Past --> Robby
Herbst 03/09
"Charles
Talks With Women At Recruiting Center About Suicide Rates Among Soldiers",
2009 (detail)
Robby
Herbst -
Blockades (with collaborators)
14 March - 18 April, 2009
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Tom
Blocks War Contractor Parsons in Pasadena,
2009 |
Tom
Blocks War Contractor Parsons in Pasadena (detail), 2009 |
Nancy
Stops Traffic At 2 Freeway Ramp (detail),
2009 |
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Charles
Talks With Women At Recruiting Center About Suicide Rates Among
Soldiers, 2009 |
Jen
Knits In First Street,
2009 |
Installation
view: Blockade Pose 1, Blockade Pose 2, Die-in Pose,
2009 |
The
title, Blockades (with collaborators), refers both to the tactic of
blockading spaces as well as the psycho-emotional state of being “blocked”.
The exhibition aims to make visual what it feels like to act directly.
Herbst has said, “In March of 2003 I was sitting in a cafe in Echo
Park. Meanwhile in San Francisco, people had banned together to close
that city down.” Collaborators include: Charles Irvin, Nancy Popp,
Tom McKenzie, Jen Hofer, Elena Mann, Adam Overton, Micheal Parker, Christian
Cummings and Michael Decker.
Robby Herbst is an interdisciplinarian. He is interested in socio-political
formations; behavioral architecture, languages of dissent and counter
cultures. Exploration of these fields have lead him to visual art, writing,
group work, independent media, public theory and event/exhibition organizing.
Collective projects of note include the vast universe of the Journal
of Aesthetics & Protest (exhibitions, publishing, organizing with
Marc Herbst and Christina Ulke), The October Surprise and a collaboration
of no name exploring psychedelia (with Steve Anderson and Karl Erikson).
He is a recipient of a Warhol Foundation Writers Grant for a project
examining the phenomena of "Possibility" within relational
art and activism. He has contributed to Allan Kaprow: Art As Life, Museum
of Contemporary Art, LA and Outpost for Contemporary Art; the 2008 California
Biennial; Democracy in America: The national Campaign, Creative Time
2008; Fine Print: Alternative Media, P.S.1, New York; and the documenta
12 Magazine Project Archive, Kassel Germany. Additionally he's shown
work with Southern Exposure (SF), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), The
Art Gallery of Knoxville (TN), LACE (LA), and Machine Project (LA). He
has organized exhibitions at The Craft and Folk Art Museum ("Street
Signs and Solar Ovens"), Park Projects ("Failure Ridiculous
Terrible Wonderful") and David Patton Los Angeles (“Between
People: Four Artists on Connecting”, July 2007).
David
Patton
Los Angeles
info (at) davidpattonlosangeles (dot) com
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