New and Notable Press: Sector 2337 + Green Lantern Press
New and Notable Press
Sector 2337 + Green Lantern Press
Sector 2337
“Logan Square Book Store And Art Gallery Sector 2337 Closing — But Owners Will Keep Publishing,” Mina Bloom, Block Club Chicago
Lacking the funding they need to stay open long-term, the owners have chosen to shut down the storefront and focus instead on partnerships going forward. Full article here.
Eduardo Kac
“An Art Not of this Earth: Eduardo Kac at Sector 2337,” Lori Waxman, Temporary Art Review
Earth has been feeling especially small and dark lately. Perhaps it’s just the days getting shorter. Or maybe it’s the politics getting more partisan, the hurricanes more destructive, the healthcare more expensive, the gap between very rich and everybody else more immense. But knowing that a work of art was created in outer space floods me with lightness and possibility. Full review here.
“Wasp sting,” Matthew Goulish, The Brooklyn Rail
A shape of paper trimmed by an astronaut—from a standard sheet into something like a letter M—floats in zero gravity. Through a hole at its center a tube, another blank page rolled and inserted there, transects the axis, making the object multi-dimensional. Air currents buffet it as they would a kite, and it arcs and bounces on its wobbly flight around the space station’s interior. The performance realizes a plan of the artist, Eduardo Kac, for writing untethered to gravity, letters multidirectional as planetary bodies. Video-documented and projected on an immersive room-sized portal’s wall, the paper form levitates before a backdrop of windows and an upside-down earth’s blue and white horizon. Full review here.
“Logan Square Book Store And Art Gallery Sector 2337 Closing — But Owners Will Keep Publishing,” Mina Bloom, Block Club Chicago
Lacking the funding they need to stay open long-term, the owners have chosen to shut down the storefront and focus instead on partnerships going forward. Full article here.
Eduardo Kac
“An Art Not of this Earth: Eduardo Kac at Sector 2337,” Lori Waxman, Temporary Art Review
Earth has been feeling especially small and dark lately. Perhaps it’s just the days getting shorter. Or maybe it’s the politics getting more partisan, the hurricanes more destructive, the healthcare more expensive, the gap between very rich and everybody else more immense. But knowing that a work of art was created in outer space floods me with lightness and possibility. Full review here.
“Wasp sting,” Matthew Goulish, The Brooklyn Rail
A shape of paper trimmed by an astronaut—from a standard sheet into something like a letter M—floats in zero gravity. Through a hole at its center a tube, another blank page rolled and inserted there, transects the axis, making the object multi-dimensional. Air currents buffet it as they would a kite, and it arcs and bounces on its wobbly flight around the space station’s interior. The performance realizes a plan of the artist, Eduardo Kac, for writing untethered to gravity, letters multidirectional as planetary bodies. Video-documented and projected on an immersive room-sized portal’s wall, the paper form levitates before a backdrop of windows and an upside-down earth’s blue and white horizon. Full review here.