1000 Titles (I) and 1000 Titles (II)

Description:

The exhibition featured two wallworks that each listed a thousand titles for various possible works, written collaboratively between 1994 to 2001 by the artists Evan Lee and Mohamed Somani.

The first thousand titles came about with little volition: they acted as a surrogate artistic dialogue between Lee and Somani, allowing them to keep one another updated on the ideas they were developing. This unorganized collection came about in forms that ranged from scribbling in notepads, captions in sketchbooks, lecture hall or street graffiti, to actual titles of exhibited work, to email, online exchanges and text messaging.  

The second set of a thousand titles represented a more conscious attempt to complete the titles as an artwork. After presenting the first set as an artist's project in Mix Magazine, Lee and Somani decided to add a second set of titles, effectively creating a dialogue with the original project.

An opening took place on Mar 28.