The library’s 2008 Series A Year of Art at the Library opens with a very different exhibit – Unnamable Name. Search for the exhibit within the book-stacks.

3 Hitches is taken from the video Double Take, by Johan Grimonprez. A clip from this work-in-progress is included in the exhibit.

About the Library: The Fine Art of Camouflage (.pdf) Catalogue essay by Jelena Stojanovi Conceptual Ithaca by Warren Greenwood Ithaca Times 3/12/2008

Click on the above image to view the catalog (.pdf).

View instructions to create a screen saver of Martha Rosler's A Time of War

Unnamable Name is a group exhibition organized by the thaca/NYC based installation artist Todd Ayoung that includes works by visual artists working locally and internationally and using a variety of different media. Artists were asked to create work for underused non-art spaces inside the Tompkins County Public Library that addresses the repetition, persistence and notion of the "unnamable", as a sighting between identity, or the naming of a category.

Participating artists include: Martha Rosler, Phill Niblock, Johan Grimonprez, Elizabeth Cohen, Jane Jin Kaisen, Ayisha Abraham, Greg Sholette, Rit Premnath, Kim Asbury, Buzz Spector, Dread Scott, Janet Koenig, Toby Greenberg, Katherine Liberovskaya, Kenseth Armstead, David Diao, Jacob Tell, Mierle Ukeles, Jenny Polak and Jeff de Castro with a Catalogue essay by Jelena Stojanovic and opening music by Chris White.

With grant support from the Community Arts Partnership