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Playing the Rapture Installations 2009
Video from my Playing the Rapture performance work (March 2008) has been used to create two very different installations in recent exhibitions. Playing the Rapture: Tiny at the California Museum of Photography projected edited video onto a miniature version of the original set. Playing the Rapture (Point of View) had video of the two protagonists (and antagonists) appearing in separate video monitors, surrounded by machinima projections. More information can be found about each exhibition on the Projects page.
The excerpt below is from an interview by Nate Harrison in connection with one of the above installations:
"AL: A great deal of what ends up in galleries and museums was never intended to be there in the first place, whether you're talking about Flemish altar pieces or 3,000-year-old Inuit tools. So there are really two reasons to put something in a space like that..."[ continues]
"WoW: Emergent Media Phenomenon"
June 14-October 4, 2009
I'll be taking part in this Laguna Museum exhibition about the hugely popular online role-playing game World of Warcraft. The show will include both artists who work for the game's producer, Blizzard Entertainment, and artists who have created work addressing how the game reflects our culture. (The center panel of the banner above gives a very partial sneak preview of the work I'm putting in the show.)
"Salvation"
May 20, 2009
I took part as an online performer in this cyberformance by Marlena Corcoran sponsored by the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice. It took place on UpStage in the "Salvation" cyberstage. Above is a screen grab from the live performance (I was the airplane graffitist). Lots more information on the "Salvation" website.
Sebald Review
March 2009
A comprehensive survey of recent Sebald criticism has just been published in the Journal of European Studies 39:1. In 'Woods, trees and the spaces in between': A report on work published on W.G. Sebald 2005-2008," Richard Sheppard has these kind words for Searching for Sebald: "The editors and publishers have done their work magnificently: the layout is generous and clear, the paper and illustrations are excellent, the structure is disciplined and subtle, the documentation, especially the bibliography...is impeccable, and...the individual contributions are, by and large, written in accessible English." There's more, but the 50-page article is worth reading in toto for its deeply informed view of the state of Sebald scholarship seven years after his death.