adam overton: mathew timmons' CREDIT launch
Sun,  8 Aug 2010, 2-4pm

 

 

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At the invitation of Mathew Timmons, Adam Overton subtly performed a program of partial pieces in tandem with Timmons' CREDIT launch and artist talk at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in Hollywood. The performed works were truncated in accordance with the performance overlay, Percentage Piece (for Elana Mann), using several ratios calculated between pieces (% of cash from a few days ago still in my wallet ... % of time spent thinking about sex in the last 24hrs ... % of protein Steven van Dyck consumes per meal ... % of time awake/asleep in the last 24hrs ... etc).

 

Program

 

 

 

Show Info

 

2:00-4:00 p.m. artist/writer talk, Mathew Timmons
Performance, Mathew Timmons & Adam Overton

 

In late spring 2007 as an irrational exuberance and promise of financial fortune hung in the air, mailboxes were filled with generous and gracefully worded offers of credit. Just over two years later, in midsummer 2009, the shape of the financial environment changed radically and mailboxes still filled up with statements of credit. S...omething had to change, offer turned to obligation.

 

Mathew Timmons' installation at LACE, CREDIT, is based on his book of the same name. Published by Blanc Press in Los Angeles, CREDIT is an 800 page, large format, full color, hardbound book—the longest, most expensive book publishable through the online service lulu.com. Divided into two sections, Part A: Credit–26 parts (a-z) and Part 2: Debit–10 parts (1-10), CREDIT is a highly revealing and emotional work chronicling a personal tale of credit. From August 5-26, 2010, Timmons (and others) will transcribe CREDIT onto the wall.

 

http://www.welcometolace.org/
http://www.notcontent.lesfigues.com/2010/06/mathew-timmons/

 

Mathew Timmons is General Director of General Projects in Los Angeles. His works include CREDIT (Blanc Press) an 800 page full color, large-format, hardbound book, and Lip Service, a chapbook published by Slack Buddha Press. The New Poetics from Les Figues Press, Sound Noise from Little Red Leaves, The Archanoids an album of solo and collaborative sound poetries from Pleonasm Music, and his micro-book collaboration with Marcus Civin, a particular vocabulary from P S Books, are forthcoming. His work may be found in various journals including P-Queue, Holy Beep!, Flim Forum, The Physical Poets, Out of Nothing, Mammut_, Area Sneaks, Try, Or, Emohippus and Luvina. His art writing may be found in Artweek, Artillery, ArtSlant, The Magazine and X-TRA. He is the editor of Insert Press and co-curates Late Night Snack (with Harold Abramowitz).

 

tags: event, sbs, mathewtimmons, adamoverton

 

 

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