Pinata Party -- It Can Change @ Gavin Brown's Enterprise Passersby

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PINATA PARTY
It Can Change at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passersby
September 4-16, 2004
Reception & Pinata Party September 10 from 6pm until every pinata is smashed


A pinata is an object to be destroyed, like the title of a book about Gordon Matta-Clark. As the pinatas are beaten pleasure is attained; beauty and craft are sacrificed. The pinata party is a celebratory assault on culture. It Can Change will be presenting a pinata party at Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passersby from September 4-16, 2004.

For this project we are asking artists to contribute pinatas. From September 4-9 the pinatas will hang in the gallery unmolested. On September 10 we will invite people into the gallery for a pinata party. Each pinata will be struck with a blunt object until whatever is inside of it falls out. From September 11-16 the results of our pinata party will be on view.

During the party debris from each pinata will be collected and heat-sealed in plastic and packaged along with photographs depicting the destruction of each pinata. The photographs and bags of destroyed pinatas will serve as mementos of the actions that took place during the pinata party.




It Can Change
http://www.itcanchange.com
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Tel: (510) 697-7934


Gavin Brown’s Enterprise at Passersby
436 W. 15th St
New York, New York 10014 USA
[email protected]
Tel:  (212) 627-5258
Fax:  (212) 627-5261
Hours: Monday-Friday 10am-6pm