TODT Installs Exurbia in Sideshow Gallery

Sideshow Gallery is pleased to bring TODT, the 25-year-old internationally-known collaborative, to Williamsburg, Brooklyn for the group's second extended exhibition of EXURBIA, an ambitious, site-specific installation that reconstitutes the distinction between suburbia and nature. This exhibition opens on Saturday, September 6, 2003 and continues through October 27, 2003. The opening reception for this exhibition will be held on Saturday, September 6, from 6 to 9 p.m.

EXURBIA is a construct culled and ordered from the conceptual frameworks of a vast consumer culture. It refers to our own nature exchanging with all of NATURE as an allusion to cultures, historical durability and nature's geographical domestication.

TODT confronts the viewer with the ubiquitous economy of "product and its technique" — the territorial invasion of desire versus the veiled resistance of ecological struggle.

EXURBIA is the primordial narrative of the pastoral preserve complete with fresh waterfalls and the detrital plurality of plastics. It is an installation based on reification and fragmentation of ecological space and the sprawling logic of everyone's Eden.

The four artists who comprise TODT have worked collaboratively since 1978. Their work has been exhibited widely in North America, Europe and Japan. TODT has created installations at the 1993 Venice Biennale, the 1985 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, P.P.O.W. Gallery, Galerie am Pariser Platz in Berlin, the Indianapolis Museum of Art and many other arts institutions and galleries. In September 2001, TODT debuted the first exhibition of EXURBIA at Sideshow Gallery. The Regina Gouger Miller Gallery at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has invited TODT to create an installation there in January 2004.