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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:47:06 EST
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Subject: Joseph Cornell road show in NYC
HI GUYS.. soon my friend Anne Walsh will be in town for these events..
Please join us.
Sheila
On April 8, we'll be hosted by the wonderful artist's book store
PRINTED MATTER for a party launching our new cd,
Visits with Joseph Cornell, (Art After Death volume 3).
Join us from 5-7 at 535 W. 22rd St. in Chelsea
and on April 10:
ARCHIVE presents:
"An Afternoon with Joseph Cornell"
ISSUE Project Room
619 E. 6th St.
7:30 p.m. APRIL 10
Lights out. Sound up: the recorded voice of
professional trance medium Valerie Winborne
speaks as the spirit of the seminal American
artist Joseph Cornell. Cornell muses on his work,
his reputation, his legacy, his dreams. Lights
come up, and the authors of "An Afternoon with
Joseph Cornell," Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick,
step to the lectern. For the next hour, Walsh and
Kubick lead the audience on a journey that
explores biography, storytelling, spirituality,
art history, and mythology.
The primary material of their performance is a
series of audio recordings documenting
"interviews" Walsh and Kubick conducted in 2002
with Cornell at the Whitney Museum of American
Art. Professional spirit mediums were brought by
Walsh and Kubick to the museum, and in the
presence of Cornell's box constructions, his
spirit was invoked, with the mediums serving as
translators and interpreters for his messages.
"An Afternoon with Joseph Cornell" presents
samples of the five mediums through whom Cornell
communicated, framed by a Walsh and Kubick's
witty and thoughtful narration, and slides of
Cornell's enigmatic works, journal entries, paper
ephemera, family photos, historical photos of his
NYC "haunts," film stills, and related themes.
The audio is a musing on Cornell the man,
artist,legend, spirit.
The narration includes discussion of the various
ethical and practical issues involved in the
making of the "Art After Death" series of which
the Cornell work is a part: the odd conflation of
art historians and spirit mediums; the uncanny
"truths" which emerge; the meaning of
"inspiration"; the ownership of an artist's
legacy, and much more.
Recent ARCHIVE Performances have taken place at
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the Centre for
Surrealism Studies, Essex, U.K.; ISSUE Project
Room, NYC, San Francisco Art Insititute. Upcoming
appearances will take place in Munich, Germany,
and Terrassa, Spain.
n.b. Art After Death takes the form of an audio
cd series, performance lectures, and museum and
gallery installations which present narrated and
edited audio, recorded during "interviews"
(seances) with dead artists. (We conduct at least
4 separate interviews with an individual artist
in the presence of their work, each time using a
different spirit medium to "translate" the
spirit's responses to questions posed by Anne
Walsh and Chris Kubick.) To date we have
completed extended audio works on three artists:
the seminal American sculptor Joseph Cornell, the
French conceptual painter and performer Yves
Klein, and the 19th century Italian self-portait
photographer, the Countess of Castiglione. We
conceive these compact discs, and the lectures
and museum installations that we develop from
them, as offering an alternative form of "art
history." They suggest that (art) criticism might
be a collaborative and performative practice,
rather than an authoritative one. The act of
using metaphysical communication
prostheses-spirit mediums-to obtain information
about artists' intentions is one that brings the
interpreter's role powerfully into the
foreground. More information is available at
www.doublearchive.com
ARCHIVE is the collaborative production entity of
artists Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick. Together,
ARCHIVE has produced a series of audio CDs,
including "Conversations with the Countess of
Castiglione", "Yves Klein Speaks!" and "Visits
With Joseph Cornell". They have also produced
gallery installations for museum and gallery
exhibitions, including the 2002 Whitney Biennial.
Their work has been heard on public radio in
America, Canada and England, and their lectures
presented at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art,
the Getty Museum, and recently at the Institute
for Surrealism Studies in Essex, England.
Anne Walsh's solo practice is primarily in video
installation. An upcoming screening at Berkeley's
Pacific Film Archive will show a brief
retrospective of her video projects and
performances, which look at the world as an
intricate ensemble of gestures, utterances, and
protocols. Walsh has had solo shows in New York
City, Helsinki, Utrecht, and Los Angeles, and is
an editor of X-Tra, the art and culture journal
published in Los Angeles. Walsh recently joined
the faculty in Art Practice at U.C. Berkeley as
Professor of video art and conceptual practices.
Chris Kubick is an artist and sound designer
whose work focuses on speech and other human
sounds. He is the founder and director of
Language Removal Services. His sound work has
been heard internationally, in installations at
places such as the Whitney Museum of American Art
and the 2001 Venice Biennale, as well as on radio
programs such as NPR's "All Things Considered".
He has also created sound for films and videos
which range from sublime films which have won
awards from places such as the Walker Center for
the Arts, to B-grade monster movies and tv
shows.
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Anne Walsh
[email protected]
http://www.doublearchive.com
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