Riders On The Train

Axiom Gallery
November 10th – December 19th, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday November 13th, 2009 | 6:00 pm

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AXIOM is proud to present its next exhibition, ‘RIDERS on the TRAIN’ curated by Nance Davies, opening Tuesday, November 10, 2009 and running through Saturday, December 19th, with a Reception on November 13th from 6-9pm. An accompanying website can be found at www.axiomart.org/riders.

‘RIDERS on the TRAIN’ is an interdisciplinary art exhibition exploring new relationships between artist, audience, site, and context. Drawn from an international call for submissions, these artists and writers explore ‘the private within the public’ experience of mass-transit in Sweden, Australia, South Africa, India, Switzerland, NYC, London, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Mexico City, Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, LA, DC, Portland, and Boston. The poetics of acceleration, compression, fragmentation and sensory immersion are explored as the artists record, collaborate, and devise small scale tactical interventions – juxtaposing high with low technology. ‘Riding Artists’ sample their ‘ride’ and generate an aggregate description of the mass-transit experience through a diversity of lenses and media including video, sound art, photography, web-based interactivity, performance, installation and writing.