The Labyrinth of Tantalus
An Installation by Anna & Leo Daedalus
January 19 – 28, 2012
23 Sandy Gallery is currently closed for winter break, but in the meantime please drop by to see a special installation viewable from outside our gallery windows: The Labyrinth of Tantalus by Anna & Leo Daedalus
About the Installation
In a closed gallery, an unfinished book recedes into the distance, out of range of legibility. In the book, an unresolved mystery revolves around a closed bookshop. The Labyrinth of Tantalus, a minimal book-installation by Portland artists Anna & Leo Daedalus, will be on view throughout January from outside the closed 23 Sandy Gallery.
About the Book
The Labyrinth of Tantalus limited edition artist book is available for purchase. It reproduces the installation book, with the addition of a colophon, and is the same size as the installation book (approximately 9″x6″). 24 pages (6 folios). Limited edition of 8. $60.
Closing Party On last Friday, join us for a closing party for Anna & Leo Daedalus’s installation for closed art gallery, The Labyrinth of Tantalus. The gallery is closed January for winter break, but the installation is meant to be seen from outside. Come celebrate the closing (indoors!) with hobnobbing, nibnibbling and beveragelinging. This event is free and open to the public.
Friday, January 27, 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
About the Artists
Polyvalent artist Leo Daedalus does things in writing, video, performance, music, comedy, dada/fluxus activity, and other nonsense. He collaborates regularly with his wife, Anna, especially on artist’s books under the imprint Disposable Books. In Portland since 2005, projects have included multimedia lecture-opera The Theory of Love with John Berendzen, Anna Daedalus and David Abel, and Parallaxis, a concert of video and live music co-produced with FearNoMusic. Leo speaks seven languages, keeps four chickens, and is proud to have made a thorough fool of himself MC’ing the Richard Foreman Mini-Festival of performance art at Performance Works Northwest in Portland, in October, 2011.
A longtime Pacific Northwesterner, Anna Daedalus holds a B.A. in Spanish Literature from Reed College, and was a student and teaching assistant at the Chicago Photography Center. A multi-disciplinary artist, she works primarily in photography and performance and frequently collaborates with poets, writers, and videographers on such things as artist’s books, video work, film festival curation, and absurdist performance in a Dada/Fluxus vein. She has shown her large-scale photographic prints in Portland and Seattle. Anna’s work can be found in various collections, including the John Wilson Special Collections at the Multnomah County Library and the Beinecke Library at Yale University.