Hurricane Season

My co-programmer Meredith Drum and I have put together a screening for ISSUE Project Room happening on September 15th at 8:00PM. Hurricane Season is an evening of experimental documentary shorts reflecting the recent history of the Gulf region of the US. Most of the work has been made since Katrina, some this year. Excerpts from Robert Flaherty’s Louisiana Story and Tony Oursler’s 1982 Son of Oil will also be shown.

Artists to be screened: Ghen Dennis, Courtney Egan and Helen Hill, Robert Flaherty, Liza Johnson, Christina McPhee, Tony Oursler, Gretchen Skogerson and Pawel Wojtasik.

More about the screening at:
http://hurricaneseason2010.wordpress.com/

ISSUE Project Room is located on the 3rd floor of (OA) Can Factory, 232 3rd Street at 3rd Avenue in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn. Subway F and G Line to Carroll St-Smith St. stop.
issueprojectroom.org, 718-330-0313.
Admission is FREE.

One Hour Photo

I’m tickled to be a part of the conceptual photography exhibition One Hour Photo at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, DC. (More about One Hour Photo on FB)

You can see my piece on Wednesday, May 12 from 11-12 only! Then it will never be shown in public, sold or reproduced again.

One Hour Photo in the Washington Post

Here’s my contract:

Unmonumental

[darn! the Flickr embed isn’t working so… here: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjcAApTH]

I have been collecting images of found sculpture for a few years now. Judging from the inaugural exhibition at the New Museum in NYC is seems that this genre of sculpture is called Unmonumental. There are others that collect found sculpture under the rubric Unmonumental as well, like Joy Garnett at her blog Newsgrist.

Bread, Mascots & Heroes

A project for the Socrates Sculpture Park exhibition LIC, NYC
May 6 – August 6, 2007 (in Long Island City, NY)

Silvercup Studios, a film and television production facility company in Long Island City was formerly the Silvercup Bread Factory. Here a large scale zoetrope—a pre-cinematic animation toy—shows animations developed from the history of Silvercup. The piece pays tribute to the history of Silvercup and to the transition of the neighborhood from an industrial enclave to a mixed neighborhood with many creative businesses while it also highlights the physical process of animation and film. Viewers experience the persistence-of-vision that makes film possible only if they take the step of turning the very large and heavy steel drum that makes up the zoetrope. Apparently, the first productions to take place at Silvercup Studios were shot in the flour silo room.

Two animations were shown during the summer. The first one featured The Lone Ranger with his horse Silver (Silvercup Bread Factory was a primary sponsor of the television show) and Tony Soprano, next to three ducks frolicking in his pool—an event which precipitates Tony’s blackouts and subsequent foray into therapy (the HBO series The Sopranos is made at Silvercup Studios). Tony Soprano, as an American hero, cuts a much more complex and ambiguous figure than the Lone Ranger. The second animation showed a loaf of bread rising and then exploding plus loaves of bread riding around on an assembly line.

Thanks

Socrates Sculpture Park, Alyson Baker, DYAD Studio [Douglas Fanning] & Mivision [Patrick Luangkhot] with Ryan Pauly, James Shay, Cecile Moochnek, Steve Smith, Kevin Sudeith, Deborah Fisher, Michelle Higa, Image King, Prelinger Archive, Greater Astoria Historical Society