[West Hollywood]

Vanessa Place and Andrea Fraser exhibit
April 9, 2014, 7:00 pm
at MAK Center Schindler House

Join Vanessa Place and Andrea Fraser for an exhibition of their new works.Andrea Fraser's work engages the institution of art and art institutions. Vanessa Place's work interrogates notions of criminality and poetry. Language and sound figure into both of their practices as key investigative tools. Working from the disciplines of art and writing, respectively, both employ existing tracts of text and reposition them in the context of art and performance. This exhibition presents new work by each artist in two sound installations in the Schindler House.For AV, Fraser will attempt to activate some of the structural relations between museums and prisons as the bookend institutions of polarized neoliberal social space. Place debuts her installation, Last Words, about which she writes: "Death is a sentence. Silently handed to each of us, spoken aloud to others." Both works prompt the viewer--or in this case, the listener­--to ask questions about the notions of absence, presence, power, individuality, freedom, and subjectification. Curated by Kimberli Meyer.