The Royal NoneSuch Gallery would like to invite you to an Artist Talk and Open Forum featuring Working On It: Part Two artists Indira Martina Morre and Farley Gwazda.

Working On It is a two part exchange exhibition; Part One, featuring Royal NoneSuch Co-Directors Elizabeth Bernstein and Carey Lin and Loop Arts Director Adam Thorman, is currently open at Martina }{ Johnston, the house gallery co-directed by Morre and Gwazda.

Working On It: Part Two aims to address questions about whether the contemporary paradigm of art practice is sustainable, both in the sense of artists’ practical struggles to sustain their work through a precarious economic existence, and whether the current model, where artists are expected to function as their own critics, curators, promoters, and patrons, leaves space for a thoughtful, productive, critical practice. Morre and Gwazda have created artworks to address these questions (rather than, say, critical texts) because the works function as a series of open questions and a forum for debate. This is the forum to which you have been invited.
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Indira Martina Morre asked the other participating artists to share their “to do” lists, calendars, reminders, and hand-written or computer documents. She traced these private documents in overlapping layers on gessoed panel to create configurations that function both as a record of a dizzying schedule of social engagements and the most personal data portraits.

Farley Gwazda presents two projects; 'Processing Structures' is an interactive installation consisting of a series of desks and frames in which viewers copy images of the work of the other participating artists. 'Critical Reducer' displays computer-generated strings of words from a corpus consisting of announcements, artist statements, and critical responses to exhibitions at Royal NoneSuch and Martina }{ Johnston.

A version of “Critical Reducer” can now be seen online: http://www.farleygwazda.net/critical_reducer.html