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✨please join us this Friday 5/8 for an intimate showing of “A Slow Burn” followed by an artist talk at @spacespace.art ✨doors open 6:30pm & show begins 7pm (7464 Arapahoe Ave suite b3, Boulder, Colorado) ✨ A Slow Burn is a movement inquisition exploring cultural memory, the intimacy of language, and the complexities of translation ~ ✨free & open to the public (parental advisory) ✨Bring your bestie & lover, see you there 🌹 ✨Artwork sold by @_floatingthruspace @su9nah @sevenloveproductions @vinitabonita ✨Performance by @veenvelocity @vinitabonita @sevenloveproductions @su9nah @_floatingthruspace ✨ Photo by @partyy_boyyy 🌹

At Strip Mall Movements curated by @spacespace.art . Part of our @boulderartsculture #experimentsinpublicart series / part of @boulderartsweek 🌲🌳🏔️👯‍♀️👯‍♀️🌲🌲 Strip Mall Movements is a site-specific series of public dance performances curated by Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe, the founder and director of Space__Space, an experimental art space, also located in the strip mall at 7464 Arapahoe Road in East Boulder. These performances are conceptualized by Boulder dancer/choreographer Anna Pillot, and are choreographed and performed by Pillot in collaboration with Caroline Butcher.

Strip Mall Movements is an experimental public art intervention composed of dance performances with conversations. The performances are conceptualized by Anna Pillot, and choreographed and performed by Pillot and Caroline Butcher. The focal work, “Somebody Clap”, is an assemblage of the artists’ collaborative histories, a quilt of their past movements and shared sound. It functions as a playful homage to a generative and vigorous artistic partnership, and the productive tensions and complications of making and creating together; they wrestle and build, drag and cling, kick, bend and scrunch. A score of expectations, “Somebody Clap” memorializes the rare relation of consistent collaboration - the excesses and the tumbles. This was generously funded by the Experiments in Public Art Grant, City of Boulder. Anna Pillot and Caroline Butcher are interdisciplinary dance artists whose practices delve into vulnerability, endurance, and the complexities of connection. Caroline’s work challenges colonized systems within herself and her surroundings, using discomfort and embodied endurance to navigate life with conviction and joy. Anna’s work constructs containers that push her to surpass personal limitations, creating opportunities to fail at being her best self. Together, their creative practice merges physicality, technology, and humor to transcend boundaries, drawing on their diverse experiences across movement disciplines. They explore themes of endurance, learning, and failure, challenging the edges of performance and human connection. Grounded in nature and fueled by grit, curiosity, and humor, Anna and Caroline celebrate resilience and vulnerability, inviting audiences to engage deeply, embrace risk, and rediscover the transformative power of shared experiences. Photo credit: Pat Berrett

Open hours until 4 pm (and by appointment) to see our current show, “Do Not Disturb” guest curated by @andinewberry . Exhibition is up until 4/10. Come check out this show during @boulderartsweek Who and what do we wish we could say “do not disturb” to today? This exhibition takes this provocation beyond the hotel room - to the government, corporate surveillance, the pesky notifications of our screens - to our bodies and our community. Doorknob flyers have historically been used to communicate a boundary around privacy. They have also been used as a means of slick advertising for the entity doing the adorning. The artists in “Do Not Disturb” reconfigure the doorknob flyer into signs of protest. These signs exemplify a state of constant disturbance. As Allana Austin says by way of entitling her work, “But I am Already Disturbed!” Luis Perez stamps “overwhelmed” like an expired good, with the White House engorged by flames, a dumpster fire that ceases to extinguish. Ashley Nason in “On Break (back in: Nov 2028)” also reflects this license to be overwhelmed and unsettled by our current state. “Do Not Disturb” is organized by Andi Newberry. The works displayed are part of a print exchange of 18 artists: Ashley Nason, Alex Blom, Neb Berry, M. Robyn Wall, Nathan Pietrykowski, Dustin Brinkman, Tiana Boisseau-Palo, Summer Ventis, London Loftice, Catherine Prose, Maddie Sturm, Brittany Gorelick, Sarah Griego, Luis Perez, Alanna Austin, Leo Akers, Rylee Hammond and Andi Newberry. Each artist received a complete set of these prints, creating an expansive web of networks that emphasizes the reach and impact of printed matter in a digitized world. And a chorus of disturbing concerns. -excerpt of text by @whoizrory Images: 1. Neb Berry, Who/What 3. Luis Perez, Overwhelmed; relief 4. Leo Akers, Home of Flesh, Dressed in Lace 5. Tiana Boisseau-Polo; Long Distance 6. Dustin Brinkman; Antinous 7. Rylee Hammond, Proverbs 4:23 9. London Loftice, Yes, I’m Changing 10. Nathan Pietrykowski, Bells and Whistles 11. Detail Alex Blom, Sexile, copper etching 12. Andi Newberry, yeah, the lawn has dry patches, but they’re my dry patches 13. Andi Newberry, Do Not Disturb Zine

