Soft Network at Stanley and Sons The Art Building, Springs June 28, 2021 - July 31, 2021 “Interior Scroll or What I Did on My Vacation ” Taking its title from both the extraordinary Carolee Schneemann performance that was first staged in a gallery in East Hampton on August 29, 1975 as part of Joan Semmel and Joyce Kozloff’s feminist exhibition entitled Women Here and Now and a series of happenings organized by Allan Kaprow in 1967 throughout the Hamptons for CBS’s historic news program Eye on New York, Soft Network’s summer project gathers artwork, ephemera, performance and a moving-image program from a group of intergenerational artists in a sprawling, visual poem on mediation and re-mediation. Organized as a searching scroll of performance-related material, this project considers the fractured boundary between private and public as an endless performance of self, sometimes for no one and sometimes for many. Artists depicting other artists, their own personages, or correspondence reflective of one’s community and performance residuals convey the crucial role of both conversation and the record left after. Presenting this project at the Stanley & Sons store in the historic Art Building in the Springs, a space that once housed a darkroom and photo residency, is important to the organizers as it tempers the mythologized narrative of this specific East End location as mainly a center of mid 20th century painting and favors its rich collaborative history instead. The show is specifically situated during the summer months in a location associated as much with recreation as with art-making to propose an expansive view of performance for the camera or the page and looks at the complicated, yet integral role archival actions take in preserving fleeting, corporeal based work as well as artist networks. Artworks and Ephemera Artist List (Proposed) Alvin Baltrop Lucas Blalock Sarah Charlesworth Sari Dienes Hadi Fallahpisheh Lilah Friedland Simone Forti Robin Graubard Ray Johnson Alison Knowles Louise Lawler Steve Locke Charlotte Moorman Paul McCarthy Cady Noland Alfonso Ossario Kamau Patton Carolee Schneemann Cindy Sherman Anita Steckel Ryan Muller & B Wurtz George and Betty Woodman Screening Program Maya Deren Martha Edelheit Ed Emshwiller Monica Felix Tamar Halpern Allan Kaprow Shigeko Kubota Andrew Lampert Gus Solomons Jr. Laurie Simmons Elaine Summers Stan VanDerBeek John Waters Outdoor Installation Johannes and Johanna VanDerBeek Concurrent Exhibition Upstairs at Halsey McKay Gallery East Hampton beginning May 28, 2021 including the work of Sari Dienes Sara VanDerBeek Carolee Schneeman About Soft Network Soft Network is a cooperative platform established by Chelsea Spengemann and Sara VanDerBeek for connective arts programming. We work between past and present to explore ways in which the archive and archival interactions can become integral modes of exchange, collaboration, creativity and commerce. Soft Network’s mission is to provide opportunities for living artists and the representatives of non-living artists to support each other through sharing resources, labor and profits by generating new projects in collaboration with existing platforms. Email: [email protected] Mail: 37 Van Dyke St., Brooklyn NY 11231 Phone: 917-803-3620 Instagram: @soft___network.