Place Holder

Window Exhibition

Sept. 327, 2014

Opening: Wed. Sept. 3, 69 pm

WITH A PERFORMANCE AROUND 7PM

Space Her Place

Writing and Reading Workshop

December 19-21, 2-5 pm

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 Universitys 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 Tangs Practicum Seminars.