Exit Art's summer exhibition, Summer Mixtape Volume One: the Get Smart Edition, opens on Thursday, July 24. Drawing on influences from hip-hop and popular culture, the exhibition seeks to evoke the appropriated, personalized essence of the mixtape. Summer Mixtape features 27 up-and-coming artists from the greater New York area and works that range widely in theme and medium, mirroring the diverse sights, sounds and cultures of the New York streets. The exhibition, curated by Exit Art's Associate Curator, Herb Tam, and Assistant Curator, Lauren Rosati, will also feature a jukebox with mixtapes produced by the artists and some special guests.

Summer Mixtape Volume One: The Get Smart Edition is the must-see show in New York this summer. Continuing Exit Art's tradition of exposing new artists, this show is both an exhibition of some of the hottest in New York and a platform for twilight performances, dance parties, and mixtape listening sessions. Join us in celebrating the start of summer and with a Summer Mixtape fundraiser to keep the beats going.

When: July 24 – August 29, 2008
Opening: Thursday July 24, 2008 7-10pm
Where: Exit Art , 475 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY 10018

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SAVE THE DATE!

Friday, July 11, 8pm - midnight

Join us for Everybody's a VIP, a fundraising party for the exhibition Summer Mixtape Volume One, featuring a night of dance-able music spanning hip-hop, electronica, old school, orchestral beats, and down beat. Bring your people!

STORYTELLING

Curated by Milena Hoegsberg and Kelly Shindler

Featuring films by:

Charles Atlas & Marina Abramović
Nanna Debois Buhl
Martha Colburn
Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld
Peter Larsson
Aada Niilola

THURSDAY JULY 24TH - 7PM

STORYTELLING combines videos and films that collapse and expand the boundaries of fact and fiction from different vantage points. This resulting ambiguity offers a space rich with interpretation and the production of meaning. Drawing on the intersection between individual and collective narratives, the program's diverse roster of artists process experience through an entirely subjective lens. The lineup includes a dreamlike diary film by Aada Niilola; the macabre, kaleidoscopic animations of Martha Colburn and Peter Larsson; poetic yet critical revisitations of history by Katrine Dirckinck-Holmfeld and Nanna Debois Buhl; and an autobiographical performance by Marina Abramovic as imagined by Charles Atlas. In their juxtapositions of documentary with fantasy and the political with the personal, the works in STORYTELLING are expressions of how history and memory remain intimately linked.

Limited seating available, arrive early.
For more information contact: ovs@crggallery.com

This screening is made possible in part by EAI (Electronic Arts Intermix)