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Installation views: Participant Inc., New York, 2007. Photos: Ann Böttcher

 

THE POSTER PROJECT

The poster project — a conceptual surface for collaboration in
a zone removed from the standards of thecommercial art market,
editioned materials intended for distribution, consumption and
communication. The poster is an accessible and cheap non-
product that allows the artist to engage in social spheres beyond
the commodity producing channels of high art. An ephemeral,
lo-fi rumble in the tightly controlled easy listening airwaves…

The appeal of poster art lies in its dialectical function as both
potential countercultural tool and its classic myth building
function as in advertising and propaganda. Whether on a
teenager’s bedroom wall or wheat-pasted to the blue fence of
a construction site, or nailed to the town hall, the poster is
understood as a temporal object–an easily disposable notice
which is forced to communicate directly. The formal evolution
of poster art is a navigation of the changing sense of private/
public space.

Curated by Devon Costello and Ilya Lipkin

Artists:
Jan Christensen
Devon Costello
Greg Edwards
Ilya Lipkin
Ann Böttcher
Hanna Weislander
Scott Hug
Justin Lowe & Jonah Freeman
Josh Kline
Alisa Baremboym
Kent Hendrickson
Timothy Hull
Michael Paulson
Kathe Burkhart
Lovett/Codagnone
Lutz Bacher
Ania Siwanowicz
Darren Bader
Robert Schmaltz
Erika Somogyi
Justin Matherly

Distribution:
Participant Inc.
Taxter and Spengemann Gallery
Printed Matter
And select bookstores

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Specifications: The poster is 36 x 24 in. and
printed in black and white. It is folded nine
times and the collection is held in a boxed
edition of 100. Presentations/installations
accompanies the release.