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IMAterial success
05.05.08 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe IMAterial show turned out beautifully. It was really miraculous to see the way the Black Box, originally a gymnasium, transformed into a dynamic gallery. I was very happy with Havemeyer Street, the two-channel video installation I made with Francisca Caporali, Kym Chapman, Pilar Ortiz & Uni Park about gentrification in Williamsburg. I’ll be uploading documentation in the coming weeks.
We had the honor of guest artist critiques with Mendi + Keith Obadike and Jennifer McCoy. I got some great feedback on my Comment Williamsburg site and got to see Colonial Glass projected on a giant screen. As usual, working with the gang was pretty amazing, especially considering we do the work of 30 people with just a few of us. Below are pictures from Laura Chipley, you can see more of hers here. More documentation forthcoming.
Havemeyer Street (our installation)
Wear and Tear (Suyin Looui, Samara Smith & AE Souzis)
Urban Homesteading Project (Francisca Caporali, Laura Chipley & Pilar Ortiz) and Varnish on (Mike Schuwerk & Cristina Gil Donaire)
IMAterial art
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IMAterial: May 1-3
I’ll be showing a large scale collaborative video installation & my video Colonial Glass & my website Comment Williamsburg at the 6th Annual Exhibit of the Hunter College Integrated Media Arts MFA Program. Join us for a weekend of provocative new socially engaged interdisciplinary and media art.
IMAterial
May 1 –3, 2008 (opening May 1)
THU & FRI 6 –9 PM / SAT 1-5 PM
The Black Box Gallery
5th Floor, Room 544HN
Hunter North Building
695 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Enter on 69th Street between Park and Lexington
IMAterial
Noun, Adjective1: The 6th annual exhibit from Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts MFA program.
2. Lacking a material body or form; the physical intangibility of new media and digital work.
3: The challenge of new media and interdisciplinary media artists to make their artistic and political work both relevant and of substance.
4. Incorporeal; metaphysical forces; the underlying spirit that drives the artistic production and practice of the students and faculty in the IMA/MFA program. -
my work, events, other people's work
WWIII write up
Courtenay Morgan Redis did an extensive write-up of the WWIII show on her blog. Here’s the excerpt on my piece:
“Another artist hung a traditional wood medicine cabinet on the wall and on the rung below an army-green hand towel that reads look inside. Swinging the door open, which is lined on the inside with a mirror, shows a video projection of a green hill, the number 3009 on a large sign and row upon row of white crosses. Above the video stands a shelf filled with prescription pill bottles, face creams and toiletries. The common, everyday items we see and use juxtaposed with the death of soldiers that has become all too-common in our lives and the lives of people around the world. On the day in January when the film was shot in Lafayette, CA, 3009 Americans had lost their lives in Iraq. Today on public radio I heard that as we approach the five-year anniversary of this war we’ve lost over 3,700 American lives and anywhere from 40,000 to 100,000 Iraqis.”
Thanks to all who came! It was a great show.
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my work, events, other people's work
WWIII Hours, Artist Talks & Closing
WWIII, the gallery show in Jersey City featuring LOOK INSIDE, a video installation I developed in the Wonder Women residency at _gaia studio, has two last events before the show closes. The show includes installations from all ten of the women who were in the residency, on the theme of how we understand war.
The gallery is open M-F, 10a-6p or by appt on evenings and weekends:
(800) 330-9659We are also having open hours next Saturday, April 5, from 12-5p. There will be a very special guest (my dad!) and all of the artists will be present.
…and the Closing Reception & Artist Talks, where you get to hear more about the artists and projects presentation style, will be the following Saturday:
April 12, 4-9p
@ Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street
Jersey City, NJ
directionsHope to see you at the gallery! If neither the 5th nor 12th works for you & you would like to see the show, email me at sarahnw att gmail dott com.
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my work, events, other people's work
displacement in williamsburg
I will be showing my documentary short, FILLMORE PLACE, along with a selection from our work-in-progress on small businesses in South Williamsburg, as part of an event on displacement in Williamsburg tomorrow night. I invite NY-based folk to come to whatever portion they can make, especially if you have ever lived or worked in Williamsburg.
The films address all kinds of displacement. The panel will focus on artist displacement, and is part of the Displacement show at greenbelt. greenbelt is a new 8-unit green condo building in Williamsburg that will house Center for Performance Research, an affordable arts space. It should be a provocative and interesting evening on many levels.
