{"id":128,"date":"2010-03-02T22:32:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T05:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2010-03-02T22:32:51","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T05:32:51","slug":"transmit-transit-march-3rd-may-5th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/02\/transmit-transit-march-3rd-may-5th\/","title":{"rendered":"TRANSMIT – TRANSIT March 3rd – May 5th"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hatuey Ramos Fermin at Longwood Art Gallery<\/p><\/div>\n

Hatuey Ramos Ferm\u00edn’s first solo exhibition in NYC opens tomorrow night at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos<\/a>!\u00a0 Last fall, Dominican \/ Puerto Rican artist Hatuey asked me to work with him and to help him realize his first solo show as its curator.\u00a0 I listened to his concept – an exhibition that investigates the livery cab drivers in the Bronx and was intrigued and agreed to help however I could.\u00a0 The conversation got started, we shared ideas, he presented to me portions of his interviews with drivers, I gave the best feedback possible and tried to lend some direction in how to translate the video interviews into a gallery installation and Hatuey executed!<\/p>\n

The show looks great and presents an intriguing insight into the little considered labor of the livery cab drivers.\u00a0 I also wrote an essay and designed a small catalog in the form of a full spread newspaper sheet, English on one side, Spanish on the other and featuring a map created by Michael E Jimenez for the exhibition.<\/p>\n

The day before the opening, Hatuey and I did a walk through and here are a couple photos taken.<\/p>\n

\"TRANSMIT

TRANSMIT - TRANSIT car top with loud speakers amplifying live taxi dispatch<\/p><\/div>\n

And below is an excerpt from the essay that I wrote for the exhibition:<\/p>\n

\u201cAttending to the local, by taking the local seriously\u201d this is the mission of TRANSMIT – TRANSIT<\/em>.\u00a0 Ramos Ferm\u00edn has engaged in deconstructing an element of local space to investigate just one detail of modernity and globalization.\u00a0 He has not done so as a traditional artist, walking the streets of the Bronx, getting lost in the vernacular of the city to generate creative musings that reflect one person\u2019s vision.\u00a0 Instead he has worked as an investigative journalist or documentary filmmaker. Ramos Ferm\u00edn has logged several hours of video interviews with livery cab drivers, he has visited several dispatch offices, diners, gas stations, car repair shops… the local spaces of the drivers.\u00a0 Over the last several months, he has engaged with the livery cab community to learn of its reality, document it and create an engaging portrayal that is both attentive and serious.\u00a0 The final outcome of his investigation is a rich installation that attempts to capture the hardship and diversity of the trade.\u00a0 And the encompassing device of the installation is the live radio feed from cab livery dispatches surrounding the gallery.<\/p>\n

By incorporating the live radio dispatch, Ramos Ferm\u00edn transforms the gallery visitor from art viewer to voyeur, listening in on the orders being transmitted all around us.\u00a0 Radio transmissions that direct one human being to drive a vehicle to a specific site, pick up a passenger, and drive to a new destination.\u00a0 It happens at all hours of each day; it is a common reality of the urban space and absolutely nothing exceptional.\u00a0\u00a0 And yet it is fascinating to take a moment, listen and consider the wide implications of these transmissions.\u00a0 By having us listen, Ramos Ferm\u00edn effectively dislocates our consciousness into a private space \u2013 that radio spaces employed between dispatch and drivers – transmissions that we are only privy to when in a cab and even then hardly take note of.\u00a0 But when these transmissions are re-contextualized within the gallery walls, when we are invited to listen, not as passengers eager to arrive at our destination, but rather as art viewers expecting to engage with creative work, the transmissions gain new depths.\u00a0\u00a0 The gallery becomes a portal to an alternate real-time reality \u2013 we listen to what others are doing and experiencing at that same moment, but elsewhere, not far, but beyond the gallery\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hatuey Ramos Ferm\u00edn’s first solo exhibition in NYC opens tomorrow night at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos!\u00a0 Last fall, Dominican \/ Puerto Rican artist Hatuey asked me to work with him and to help him realize his first solo show as its curator.\u00a0 I listened to his concept – an exhibition that investigates the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[125,122,126,124,123],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fine_arts","tag-bronx-livery-cabs","tag-hatuey-ramos-fermin","tag-livery-cabs","tag-longwood-art-gallery","tag-transmit-transit"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ambriente.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}