For the Month of August 2011 @ Blim Gallery
Blim and Powell Street Festival present:
Made in Japan
New work by Jeremy Isao Speier
Opening: 6:30 – 10 PM, Friday July 29 | Runs July 29 – August 27
Blimited: Limited Edition Screenprinted shirt available at Blim for month of August.
MIJ: Made In Japan: Deep Purple: Space Truckin’, (1972), (2011)
Powell Street Festival and Blim Arts are pleased to present the exhibition Made In Japan, (2011) a sculptural, kinetic installation and collected ephemera by Vancouver-based artist Jeremy Isao Speier. On opening night in celebration of the 35th Annual Powell Street Festival we are happy to have catering by Open Sesame with a Japanese themed Made In Japan menu. Led by Deep Purple’s, Space Truckin’, (1972) dj Darwin Meyers will spin a 1970′s “stadium” Rock mix on classic vinyl.
In Made In Japan, Artist Jeremy Isao Speier heralds consumer electronics of the 1970′s and the pre-digital age. Speier investigates the loss of space and the global transformation from analog to digital.
Made In Japan was also the title of a live album by English Rock band, Deep Purple. In 1972 it was released in Europe, and in 1973 it was released in the US, and in Osaka, Budokan and Tokyo, Japan, epitomizing this 1970′s moment.
Japan was once a leader in technology but now it’s struggling to find it’s place in the digital-age. With globalized manufacturing and assembly, fewer electronics are being made in Japan. Made In Japan looks at the lie of commodity, and is a critique of consumerism.
Speier is interested in the Vancouver area of Main Street around his studio because of its industrial nature. He has been collecting fragments, bits and parts, objects from 2006 to 2009. Each object that he culls and finds speaks about the transformation of a Vancouver industrial area, and the shift to industrial, but also as Main shifts toward gentrification the less industrial it becomes. The object marks the ever-changing psychographics of this Main area. An important part of Speier’s practice is about his urban geographical vernacular of recycling and salvaging found objects and materials for reuse and repurpose in his work. Speier uses obsolete technology of the 1970′s and 1980′s to reconfigure parts and motors for hand-made and self-made technologies in Made In Japan.
Time Traveler: BIO
Jeremy Isao Speier is a time traveler — explorer and his layered kinetic work is about mobility and multiplicity. Speier is very interested in ideas around time: Newtonian-time like the frame of a filmstrip across the time line; or Kant-time as neither an event nor a thing; or Einstein-time and his special theory of relativity, and velocity equals distance over time. Speier investigates the intersection or juncture where matter and memory cross over time and perception.
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