The Away Space

Clean your desk, wash the dishes, clean the floor, wash your clothes, wash your toes, change the baby’s diaper, finish the report, correct the typos, mend the fence, keep the customer happy, throw out the stinking garbage, watch out - don’t put things in your nose, what shall I wear, I have no sox, pay your bills, don’t litter, save string, wash your hair, change the sheets, go to the store. I’m out of perfume, say it again - he doesn’t understand, seal it again - it leaks, go to work, this art is dusty, clear the table, call him again flush the toilet, stay young.\*

In The Away Space, Lucinda Trask utilizes the performance of installation and the act of reverberation to illuminate our elusive relationship with maintenance. Framed through the artist's practice with wood, dimensional material becomes a tool to broaden our application of maintenance from localized “grunt-work” to more remote, macrosystems where objects are assembled, transported, and maintained for a different purpose.

The Away Space opens September 10th and will be accessible live through the Canary cameras. The show will consist of an initial 14-day durational performance that will then echo in the absence of the artist. Gallery members will restage and maintain the performance set to the sounds of Lucinda’s original gestures.

\*Adapted from Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Maintenance Art Manifesto published in Lucy R. Lippard, Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press (1973), 1997 edition, pp. 220-1.