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ruining wonder

GUTS @ 119 Gallery

Dan and I recently collaborated on a sonic sculptural piece for a show at 119 Gallery in Lowell, MA.

The theme and title of the show is "Guts".  We set about cannabalizing existing work from our repertoire in the studio and combined our individual aesthetics with broken, discarded technologies to create a vision of post-apocalyptic carnage. 

The pile of twisted and exploded viscera is at once a festive, puppet-like animation with soft Christmas-y red felt and glistening green and silver circuit boards,

 and a revolting disemboweling resembling special effects borrowed from 

John Carpenter's"The Thing". 

The whole mess is splayed out on the floor in front of a tower of amplifiers which play an unsettling, subtly shifting, crunching drone which is produced from hand-sculpted electronic devices (one encased in something resembling a sizable tumor, one which mimics an improvised explosive device) which hang in front of a speaker they feedback into. 

Progress

It's been bleak. Terrifying.
The days are getting longer, I hear.

I finished our chores. Now I get to make a mess of all of this information.

There's still work to do.
Ain't that just the way.

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Now available as 9"x17" full color posters!

Sculpture Collaging

within the continued practice of cannibalizing my own work, i have begun to assemble 

collage-work using manipulated images from details of my sculptures. 

this allows me to retain favoritism of certain"moments" in the materials.

i can isolate certain textures i may have an internal struggle regarding preciousness in the details...

zoom-in, zero-in.

rescale, retrace, relocate

build new landscapes, explosions, textures..

piece them together with images of classical sculpture belonging to "the people"

found online. found in cemeteries and public parks- strangers made of stone . 

now inhabit a new terrain.

(both in process)

Lake Hitchcock Presents

COMING SOON!

collaborative images of Bodybanks and Catgirl Generator's dual research project:

DIAGRAM A remediates the Teleharmonium:

Chris Nelson reveals the true meaning of life:

AND MUCH MUCH MORE

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE PRESENTS:

LAKE HITCHCOCK CENTER FOR THE BOOK ARTS

MAGAZINE 1: THE UNCANNY PIONEER VALLEY

MAGAZINE LAUNCH & LOOPED VIDEO SCREENING

CONTENTS

The magazine will include alternate covers, artist pages, national & international

dispatches, research projects, puzzles and secrets from over 45 contributors.

The magazine will also include student project pages and video from both 

Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA, Department of Communication, Media and Theater arts 

and Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, Department of Art.

VIDEO CURATION

Accompanying the publication will be a special one night only looped 

video screening curated around the theme of performance art for the camera.

TIME & DATE & ADDRESS

PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE: 362 DWIGHT ST. HOLYOKE, MA

EVENT & RECEPTION (FREE): SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23RD, 7-10:30PM

unnatural dissaster

In the studio ...
dismantling,
reconfiguring,
and otherwise turning much-labored over sculptures into a curated pile of debris.

i'm building a "backdrop"/ environment for some 2-D digital format work I will be doing in a collaboration with Torsten Zenas Burns who has shot video using parts of a installation I composed titled , "Procession" last year.

ironing board with cut-up uniform

seeds, sponges, ruffles

It'll be just like a Katie Perry video, only nothing like that at all.

building the my lair.

slashings and trappings

working on resolving some "display issues"- trying to both hone and open up the narrative- to set a  stage but not tell any particular story.
this time, the chair will be shown facing the wall (on which will be mounted a mourning embroidery from the museum's collection). the wall is to be partially obscured by a slashed window sheer which will hang at a short distance from it - situated across the lap of the chair, the curtain is cut to ribbons - with longer, wider slits framing a vignette toward the center. the view through the curtain would be best accessed if one was to be seated in this (inaccessible) chair- the side views are obsolete because the curtain will hang across the opening to an inset in the gallery wall. .
the same curtain sheers were used to create the little bombs that carry the broken china set. 

i've incorporated some of the window sheer scraps into these weepers

Frank is suspicious of the aura.

working out the details..-
 the (cut to ribbons) window shear will be hung across the top of the opening of
an inset in the wall of the gallery.
the inset is approx. 4'wide x 1.5'deep-
so the curtain would be about a foot closer to the wall behind it
on which will be hung
a mourning embroidery from the museum's collection.
(got that?)

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Also, I started the bear trap "replica":

paper mache victorian snaggletooth
in process...