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From the Press Release:

EMERGENCY ROOM
February 8 - March 19, 2007

(Long Island City, NY - December 15, 2006) P.S.1 proudly presents
Emergency Room, a constantly evolving collaborative exhibition
conceived and led by artist Thierry Geoffroy, a.k.a. Colonel. To realize this
project, Geoffroy has invited over thirty local and international artists to
create and install new works in a range of media, all generated daily in
response to current events. Emergency Room is on view in the third floor
Archive Galleries from February 8 through March 19, 2007.

"Relevent, but less than incredible" works of art are both the expected and actual result of this experiment. The work is necessarily assembled hastily and given no time to accrue great depth, and rather than be a "great-art" experiment, it is instead an exercise in the normal media practices of the day; where the act of presenting a finished piece and "having something to show" is just as important as the content of what is being shown. The best pieces in the show raise this issue by presenting "unpresentability" and things seemingly "unfinished".





One of the most exciting aspects of this art exercise is how the directness of the exhibition relates to the directness of new creative media and their outlets (Specifically You Tube and daily Video blogs). The show itself has a daily blog which responds to the artwork which is responding to headlines from the day before, and therefore completes the whole inspiration, creation, presentation and critique cycle in about 24 hours. The show itself becomes a piece that uses artists to create work in the same manner that news reporters are asked to create news. The curator and conciever have therefore adopted the parallel roles of news producer, and the Museum has adopted the role of the Distributor.

Here are some YouTube responses to news items:




It is in the total contemplation of the exhibition itself that its depth is shown. There is a direct dialogue with new digital media and the expected recurrance time involved with those media. For the next month I can attach myself to the brands "PS1" and "Thierry Geoffrey" four days a week and get new stimuli each time. This makes my likeliness to return much higher than it would in a non-kinetic exhibition. This is not unlike the brands of "Fox News", "CNN", "MSNBC", and "McDonald's" who can be relied on not necessarily for being great, but rather just for being there.