Dice 10,000
Bryce and Matthew will present Dice 10,000 as a part of Ben Russell: RUBLES.
Here is a wacky/hyperlinked description of the show, provided by curators, Brandon Alvendia and Ben Russell:
ABOUT THE SHOW:
And so: as the Great Depression (Redux) becomes ever more depressing and the breadlines grow longer under President Obama’s communist administration (32 czars and counting!), yourcomrades at BEN RUSSELL have taken to the hills with the few thousand kopeks (100 to the Ruble) they still have hidden under their collectively-owned mattress to bring you yet another Thematic Group Art Exhibition (in which all works are equal and sold for the same price) - BEN RUSSELL : RUBLES
Timed to open one week prior to Art Chicago and the NEXT Fair and supported in part by the rubles-for-clunkers program, BEN RUSSELL : RUBLES shines a busted-up coal miner’s headlamp on the economic realities of art marketeering (TASSET), stands outside your half-empty skyscraper with posters and pamphlets and silkscreens decrying the false accumulation of value (TAYLOR), teaches you to increase your meager earnings through a family-friendly dice game and other il/legal means (inCUBATE), and concocts a video poultice for the fractured, traumatized, and weary-at-heart (SHTEYNSHLEYGER). RUBLES is a palette-cleanser for the bling-a-ling days to come, a reminder of where our core values as one-nation-under-art truly lie. As USSR expat-comedian and Miller Lite Cold War stooge Yakov Smirnoff would have said: “At BEN RUSSELL you do not sell art, art sells you!”
Ben Russell
1716 S Morgan #2F
Chicago, IL 60608
April 24, 2010 – May 22, 2010
Opening reception: Saturday 6-9 pm, April 24th, 2010
10,000 Dice:
Bryce Dwyer and Matthew Joynt are two members of the Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and the Everyday (InCUBATE), a research group dedicated to exploring new approaches to arts administration and arts funding. They act as curators, researches, and co-producers of artists’ projects. At BEN RUSSELL, Dwyer and Joynt will turn their relationship to funding over to chance as they instruct visitors in the playing of the family dice game Dice 10,000. Afterwards, ad-hoc games of dice will take place in the backyard. Dwyer and Joynt will orchestrate the betting.
