Can you imagine running into not just one but hundreds of yourselves all from different realities and times converging on one day and one spot for the universes most stupendous Party!!!
Allen Vandever will be asking Time Travelers to come back and rescue his art work in his latest version of Rescue or Destroy. Vandever will be bringing out the axe at Zhou B Art Center and destroying his work if no one decides to rescue it. This event is in conjunction with other time loop events in Katmanduh, New York,
Fargo, Portland, Seattle, Hawaii & Puerto Vallarta, Cairo & London. All events will be happening simultaneously and live feeds will be shown at all events
The details for this event are just beginning to take shape. Streaming Live At: http://www.ustream.tv/ |
Saturday, December 15, 2012
I am Time Loop
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Street Project Rescue or Destroy Miami
You can see the art work that will be up for Street Project Rescue or Destroy Miami on my FaceBook page in my album Street Rescue or Destroy.
and here is a link to the album https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10200105652669162.2194711.1385575519&type=1
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
This painting will be destroyed if you do not rescue it!
This December at Verge Art Fair
Allen Vandever will be bringing you Rescue
or Destroy, an interactive installation where it will be up to the public
to rescue the artwork on display or witness its destruction. Each participant
will be presented with a list of challenges to choose from and complete to guarantee
the safety of one piece. If they are unable to step out of their comfort zone
to spare whatever is on the chopping block, the art will be obliterated using
various tools and devastating techniques. Vandever will also be bringing Rescue or Destroy to the streets of
Miami for Art Basel. Random passersby will be presented with a work of art and
asked to decide its fate on the spot: save the art with a donation or watch it
meet its violent end. In addition to orchestrating these roving street
performances, Vandever will be exhibiting from work from Team Art!, a Chicago artist
collective comprised of Jason Davis, Mario Gonzalez, Jr. (Zore), Mike Reynolds,
Elisa Sandoval, Sofia Moreno, and Katrina Petrauskas, at the Essex hotel as
part of Verge Art Fair. He will also have a solo space at Verge featuring his
new series titled OpErotica, a
combination of Op Art and Erotica painted in an inwardly 3-D style that Vandever
has developed over the course of his career.
VERGE ART MIAMI BEACH AT THE ESSEX
HOUSE AND CLEVELANDER HOTELS
1001 Collins Ave. & 1020 Ocean
Drive @ 10th St. (across from the Wolfsonian)
December 6-9, 2012
Wednesday, November 7, 2012
Post From NewTimes Miami
Artist Allen Vandever Plans to Destroy Art Basel (Or Rescue It)
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But if you're one of the select few approached by Chicago-based artist Allen Vandever and his team of street canvasers, you might actually get the chance to do more than just look at the art. You'll have the chance to rescue it -- or destroy it.
Vandever will present random Basel goers with an art piece, letting him or her decide its fate right then and there. The person is faced with the daunting task of either rescuing it, by pledging a minimum donation of $10 and keeping it, or personally demolishing it.
"I prefer if they rescue it. A big part of it is myself letting go of my possessions...Everything from high school sketchbooks to collage photographs to collage paintings, drawings and prints and everything until now," Vandever said of the pieces up for destruction, all original works of his own.
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Rescue or Destroy began almost two years ago when Vandever and his assistant, Mike Reynolds, were discussing the value of art -- who decides it and its place in the world. The first installment was made up of Vandever's and a group of his interns' work. This time, the art at stake is all his. Aside from the performance-based Art Basel walk ups, Vandever will take part in the Verge Art Fair as a gallery curator and exhibitor for Team Art! and the stakes are higher than usual.
Friday, October 26, 2012
Mess is More
“Nothing Lasts Forever” at Rezidentz Collective
“I’m going to pick you,” said a glitter-green figure to my left.“Sorry?” I looked over at a bald and bearded man, looming large, yet unintimidating.
“Pick one of these, or I’m going to destroy this painting,” said artist Allen Vandever, pointing to a list beside an abstract blue piece, casually smug. Twenty-one choices were typed under the heading “Rescue or Destroy,” including, 1. Kiss a Random stranger in the gallery, and not just a peck. 11. Buy a work of art in the gallery. 18. Give someone a foot massage.
“Okay, I suppose I can say the alphabet backwards while hopping on one foot,” I said, agreeing to the benign embarrassment.
Vandever’s project was just one part of the event at large, “Nothing Lasts Forever,” by the Rezidentz Collective. The collective’s manifesto of complaint proclaimed the “insatiable consumption of everything” in our “throw-away culture” leaves behind a wasteful mess. This collaboration of artists, situated in a working art space-cum-house on South Morgan in Bridgeport, promised to help “make sense of the mess.” The creative commune gathered artists and friends for drinks, hors d’oeuvres, and friendly discussion of their latest projects.
The longest-standing member of the collective, George “Sunny” Keller, wasn’t fazed by the commune’s ambitious ideals. Sunny has lived in the building for three years, working a regular job and selling his art only to recoup the costs of making it – “otherwise it would just pile up.” The Rezidentz Collective wasn’t always as active as it is now. “It was originally just a group of friends, and I was the only one doing art,” he told me, smiling over his PBR. “It’s been a mixing group of people in the space, and now we do a theme-based show every month or two.”
A girl with light yellow hair sidled up next to him, clearly amused. “Sunny, there’s a woman that wants to buy your piece.” He offered a garbled wave at a nervous guest, and then walked over. I moved towards a girl coming from behind the main attraction of the show – a giant rectangular frame with strings connecting about 50 roughly sewn stuffed-animal pelts.
Kristine Shulke, the piece’s creator, was outwardly bohemian, with short black hair, bright red lipstick, and large spiral gage earrings. She was exploring the “fine line between brutality and beauty,” touching on subjects that normally make people uncomfortable. Although she grew up around hunting and taxidermy, the project still wasn’t natural to her. “It’s really weird psychologically speaking, cutting up really cute stuffed animals,” she told me, looking guilty. The stuffed animals were all bought in thrift stores and then sewn into a canvas, leaving behind a large pile of white filling.
I asked if Shulke had a certain message in mind with the piece. “I like the feeling that they evoke,” she told me judiciously. “It’s better when there’s no clear answer… it’ll stay with you longer.” Here, the theme of consumption and waste shone through brightly. Children grow out of their old favorite comfort object and cease to care, much like we care little about the work of a pleading artist or the change falling through our hands.
“…So here goes,” I heard behind me, turning just in time to see Vandever shoving his knee through a canvas. The room watched him in bemused silence as he pulled apart the frame, throwing pieces on the ground with histrionic relish. It was time to make sense of the mess.
Rezidentz Collective, 3145 S. Morgan St. Fridays, 6-10pm
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
This is the online competition that I won last year thanks to your votes I hope I can count on them again. Please take a moment and vote I really appreciate your support. You can vote on each painting once a day. Here is a link to one of the works I have about twenty works you can go to vote and search Vandever to see the rest.
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