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BIO
Holly Crawford is cross media artist, behavioral scientist, economist and art historian. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Essex in Art History and Theory, B.A and M.A. in Economics and M.S. in Behavioral Science from UCLA. From 2004-2006, she was a non-clinical Fellow at NYU Medical School Psychoanalytic Center. Her art and poetry (www.art-poetry.info) give new meanings and draws categories themselves into question through transformative juxtapositions. Her projects include: Offerings (Ars Electronica, (.net Participant); Open Adoption, The Road, Hyphens, Voice Over, Found Punctuation (video) Tate Modern 2007, My I have your autograph? (unofficial, Basel Miami Art Fair 2007), Critical Conversations in a Limo, NY 2006 (VIP project, Armory), 2007 in Melbourne (MIAF) & San Francisco (The LAB & Sesnon Gallery UCSC), Sound Art Limo, NY and Melbourne 2007, Flatland Limo, NYC 2008. Many projects are ongoing, site specific and participatory. Publications: Artistic Bedfellows, ed., 2008, Attached to the Mouse, 2006 and catalogue essay, “Disney and Pop” in Once Upon a Time Walt Disney Studio; Artistic Bedfellows, edited, 2008. Some projects are created and curated through AC (Art Currents) which she created and directs, www.artcurrents.org She taught art at UCLA and SVA. She was born in California and now lives in New York City.
Stephen Eakin: TRYING TO SAVE IT ALL
Dates:
Thu Jan 12, 2012 18:00 - Sat Feb 04, 2012
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
“At the origin of painting and sculpture there lies a mummy complex. The religion of ancient Egypt, aimed against death, saw survival as dependent on the continued existence of the corporeal body.”
-- Andre Bazin, The Ontology of the Photographic Image
The imbuing of meaning in an artwork is parallel to the imbuing of memory in objects. Art is fundamentally linked to mortality and our relationship with time. These elements affect and complicate the value of objects.
Stephen Eakin mines and removes objects from personal history and familial narrative, subsequently placing them in a setting that redefines them as precious relics, art objects, or both. This action posits the politics of memory, history, and our identities after we are gone. Eakin experiments with an object’s context (or lack thereof) in an effort to seek where the object’s voice meets the voice of its viewer, if at all.
-- Andre Bazin, The Ontology of the Photographic Image
The imbuing of meaning in an artwork is parallel to the imbuing of memory in objects. Art is fundamentally linked to mortality and our relationship with time. These elements affect and complicate the value of objects.
Stephen Eakin mines and removes objects from personal history and familial narrative, subsequently placing them in a setting that redefines them as precious relics, art objects, or both. This action posits the politics of memory, history, and our identities after we are gone. Eakin experiments with an object’s context (or lack thereof) in an effort to seek where the object’s voice meets the voice of its viewer, if at all.
OCCUPY THE WALLS: A Poster Show/ Call to Participate
Deadline:
Wed Dec 07, 2011 18:00
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
OCCUPY THE WALLS: A Poster Show/ Call to Participate
Curated by performance artist and musician Holly Anderson and poet and activist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
December 8 – December 16, 2011
Opening Event: Thursday, December 8, 2011 6-8pm
Deadline: December 7, 2011 6pm.
Art heeds the clarion call of the Occupy Wall Street movement at the AC Institute. This special show of posters is dedicated to the spirit evinced by the patriots at Liberty Square. Original, commissioned artwork will be shown beside authentic posters from the protest and will be on view for one week.
In addition to an opening there will be a poetry reading and performance (Date to be Announced.) The artists will then take their artwork to Liberty Square to demonstrate. This effort will be made into a film.
You can participate in this exhibition by bringing your poster to the AC Institute on Tuesday, December 6 and Wednesday, December 7 between 1 and 6pm. Submissions may be mailed to the AC Institute or emailed in PDF to info@artcurrents.org if received before Dec. 7.
The AC Institute reserves the right to disqualify submissions.
Curated by performance artist and musician Holly Anderson and poet and activist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
December 8 – December 16, 2011
Opening Event: Thursday, December 8, 2011 6-8pm
Deadline: December 7, 2011 6pm.
Art heeds the clarion call of the Occupy Wall Street movement at the AC Institute. This special show of posters is dedicated to the spirit evinced by the patriots at Liberty Square. Original, commissioned artwork will be shown beside authentic posters from the protest and will be on view for one week.
In addition to an opening there will be a poetry reading and performance (Date to be Announced.) The artists will then take their artwork to Liberty Square to demonstrate. This effort will be made into a film.
You can participate in this exhibition by bringing your poster to the AC Institute on Tuesday, December 6 and Wednesday, December 7 between 1 and 6pm. Submissions may be mailed to the AC Institute or emailed in PDF to info@artcurrents.org if received before Dec. 7.
The AC Institute reserves the right to disqualify submissions.
OCCUPY THE WALLS: A Poster Show
Dates:
Thu Dec 08, 2011 18:00 - Fri Dec 16, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
The AC Institute Presents
OCCUPY THE WALLS: A Poster Show
Curated by performance artist and musician Holly Anderson and poet and activist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
December 8 – December 16, 2011
Opening Event: Thursday, December 8, 2011 6-8pm
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Art heeds the clarion call of the Occupy Wall Street movement at the AC Institute. This special show of posters is dedicated to the spirit evinced by the patriots at Liberty Square. Original, commissioned artwork will be shown beside authentic posters from the protest and will be on view for one week.
