concept & curation
new york, ny
2013
Kairos was the inaugural exhibition at Red Bull Studios New York. Curated by Ken Farmer with help from Maggie Lee, the show featured a range of work by 29 NYC-based artists across four floors.
Curatorial Statement
“Ancient Greeks had two notions of time: chronos and kairos. Chronos represented a quantitative, measurable time—the ticking clock, while kairos represented a more qualitative moment—an opportunity to be seized. Recognizing the intense duality between urgency and anxiety that Red Bull Music Academy participants confront during their two-week tenure, Kairos presents a selection of works to coexist within the Academy, offering aphorisms, meditation, and comic relief as a temporal reminder of presence and opportunity. The exhibition exemplifies a suspended tension: the held breath, the moment before the bell rings, before the roller coaster dives, before the glass breaks. It is a provocation to take time into one’s own hands."
participating artists
Agathe Snow, Alejandro Crawford, Andrew Norman Wilson, Antonia Kuo, Carly Mark, Chen Chen & Kai Williams, CONFETTISYSTEM, Conrad Ventur, Cynthia Daignault, Dylan Lynch, Jaimie Allen, Jeremy Couillard, Jogging, Korakrit Arunanondchai, Lily Sheng & Antonia Kuo, Lizzi Bougatos, Maggie Lee, Martin Roth, Michael Bell-Smith, Miles Huston, Olympia Scarry, Ryder Ripps, Siebren Versteeg, Tamara Gonzales, Todd Fisher, Tom Forkin and 8 Ball Zine Library.
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