Peter Garfield
Deep Space 1

Sunday, April 20
Admission: Free
Showtime: 6 - 10pm (looping); Free Drinks 6 - 8pm
no reservations necessary, please come

Deep Space 1
2007
Three-channel video installation

Deep Space 1 is a mythological quest, a fairytale and a psychadelic trip. It is inspired by the foreboding brought on by illogical fragments of unfinished dreams and nightmares that play back and interrupt waking life in uncanny ways.



Nominee for a Tiger Award for Short Film at the 2007 International Film Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Official selection:
30th Annual Kort Film Festivalen, Oslo Norway
Les Roncontres Internationales 2007; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Cinéma Babylon, Berlin, Germany; Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain
Impact Festival 2007, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Impakt Abroad 2007: Italy (Milan Film Festival), Russia (St.Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novogorod, Izhevsk, Kaliningrad)

www.chiefmag.com/issues/4/features/Peter-Garfield/
www.coa.uncc.edu/arch_on_air/garfield.html
www.Peter Garfield.net

Reviews:
2007 International Film Festival Rotterdam
"Eight years ago, Deep Space One was launched: an ion-driven unmanned rocket that is still on its journey through space. In this triptych, Peter Garfield takes us on a similarly dizzying journey through various dimensions. The camera glides through a room, straight through walls – without having to stop once."

-- Brooklyn Rail (Christian Parenti discusses Deep Space 1 and Garfield's current show at Pierogi)

"Its meanings go off the reservation, crossing from aesthetic statements into political commentary. Together these pieces invoke the logic of the present in all its despotism and pathology. As the pieces comment on cultural production—especially cinema and advertising—you could say they are classic détournement, a cultural "turning" or reuse of the spectacle in order to call into question class power and other hierarchies. As such, they do important work, focusing on that which we already know but are numbed and worn down by. In the short term there is perhaps not much effective resistance against the rape of the earth or the enclosures of political life and liberty that pass as public safety. But Garfield's humor, which mocks and laments our predicament, feels somehow like a subversive victory"

Concurrent exhibition at:
Pierogi
177 North 9th Street
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Tel. 718-599-2144
www.pierogi2000.com

Garfield’s "Four Seasons," celebrates the beauty of trash. Without moral or environmental commentary, Garfield rejoices in the aesthetic and archeological potential of our detritus with an installation of photographs and garbage. Three photographs loosely depict Summer, Fall and Winter in color-coded refuse. Spring is an exuberant, mutating mountain of colorful trash filling one end of the gallery, to be photographed at the end of the exhibition to become the final image of the suite.