World Wide Storefront

October 4 – November 21, 2014

Opening Reception: October 3, 2014, 7pm

Ten global design projects

And an installation by Jana Winderen and Marc Fornes

World Wide Storefront is a multi-locus project of ten alternative spaces around the globe and a digital platform (WWStorefront.org) designed by Pentagram interwoven with a commissioned installation, Situation NY, designed collaboratively by artist Jana Winderen and architect Marc Fornes. The installation considers the interconnectivity of the projects and reflects on the contemporary condition between the digital and the physical.

The ten projects launch simultaneously on September 19, 2014 and include a series of programs, performances, activities and events at project sites:

A to B - Crossing the Railway

Circus for Construction

Container Artist Residency

Gallery Attachment

Host - Natural Histories for Los Angeles

Microgeographies

Next Station, Micro Ecologies in Tel Aviv's Central Bus Station

RavinePortal

Storefront Marketplace

Tropical Ghosts

The projects, selected for their ability to produce alternative platforms within their local contexts, range from transoceanic traveling artist residency spaces, to urban interventions in foreclosed ancient structures, to the construction and inhabitation of residual spaces and structures in the city. Contrasting with the site specificity and visceral immediacy of the Situation NY installation by Winderen and Fornes, an invisible layer of digital content accessed through smart phones and a digital portal bring the visitor into series of intermediate spaces that connect audiences to the activities of the 10 artist groups producing projects.

In the Gallery:

Situation NY, the collaboration of Winderen and Fornes, collapses sound, light and form in an object with intrinsic sensorial behaviors, inviting the visitors to question the properties of matter and the built environment surrounding us. The installation is a vibrating sound experiment that aims to transform the architecture into animated sensible form.  Conceived as a sound object that absorbs and contrasts the site specificity of the Storefront Gallery with abstract spatial, formal and acoustic variations and compositions, Situation NY raises questions about context, sensorial readings, estrangement and the uncanny.   

Installation Design

Jana Winderen and Marc Fornes as part of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Program

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