Artists: Nancy Barton and Michael Glass with Allison Somers and Eric Van Speights; James Lee Byars; Carol Bove; Matthew Brannon; Katarina Burin; Tony Clifton; Vaginal Davis; Eileen Gray; Harry Houdini; Andy Kaufman; KIOSK/Alisa Grifo and Marco Romeny; Little Switzerland; Babette Mangolte; Pedro, Muriel, and Esther; Stuart Sherman; SITE Projects; SUPERSTUDIO; Stefanie Victor; Hot Keys/Jeff Weiss and Richard C. Martinez

The exhibition Nothing Up My Sleeve is based on the work of the widely unknown, remarkable artist Stuart Sherman. Over a thirty-year period, Sherman compiled an immense body of work in performance, film, video, writing, sculpture, and drawing, until his death in 2001. He devoted a large amount of his time to the creation of numerous small tabletop performances, which he called 'spectacles.' These performances involved the manipulation of both familiar and unfamiliar everyday objects atop one or more folding TV dinner tables. Performed by a pokerfaced Sherman, the spectacle performances sit in a uniquely awkward hybrid space that moves between references to comedy, illusion, minimalism, surrealism, melancholia, foreign language, and vaudeville. The performances are constantly shifting in appearance and impact, evoking everything from a three card monty game, to a musical number, to a magic show, to a Fluxus action.