Anna Meliksetian and Michael Briggs are pleased to present Light vulnerable objects threatened by eight cement bricks, an installation by Bas Jan Ader (b. 1942 – missing at sea 1975). This exhibition is the first time the installation / performance has been presented since its debut at the Chouinard Art Institute (now the California Institute of the Arts) in June 1970. The installation is comprised of eight cement cinder blocks suspended, slightly off kilter and precariously, from the ceiling by lengths of rope. Below each of the blocks sits a grouping of fragile objects: an oil painting, a transistor radio, a string of illuminated lightbulbs, two pillows, a group of empty beer cans in brown paper bags, a sheet cake with the inscription Happy Birthday on it, in its box, a group of eggs, and three pots of flowers. The blocks loom ominously above the objects, casting shadows on the objects below and threatening to fall on top of them and crush them at any moment. At the end of the exhibition, the artist, or in this case a stand in, adds a performative element, cutting each of the ropes causing the cement blocks to crash into the items below, destroying them. This performance takes place on the last day of the exhibition Saturday, January 22nd at 7pm sharp.