{"id":649,"date":"2010-04-12T07:58:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T07:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parkingallery.com\/?p=649"},"modified":"2026-08-17T16:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T16:08:30","slug":"emergent-behavior-project-for-a-houston-biennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/?p=649","title":{"rendered":"Emergent Behavior: Project for a Houston Biennial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Emergent Behavior: Project for a Houston Biennial<\/span><\/p>\n

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On View: April 9 \u2013 April 25, 2010 by appointment only
\nthe temporary space\/1320 Nance Street\/Houston, TX 77002\/832-867-9207
\nwww.thetemporaryspace.com<\/a>\/manager@thetemporaryspace.com<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This exhibition presents a project for\u00a0an imagined Houston Biennial of contemporary art\u00a0curated\u00a0by participants in\u00a0Raphael Rubinstein’s Virtual Curating course at the University of Houston School of Art.\u00a0This virtual biennial includes 52 international artists\u00a0working in a variety of mediums.<\/p>\n

The title\u00a0“Emergent Behavior”\u00a0is borrowed from systems theory in which it is used to describe a phenomenon of independent parts working together, and not predictable on the basis of their properties. An emergent behavior can appear when a number of simple entities operate in an environment, forming more complex behaviors as a collective.<\/p>\n

Unlike many biennial exhibitions that begin with a predetermined curatorial theme, the artists in this show were\u00a0selected through an empirical process. Over the course of several months the curators refined a selection that includes established artists who have created significant new bodies of work within the last two years as well as younger recently emerged artists. Much of the work in the exhibition involves\u00a0the scavenging of social detritus. This can be seen, for instance, in the drawings of Aurel Schmidt, the paintings of Mark Flood, and the videos of Cameron Jamie as well as in the work of seminal figures such as Mike Kelley and Jacques de la Villegl\u00e9. The exhibition also focuses groups of younger artists working in Iran and Houston.
\nThe presentation at The Temporary Space will involve\u00a0not the actual works of art,\u00a0but diagrammatic representation of works\u00a0by each of the artists in the exhibition. In addition to the physical installation, the Emergent Behavior project can be viewed at\u00a0www.houstonbiennial.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Curators: Danilo Bojic, Michelle Chen, Jeremy Deprez, Sebastian Forray, Jason Giroux, Chuck Ivy, Brittney Ragsdale, M’kina Tapscott, Tala Vahabzadeh<\/p>\n

Artists: Makoto Aida, Lady Aiko, Seth Alverson, Mahmood Bakhshi Moakhar, Michael Bise, John Michael Boling, David Choe, Barbara DeGenevieve, Bita Fayyazi, Xenia Fedorchenko, Mark Flood, Amirali Ghasemi, Lane Hagood, Rachel Hecker, Kent Henricksen, Emily Jacir, Cameron Jamie, Yeondoo Jung, Mike Kelley, Dave Kinsey, Aaron Koblin, Annette Lawrence, Cody Ledvina, Samantha Levin, Antony Micallef, Mandana Maghaddam, Malcolm Morley, Wangechi Mutu, Tomoko Nagai, Albert Oehlen, Satoshi Ohno, Robert Pruitt, Neda Razavipour, Anthony Record, Peter Richards, Walid Raad, Dario Robleto, Jon Rubin, Aurel Schmidt, James Sham, Mark Schatz, Chiharu Shiota, Mamali Shafahi, Prince Thomas, Tim & Eric’s Awesome Show, Philip Toledano, Scott Treleaven, Francis Upritchard, Jacques de la Villegl\u00e9, Jamie Warren and Hiroshi Watanabe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Emergent Behavior: Project for a Houston Biennial On View: April 9 \u2013 April 25, 2010 by appointment only the temporary space\/1320 Nance Street\/Houston, TX 77002\/832-867-9207 www.thetemporaryspace.com\/manager@thetemporaryspace.com This exhibition presents a project for\u00a0an imagined Houston Biennial of contemporary art\u00a0curated\u00a0by participants in\u00a0Raphael Rubinstein’s Virtual Curating course at the University of Houston School of Art.\u00a0This virtual biennial includes … Continue reading Emergent Behavior: Project for a Houston Biennial<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abroad","category-uncategorized-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.parkingallery.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}