Unnamable Name Exhibit – January through March 2008

Unnamable Name – January through March 2008
An installation within the book-stacks organized by Ithaca/NYC based artist Todd Ayoung

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

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.

Unnamable Name is a group exhibition organized by the Ithaca/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, Elisabeth Cohen, Jane Jin Kaisen, Ayisha Abraham, Greg Sholette, Rit Premnath, Kim Asbury, Buzz Spector, Dread Scott, Janet Koenig, Toby Greenberg, Katherine Liberovskaya, Kenseth Amstead, 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.

The opening reception will be held in conjunction with the Light In Winter Festival and take place from 3:30 PM to 6:30 PM on Friday, January 18th in the book-stacks and the Borg Warner Community Room. Walk the stacks, meet some of the artists, and enjoy original interpretive music by Chris White in the Borg Warner Community Room at 5:30 PM.
Chris White will perform a live improvised soundtrack on electric cello to Samuel Beckett's "film" (1965) in the Borg Warner Community Room at 5:30 pm.