From Locally Groan:
From Make Your Own History:
and one from something else:
4.29.2008
Beer Barons and Brewery Workers
Here are some images from a slightly less grid related project I am involved in with Brandon Bauer. It's made up of a series of animated gifs, collected texts, monitor installation, and drawings on the space. It will be shown in the Make Your Own History exhibition. I borrowed these from Brandon's Flickr Site...Check it:
4.24.2008
Upcoming Shows ETC.
In case my MFA show wasn't enough to deal with, I've got three more big ones before the end of May. Check them out MAN>>>>>>>Here's some info:
“LOCALLY GROAN - You Have Homework To Do! Ta Da!”
Thursday, MAY 8, 2008 at 7PM in the UWM Union Theater
(UW-Milwaukee campus: 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd, 2nd floor)
Free and open to the public! ‐ an evening of new films, videos, and live performance by over 25 local Milwaukee artists.
“Locally Grown” is an annual festival dedicated to providing a showcase for Milwaukee film, video, and performance artists. “Locally Grown” screenings, held at the UWM Union Theater, are always free & open to the public. This edition of "Locally Grown" is being specially programmed by The Archaeology of the Recent Future Association which is a loose organization that strives to create experiences & support work that inspires vision & hope for a better world.
This year’s festival will be a little different in that local artists were asked to complete an “assignment”, and make a new piece especially for the show. So, instead of curating, the curators handed out some homework. Specifically, participants were asked to complete one of two assignments:
#1. Using only one 100-foot roll of 16mm film, create a film and present it with a live soundtrack. Or, #2. Submit 3 minutes of video. Each short clip will be compiled on one
tape & each participant will receive a compilation tape with which they will make one new piece.
Inspired by Dadaist exquisite corpses and madcap collaborations, the hope is that the assignment's "rules" will create a joyful challenge for the makers as well as inspire an unexpected new piece for us all to enjoy. The results will be revealed at a screening on MAY 8, 2008, in a celebration of our community's ingenuity, sweetness, humor, and talent.
Participating Artists:
Jesus Ali, Sam Augustine, Trevor Berman, Jeremy Bessoff, Anne Bisone, Robyn Braun, Ray Chi, Portia Cobb, Brent Coughenour, Jamal Currie, Allison Halter, Kati Katchever, Kelly Kirshtner, Laura Klein, Xav Leplae, Andrea Maio, A. Bill Miller, Erik Peterson, Kate Raney, Mat Rapaport, Joseph Reeves, Ryan Szarnowski, Marc Tasman, Chris Thompson, Renato Umali, Celeste Verhelst, Steve Wetzel
"Make Your Own History"
Make Your Own History is a group exhibition of 15 emerging artists that uses the historic Blatz Building (a former beer brewing facility) as both a subject and location for narrative experimentation. Responding to the transitional state of the space, as well as how the site symbolizes Milwaukee’s own shifting identity, these artists have created site-specific works and interventions that complicate and challenge how history gets told and remembered.
MAKE YOUR OWN HISTORY
May 2nd - May 17th, 2008
Opening Reception, May 9th, 7-10 p.m.
Closing Reception, May 16th, 6-9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Mon-Sat: 12-5 pm
www.makeyourownhistory.com
The Blatz Building
270 East Highland Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53202
(enter gallery from Broadway St.)
4.21.2008
Passing
The grid has allowed me to pass through to deeper layers.
I will recieve a new piece of paper allowing me access to the most intricate levels of understanding. It was a horrifying trial. I am lucky to have passed through at all.
Written Thesis
Testing to see if the grid will allow me to post my findings. As I begin to prepare to defend these thoughts, I attempt to submit it for your approval.
PDF of my written thesis
Defense
Today I defend my interpretation of gridform.
Do I know anything of the art of rhetoric? No.
However, I have been enfolded in this grid for years upon years. I can relate that experience to others. It may not be easily understood, but then again, I do not easily understand it. Every day within the grid is a challenge of perception and contemplation. How you describe and defend a conception of something that is undefinable, indescribable, unknowable, indecipherable???
This is my task.
4.19.2008
illuminators
A version of the project that I presented for my MFA is included in a show at an airport in Russia. Here's the link to the list of participants where you can see me amongst the group under "video"
Illuminators Particpants (english)
and also below is a video of a newscast about the opening... it doesn't show my project and its Russian, but it looks like an interesting event.
Expanding grids!
4.17.2008
Written Thesis
okay
at some point in the next few days I may post a copy of what I wrote about my work. It will be tedious and probably boring but I had fun making info graphics and adding in excessive amounts of comments through footnoting. In a way, the writing became another version of the project.
4.16.2008
4.12.2008
4.08.2008
install 3
Another day installing = I feel like I am a water balloon.
I'm on a string running from one side of the room to another reflecting a fluctuating structural system. I can't explain anything anymore. I don't have any thoughts that even bordering on clear... everything is a confusing mess in the gray matter between my ears. I see something, but does anyone else?
4.07.2008
install 2
My body aches, my head hurts, my fingers are in pain.
As I install a vision or adaptation of my findings within the grid, I slowly fall apart. What will be left in 4 days? Early projections show that a blubbering incoherent blob of noise that resembles my former self will be wandering around aimlessly stuck within a new repetition loop. Now that's excitement.
4.06.2008
install
today I begin the long hard stretch of recreating my findings in the setting of one small room in a gallery. This version will be called grid: current
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