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Posted on January 16, 2009
IN PRODUCTION:
Wisp, or the World Interactive Social Proxy (WISP).
The stated goal of WISP is to produce a viable counterfeit of the well known digital media artist, Antoinette LaFarge. This is a collaborative project involving work with the artist, and an actress who will be replacing Antoinette in various social and professional situations throughout the year. The next installment of this project will be at an important conference in Chicago where Antoinette (or her proxy) will give a paper.
Hangmen Also Die
I have been invited to present a new work, Hangmen Also Die, in OSCENE 10 at the Laguna Art Museum in Laguna, CA (Feb. 12-May 16, 2010). OSCENE 10 is a high-visibility annual survey of contemporary art and culture in Orange County. Recently I have been extending my practice as a director and theater maker into the different context of gallery installations as a way of exploring possibilities that are difficult to realize in traditional theater venues.
In the installation, video from various sources–including most crucially the filming of a live performance by an actor on opening night–is programmed into an evolving collage that is projected on a wall at large scale. The video collage will cannibalize itself and decay over the course of the exhibition until almost nothing is left. The text of the monologue addresses the tendency for certain types of political action to undermine their own objectives by corrupting the individuals involved. In this way, the programmed degradation of the installation rehearses the theme of corruption.
Here are a few images from the event.
LAST YEAR:
My performance project from spring 2008, Playing the Rapture, found a second life in two recent video installations, one at the California Museum of Photography and one at the CalIT2 Gallery at UC San Diego. Below are some links and images from the installations.
1.
“Scalable Relations”, CalIT2 Gallery, UC San Diego, Jan. 23-March 20, 2009
Check out the show’s website.
2.
“Mediated”, California Museum of Photography, Jan. 31- April 4, 2009
Download the Catalog as a PDF here.
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