exhibition
photos from Finland (thanks matti)
Rachelle and I’s show at the University of Lapland. (Our collaboration desperately needs both a name and a website.)
Tourists and Travelers
My teacher from undergrad, Joseph DeLappe, has a show at Eyebeam right now. From rhizome:
This month, Eyebeam will present the loosely travel-related work of two of their recent Artists in Residence-cum-tourists. The two artists could not have come from more different places, with Joseph DeLappe hailing from Reno, Nevada, and Taeyoon Choi visiting from Seoul, Korea. Both have created performative projects revolving around the interjection of semi-automated foreign characters into social spaces. Choi’s Camerautomata Charlie: Image Digesting Robotic Duck is an electro-mechanical bird that quacks its way into touristy public spaces, like New York’s Central Park, to take (and defecate-out) snapshots of those it is more or less imitating. The duck’s primary ingredients are a hacked digital camera, a printer, and a vacuum cleaner. Needless to say, it comes with its own flock. The Eyebeam show, entitled “Tourists and Travelers,” will exhibit digital photos, drawings, and video documentation of the winged wonder in action. On a more serious note, DeLappe’s The Salt Satyagraha Online is a Second Life-based re-creation of Ghandi’s epic 240-mile salt march, an important act of civil disobedience against the British Government which ultimately drew new international media attention to the Indian independence movement. DeLappe’s project entailed his creation of a Ghandi avatar in SL, who took the walk again, automatically propelled by DeLappe’s walking of the path in real life, on a treadmill stationed at Eyebeam. Despite its online basis, this live endurance-based re-presentation of Ghandi’s protest brings a compelling sense of physical reality to an archived public memory. For the show, DeLappe will present other physical objects, including documentation, artifacts, and new works derived from the project. Most significant among these is a large-scale cardboard replica of Ghandi, designed to be the same height as Michelangelo’s Statue of David–a touristic art icon if ever there was one! The exhibition will be up through July 19th. - Marisa Olson
this weekend
A piece of mine (probably Plane) is going to be shown this Sunday at the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, MA. It is part of a screening of very short film & video works from Women in Film & Video/New England and curated by Rosalie Fay Barnes. The event is part of Harvard Square’s May Fair Street Festival and is free and open to the public. It starts at 2pm.
home again
I am home from Dallas. I am sitting on my bed in my purple house. Serena is here also, we’re having a sing-a-long, Heather is upstairs, Quint is downstairs. It’s happy.Here are some pictures from CAA/Social Fabrics:
(Rachelle’s pictures here.)
Also, Social Fabrics is featured in Intelligent Agent 8.1. (Our work on pages 57 and 58.)
My teacher from undergrad, Joanna Frueh, has a new book out that is published by Duke University Press. I went to her book signing, where she was radiant as ever.
Heather,Rachelle and I were lucky enough to have a few run-ins with Yoko Ono, who was at CAA receiving a Distinguished Body of Work Award. Can I just say, that lady is fierce. So beautiful and full of life. She restores my faith. Her bodyguard told Heather that “they” (meaning himself and Yoko) liked her hair! Preceeding Yoko’s participation in the CAA Annual Artist’s Interview, she showed the audience film clips from when she was child. She was incredibly funny and touching, talking about her parents and her life growing up in both Japan and San Francisco. She then read a very moving poem that she had written four days prior, on her 75th birthday. Here it is:
It is a giddy feeling
like being on a mountain
looking down
many little houses
many little streets
I was once in them
how little they were!
The cars are driving
like soldiers
like cockroaches
like dots
I look up
there are many trees
leading me to…
is that the top of the mountain?
I see that I have
much more to go
Then I see
that I am still in my kitchen
In one of the little apartment buildings
which looked like a pebble from the mountain!
making my morning coffee
sitting at my computer
looking over the park
Sunrises.
Yes!
Seventy five
and I’m alive
My body is filled with
many people
many cities,
many countries
many laughters,
many loves
many, many spaces and
oh, many, many times…
Is that what it is
to be omnipresent?
to experience all your
senses and feelings
of all times and space at once?
With no limitations
of the human world
Freed from time
Freed from space?
Are we all getting there?
I am full of thankfulness
for being alive
I am full of love
for knowing you
knowing life
Your beauty
Life’s amazements
still unfolding
it’s mystery
Thank you, thank you, thank you
For a very rich experience
Yes. I’m seventy five!
I’m alive
still dancing
in love with life.
Now, I’m suddenly
at the top of the mountain
Seeing the other side -
The Future!
It’s so magical
I’m speechless.
It’s so beautiful
We’re smiling!
You are there
We are there
Yes. we are all there!
We are all there.
Still dancing
In love with life…..
For February 18th, 2008
yoko ono
nyc
CAA/social fabrics exhibition
Tomorrow, I am headed to Dallas.
I am really happy to be going and looking forward to being in Social Fabrics, with Rachelle and Islay, and for Heather’s show (Points of Convergence: Masters of Fine Arts).
Social Fabrics
SOCIAL FABRICS
ART + MEDIA + INTERCONNECTIVITY
WHAT: Social Fabrics: Art + Media + Interconnectivity is an event-style exhibition sponsored by the LEONARDO EDUCATION FORUM and the UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, and co-sponsored by the COLLEGE OF ART + DESIGN, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY, in association with the Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies and the Office of Sponsored Programs, LSU, and hosted by the 2008 ANNUAL MEETING OF THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION.
Social Fabrics will explore artists’ creative deployment of mobile, socially interconnective media as wearable attire. Social Fabrics will emphasize convergences between individual expression and statement making, on the one hand, and the phenomenology of “network society” on the other. Technological garments or accessories will be presented as will works that comment on, or critique, our digital media-infused and fashion driven lifestyles. Works will be presented by artists from all over the United States and Canada and countries abroad including Great Britain and Australia.
CURATORS
Susan E. Ryan, Louisiana State University and
Patrick Lichty, Columbia College Chicago
ARTISTS
Teresa Almeida; Margarita Benitez; Joey Berzowska and Di Mainstone; Kathy Bruce, James Cook, and Alastair Noble; Rachelle Beaudoin, Islay Taylor, and Jeanne Jo; Geraldine Juárez; Matt Kenyon; Younghui Kim; Sarah Kettley and Frank Greig (Speckled Computing Consortium); Daniela Kostova and Olivia Robinson; Heidi Kumao; Ebru Kurbak, Ricardo Nascimento, Fabiana Shizue; Anke Loh; Cat Mazza; Ryan McCabe; Kristen Nyce; Anne-Marie Skriver Hansen; Hoyun Son; Suzi Webster and Jordan Benwick; Chris Wille
WHEN: February 22, 2008 - 5:30 PM
WHERE: Adam’s Mark Hotel, 400 North Olive Street, Dallas, TX Remington Room (4th Floor)
ACCESS: Free and open to the public (Note: the CAA Annual Meeting Closed Sessions are NOT free, but admission to Social Fabrics is a free Special Event of the conference)
Media Relations Contact: Susan Ryan, info@socialfabrics.org
