My show Madness Q & A: The Watery Part of the World opens February 11th at The Reading Room, Dallas.
The show will premier a video with the same title, which is a dialogue between whales asking questions from Foucault’s History of Madness and my family (on a cruise ship) answering with quotes from Moby Dick.
There will also be drawings and photographs.
Lieder of the Pact, a video I made with Rebecca Carter, will open the Catskill film and video festival (curated by Jackie Weaver) on January 29th.
I am so excited that Rebecca Carter and my work Lieder of the Pact was just curated into The Israeli Center for Digital Art/Mobile & Video Archive. The archive is based in Israel, but travels around the world. It was recently in Austin, and will be in Prague in 2012. Some of my favorite video artists – Christian Jankowski and Guy Ben-Ner – are also in the archive. Sigh.
… for almost a month.
I’m getting with nature, and working on a piece about Moby Dick and madness in a tower.
“Freud is the Mirror of Marx,” my unrealized photographic installation now in the form of a book or print, will be displayed at the The Agency of Unrealized Projects (AUP) will be opening a temporary office in Basel this June, comprising of an archive of unrealized art projects. This will present projects collected through this open call and those collated by Hans Ulrich Obrist and Guy Tortosa following several years of international research conducted in the late 90s. AUP is a project of e-flux in collaboration with the Serpentine Gallery devised by Julieta Aranda, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Julia Peyton-Jones and Anton Vidokle.
Lieder of the Pact, a video I made with Rebecca Carter, will be screened April 16th at Arthouse, Austin, in conjunction with the 2011 Texas Biennial.
“RETHINKING CApiTaliSm” will be screened Saturday April 30th at the Catskill Community Center.
AMERICAN DREAMS/NIGHTMARES is a video festival exploring the contemporary “American Dream”
With works by: Sergio Bátiz, Lori Felker, Mark Gallay, Janie Geiser, Andrea Goldman, Robbert Goyvaerts & Frank Merkx, Inge Hoonte, Erin Johnson & Maura Brewer, Noe Kidder & Brian Getnick, Judith Leeman & Mark Jefferey, Aude Legrand, Dani Leventhal, Jodie Mack, David J Merritt, Ed Rankus, Josephine Shokrian, Felipe Fideles Steinberg, Chris Sullivan, and Lili White.
Saturday, April 30th 1-5PM
with Q & A + Reception to follow.
Catskill Community Center,
344 Main Street, Catskill NY
My video “RETHINKING CApiTaliSm” is in a wonderful exhibition curated by the amazing Chris Kaczmarek. Two artists I’m very fond of (Lien-Chen Lin and Scott Fitzgerald) are also showcasing their fabulously weirdo wares.
February 4 – April 2, 2011
Opening Reception and All-Age Art Workshop: Friday, February 4, 6:30-8:00pm
Curious Exploration navigates artwork created with the help of digital media, mechanical forms and electrical tools, traditions are engaged and freely combined to create works that embody ideas of imaginative and playful inquiry. The participating artists realize their creative process without defined restrictions of form or content, and new links are made between video and poetry, robotics and relationships, linguistics and politics, time and experience, and perhaps most importantly, between viewer and concept.
The participating artist are Lien Chen Lin, Scott Fitzgerald, Andrea Goldman, Fernando Orellana, Arthur Ganson and Becky Sellinger.
Funding for this exhibit is received by New York State Council on the Arts, A New York State Agency.
Rebecca Carter and Andrea Goldman present FeedbackFeedbackLoopLoop, an exhibition of collaborative drawing and music/video in the downstairs project space at 500X Gallery, December 4, 2010– January 2, 2011. In FeedbackFeedbackLoopLoop, Carter and Goldman dialogue with radical French philosopher Alain Badiou and his 1982 text The Theory of the Subject. As amateur readers, Carter and Goldman revel in dynamic (in)fidelity to Badiou and his criticism of Seventies relativism with a re-call to Truth as relational process.
“There is a circle, since the point of departure of truth is practice, which is its point of arrival as well,” says Badiou. Inspired by Badiou’s theories of Truth, dialectics, and subjects, Carter and Goldman (C & G) create a call and response drawing structure. Employing the digital tools and processes of Photoshop and Google, C (or G) responds to a page of Badiou’s text with a drawing and then sends the drawing to G (or C). G (or C) responds to the same page of text with a new drawing. This second drawing must maintain the compositional structure of the original drawing. The resulting dialectical triptychs, image-text-image, contain both returns to and flights from the original text.
Extending the dialogical play of the drawings, C & G write a new song. Performing this song for video, C & G re-interpret the ‘60s “bad girl band” the Shangri-Las. The compositional mirroring of the drawings morphs into homophony in the lyrics. To the tone of teenage melodrama, C & G suggest: maybe you would feel better if you could turn your malady into a melody.
Like Goldman’s ongoing song cycle me & ooooo and Carter’s video installation fremder_fremder, FeedbackFeedbackLoopLoop extends both Carter’s and Goldman’s work exploring the pleasures of reading dense philosophical texts and popular culture, together. Responding to Badiou and each other, C & G combine their parallel interests in hopeful, sad, and funny representations of subjectivity, relationality, and objectivity.
500X Gallery Project Space
500 Exposition Ave, Dallas, TX
Opening reception: Sat. Dec. 4, 7-10pm
Gallery hours: Sat & Sun. 12-5pm, Dec. 4 – Jan. 2
Rebecca’s website: http:/www.rebeccacarter.org
Performance at The Custer Observatory in Long Island
August 14, 2010
Curated by Kari Adelaide and Sorine Anderson
See more about the performance