A RARE DASH SNOW NEST FOLD-OUT POSTER GALLERY INVITATION CIRCA 2007 W/ BIN LADEN YOUTH CALLING CARD
ARTIST: DASH SNOW
ARTWORK: OFFSET COLOR LITHOGRAPH POSTER OPEN MEASURES APPROXIMATELY 17.25" x 14"
ART CARD: 4" x 3.25"
RARE DASH SNOW GALLERY INVITATION + CARD NEW / UNUSED FOLDED CONDITION MAILED FLAT BY USPS PRIORITY
Dash Snow and Dan Colen: Nest
July 28–August 18, 2007
Thirty volunteers spent three days shredding two-thousand New York City telephone books in preparation for one of the most unusual exhibitions ever presented by a New York gallery: Dash Snow and Dan Colen’s NEST. Adapting their infamous “hamster nest” to 76 Grand Street, they revealed to the public a performance they had at that moment created only in private. The resulting pandemonium was on view, in addition to video and photographic documentation.
A “Hamster Nest” normally consisted of their shredding enormous amounts of whatever paper material they could get their hands on and ransacking the interior of their selected space in an exuberant overnight fete. Over the years this took place in hotel rooms all over the world, existing only in occasional Polaroids, video, and the memories of exasperated hotel staff.
On July 3rd, Dan and Dash invited fifteen fellow artists including Aaron Bondaroff, Hanna Liden, Jack Walls, Nate Lowman, and Adam McEwan to Grand Street, and from midnight to 8am, rolled around together in the waist-deep shredded paper to create this piece. One night proved not to be enough to complete their creative destruction and Dash brought a group of compatriots four additional nights. With paint poles speared into the wall, bottles protruding from hacked-up sheetrock, and a pummeling of enormous wine, pee, and paint spit-balls stuck to the walls, it seemed a great deal took place during these night-into-mornings. Dark and brutal slogans commingled with moments of love and tenderness as both sentiments went into creating this ambiguous dwelling.
While their truly over-the-top performance recollected early Fluxus experiments, the result of the melee physically resembled a very strange earthwork. One visitor described the piece as “The New York Dirt Room.” The room was exhibited just as the artists left it, trash and all, while the front room showed a video of a previous nest in Miami to give insight into this contemporary answer to a “happening.”
These two artists lived their art in a way that distinctions between the two became irrelevant when synthesized in a work of this nature. Dan Colen is a painter and sculptor known for his conceptually charged, realistic executions in paint of various objects in ruin. Dash Snow’s photography, sculpture, and collage work all captured Dash’s life as a radical dissenter living in dangerous times. But though their individual art projects were different, the sensibility and rebellious exuberance that ran through the work was exactly the spirit of this collaborative performance.
The artists themselves were not interested in the destruction that lies in their wake per-se, but sought rather a total freedom of expression, and an expression of their relationship with each other and members of their community.
This exhibition was truly “activated” during the performance staged on July 24th, when Gang Gang Dance and Prurient had fifty of the artists’ friends ecstatically throwing paper and freaking out in the nest. The show was dedicated to Secret, Dash and Jade’s daughter who was born the morning of July 23rd.
-- from the press release
Dashiell A. Snow (July 27, 1981 – July 13, 2009) was an American artist based in New York City. Snow's photographs included scenes of sex, drugs, violence, and art-world pretense; his work often depicted the decadent lifestyle of young New York City artists and their social circle.
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