“Implausible Structures” was curated by Suzanne Stroebe for the Artillery art fair at Castlebraid in Bushwick, Brooklyn. September 12 – October 31.
Angela Basile
Dan Carlson
Rebecca Curry
Jana Flynn
David Schafer
The image is a still from a Three Stooges episode entitled, “How High is Up?” from 1940. The sculpture is an interpretation of that image.
VOLUME curated SCORES at Lawrimore Project in Seattle May 7, 2009.
The relationship between musical scores and conceptual art is well documented: from early Stockhausen scores and John Cage’s seminal work, to the conceptual art strategies of Sol LeWitt and Yoko Ono, artists have found the idea of the score as a useful tool to further artistic practices. Historically, visual artists have used the notion of the score to transmit a set of instructions for completing an artwork (LeWitt) or in other cases the score itself is the final piece (Ono).
For this exhibition, we have asked 14 artists to participate in this tradition by creating a new visual work that will also serve as a musical score for another artist or musician to interpret and perform.
The artists in Scores include:
Nayland Blake
Julie Davidow
Lecia Dole-Recio
Fallen Fruit
Steven Hull
Tomo Isoyama
Monique Jenkinson
Nina Katchadourian
Keep Adding
Simon Leung
Lucky Dragons
Eamon Ore-Giron
Steve Roden
David Schafer
Laetitia Sonami
Photography by Eric Staudenmaier, Bob Davidson
“Home Listening” was curated by Bret Schneider for Mildred’s Lane, Scranton, PA. July, 2009.
Six sound artists were asked to perform their material simultaneously in various outdoor sites around the grounds of Mildred’s Lane for a night of noise. Listeners were to walk around the grounds visiting the array of sound stations, while enjoying the mixing and overlapping of the divergent sounds.
For my performance, I played a selection of previously recorded material and new live mixes.
Sound artist Jess Ramsay (of the Mekanikdolls) played a short set before and after my set.
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ENDURANCE: Visualizing Time
Curated by Sue Spaid
Abington Art Center Sculpture Park
Jenkintown, PA
OPENING EVENT: Sunday, June 28th. 11am to 3pm.
This piece was originally initiated by a 1940 Three Stooges episode, where the Stooges played ironworkers on a new skyscraper and constructed a diagonally crooked steel armature. Responding to this, I began constructing disordered, freestanding frames similar to this structure. Mounted on the sculpture is a PA speaker that emits, on the half hour, the voice of an anonymous narrator talking about the appreciation of sculpture.
The entire audio track can be found on UBUweb. http://www.ubu.com/sound/schafer.html
