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Projects is an ongoing series of exhibitions in which artists execute installations and actions in the house to be viewed via the internet each month and sometimes in person.
PROJECTS 2004: It Can Change
"There has just been a break in time"
Saturday April 24
2004
7:30 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.
I met It Can Change through their "Clothing Project" in 2002 while passing on my "the shirt that gets around" to them in a Haight St. laundromat. The shirt fit right in with their distributed artist-made clothing to people on the streets in Germany. It Can Change’s revival of the San Francisco Diggers to Gordon Matta-Clark’s ideologies further complement 667Shotwell’s and confirm it as a place for It Can Change. I am very pleased to show the first phase of It Can Change’s efforts.- Chris Sollars of 667Shotwell
There has just been
a break in time.
Since 1999 we've been getting over, grinding, working construction, chopping
vegetables and bumming through Guadalajara, NY, Detroit, Paris, Oakland,
Miami, LA, Portland, Germany, Amsterdam, Vancouver making art shows, magazines,
rapping, releasing records, distributing creativity, taking back the streets
block by block, being Hammer and Throck. We went to Germany to give out
clothes made by artists to people on the street, with instructions to
pass them along to anyone interested in wearing them. We gave out free
food in New York in front of an old restaurant, performing plays and giving
out art to passersby. We rolled stuffed animal paintings around downtown
San Francisco three days before Christmas. We made a band, went on tour.
We walked around with boom boxes playing sound art. We put on shows in
pizza parlors. We engaged some innocent bystanders, we scared others.
We formed a free record label and put the records in record stores, except
they were free.
We made 100 paintings and we sold them for 20 dollars to pay for some
of this. We made posters that said SOMETHING MUST HAPPEN AND SOMETHING
MUST BE DONE, we made things happen, we got things done.
We cooked thousands of free dinners everywhere.
On view at 667 Shotwell are the photographs, clothes, books, music, videos,
pieces of paper and trash that result from our efforts. There are photographs
documenting the distribution of artist-made clothing to people on the
street in Germany. There are copies of zines we published as supplements
to various exhibitions and street actions. There is music that we have
released and clothes we made, poetry that we found, art people gave us.
Books we like. There is a yellow frame that you walk through to change
your frame of reference to whatever you want it to be.There are videos
of puncturing reality. There are things that have never been seen before,
things we encountered on our journeys that we want to show to you. There
is a German magazine that we helped make, it is called "There is
something I would like to show you." Won't you join us in building
the world the way we want it to be and deciding what that means as we
go along?
It Can Change is
It Can Change is an art collective based in Oakland, CA. Since 1999 they have been making the world the way they want it to be. In addition to creating their own exhibition spaces, It Can Change has been included in Shadow Cabinets in a Bright Country at Apexart, NY and the Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany; Aleksandra Mir's Birthday Party at Gavin Brown's Enterprise, NY; and Friends and Acquaintances, at Wintergarten, Vienna Austria; with future exhibitions at Lucky Tackle, Oakland; Canada, NY; and the Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin.
Free Frame of Reference
Twenty Dollar Paintings
Orgone Accumulator
Free Phood - Bread courtesy of 667shotwell)
Hammer and Throck Posse represent
It Can Change Zine Trash Container
It Can Change Zines
