The Analogous residency kicks off tonight

Devotion's resident nonprofit, Analogous Projects, starts off their yearly curatorial programing tonight with the opening of Scrapcycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE): Creative Reuse of Refuse Through Recombination

ScrapCycle is an ongoing project devoted to the creative reuse of refuse. This annual one-night event has been reinterpreted as a group exhibition, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE). In addition to featuring upcycled artworks and performances, workshops will take place throughout the month in order to underscore the participatory nature of the ScrapCycle series.

All events require a piece of refuse for reuse as the price of admission. Materials are used for on-site installations, directed toward local upcycling artists, or repurposed as holiday gift wrap. These action-based economic and environmental aspects of ScrapCycle refer to the act of reuse as requiring us to approach everyday decisions from a use-value perspective, which is in opposition to our collective exchange-value upbringing.

ScrapCycle places an exchange-value on upcycled and reused materials, in order to probe the environmental effects of economic perspective. By presenting concrete implementations of reuse and recombination, ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) serves to liken the small pervasive effects of social sculpture, environmental activism, and economic perspective to a fine-tuning of interdependent parameters with global results. ScrapCycle(reUSE/reCOMBINE) references complexity science as it relates to political economy, ecology, and methods of reuse and recombination (i.e., small-world networks, social systems theory, ecological systems theory, evolutionary computation, genetic algorithms, neural networking).

With works by Aricoco (Ari Tabei), Katherine Liberovskaya + o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi), LoVid (Kyle Lapidus + Tali Hinkis), Philip Galanter, Phillip Stearns, Pollie Barden, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Torino:Margolis (Jenny Torino + Ben Margolis).

EXHIBITION: Opens 7:00 p.m., Friday, May 7th, 2010. Through Sunday, May 30th.
LOCATION: 54 Maujer Street, Brooklyn, NY, 11206. L to Lorimer, G to Metropolitan.
OPENING FLYER: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/ScrapCycleReuseRecombine.jpg
PRESS RELEASE: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/scrapcycle-PressRelease.pdf
MEDIA RELEASE: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/scrapcycle-MediaRelease.pdf
FULL PRESS KIT: http://www.AnalogousProjects.org/storage/ScrapCyclePressKit.zip
CONTACT: Marie Evelyn at Marie@AnalogousProjects.org

About Analogous Projects:

Complexity theory is not new to art or to our culture. It migrated from computer science and biology to economics and art and, with the advent of the world wide web, it invaded our collective subconscious. Analogous seeks to support complexity-driven art and artists playing under this conceptual umbrella of "Interaction Art". Progress occurs by metaphor and analogy: Their hope is (by bringing together people and projects irrespective of media and genre) to enable philosophical crosstalk.

Analogous events and performances have been reviewed in The Wire, Make Magazine, Time Out New York, and The Village Voice. They received a Village Voice Best-of-NYC Award in October 2008 for "Best Arts Organization Centered Around Recycling". For more information about Analogous and current Analogous projects, visit http://AnalogousProjects.org.

Analogous Projects is the Resident Not-for-Profit at Devotion Gallery.