February 15, 2005

a reception to celebrate the publication of a catalogue documenting the two installations by Chris Csikszentmihályi.

The new illustrated catalogue for “Skin” and “Control”, Parallel installations by Chris Csikszentmihályi

64 pages, 44 illustrations including 38 in color :: $28
signed limited edition of 100 copies accompanied by a CD-ROM $65
With texts by Chris Csikszentmihályi, Caroline Jones, and McKenzie Wark

Skin & Control catalogue
$28 or $65 special edition (signed by the artist, includes CD-ROM)

“My goal as an artist is to understand and intervene into the production of material power and technologies. My day job as MIT professor involves doing that at a very literal level. “Skin” and “Control” do this at a more symbolic level, in the form of installations that operate as immersive environments, walk-in tableaux with everyday drama being enacted moment by moment.”
–Chris Csikszentmihályi “Csikszentmihályi is conceptual and scalar ambitions locate him within a specific generation that has its own characteristic forms of artistic practice. For artists coming of age since the 1980s, (Damien Hirst, Matthew Ritchie, and Anselm Kiefer come to mind), science and technology are not truth as much as culture they form the mythic structures of our time .”
–Caroline Jones

What Csikszentmihályi offers is a way of visualizing a certain kind of power at work in the world. The power of control, of telemetry, of the ways and means of speed. It is a surprisingly abstract art.
–McKenzie Wark