{"id":7750,"date":"2016-11-03T15:45:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artjournalstg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=7750"},"modified":"2019-11-21T20:49:22","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:49:22","slug":"art-journal-open-presents-pp-by-kate-costello","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/?p=7750","title":{"rendered":"Art Journal Open Presents P&P<\/em> by Kate Costello"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kate Costello, P&P<\/em>, 2016, artist’s book (artwork \u00a9 Kate Costello)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Los Angeles\u2013based artist Kate Costello has created a unique two-minute animation of her limited edition book, P&P<\/em>, for Art Journal Open\u2019s Contemporary Projects.<\/a> Contemporary Projects is an ongoing series that invites artists to transpose analogue projects into digital formats. Speculative in nature, the projects are intended to foreground the processes of mediation, translation, and data migration that have been endemic to artistic production in the built environment of exhibition spaces or the web in almost equal measure.<\/p>\n

P&P<\/em> conveys Costello\u2019s examination and subjective cataloging of vernacular languages active within contemporary visual culture. More specifically, Costello often creates theatrical sets by hanging colorful backgrounds behind her subjects, whether they are sculptures in an installation or nude models in a photograph. In this manner she accentuates the protocols and conventions of set design, fashion editorials, and other gendered representations within both mass media and the history of fine art. Drawing equally from typography, graphic design, and art history, Costello\u2019s works underscore the historical assumptions about the traditional roles assigned to the artist and muse while highlighting the position of the viewer within these relationships.<\/p>\n

As acts of visual translation themselves, the drawings and collages Costello has edited into her book and selected to animate here act as a formal root\u2014giving shape to several of Costello\u2019s sculptures, photographs, and drawings that she has exhibited over the past twelve years. Costello is taking P&P<\/em>\u2014which can be read as a compendium of process images (sketches, notes)\u2014full circle by animating and translating the analogue process of paging through the book into a digital form accessible to viewers through Art Journal Open.<\/p>\n

This project also includes an excerpt from “The Space of the Image” (Brooklyn, NY: Midgramme, 2015) written by Rita Gonzalez, associate curator of contemporary art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Gonzalez has organized or co-organized landmark exhibitions including Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement<\/em> (LACMA, 2008), ASCO: Elite of the Obscure<\/em>, A Retrospective, 1972\u20131987<\/em> (LACMA, 2011), and Agn\u00e8s Varda in Californialand<\/em> (LACMA, 2013\u201314), and is a vital voice in the field of contemporary art.<\/p>\n

\u2013Gloria Sutton, Web Editor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Gloria Sutton<\/p>\n

Art Journal Open is pleased to present a new Contemporary Project by artist Kate Costello.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":7900,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kia_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/artjournal.collegeart.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}