Gary Wiseman Presents, In Cooperation with DOUGLAS F. COOLEY MEMORIAL ART GALLERY "Suddenly"
http://web.reed.edu/gallery/

SIXSIXSIX

A Co-Relational Weaving In Six Parts
(Six Dinners, Six Locations, Six Days)

“Take care! Nothing has crystallized as yet; nor can I say what will happen after this. I can only say that today I am no longer as afraid as I was yesterday… I find myself before you…ready to dive into the void.”
- Yves Klein

“The space that appears to separate us actually connects us.”
- Ian Dorsey

“Our elders teach us…protect the water…the water is life.”
- Danny Beaton
Turtle Clan, Mohawk Nation

Richard Brandt, Jessica Tannenbaum, David Liberty, the Intertribal Fisheries Department, Robin Shanti, Paul Middendorf, Caitlin Moore, Stephanie Snyder, Matthew Stadler, Greg Sheran, Brennan Novak, Ashley Kaempf, Seth Nehil, Todd Balmer, Gordon Barnes, Chris Hudson, Gary Wiseman, Walter Fenk, Yves Klien, Marcel Duchamp, Situationist International, Fluxus, Felix Gonzales-Torres, Rikrit Tiravanija, Vanessa Beecroft, Doh Ho Suh, Louise Bourgeois, Gordon Matta-Clarke, Christo and Jean-Claude, Kurt Schwitters, Damian Hirst, Jeff Koons, Joseph Bueys, Maurizio Cattelan, Fritz Heag, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Ingmar Bergman, Theo Angelopoulos, Rudolf Steiner, You

Tarpaulin (Blue = future, possibility, protection, restoration, erasure, healing, Eve, Dawn, Void, IKB, Anthropometric - one note symphony, twenty minutes, silence Situationist International, Spectacle, Revolution, Fluxus, Happenings; Tarpaulin Entomology - heavy canvass, coated with tar, waterproof (nautical connection, water connection) Tar = (sailor = grandfather = navy = electrician) = Benzene = (hexagon = 6 sides, 6 = lucky number = number of man = SIXSIXSIX = six diners, six locations, six guests) = industrial solvent, plastics, synthetic rubber, pharmaceuticals, (Lamictal = hexagon shape = pharma-molecules in water supply) liberation (Tar = modern tarpaulin), Tar = by product of oil gasification (early 20th century), GASCO (NW Natural Gas) (Tar Baby [trap] Tar and Feather) Willamette River, Portland, 2005, EPA; 15, 000 cubic-yards of tar removed from Willamette, 2005, Benzene in sediment, water, earth, air (clinically proven cause of leukemia). Willamette, pollution, superfund, 8 sewage treatment plants, agricultural runoff, past industry, current industry, open sewer; destruction = creation = future = possibility [indigenous people, plants, animals, food] original inhabitants, Grandmother, Alcohol, Father, The clearing, Indian Fishing Camp, Prior to 1845, Co-Relational Ecology, Social Architecture, Homeland, Family, Identity, Lineage, Place, interconnectedness, energy, magic, timelessness, the void