A project by Charles Goldman in collaboration with Paul
Benney, Adopt-Le-Font is an adoption agency for fountains
that invites the general public to take care of a fountain
for one-week intervals during the month of September 2008.
Consisting of 5-gallon plastic buckets, tubing, and a pump
that circulates the water and generates a delightful burble,
Adopt-le-Font’s understated garage-minimalist aesthetic
questions the semiotics of civic space through its most
stripped down form of a fountain. Like Alan Kaprow’s
Trading Dirt(1983-6)in which participants exchanged buckets
of dirt, Adopt-le-Font similarly casts the viewer-participant
as an active steward whose performance or maintenance
sustains the project. However, as an agency invested in
arrogating the fountains and water to a wide a demographic
as possible, Adopt-le-Font goes further by asking the
‘parents’ to actively assume an role as the fountain’s
public representative.
Born in 1966 in San Francisco and currently based in New York,
Charles Goldman’s multifaceted practice explores the cyclical
nature of life and the standardized units used in its
measurement. Goldman has exhibited at venues such as Centro
Cultural Molino de Perez(Montevideo, Uruguay), Art Basel
Miami, The Jewish Museum (San Francisco), Orange County
Museum of Art (Newport Beach, CA), and in New York at the
Sculpture Center,Peter Blum Gallery, Socrates Sculpure Park,
The Whitney Museum of American Art, Altria, The Drawing Center,
Apex Art, White Columns, Smack Mellon, and more. His work has
been included in public and private collections such as the
MOMA (NY), New York Public Library, Projet Mobilivre (Montreal),
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, The
University of Illinois at Chicago, and the Berkeley Art Museum
(Berkeley, CA).
www.charlesgoldmanwork.com
Paul Benney was born in San Jose, CA in 1966 and is one of the
founder members of Areaway. Having worked mainly as a dancer
and choreographer, he is currently making site-specific
performance installation work that engages the public. He
collaborates with TRYST -- a group loosely inspired by the
Situationists -- that uses New York City as a canvas for
performance interventions. More information about TRYST can
be found at cmlperformance.org
(aka culturepush.)
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