Place:
Arqva
It Can't Last: No Rush, 2010
It has been said that under every church in Spain lies a mosque. How is the brick in a mosque different from the brick in a church, a factory or an emperor's palace? Using clay from the Region of Murcia, sun-dried bricks will be made, each stamped with the word "EMPIRE", in order to construct a monument to impermanence. This project is supported in part with funds from the Strategic Opportunity Stipend Program through New York State Foundation for the Arts and New York State Council on the Arts, administered in Mid-Hudson by Garrison Art Center.
Jean-Marc Superville Sovak
1976, Montreal. Lives and works in Beacon, Canada. Jean-Marc Superville Sovak's multi-disciplinary practice ranges from video to drawings, from sculptural installations to guided walking tours. His videos are distributed by Videographe, Inc. and they have been screened in Germany, France, Spain and Brazil. In 2007, he received a travel grant from the Canada Council for the Arts to speak at the Shadow Festival for the Creative Documentary in Amsterdam. His drawings are on view at the Drawing Center Viewing Program. In 2009, his brick tour of Manhattan's largest housing development, Stuyvesant Town, was featured in the AiOP Festival and Open House New York. Jean-Marc received his BFA from Concordia University in Canada, and his MFA from Bard College. He continues to find Empire bricks on the shores of the Hudson River. For Manifesta 8, Superville Sovak addresses the conceptual force of the common brick as a building block, based on whether it has been made to construct a mosque or a church.