Boots would like to introduce you to our summer intern, MaryJo Maliekel. She will be blogging about art events at Boots and in St. Louis this summer. MaryJo is an upcoming sophomore at Boston College studying art history and graduated from John Burroughs School. When she is not looking at art, MaryJo enjoys working at the organic garden on BC’s campus, and travelling with a camera in hand—welcome MaryJo!
Hangout, Drink a Beer, and….Draw a Cow. Please join us for a drawing event and participate in the drawing of a live cow.
Artist Asma Kazmi will be collecting cow drawings from the public. Drawing will be included in the Relation-Chute: Meditations on My Slaughter exhibit. Paper/drawing implements will be provided. Friday, April 3rd 2009, 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Be there or be square. For more information visit www.bootsart.com
Boot Print Senior Editor Tim Ridlen, is a Guest Blogger for Art 21.
Tim Ridlen (St. Louis native) is an artist and writer who has recently relo
cated to New York City from Chicago. Tim holds a BFA in Studio Art and a BA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is currently pursuing his MFA at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College (expected 2010). At the same time, he is the Senior Editor of Boot Print, a publication out of St. Louis, MO, a New York City correspondent for Bad at Sports, and has recently written reviews for New City in Chicago.
Relation-Chute: Meditations on My Slaughter
Asma Kazmi
Relation-Chute is a platform for transdisciplinary action and the accumulation of materials, people, and ideas. By documenting her training in zabiha slaughter (slaughter in the method prescribed by Islamic law), the artist attempts to complicate the ever-growing distance between the consumption of meat, religious observance, and the reality of death. The project’s current form is a website which can be viewed here.
Relation-Chute: Meditations on My Slaughter at Boots Contemporary Art Space will focus on collapsing the distance that the Relation-Chute website assumes between a viewer and an image. The exhibit is a manifold encounter, realized through bringing a community of voices under one roof to participate in an exchange which will happen in words and beyond words, through shared inhabited time and space.
The artist, Asma Kazmi, was born in Pakistan and studied at Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited and included in collections such as The Contemporary Art Museum in St Louis, Gallery 400, University of Illinois in Chicago, Boston Under Ground Film Festival, Balagan Film and Video Series, Women In Film & Video/New England, and the MassArt Film Society.
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