TRIP is here!

Art365KC preview on review.org!

installation test-run

built in my garage.....

and a video..... (sorry marguerite.)

EXHIBITION POSTER (with DATE & NEW LOCATION)

mid semester crit/exhibition plan/summer internship!

had my mid-semester critique today. this is what i showed (please excuse the poor, hasty documentation):

my most recent statement 

along with a few of my laminated test prints

a perspective drawing of my installation plans (strips of paper with prints mounted to them; projection coming from the other side)

the floorplan for the exhibition space (prints on the west walls, viewing space for 4x6 prints, food table, and installation area)

here's a wider view of what it looked like on the wall

i also showed this video which will be projected on the installation: 

here are the notes I took:

what did i learn? Bonnie wants to know.


Gary wants to read. (include writings)


Displaced familiarity


my experience translated to continue


replication is dangerous. i'm re-structuring, re-creating


(for the writing on the back of my 4x6 prints) develop a poetic language, not pure description


need more interaction.
include smell, objects to create experience


kickstarter for donations



So what's going to be in my show?
- The video/print/sound projection installation
- Laminated/mounted on foamcore prints on the wall
- A seating area with a table covered in 4x6 prints (100+) with writing on the back, objects from NZ
- Writing from my time there & reflections on it
- Cupcakes made by Jaimie
- Smells from NZ? Not sure how to do this yet....

this will also be a benefit for the Christchurch earthquake. I will be taking donations at the exhibition and donating a portion of any profits from sold artwork.

now I just need Prospero's to give me a date!





In other news.....
I have accepted an intern position at Metro Pictures gallery in NYC this summer! YES.

vagrant disposition: documentation

my first solo show, Vagrant Disposition, was on display at the Dowling St Studios on November 8. i am extremely pleased at how everything turned out and with the feedback i received from fellow Dunedin artists who came out to have a look.

i displayed four "life-size" prints, suspended from the ceiling, with video of myself holding those prints in the location in which they were taken projected on to the back of the prints (and therefor showing through the print-side). i also showed sixteen prints from my in-progress series that explores my time in New Zealand.

Princes St installation, other prints in background

installations

another view of the installations

Craig's Room installation, projection side

Craig's room installation, print side

Jetty installation, projection side

Jetty installation, print side

Alley installation, projection side

Alley installation, print side

Princes St installation, projection side

Princes St installation, print side

prints on wall

the space

another view of the installations

and another

and another view of the space.

the branch presents: unrest - documentation

The Branch Presents: UNREST

collaborative exhibition by members of the Branch: Max Bellamy, Lydia K Boehr, Samdrub Dawa, Emily Hlavac-Green, Alex Lovell-Smith, Ollie Lucks, and Chris "Bugs" Miller

documentation by Emily Cannan

Hypnic Jerk by Emily Hlavac-Green

Feeling Nauseous with Fun on the Quiet - performance by Bugs Miller and Samdrub Dawa (pictured: Bugs) 

Untitled performance by Damian Smith and Alex Lovell-Smith (pictured: Alex Lovell-Smith)

Rank and Fathom by Max Bellamy

Arcana by Samdrub Dawa

T's and C's by Alex Lovell-Smith and Emily Hlavac-Green

Finale - music performed by The Something Quartet, "paparazzi" lighting by Lydia K Boehr, Emily Hlavac-Green and Alex Lovell-Smith, VJing by Ollie Lucks and Max Bellamy

and my installation....

projected video loop on back side of print

front side of print with projection shining through

and a little closer

YEAH!

color video assignment.

assignment for my Expanded Cinema Practice class. we had to work with color, and color balancing. this is what i did.



Diana asked me if she could put it on the LCD screens in the stairwell of the East Building; i said yes. it's been playing since last Monday evening.
we critiqued it in class, but i haven't really gotten any feedback besides that.
one student briefly commented on it to me. he said he had talked to some other people about it... he mentioned that other people had a problem with the nudity. my reaction to that: wtf? really? apparently they didn't find it "necessary" .............. something tells me that's probably a more personal comment than anything. anyway, give me feedback here.