THE
PUBLIC
SCHOOL
TELIC ARTS EXCHANGE

Redefining the 'Three R's' as a Review, a Response and a Reception, media
artist and curator Tom Leeser will lead a Public School class in three
parts based on the current June show at the Distributed Gallery, titled
'24/7 Truth.'

'24/7 Truth' centers around two videos, each documenting twenty four
drawings by the artists Mark Allen and Perry Hoberman. The
'video/drawings' are displayed on the Distributed Gallery's four video
monitors and are accompanied by twelve audio works by twelve writers. The
writers were asked by the curator to create a response to the drawings
using only their first impressions.

The first part of the Public School class will be a Review of the show.
The Review will be in the form of a meandering tour of the four locations
of the Distributed Gallery. The tour will begin and conclude at the
Public School.

The class will be encouraged to take pictures, field recordings, videos
and written notes while on the tour. The class will also engage in
discussions with the curator about the show and its premise of “the
illusionary nature of truth, narrative, media and the gesture.”

After the tour, the class will retreat back to the Public School environs
to engage in the second part, a participatory 'Response.' The goal of the
Response will be to solicit first impressions of the show and the tour and
transform the impressions into individual and collaborative forms of
written and spoken texts. We will be working with word games, exquisite
corpses, renga and other rule based response systems.

The third part of the class will be a closing Reception for the show with
snacks, drinks and unrestricted dialogue.