosune Urrechaga May 11

Swampspace 

is at a loss for words in
presenting 

Presque Vu 
by
Maitejosune Urrechaga

Opening May 11   3 - 10 pm


Yes, No or I Don't Know Why, are common responses to questions. When the answer is " On the Tip of the Tongue", some call it "Presque Vu" or almost seen.   To experience the work of Maitejosune Urrechaga is similar in character to these psycholinguistic phenomenon.   For her solo show, Maitejosune explores through portraiture the universal experience of unconscious thoughts and impulses as yet unexplained by science or spirituality.



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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

The A/V Show


Swampspace presents

The A/V Show - Analog in Formaldehyde

Premier Opening April 13  7-11pm 


Featured participants are a selection of multi-disciplinary artists focused on the expression and analysis of audio-visual history.

Cristy Alma
Kevin Arrow
Gina Cunningham
Juan Maristany
Coral Morphologic
David Rohn
Barron Sherer
Carmen Tiffany

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 In recognition of burgeoning spring,  The A/V Show effectively transforms Swampspace into a mythical environment conveying ideals of analog and digital in an attempt to renew understanding of established developments in electronic media through the filter of trans-generational sensibility.  The A/V Show reconsiders the progression of technology in order to formulate a discussion of innovation, its likelihood and the ever increasing pace of obsolescence.

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150 NE 42 St. Miami Design District



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Thursday, January 24, 2013

House of Desire



Swampspace is desirous in presenting 

La Maison du Désir

Opening Reception February 9  6-11 pm

Miami Design District


House of Desire

150 NE 42 Street

Artists Lea Nickless and Conrad Hamather will present "La Maison du Désir/The House of Desire," a collaborative installation featuring a pop-up boutique and objects which reference the luxury goods industry. Atelier garment collections, monoprints and a video time-lapse drawing continue the dialogue between the digital and the body. The exhibition also debuts an atmospheric pop-up floor designed by Keith Frutiger, Atlanta-based design guru.

Conrad Hamather has been creating sculpture and installation work with a discourse on body and architecture for the last two decades. A faculty member at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Hamather teaches in the Department of Fashion Design. 

Artist and curator Lea Nickless is interested in the unseen, the subliminal, with what is beneath the surface. Her monoprints and a time-lapse video feature layers of pigment, shape and text.


Free Parking for Repeat Offenders

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Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Pataphysical Endings


Swampspace 

is saddened to announce 

Closing Reception

Pataphysics Show

January 12, 2013 6-9pm

Join the swampspace community for your final chance to learn all about the science of imaginary solutions.

150 NE 42 Street Miami Design District



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Sunday, December 2, 2012

popUPwindGAP


Swampspace is pleased to host the windGAP,  another visiting artists situation installation.




the windGAP:
A Pop-up Situation

Miami, Florida, November 30, 2012 – Artist Frank Traynor, founder of
Brooklyn’s celebrated Perfect Nothing Catalog, has teamed up with
curator Claudia Eve Beauchesne to present the windGAP, a pop-up
situation taking place in Miami on December 3-9, 2012.

Last summer, Traynor opened The Perfect Nothing Catalog, a temporary
shop in a shack in a garden in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The experience of
walking through a lush urban garden and into a repurposed icehouse to
find a shop full of hand-crafted design objects made the project unique,
and it was featured in New York Magazine, Time Out New York, Nylon
and Daily Candy, and included in the installation Ikea Disobedients at
MoMA PS1.

Meanwhile, Beauchesne was curating The Picture Show, a photography
exhibition taking place in the unapologetically kitsch lobby of the Brooklyn
Heights Cinema, a movie theater that will soon be demolished to make
way for condos. The historically and politically charged location was an
essential part of the group show, which became an L Magazine editors’
pick.

Traynor and Beauchesne bonded over their shared desire to subvert
conventional retail and exhibition practices, and decided to collaborate.
They envision the windGAP as a new chapter in the history of The Perfect
Nothing Catalog, with more temporary installations and joint ventures in
the coming months.

Traynor came up with the title for the project while hiking on the
Appalachian Trail: “I kept reading about these things, wind gaps, and
they struck my imagination. A wind gap is a geological formation created
when a river dries up but the earth keeps its shape. I like the idea that
what used to be about water is now about wind, which is a kind of perfect
nothing.”

the windGAP will take place under a parachute installed outside of
swampspace, a project space run by local artist Oliver Sanchez in Miami’s
Design District. The pop-up situation will feature an eclectic mix of one-of-
a-kind objects by emerging designers, artists, craftsmen and collectors,
among them Carson Fisk-Vittori, Hayden Dunham, Chen Chen & Kai
Williams, Garrett Young, Michael Bauer and Tori Kudo (aka Maher Shalal
Hash Baz).

The WindGAP
150 N.E. 41 Street, Miami, FL
December 3-9, 2012, 12-9 pm
http://theperfectnothingcatalog.com/
Facebook.com/perfectnothingcatalog




For more information, contact:
Frank Traynor: francisxaviertraynor@gmail.com

Saturday, December 1, 2012

the 100 Years Show

Visit Swampspace

Tonight Dec 1 Grand Opening

 Thurs Dec 6 Design District VIP Night

see Live Camels !