Hi There, this is Red76 on the InterWeb
Hi There, this is Red76 on the InterWeb
Red76 was formed in February of 2000 in Portland, Oregon by Sam Gould and Jef Drawbaugh. Red76 serves as the name for collaboratively based projects initiated and designed by Sam Gould.
Since it’s inception Red76 has curated, presented, and enacted more than 30 exhibitions, events, and actions, as well as 8cd’s and an arts/culture journal entitled Dis-connect.
Red76’s goal is to provide new and challenging ideas and frameworks in which to display contemporary art and thought, as well as trying to devise means to incorporate these works and ideas into the daily lives of the general public.
The role of the museum is beautiful and vital, but its application, at times, can carry along with it aspects of exclusion that deride its strongest attributes; items and ideas that help us greater navigate our surrounding environment. If we were to redefine our view of the museum, and chose to focus on these attributes of enlightenment, over exclusion, of the boundless over the stationary, we would come to the conclusion of the opportunity of having museums as numerous as people. If we are to believe, as we well should, that a Donald Judd sculpture or Michael Brophy painting is there to help us greater understand ourselves and how to navigate through our lives, why not apply the same import to the bus ticket in our pocket that helps remind us of the trip we took to our lovers house the other night? Why do we create hierarchical differences between what we experience at the bus stop and what we experience after we walk through the doors of The Met? In our heart of hearts, what’s the difference?
(Via del.icio.us/fakeisthenewreal.)
[tags]art, practice, text, museum[/tags]
