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Swarm Gallery

July 13 - August 15, 2011

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560 Second Street Oakland, CA 94607
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Threshold(s) + (don’t) PUSH!
Swarm Gallery is pleased to present Threshold(s), a solo exhibition and site-specific sound and light installation by Joshua Churchill. Joshua Churchill creates immersive site-specific sound and light installations and photographs that explore the aesthetic, emotive, and historic qualities of environments and objects as they exist in states of transition, disuse, or decay. Often focusing on the crossroads between urban and rural, organic and inanimate, Churchill's work enmeshes the viewer in the very textures and stimuli he uses to engage, act upon, and recontextualize his subjects. For his solo exhibition at Swarm Gallery, Churchill has rebuilt a shack-like structure inspired by the ambiguous and dilapidated small shelters frequently found scattered throughout the countryside along railroad lines. Focusing on the enigmatic nature of such structures, Churchill has reanimated the displaced shelter with sound and light while restricting physical access and view of the interior, creating a cryptic tension between the viewer and the work. This exhibition is the fourth project of BUILDING STEAM, a year-long sound program curated by Jeff Eisenberg, Svea Lin Soll, and Aaron Ximm. BUILDING STEAM is in part funded by Southern Exposure’s Alternative Exposure Grant Program. In the project space, Swarm presents a new video installation by Doug Garth Williams. Williams' work explores the way we perceive things as well as the apparent ease with which our perceptions can be altered. He is interested in both the fundamental properties that unconsciously direct observation and behavior, and the way those properties can be consciously manipulated to change the way we see. These investigations take the form of videos, interactive installations and public interventions. Often using himself as the subject, his installations tend toward reflexive, humorous and uncanny. His work playfully confines expectations and elicits those tenuous unguarded moments of questioning. Reception Saturday, July 16, 2011 6-8pm