Yumi Janairo Roth, Spin (After Sol LeWitt)

Spin (After Sol LeWitt) in Las Vegas, 2019. Image courtesy Yumi Janairo Roth.

Boulder, Colorado-based artist Yumi Janairo Roth returns to Las Vegas for an update of her Spin (After Sol LeWitt) project, working with sign spinners for the annual World Sign Spinning Competition held this January. This year, with the support of Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, CA, the artist will be officially sponsoring a sign spinner for competition, and Laramie Rosenfeld will be spinning one of the Sol LeWitt signs designed for the duration of the 2-day competition. The competition begins on Jan 17 on Fremont Street and ends with the finals on Jan 18. In 2019, the artist worked with the spinners backstage in Las Vegas, this time the project and the language of conceptual art will be co-mingled for the main event. 

About Spin (After Sol LeWitt)
2017-ongoing temporary performance

Working with a group of professional sign spinners, Spin is at once a collaborative experiential project, public performance, and site-based installation that activates and recontextualizes Sol LeWitt’s foundational text, Sentences on Conceptual Art. This project draws together sign spinners, audiences, and sites specifically existing outside the walls of the gallery. Through social engagement, the exchange of knowledge, and the reframing of contemporary art and sign spinning, Spin looks at the contradictory impulses (inclusive versus exclusive) found in conceptual art that work within intersecting communities in the public sphere. More about the project here.

Posted by Wendy Kveck on January 10, 2020.

Spin (After Sol LeWitt) in Las Vegas, 2018. Image courtesy Yumi Janairo Roth.