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Manuf®actured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects August 28, 2008 – January 4, 2009 Guest curated by former ID Magazine editor Steven Skov Holt and art historian Mara Holt Skov, Manuf®actured explores how artists and designers are using labor-intensive craft practices to craft new work from mass-produced objects and materials. Taking manufactured products apart and reconfiguring them in ways never previously seen, the artists in this exhibition are creating a new category of objects that operate between art, craft and design. With works as diverse as Cat Chow’s Bonded, a dress made from one continuous zipper and Jason Rogenes’ towers crafted from polystyrene, Manuf®actured examines issues such as overabundance, appropriation, reuse, and the relationship between the uniquely handmade and the uniformly mass-produced. ARTISTS: Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir, Boris Bally, Harriete Estel Berman, Boym Partners, Jerry Bleem, Cat Chow, Sonya Clark, Mitra Fabian, Livia Marin, Régis Mayot, Jason Rogenes, Devorah Sperber, Laura Splan, Marcel Wanders, Dominic Wilcox A catalog published by Chronicle Books accompanies the exhibition and is available for purchase in The Gallery.
Listen and watch documentation from the Second Lives Symposium, February 7, 2009 at Museum of Arts and Design, New York. Participants include Museum of Contemporary Craft curator Namita Gupta Wiggers, Manuf®actured co-curators Steven Skov Holt and Mara Holt Skov, and Manuf®actured artists Boris Bally, Sonya Clark and Devorah Sperber. Exhibition support provided by: 
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