SESSION_7_WORDS
 Curated by Am Nuden Da, conceived with LA based journal Material

Am Nuden Da
London, UK
December 5 2009 - January 17 2010



82 Artists have been invited to email a ‘text piece’ to Am Nuden Da who, using a standardised format, have copied and pasted each submission onto a single sheet of A4. All pieces are set in Arial, the default typeface, at point 10 size. This dogmatic method represents an attempt to foreground language ahead of design, layout and graphic appearance.

The nature of the exhibition in many respects owes its being to the conceptual art of the 1960s. Here, the denial of object is emphasised by the operations of modern logistics – the email allows for artworks to be virtually ‘shipped’ from all over the world, leaving and arriving as nothing but thought. The mechanisms of information technology seems somewhat like a logical extension of the conceptual project of previous generations.

Session_7_Words includes works by artists of several generations, presenting an insight into what written language constitutes within a broad zrange of contemporary art practices. The levelling parameters of presentation that have been imposed by the curators are intended to set such generational concerns aside and open the works up for a more general study. [Excerpt from exhibition press release]

PRESS:
2009 Artforum review of Session_7_Words. Artforum.com by David Lewis.

ARTISTS: Øystein Aasan, Marya Alford, Kathryn Andrews, Adriana Salazar Arroyo, Jesse Ash, Charles Avery, Fiona Banner, Becky Beasley, Stephanie Bolt, Olivia Booth, Stefan Brüggemann, Matthew Buckingham, Andrea Büttner, Stefan Burger, Joshua Callaghan, Carrit & Palmer, Alejandro Cesarco, Jake Chapman, Terry Chatkupt, Hsiao Chen, Paolo Chiasera, Marcus Civin, David Raymond Conroy, Simon Cunningham, Robin Dicker, Aleksandra Domanovic, Samuel Fouracre, Maria Fusco, Aurélien Gamboni, Ryan Gander, Joy Gerrard, Douglas Gordon, Alyssa Gorelick, Jesse Aron Green, Lina Viste Grønli, Emilie Halpern, Will Holder, Yngve Holen, David Horvitz, Sven Johne, Farrah Karapetian, Peter Kirby, Susan Kordalewski, Jenny Moore Koslowsky, Oliver Laric, Ian Law, Wiebke Leister, George Henry Longly, Shana Lutker, Ignacio Mardones, Helen Marten, Elizabeth McAlpine, Jessica Minckley, Daniel Mueller-Friedrichsen, Melanie Nakaue, Arthur Ou, Katrina Palmer, Douglas Park, Katie Paterson, Chris Peters, Regine Petersen, Kate Pickering, Philomene Pirecki, Wolfgang Plöger, David Price, Dan Rees, Olivier Richon, Declan Rooney, Martha Rosler, Giles Round, Ama Saru, Scanlon & Grivell, Roland Seto, Emma Shercliff, Cally Spooner, Jack Strange, Roman Vasseur, Lawrence Weiner, Richard Wentworth, Dee Williams, Duncan Wooldridge, Charlie Woolley, Cerith Wyn Evans, Eric Yahnker, Viola Yesiltac