An opaque "skylight" illuminates the white tiled vault revealing the shadows of passersby. The effect is analogous to the scenario in Plato's, The Allegory of the Cave.

Invited artists will create an installation and a limited edition artwork for the vault space taking off from the many ideas represented in The Allegory of the Cave. In this context—as Plato himself—the artist is a lover and seeker of truth.

In keeping with the Eidia House moniker, ''a meeting place for ideas'' and ''idée force'' (the arts as an instrument for positive social change) a dinner and round-table will be held for the artists and invited guests during the duration of the one-month exhibition.

Is our world like that of the inhabitants of Plato's Cave—in fear of the real truth that lies beyond the shadow of the façade? The Eidia House Plato’s Cave posits that the "shadows" are not the reality, and that reality continues to elude us.

Where as, to quote the philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek, ''Say, are the puppeteers who deal with the shapes political manipulators, so that Plato also proposes an implicit theory of ideological manipulation, or are we, cavemen, directly deluding ourselves? However, there is a deeper problem here, which could be best put in Hegel's terms. One can, of course, start with the naïve notion of people perceiving true reality from a limited/distorted perspective and thus constructing in our imagination false idols which we mistake for the real thing; the problem with this naïve notion is that it reserves for us the external position of a neutral observer who can, from his safe place, compare true reality with its distorted mis(perception). What gets lost here is that we all ARE these people in the case-so how can we, immersed into the cave's spectacle, as it were step onto our own shoulder and gain insight into true reality?'' J E P - Number 18 - 2004 / 1 ''Burned by the Thing'' Slavoj Zizek http://www.psychomedia.it/jep/number18/zizek.htm

The limited editions will be co-produced by the artists and Eidia. The artist group Eidia (pronounced idea) is the collaboration of Paul Lamarre and Melissa P. Wolf.

For more information contact Melissa P. Wolf at: eidiahouse@earthlink.net.

Hans Winkler is quoted in CAA Art Journal Vol. 69, No. 2 (Summer 2011) "Afterthoughts on Engaged Art Practice: ATSA and the State of Emergency" By Marc James Leger.

http://readperiodicals.com/201107/2464075261.html

Plato Cave artist Gregory Sholette has article in the Current issue, CAA Art Journal(Texts Web-Only) Vol. 70, No. 3 (Fall 2011) on the Occupy Wall Street movement: "OCCUPOLOGY, SWARMOLOGY, WHATEVEROLOGY: the city of (dis)order versus the people’s archive"

http://artjournal.collegeart.org/

Clark Stoeckley has put his famous WikiLeaks truck up is for sale on ebay. If you did your 'bit' for Occupy Wall Street and made the visits to Zuccotti Park you might have seen the WikiLeaks Top Secret Mobile Information Collection parked there. Maybe you would like a substantial piece of OCCUPY WALL STREET history and at the same time support "Occupy" going forward.

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/01/03/wikileaks-truck-for-sale-on-ebay/?mod=google_news_blog
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/22/wikileaks-truck-nyc_n_1108864.html
http://gawker.com/5872677/the-wikileaks-truck-is-for-sale

While working on her large drawing of New York City's Central Park, during 2011, Pia Linz also drew the Eidia House Studio (see above photographs) from inside her plexiglass polyhedron. Linz writes to update us with 'NEWS' from Berlin.

Jim Costanzo reviewed in South India, 'Indian Mirror News Paper', translation forthcoming.

You recall Lisa Bateman's brilliant first book cart for Plato's Cave, "what I remember most is this"; so here in 'NEWS' is the evolution of that inspiration: Lisa Bateman's 2nd Book Cart project: "banned, burned…censored" has moved from Pratt's Shaffler Gallery exhibition space to the Pratt Brooklyn Library's Reading room, first floor. Open until February 3, 2012—fifty five books in Pratt's permanent collection—currently or formerly banned or "challenged" are on display and available to be checked out on loan. Individual bookmarks illuminate each book's notable history with the blacklist.

We wish Marni, husband Jason, and son Ajax the best. Plato's Cave artist Marni Kotak just had baby boy (Ajax) in Microscope Gallery, as performance art. The ultimate work of art-certainly!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2053679/Marni-Kotak-gives-birth-baby-Ajax-live-art-gallery.htmlhttp://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/26/performance-artist-gives-birth-to-baby-in-nyc-art-galleryhttp://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/nyc-performance-artist-birth-art-gallery-14815146

http://www.microscopegallery.com

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