The Evidence Show(s) & Semi-Permanent Program

November 29, 2011 by Jeremiah


November 30 / 6pm / MoCP
Video Playlist: The Evidence Show(s) with guest curator Jesse McLean

The Evidence Show(s) is a one-night public screening of video work in conjunction with Crime Unseen. The artists featured in this program consider the potential for everyday objects, ordinary surroundings and average people to become evidence of something beyond the familiar.

Today! Chase Scenes, Jessie Stead, 2009, 12:00
Am I Evil?, Jacob Ciocci, 2011, 4:14
The Chocolate Factory, Steve Reinke, 2002, 26:00
Earth Moves, Semi-Conductor, 2006, 4:55
Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel, Steve Matheson, 2000, 26:00
Chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet Synced and Played Simultaneously, Michael Bell-Smith, 2005, 4:22
Payroll, Noah Klersfeld, 2003, 13:00

Semi-Permanent-Screening-primary

December 14 / 7pm / Gallery 400
Semi-Permanent Program: Curated by Deborah Stratman and Jesse McLean

We humans are proud of the material accretion of our thinking—the objects and writings that represent our particular experience. We’re especially fond of amassing, grouping, and pondering the leavings. It can be dangerous to be so fond, not only due to the threat of becoming buried by our precious hoard, but also the threat of being trapped by a collected history offering an illusion of permanence. The artists in Semi-Permanent Program consider this unstable pile through the lens of essentially temporal mediums. Screened in conjunction with Archival Impulse, on view at Gallery 400 through December 17th, the films and videos reflect on the various natures of collections and the act of collecting, revealing both the potential and limitations of dutifully archived human knowledge.

Britannica, John Latham, 1971, 6:00, 16mm
Toute la memoir du monde, Alain Resnais, 1956, 20:00, video
Versions, Oliver Laric, 2010, 8:49, video
The Idea of North, Rebecca Baron, 1995, 14:00, video
Art Tape (Live With/Talk About), Michael Bell-Smith, 2011, 3:12, video
Journals and Remarks, David Gatten. 2010, 15:00, 16mm
My Favorite Homepage, Paperrad, 2006, 2:42, video
Art Appreciation, Eric Fleischauer, 2009, 5:00, video
Today! Chase Scenes, Jessie Stead, 2009, 12:00
Am I Evil?, Jacob Ciocci, 2011, 4:14
The Chocolate Factory, Steve Reinke, 2002, 26:00
Earth Moves, Semi-Conductor, 2006, 4:55
Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel, Steve Matheson, 2000, 26:00
Chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet Synced and Played Simultaneously, Michael Bell-Smith, 2005, 4:22
Payroll, Noah Klersfeld, 2003, 13:00

Neche Collection @ Public Works

November 9, 2011 by Jeremiah

Neche Collection
@ Public Works Gallery
Opening:
Friday, December 2nd
7 - 10pm

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from PW: Artist Veronica Corzo-Duchardt’s Neche Collection is a set of minimal, atmospheric prints and print / photo diptychs that retell the story of her grandfather Neche’s life across an archive of his precious, quotidian possessions: shoe horns, graph paper, toys. After Neche’s death, Veronica inherited items that spoke clearly about his heritage as a Cuban exile of Lebanese descent, and as a career accountant. She also inherited her grandfather’s desire to document. Making use of abstracted color fields, re-contextualized language and representative graphic renderings, Veronica translates these material touchstones into a paper narrative of her familial history.