Artists Space

Project: Les LeVeque
Some Questions Concerning Technology

March 8 – April 7, 1990

Selected by John Knecht

A large log spans the length of a table, held down with straps and with eight machetes affixed to the table alongside it. On either end of the log are two televisions, and the one facing the camera displays static.
Les LeVeque, The Rain Forest is on Fire, 1990. Mixed media, 65 x 126 x 26 inches. Photograph c/o Peter McClennan. [A large log spans the length of a table, held down with straps and with eight machetes affixed to the table alongside it. On either end of the log are two televisions, and the one facing the camera displays static.]

Some Questions Concerning Technology features three video sculptures by New York artists Les LeVeque, who addresses himself to the dialectical relation of humanity to technology. Neither a romantic subscriber to the notion that technology is evil, not a modernist revering the sheen of stainless steel, LeVeque positions his investigations in the schizophrenic space of dependency on and distain for technology.

Some Questions Concerning Technology Press Release

Some Questions Concerning Technology Postcard

Some Questions Concerning Technology Catalogue Cover

Artists Space programs are made possible by: the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, New York State Council on the Arts, and New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; AT&T Foundation, Inc., The David Bermant Foundation: Color, Light, Motion, The Bohen Foundation, The Cowles Charitable Trust, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Horace w. Goldsmith Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, Jerome Foundation, The J.M. Kaplan Fund, The Dorothea L. Leonhardt Foundation, Inc., The Joe and Emily Lowe Foundation, Inc., The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, The Menemsha Fund, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Betty Parsons Foundation, The Reed Foundation, Inc., The Rockefeller Foundation, The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc., and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.; American Express Company, The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A., Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc., Equitable Real Estate Group, Inc., General Atlantic Corporation, R.H. Macy and Company, Inc., Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Philip Morris Companies Inc., and U.S. Trust Company of New York; as well as Artwatch, Galleries in Support of Artists Space, Members and numerous Friends.

Additional funding for Artists Space activities has been provided by: Art Dealers Association of America, Inc., Louis A. Bradbury Fund, The Penny McCall Foundation, Motherwell Foundation, Inc., The Pace Gallery, and Payson Enterprises, Inc., among others.

Artists Space is a member of the National Association of Artists Organizations (NAAO) and the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers (NAMAC).