Everyone Alive Wants Answers 2006
Zach Rockhill: “This Side Down, Damn If I Know”
July 3 through July 38, 2007
Opening Reception: Saturday July 14, 2007, 7 - 9 PM
With a performance starting at 8:00Pm
domogallery is please to present Zach Rockhill: “This Side Down, Damn If I Know” , at domogallery at 447 Springfield Avenue, Summit, NJ.
“This Side Down, Damn If I Know” draws parallels between two disparate ways of relating to information. The first way is of acceding and expecting failure before impossible tasks: a video proposes a fictive relation to gravity, loosely based on Buster Keaton’s short “The Boat” from 1921. The second is a series of drawings of the organization and fragmentation of a structural(ist) system. The drawings are both utilitarian (plans for construction) and nostalgic for the utopian impulses behind early abstraction, specifically the properties in the work around and leading up to Tatlin’s monument to the Third International of 1919.
Put together, these two lines of conjecture are meant to mirror and inflect one another like elements in a riddle: the one to futility and a kind of “endgame”
nihilism, the other to utopia. As these unfold – a storm-tossed Keaton nails his feet to the deck; Tatlin yearns optimistically toward the Third Communist International – the video and the set of drawings look for ways to collapse and arrest the momentum of these impulses. As parallels that reflect, but refuse to resolve one another, they aspire to an overlooked systemic vacancy: a possible third outcome.
Zach Rockhill: “This Side Down, Damn If I Know” will be on view at domogallery, 447 Springfield Avenue, Summit, New Jersey 07901, 908-608-0079, July 3 through July 23, 2007. Hours: Tuesday through Friday 12 – 6 PM and Saturday 12 – 5 PM.