In addition to an opening there will be a poetry reading and performance (Date to be Announced.) The artists will then take their artwork to Liberty Square to demonstrate. This effort will be made into a film.
You can participate in this exhibition by bringing your poster to the AC Institute on December 6 and Wednesday, December 7 between 1 and 6pm. Submissions may be mailed to the AC Institute or emailed in PDF to info@artcurrents.org if received before Dec. 7.
The AC Institute reserves the right to disqualify submissions.
OCCUPY THE WALLS: A Poster Show
Curated by performance artist and musician Holly Anderson and poet and activist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
December 8 – December 16, 2011
Opening Event: Thursday, December 8, 2011 6-8pm
Exhibitions are free and open to the public.
Art heeds the clarion call of the Occupy Wall Street movement at the AC Institute. This special show of posters is dedicated to the spirit evinced by the patriots at Liberty Square. Original, commissioned artwork will be shown beside authentic posters from the protest and will be on view for one week.
In addition to an opening there will be a poetry reading and performance (Date to be Announced.) The artists will then take their artwork to Liberty Square to demonstrate. This effort will be made into a film.
You can participate in this exhibition by bringing your poster to the AC Institute on December 6 and Wednesday, December 7 between 1 and 6pm. Submissions may be mailed to the AC Institute or emailed in PDF to info@artcurrents.org if received before Dec. 7.
The AC Institute reserves the right to disqualify submissions.
La Explosión (The Explosion)
Dates:
Thu Nov 10, 2011 19:00 - Thu Nov 10, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
La Explosión (The Explosion) A Performance by Amapola Prada in collaboration with the artist MPA
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7pm
Part of the exhibition:
MODELO PARA ARMAR: REHEARSING THE CITY
The exhibition features a series of video-recorded actions realized in Lima, Peru and New York City that demonstrate notions of the city-as-hub, internal migration, and everyday aggression.
Modelo para Armar is the effect of the artist’s ongoing study regarding the subjectivity and apparent tensions of collectively engaged individuals, and the expression of these tensions through pulsiones or psychic impulses. This work has unfolded through the careful observation of daily life and people’s places in it, and is augmented by the artist’s personal sensorial experience.
The videos present archetypal and imaginary situations as subjective interpretations of the realities of city life. The subjects of these situations- including the artist herself- are latent bodies who are activated by a variety of impulses. Participants perform actions in which they confront their circumstances, exteriorizing internal emotional states. Their cumulative individual energies hint at becoming collective.
Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7pm
Part of the exhibition:
MODELO PARA ARMAR: REHEARSING THE CITY
The exhibition features a series of video-recorded actions realized in Lima, Peru and New York City that demonstrate notions of the city-as-hub, internal migration, and everyday aggression.
Modelo para Armar is the effect of the artist’s ongoing study regarding the subjectivity and apparent tensions of collectively engaged individuals, and the expression of these tensions through pulsiones or psychic impulses. This work has unfolded through the careful observation of daily life and people’s places in it, and is augmented by the artist’s personal sensorial experience.
The videos present archetypal and imaginary situations as subjective interpretations of the realities of city life. The subjects of these situations- including the artist herself- are latent bodies who are activated by a variety of impulses. Participants perform actions in which they confront their circumstances, exteriorizing internal emotional states. Their cumulative individual energies hint at becoming collective.
Amapola Prada's MODELO PARA ARMAR: REHEARSING THE CITY
Dates:
Thu Nov 03, 2011 18:00 - Sat Dec 03, 2011
Location:
New York,
New York
United States of America
United States of America
Modelo para Armar is the effect of the artist’s ongoing study regarding the subjectivity and apparent tensions of collectively engaged individuals, and the expression of these tensions through pulsiones or psychic impulses. This work has unfolded through the careful observation of daily life and people’s places in it, and is augmented by the artist’s personal sensorial experience.
The exhibition features a series of video-recorded actions realized in Lima, Peru and New York City that demonstrate notions of the city-as-hub, internal migration, and everyday aggression.
The videos present archetypal and imaginary situations as subjective interpretations of the realities of city life. The subjects of these situations- including the artist herself- are latent bodies who are activated by a variety of impulses. Participants perform actions in which they confront their circumstances, exteriorizing internal emotional states. Their cumulative individual energies hint at becoming collective.
This exhibition includes the performance La Explosión (The Explosion) (Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7pm), made in collaboration with the artist MPA.
The exhibition features a series of video-recorded actions realized in Lima, Peru and New York City that demonstrate notions of the city-as-hub, internal migration, and everyday aggression.
The videos present archetypal and imaginary situations as subjective interpretations of the realities of city life. The subjects of these situations- including the artist herself- are latent bodies who are activated by a variety of impulses. Participants perform actions in which they confront their circumstances, exteriorizing internal emotional states. Their cumulative individual energies hint at becoming collective.
This exhibition includes the performance La Explosión (The Explosion) (Thursday, November 10, 2011 at 7pm), made in collaboration with the artist MPA.
