relational experiments around a dinner table / experimentos relacionales de sobremesa was a monthlong residency undertaken by the artist in September of 2013 at bajainart gallery in downtown Tijuana, Mexico, in which Zurita hosted artists from Ciudad Juarez, San Francisco, New York, Santa Cruz, Apache Junction, and Tijuana. Collaborations included fingerprinting the dinner table, painting a transparent mural, post-lingual text-painting, body-casting, cooking, eating, drinking, and talking while seated at the dinner table during the gallery's open hours.
Dmitri Zurita and Angela Gonzalez share a meal of steamed tacos and beer from a local culinary institution: La Especial, at the gallery. Angela Gonzalez is a local figure in the Tijuana art-scene, and the Director of Atelier 109 Gallery.
Dmitri Zurita and Kelsey Spencer, from Berkeley, in the gallery. Kelsey's work deals with time and the concepts behind her own neuroticism, creating performative installations that are often ephemeral or produced through long-processes.
witness, a collaborative work by dmitri zurita and kelsey spencer created by lifting residual marks off the dinner table with carbon based finger-printing powder and contact paper.
Dmitri Zurita and Alejandro Luperca, from Ciudad Juarez, in the gallery. Alejandro works as an Assistant in the Art Department at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, was selected as an emergent photographer at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chile.
Dmitri Zurita and Alejandro Luperca creating a transparent-adhesive based mural that is nearly invisible. The mural depicts the medusa icon used by several narco-cartels and Versace, framed by the Ministry of Truth's slogan from Orwell's 1984.
"La guerra es la paz / War is peace" a collaborative work by Dmitri Zurita and Alejandro Luperca. Transparent adhesive on wall. (Reflecting the beam of a flashlight so as to be viewable for documentation)
Absent Tongues, white on white. A collaboration with Raquel Cool.
Spoons on display, leftover from Heidi Cramer's seven-course dinner party, which took place publicly inside and outside the gallery. Heidi Cramer is an Irwin Scholar from UCSC, raised off-the-grid in Apache Junction. Currently works as an Artist's Assistant for two artworld darlings.
Heidi Cramer hosted a formal dinner-party inside and outside of the gallery, which included seven courses, each reflecting a specific chakra. The artists collaborated on the creation of superfusion-food.
Angela Gonzalez is an established art figure in Tijuana, her works deal primarily with the body. Dmitri Zurita's work deals with interstitiality or liminality, co-opting a body in-between the gallery-wall and another dimension was a logical consequence.
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