We are so excited for STRIP MALL MOVEMENTS, next Friday and Saturday, amidst the strip mall property (not inside the gallery!). Strip Mall Movements is a site-specific series of public dance performances. These performances are conceptualized by Boulder dancer/choreographer Anna Pillot, and are choreographed and performed by Pillot in collaboration with Caroline Butcher. And they are curated by @spacespace.art founder/director, Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe. By activating the strip mall with experimental movement pieces that highlight themes of play, collaboration, improvisation and engagement, Strip Mall Movements brings dance to both those who might not expect the encounter and to the broader community. The site of the strip mall re-contextualizes these dance performances into unanticipated and raw terrain. Anna Pillot and Caroline Butcher will perform versions of “Somebody Clap,” a piece built through collaboration on Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Though the work holds the same title for both performances, each version will exist as a unique piece through the implementation of an improvisational score. The piece reflects the two dancers’ long standing collaborative relationship. The Friday version will be a performance of this work, while the Saturday version of the piece focuses on audience engagement to guide the outcome of the piece, which then evolves into a third communal piece that is dependent upon audience engagement. Schedule Friday, April 10, 6 - 7:00 pm 7464 Arapahoe Rd., towards the back of the property. Somebody Clap Saturday, April 11, 1:00 - 2:30 pm 7464 Arapahoe Rd, property bordering 75th St. Somebody Clap/Communal Engagement Movement After the performances on both days, there will be a conversation and Q&A with the artists guided by curator Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe. The Saturday afternoon experience will also feature a free community lunch, catered from strip mall business, KT’s BBQ. This programming was funded by a City of Boulder Experiments in Public Art Grant. Flyer by Siobhan Bledsoe @myheartbledsoe Original Photo Credit: Pat Garrett

Opening in a little under two weeks!! “Do Not Disturb” is a printmaking portfolio I curated with 17 artists from all over the country, each creating a printed edition in the shape of a doorknob sign. I’m so grateful to @spacespace.art for allowing me to show this project and I’m looking forward to some very fun installation experiments and playing with the space >:) more images of the artwork to come; if you’re in Colorado mark your calendar!! Opening reception is Friday, March 13th 6-8pm. @moprintcolorado

Would love for you to join us this Friday night 8-10 pm for a closing event for our current exhibition, “don’t leave me alone in the dark”, comprised of new work by artist/filmmaker, Devon Narine-Singh. Narine-Singh will give a performance-lecture mixing orignal text and texts that inspired the installation, activating the exhibition in a new way, creating one last remix.

Would love for you to join us for one last time (or for the first time!) to see “don’t leave me alone in the dark”, a solo show and site-specific installation of Devon Narine-Singh’s work. There will also be a short reading of original works and from found text included in the show (readers TBA). Readings at 7.

Some glimpses form our current show, « don’t leave alone in the dark », open hours tomorrow (every Saturday) 12-4 pm and by appointment. « don’t leave me alone in the dark” is the debut solo-show of filmmaker and artist, Devon Narine-Singh , curated by Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe. The site-specific installation brings together a series of text works composed of Narine-Singh’s writing and found text, alongside an 18-minute video and sound installation, entitled “If I Choose, I Lose”. It abstracts images from the iconic 1980s NY club, the Limelight, and assembles and distorts found sound by artist David Wojnarowicz, and contemporary popular music. The gallery is activated with on-site intervention, bringing rubble and debris into the space, evoking both a broken city and mental-scape. Shattered window screens, readymade LED candles, gravel, 28 bricks, and silver sparkling spray-paint ignite the floor and walls, calling for an opening through the detritus. “don’t leave me alone in the dark” is both a vigil for the insidious accumulation of time, and a celebration of desirous possibility. Devon Narine-Singh is a moving-image artist, an educator and curator from New York, and based in Boulder. His work uses abstraction as a way of exploring poetic memories in line with political undertones. He has exhibited at Film Diary NYC, Millenium Film Workshop Prismatic Ground, Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Kinoscope, The 8th Floor Gallery, The Film-Maker’s Cooperative, Kitab Ghar, RoooReRoo Mansion and The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. He has curated screenings and presented talks at NYU Department of Cinema Studies, Union Docs and The Flaherty Film Seminar.

