028 A Strong Hand That Nonetheless Gets You Nowhere / 2013  

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A Strong Hand That Nonetheless Gets You Nowhere is a book of open-ended scores by Blake Carrington and an exhibition of artists' enactments of those scores. It combines the architectural plans of religious spaces, stadiums, offices, barns and homes with site-specific infographics poetry. The notated plans then become catalysts for wide-ranging creative responses by 16 commissioned artists who are instructed to "play the scores in whatever way you see fit".

Hans Ulrich Obrist, speaking of Mies van der Rohe's temporary structure the Barcelona Pavilion, says that the pavilion's plan is a score for rebuilding it. For our purposes, each notated plan is a score for collaboratively building something ephemeral, immaterial, active, abstract or ambiguous.

The collaborative exhibition and performance event was held at This Red Door at Kunsthalle Galapagos in Brooklyn. Featuring:

• A painting by Miya Ando
• A sculpture by Grayson Cox
• A pair of sounds by Robert Crouch
• A performance by Nadja Frank
• A meditation by Jared Friedman
• A step by Nick Henning
• An a capella Nightcore Cathedral Scan remix by Ann Hirsch
• A coincidence by Aram Jibilian
• A giclée print by Yann Novak
• "Cockdrip", an installation by Lenora Shuvèl
• A crisis composition by Lior Shvil, performed by Blake Carrington
• A collage by Chris Stackhouse
• A labor by Jomar Statkun
• "Dating in New York and The Movement of Bodily Fluid", a lecture performance by Nathaniel Sullivan
• A photograph by Colin Todd
• A happening by Jiwoong Yoon

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