Liam Everett: INUTILE

Drinks at 6pm, performance at 7pm

On the occasion of Kadist’s current exhibition A Painting is a Painting isn’t a Painting, and in collaboration with RITE Editions and Altman Siegel Gallery, Kadist launches Liam Everett’s limited edition artist book, INUTILE. Drawings by Everett trace and layer the forms of outdated hand tools, found by the artist in a studio outside Toulouse, France. Rust marks mix and stain the brittle sheets of a 60 year-old watercolor block found amongst the tools, leaving indexical fragments of now-obsolete utility, pushed to the point of abstraction.  Images are presented alongside texts by Bruno Tollon—describing the history and purpose of the tools—and prose by Rabih Alameddine. INUTILE is a book that at its source functions as a practice in which the physical disappearance of an object directly leads to the appearance of both its original/intrinsic form and function. 

Following the cocktail hour from 6-7pm, Everett presents a section of a new performance entitled “Various positions for Renee Paul Strudel” featuring the Aram Shelton Trio. Rather than a by-product of language or image, this performance finds its medium in the body and a bit of crude alchemy. Immediately after the performance Everett joins Alameddine and Heidi Rabben in conversation.