**FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MAY 2007

THE CANAL CHAPTER presents I LIKE TO WATCH

Curated by Carol Lee and Carlo McCormick

June 9th - June 30th, 2007

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 9th, 6 - 8 p.m.
343 Canal St. 4th Flr. (btw. Greene & Wooster)

Hrafnhildur Arnardottir, assume vivid astro focus, Michel Auder, Marco
Brambilla, C.R.E.E.,P., Pia Dehne, Harry Druzd, Mark Flood, Zena Grey,
Tessa Hughes-Freeland, Matthew Higgs, Jess Holzworth, Heather Hunter, Taka
Imamura, Daul Kim, Hubert Kretzschmar, Tony Labat, Stephen Lack, Shawn
Mortensen, Cynthia Plaster Caster, SeMeN SPeRmS, Caroline Torem Craig &
Nick Waplington

In our increasingly mediated lives, where surrogate realities, proliferate
reproduction and global interconnectivity have subsumed primary experience,
the spectacle has turned us into a society of spectators. As our species'
original medium of communication, art is at once a vestigial manifestation
of the inherent correspondence between expression and experience and a
vital responder to the myriad ways in which observation has become the
social equivalent of personal participation. As much about art's role as a
corrective to this contemporary paradigm as it is about it's complicity in
our ongoing distraction, this exhibition is also a confrontation with the
perversity, prurience, passivity and disconnect we, as perpetual viewers,
all share. Some people like to do stuff; we like to watch.


** AFTER PARTY
The Anchor
310 Spring St. (@ Greenwich St.)
9 - 12 p.m.
http://maps.citysearch.com/map/view/44828484

rsvp: carol@papermag.com