Liam Everett: INUTILE
Drinks at 6pm, performance at 7pm On the occasion of Kadist’s current exhibition A Painting is a Painting isn’t a Painting , and in collaboration with RITE Editions and Altman Siegel Gallery , Kadist launches Liam Everett’s limited edition artist book, INUTILE . Drawings by Everett trace and layer the forms of outdated hand tools, found by the artist in a studio outside Toulouse, France. Rust marks mix and stain the brittle sheets of a 60 year-old watercolor block found amongst the tools, leaving indexical fragments of now-obsolete utility, pushed to the point of abstraction. Images are presented alongside texts by Bruno Tollon—describing the history and purpose of the tools—and prose by Rabih Alameddine . INUTILE is a book that at its source functions as a practice in which the physical disappearance of an object directly leads to the appearance of both its original/intrinsic form and function. Following the cocktail hour from 6-7pm, Everett presents a section of a new performance entitled “Various positions for Renee Paul Strudel” featuring the Aram Shelton Trio. Rather than a by-product of language or image, this performance finds its medium in the body and a bit of crude alchemy. Immediately after the performance Everett joins Alameddine and Heidi Rabben in conversation.