Bogdan Cheta
Notes on how to cook with thoughts & sleep with sounds
November 19 - January 6
Hovering between the uncertain space of writing an essay without a subject and then living underneath this essay as a way to make a shelter, Notes on how to cook with thoughts drifts as a living still-life image that performs both as a mode of writing and as a material object. An object that you can take in your pocket and inhabit at will, as a way to be alone — alone with others, in a pocket.
Bogdan’s residency at 67 Steps occured between Nov. 12 -19 and concluded with a textual script:
Notes on how to cook with thoughts & sleep with sounds (PDF):
an artificial living environment that continues to be performed by the fictionalized gaze of electronic devices
mp3
2017
To accompany the exhibition, Bogdan has written the following text:
The Drift _ The Weave.pdf
The Drift _ The Weave.pdf
There isn’t any photo documentation of Bogdan’s exhibition. Instead, everyone is invited to use Bogdan’s script to make an arrangement of their own. Below are the submissions so far:
Ana Iwataki, Los Angeles, November 2017.
Ana Iwataki, Los Angeles, November 2017
Ana Iwataki, Los Angeles, November 2017
Michael Zahn, Pasedena, November 2017
Michael Zahn, Pasadena, November 2017
Sabrina Tarasoff, Pasadena, November 2017
Sabrina Tarasoff, Pasadena, November 2017
Sabrina Tarasoff, Pasedena, November 2017
Bogdan Cheta, Calgary, November 2017
Zoë Wonfor, Joshua Tree, December 2017
Zoë Wonfor, Joshua Tree, December 2017
Zoë Wonfor, Joshua Tree, December 2017
Zoë Wonfor, Joshua Tree, December 2017
Zoë Wonfor, Joshua Tree, December 2017
Hanna Hur, Los Angeles, December 2017
Jenny Gagalka, Los Angeles, December 2018
Allen Brewer, Glendale, December 2017
Jennifer Salahub, Calgary, December 2017
Jennifer Salahub, Calgary, December 2017
Jennifer Salahub, Calgary, December 2017
Keith Daly, Santa Cruz, December 2017
Keith Daly, Santa Cruz, December 2017
Keith Daly, Santa Cruz, December 2017
Bogdan Cheta, Calgary, December 2017
Bogdan Cheta, Calgary, December 2017
Bogdan Cheta, Calgary, December 2017
Bogdan Cheta, Calgary, December 2017
Bogdan Cheta, Calgary, December 2017
Keith Daly, Lawndale, December 2017
Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed, Victoria, January 2018
Latifa Pelletier-Ahmed, Victoria, January 2018
Tomas Jonsson, Calgary, January 2018
The machine as an extension of the hand, or falling asleep with a sound in your head and waking up to an English breakfast
(Essay and arrangement by: Alex Steinitz)
(Essay and arrangement by: Alex Steinitz)
sophia bartholomew, Dryden, April 2018
Please email submissions to 67stepsgallery@gmail.com, thanks!
Simultaneously present and critically absent from the communities his projects immerse into, Bogdan Cheta is an artist and writer who works somewhere in-between literature and the virtual world of crafted images. Exhibitions of his work often take the gallery space and immerse its architecture in ongoing performances that script sculptural events in their interaction with the gallery staff and the visiting public. Recent projects have shown at the 12th Havana Biennial in Cuba and at the 7th Mountain Standard Time Performance Biennial in Calgary. Currently Bogdan is an MFA candidate in the Craft Media Program at the Alberta College of Art + Design in Calgary, Canada.