Michael Mellon (Oakland, CA)
and Jacques Louis Vidal (New Haven, CT)

OKAY MOUNTAIN:
1312 Cesar Chavez Ste. B

MAY 3rd 7-11pm
(opening reception)

VISUAL ART/PERFORMANCE
www.okaymountain.com

It’s Like a Machine, and It’s Meant To Be Repeated centers around the experimental collaboration of an unlikely creative pair: a furniture/ environmental designer with sculptural ambitions and a performance artist with social ambitions. The collaboration began with each artist individually making a list of objects, drawings, performances, and videos that they have made or plan to present within the gallery context during the length of the exhibition. Each work was then reduced to its most basic, symbolic meaning by its creator and translated into a simple list of ideas. These ideas were then traded and each artist was faced with a list of meanings onto which they had to imagine and create a representation of each concept. It’s Like a Machine, and It’s Meant to be Repeated will result in the side by side presentation of each artist’s varying products, highlighting the difficulty and embedded subjectivity of constructing and manipulating meaning while providing an artistic, social, and cultural form of triangulation.