Art Metropole

03 - 27 Sep. 2012

Cara Benedetto and Danna Vajda: Place Holder

Time

6:30pm - 9:0

In this Series

03 Sep. 2014
Danna Vajda: Place Holder

Danna Vajda performs at the opening for the Place Holder exhibition featuring a window by Danna Vajda and Cara Benedetto.

Danna Vajda completed the Whitney Independent Studies Program (NYC) with a Studio Concentration in 2010, after having studied at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver and Concordia University in Montreal. Her work has been shown internationally, such as at Helen Pitt Gallery and CSA Space (Vancouver), Night Gallery and LAXART (LA), Sculpture Center, Hessel Museum CCS Bard College, Kitchen Gallery, and e-flux Storefront (NYC), FormContent (London, UK), unitednationsplaza and The Building (Berlin), among others. Her work has been reviewed in Modern Painters, Frieze, and Flash Art. Participated in various public discussions and lectures such as at e-flux (with Maria Elena Torre and Oliver Marchart), CCS Bard (visiting lecturer for Jeannine Tang’s Practicum Seminars).

We need to relate to space. There is permission, is it yours? Imposter! Will you rest or wait? We are the difference between thinking space is necessary and already being a space. We are Couch Surfer, Narcy, Renter, Guest, Masoch and Gatekeeper.

We need to make (ROOMS):

Place Holder is a script written by Cara Benedetto and Danna Vajda that imagines what it means to have space, be invited to it, rent it, program it, claim it and and impose upon it. The collaborative script functions as a diving board from which both artists individually enact it into scene and space. Vajda through a comic book illustrated storefront and anthropomorphic objects such as tattooed citrus fruit. Benedetto through a series of writing workshops, utilizing Place Holder techniques, will engage and dodge, make place and wait, rest and want, a little late on the take. The project considers the divergencies between collective and individual claims to a space through a cast of characters and their desire to hold a place.

Cara Benedetto graduated from Columbia University’s (NYC) MFA Program in 2009 after attending Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque, NM. Her work has been shown internationally, with Badlands Inc, Metro Pictures, and currently Chapter (NYC), Night Gallery (LA), Galeri Marquise Dance Hall (Istanbul), among others. She was a Cooperation Fellow at Academy Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany, in 2013. Her work has been reviewed in New York Times Magazine, LA Weekly, Art in America, and The Art Book Review, among others. She is currently a Visiting Professor of Art at the Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

Danna Vajda completed the Whitney Independent Studies Program (NYC) with a Studio Concentration in 2010, after having studied at Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver and Concordia University in Montreal. Her work has been shown internationally, such as at Helen Pitt Gallery and CSA Space (Vancouver), Night Gallery and LAXART (LA), Sculpture Center, Hessel Museum CCS Bard College, Kitchen Gallery, and e-flux Storefront (NYC), FormContent (London, UK), unitednationsplaza and The Building (Berlin), among others. Her work has been reviewed in Modern Painters, Frieze, and Flash Art. Participated in various public discussions and lectures such as at e-flux (with Maria Elena Torre and Oliver Marchart), CCS Bard (visiting lecturer for Jeannine Tang’s Practicum Seminars).

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narcorentergates 2014 (broken glass, tattooed lemon, and plasticine sculpture).

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