PAST EVENT
PAST EVENT
December 9, 2005–January 10, 2006
Public Speaking
6150 Wilshire Blvd
Los Angeles, CA
Artwork by
Michael Blum
He studied history at Paris University, photography at Ecole Nationale de la Photographie (Arles, France) and later spent 2 years at Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He has been developing works that aim at critically re-reading the production of culture and history. His work has been shown at numerous venues including the Centre Georges-Pompidou (Paris), the New Museum (New York), Transmediale (Berlin), Kunsthalle (Vienna), the San Francisco Art Institute, and the Baltic, Istanbul, Torino and Tirana Biennials.
Public Speaking was a series of artists’ billboards that appeared over the course of three years—2004, 2005, and 2006. Works were selected for this temporary exhibition to spark curiosity, conversation, and debate. For its second season in 2005, Clockshop invited artists to respond to a series of photographs titled “Destruction of House #1 by Atom Blast”, taken in 1953 in Yucca flats, Nevada.