Space__Space is thrilled to announce, don’t leave me alone in the dark, opening 1/16, 7-9 pm. This is the debut solo-show of filmmaker and artist, Devon Narine-Singh, curated by Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe. The site-specific installation brings together a series of text works comprised of Narine-Singh’s writing and found text, alongside a 13-minute video installation entitled If I Choose, I Lose, abstracting images from the 1980s iconic NY club the Limelight. The gallery is activated with on-site intervention, bringing rubble and debris into the gallery, evoking both a broken city and mentalscape.  Devon Narine-Singh is a moving image artist, an educator and curator from New York. His work uses abstraction as a way of exploring poetic memories in line with political undertones. He has exhibited at Film Diary NYC, Millenuim Film Workshop Prismatic Ground, Mimesis Documentary Film Festival, Kinoscope, The 8th Floor Gallery, The Film-Makers Cooperative, Kitab Ghar, RooReRoo Mansion and The Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival. He has curated screenings and presented talks at NYU Department of Cinema Studies, Union Docs and The Flaherty Film Seminar. Image by @devonnarines

So thankful to community for showing up so meaningfully on Saturday night! Thank you to @undertow_editions for organizing Shadowtide Happenings, and for promoting queer visual culture! And much gratitude to the artists @sierraagrove @devonnarines @an.anointed.angel @_ihatch @___nathans @teague.mcdaniel who brought such beautiful vulnerable performances, readings, and filmmaking to us all. It was a special night - the energy and light generated is almost impossible to document. But we all felt it. Thanks also to those who helped move heavy objects, trouble shoot tech issues, etc. Space__Space strives to continue to bring experimental artist-driven programming to Boulder and can only do so with the support of community 🩷

“In SHADOWTIDE, queer artists turn to printed matter, photography, painting, and installation as sites or invention and resistance— ensuring queer lives are witnessed, recorded, and remembered. Across diverse practices, the artists gathered here work with fragments—archival traces, diaristic notations, erotic reprints, voice recordings, and ephemeral objects. In their hands, queer materials do not remain static; they are reactivated, reframed, and made into vessels for new futures.” —Nathan Storey @undertow_editions Some images from SHADOWTIDE curated by @undertow_editions Catch the show before it leaves 9/27. Shadowtide Happenings, will take place 5-7 pm on 9/27, with queer/trans performance, time-based media and happenings organized by @undertow_editions ✨ Images 1. Alexander Richard Wilson, Denver Trade Duo, Saturday Apertivo, 2025, oil on canvas 2. Blake Ballard, YIELD, 2025, fabric, tassel trim, paint, dowels 3. James Horner, Marsha I, 204, risograph 4. Install shot of SHADOWTIDE 5. Alex Blom, The Holy Spirit Ran Straight Through Me!, 2024, screen print on paper stitched with embroidery thread and beads 6. beck haberstroh, detail shot of Scott Pretty Baby, 2025, paper, silver nitrate, artist’s sweat 7. Nathan Storey, Pulsing (Tillmans/Columbine Motel), 2023, UV print on aluminum 8. Victor Casteneda-H, SLEAZELINE, 2025, poster 9. Nathan Storey, Whisper, 2024, archival pigment print 10. Rory Fitzgerald Bledsoe, detail of Consensual Listening, 2025, cassette tapes 11. rae richards, proto.trans, 2024, 925 silver, vinyl tube, vintage and wax patterns, adhesive 12. Nathan Storey, I Saw His Shadow Forming In Lake Water, 2024, risograoh Most of the works are available at affordable prices. Inquire within ✨