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Leave The Capital
Curated by: 
Deric Carner*
Jessica Tully*
2nd Sat Reception: 
Saturday, June 13, 2009 - 7:00pm to 10:00pm
Exhibition Dates: 
Jun 10, 2009 to Jun 27, 2009
Gallery Hours (or by appointment): 
Wednesday-Saturday, 2-6pm

Leave the Capital is an exhibition of art and media dealing with the agency of the periphery—beyond political, economic, and media centers. The 13 artists in the show offer a critical mix of observation, confrontation, urban intervention, hybridity, and cathartic celebration in order to assert the self and counter-publics. This is a timely investigation in the face of current economic restructuring. Re-considerations of the role of the public sphere and the individual within larger machines of production are more relevant than ever.

The title is taken from a 1981 song by UK post-punk band The Fall (who in turn are named after the Camus novel The Fall). The song is a starting point from which to investigate how artists address and break off from the need to perform for "Capital," represented in the widest sense of the word—as money, media, power, rules, lines, roles, etc. The exhibition presents artists negotiating between the demands of the centers of power and the possibilities presented by secondary zones and identities in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, Stanislaus, Amsterdam and elsewhere.

Exhibition Artists: 

David Buuck (BARGE)
Zoe Crosher
Jetske de Boer (S.T.O.P.)
Edmundo de Marchena
Scott Kiernan
Fang Lu
Dominic Nguyen
Jennifer O'Keeffe
Kamau Amu Patton
Nancy Popp
Sam Snowden
Kevin E. Taylor*
Chris Treggiari*

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