Stream 3 is almost here
Two Chairs has organized a third year of the exhibition taking place in Vermont around a stream. This year we have an official Two Chairs Facebook page and a successful Kickstarter campaign!
Artists this year: Peggy Ahwesh (US), Annie Berman, (US), E.E. Ikeler (US), Yu Jin (China), Juneau Projects (UK), Louise Lawler (US), David Nash (UK), Kenneth Pietrobono (US), Rachel Stevens (US), Zoe Walsh (US), Marina Zurkow (US)
Stream: Chapter 2 (helpless)
Stream: Chapter 2 (helpless)
August 1st (12-5) and 2nd (11-4) 2015
South Windham, VT
An exhibition happening next weekend! Survivalist Cinema will be returning, this year with a line-up of experimental shorts called Anthroposcenic.
More on the 2 Chairs website.
On the screening:
ANTHROPOSCENIC
A program of moving image work to be screened in the Survivalist Cinema, a solar-powered micro-cinema housed in a wilderness lean-to. These experimental shorts reimagine the ‘figure in the landscape’ trope, calling upon consumer objects with mystical properties, “machinema,” low-tech sci-fi performance, post-production, and decomposition to augment or devolve bodies and personhood in relationship to the landscape.
Peggy Ahwesh, She Puppet (2001, video, 15 min.)
In She Puppet Ahwesh edited hours of playing the game Tomb Raider to redirect the narrative of the character Lara Croft from a goal-oriented tour through obstacle-laden adventure-scapes to one more dark and speculative.
Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin, ARK3: THE WATERWAY SCENARIOS (2015, video, 13 min.)
This newly edited piece furthers Burns’ and Martin’s research into “diverse speculative fictions including re-imagined educational practices, crypto-utopian musicals, appropriated horror genres, paranormal phenomenon, re-animation choreographies, cos- play, and trans-human love stories.”
Shana Moulton, Whispering Pines 3 (2004, video, 7:33 min.)
Moulton’s pained alter ego Cynthia interacts with household objects that operate as channels to surreal experiences or transcendent New Age epiphanies.
Jennifer Reeves, Landfill 16 (2011, 16mm film transferred to video, 9 min.) Reeves temporarily buried outtakes from her 16mm double projection When It Was Blue to “let enzymes and fungi in the soil begin to decompose the image. [She] then hand- painted the film to give it new life.”
Brian Zegeer and Rachel Frank, Far Rockaway (2012, mixed-media animation, digital video, 4:53 min.)
This music video was filmed at Dead Horse Bay, a Far Rockaway landfill that has since erupted onto the beach surface. Made in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, the film imagines a vengeful nature at odds with human endeavors.
Stream catalog + Stream 2
The catalog for last summer’s Stream exhibition is here. You can see and read about all the site-specific projects around a stream in southern Vermont. Thanks to Cindy Smith and Wolfgang Berkowski for their great work on the exhibition and the catalog.
Planning for Stream II, which will happen in August, 2015, has begun. My solar-powered Survivalist Cinema will return, but this year I am curating a program of video on the posthuman and the anthropocene.
Survivalist Cinema at STREAM
Survivalist Cinema – a solar powered micro-cinema that features 1970s environmental dystopia and survivalist films – was grandly realized at STREAM, an exhibition curated by Cindy Smith and 2 Chairs, that took place over a weekend, August 9th & 10th, 2014, near South Windham, VT. All pieces were super. More images and info to follow.
ARTISTS
Edward Allington (United Kingdom)
Anthea Behm (Australia)
Josef Bull (Sweden)
Jack Carr (US)
Ingela Ihrman (Sweden)
Erin Ikeler (US)
Allan Kaprow (US-Allan Kaprow Estate)
Rachel Stevens (US)
Patricia Thornley (US)
Special thanks to Dave Bonta of Sunnyside Solar
More images of Survivalist Cinema:
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.