"Hyperobjects for Artists” Reader
Edited by Timothy Morton, Laura Copelin, Peyton Gardner
Ballroom Marfa
Publishing date: October 5, 2018
Ester Partegàs’s project for The Marfa Poetry Festival, August 9 – 13, 2017, consisted in these 8 flyers below. Using her own research photos taken in Marfa and its surrounding towns, she made 8 flyers with tear-off tabs that were hanged in bulletin boards around town such as coffee shops, restaurants, supermarkets, the tourist information office, the local clinic, and street poles. The texts in the tabs (in English and Spanish) were her own personal musings on the poetic, political and affective of the Southwest Texas landscape. As a sort of camouflaged public sculpture, the work wanted, on one hand, insert and disseminate poetry in unexpected places, and on the other, point to the things and emphasize the power the “vivid entities” (Jane Bennett) that constitute our surroundings posses.
“Towards a New Archaeology”
30 Lafayette Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Opening reception: Tuesday October 9, 6 - 8pm
Towards a New Archaeology brings together artists who reevaluate the history of material culture—presenting installation, painting, and sculptural works that speak to a mystical, transcendent, and visionary future.
In her ongoing series “Invisible Forces,” Ester Partegàs reimagines flyers with tear-off tabs as advertisements for camouflaged public sculptures depicting found arrangements of urban detritus. The site-specific iteration of this project, Invisible Forces, 2018, was inspired by the landscape surrounding BAM and the neighborhood of Fort Greene. The text on each tab shares Partegàs’ own poetic, political, and personal musings on the area, provoking the viewer to consider what else might become a significant artifact in the urban future.
"a… is alter(ed)” Open Sessions 12
35 Wooster St
New York, NY 10013
Opening reception: Thursday October 11, 6-8pm
a…is alter(ed): Open Sessions 12 explores the imaginative determination of “drawing” and “line” by relating it to a development process, social artifacts, psychological trace, and prosthetic memory—journals, maps, technology, and calendars. The poetics of flow between known and unknown is a feedback murmur that leads to clarity when engaging the object. a..is alter(ed) features Joeun Aatchim, Kenseth Armstead, Ludovica Carbotta, Billy and Steven Dufala, LaMont Hamilton, and Ester Partegàs.