Room For Creativity:
A Community Roundtable on Real Estate Strategies for the Arts
Thursday, March 27, 2008
6-9p (panel 6:30-8p, films 8-9p)
@ greenbelt 361 Manhattan Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11211 (L to Graham)
Free drinks and snacks
Panel
John Jaspers & Jonah Bokaer (Center for Performance Research)
Caron Atlas (Fractured Atlas)
Elizabeth Grady (curator of Displacement)
Guy Buckles (Art Building)
Luis Garden Acosta (El Puente)
Deborah Masters (475 Kent Artist’s Lofts)
Brad Lander (Pratt Center for Community Development)Short Films
Fillmore Place (Sarah Nelson Wright)
Traverse the Fantasy (Not an Alternative)
Untitled (Francisca Caporali, Kym Chapman, Pilar Ortiz, Uni Park,
& Sarah Nelson Wright)
Lofty Pursuits (the Center for Urban Pedagogy)
475 Kent (Channel 12)
Los Sures (Diego Echeverria) -
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directions to Mana Fine Arts
(apologies to those not in NYC/NJ area)
Here are directions to WWIII at Mana Fine Arts. Looking forward to the opening!
WWIII
A Wonder Women Project presented by _gaia
Opening Reception
FRIDAY, March 14th, 6-9 pm
Artist Talk and Closing– April 12th 4-9pm
Gallery Hours March 14 – April 12, 2008
M-F 10-6 pm or by appointment@ Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street
Jersey City, NJ
(800) 330-9659 for appointments & infoby public transportation from Manhattan
Take the Path Train* from Christopher St., 9th St., 14th St., 23rd St. or 33rd St. towards Journal Square** (JSQ)
OR from World Trade Center station towards Newark (NWK)
PATH map
Exit at the Grove St. Station
Newark Ave. terminates across from the station
Walk down Newark Avenue to Coles St. (about 5 blocks)
Right on Coles
Walk down Coles to 12 street (about 12 blocks)
Gallery entrance is under the overpass, on Coles, past 12th St., on your left
You walk under the overpass
*the Path costs $1.75 and you can use an NYC metrocard, but not unlimited
**on weekends (Sat/Sun), this train stops in Hoboken and is HOB/JSQ
map of walk from Grove St.:
View Larger Mapdriving from Manhattan
Go through the Holland Tunnel
Left on Jersey Ave.
Right on 10th St.
Pass Coles St.
(Coles is closed to cars)
Right on Monmouth
Monmouth ends at 13th St., you have to turn right
13th street ends at Coles St.
Turn right or left to park on Coles
Walk towards the overpass G
allery entrance is under the overpass, on your right
Map of drive from Holland Tunnel:
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my work, photos, events
WWIII Installation
I’m putting the finishing touches on my installation for _gaia studio’s WWIII show opening this Friday in Jersey City (closing April 12). My roommate Neil hooked me up with his carpentry skills & taught me how to plaster and paint. Check it out:
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my work, events
World War III exhibition
World War III, the exhibition that culminates the artist residency I participated in at _gaia studio in Hoboken, NJ, opens March 14 through April 12. I will be showing my installation along with work from nine incredible female artists. The residency has been inspiring and I’m thrilled to invite everyone to see our work, a provocative and diverse collection of installations about how we process war in our current era.
Curated by Doris Caçoilo and Joanna Rose White
Hosted by Ev StoneOpening Reception - March 14th, 6-9 pm
Artist Talk and Closing - April 12th, 4-9pmGallery Hours M-F 10-6 pm or by appointment
Mana Fine Arts Exhibition Space
227 Coles Street, Jersey City, NJ 07310
(under the overpass at 12th Street between Monmouth and Coles)
800.330.9659Wonder Women III are Pollie Barden, Jennifer Carpenter, Gwen Charles, Tamara Fitzpatrick, Maya Joseph-Goteiner, Mary Jeys, Melissa Macalpin, Gina Riano, Amanda Thackray, and Sarah Nelson Wright
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music, events, other people's work
my bro’s band @ pianos
My brother Daniel Wright’s band, The World Collective, is playing their first NY show! It’s this Saturday. I’m looking forward to finally being able to share his music with my peeps. Plus the set is 7-10p, so no rush-in-rush-out or hear-some-other-band-you-aren’t-interested-in. I love these guys & you will too. What’s not to love? Just look at them.
For those who haven’t heard it, check out the songs and videos here.
essential specs:
THE WORLD COLLECTIVE
SATURDAY // FEB 2 // 7-10p
Pianos (upstairs)
158 Ludlow // New York, NY
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EYEspeak, events, other people's work
Jackie Goss Screening
I organized a screening with my friend Benj Gerdes (for EYEspeak & 16 Beaver Group). It’ll be a great & inspiration evening. I hope to see some New York peeps there!
Jackie Goss
Animated Documentaries: “Stranger Comes To Town” & “How to Fix the World”
Thursday, December 13 // 7:30 PM @ 16 Beaver
Screening and Discussion // free and open to all16 Beaver Street, 4th/5th fl.
New York, NY 10004
212.480.2099for directions/subscriptions/info visit:
http://www.16beavergroup.orgTRAINS: 4,5 Bowling Green / R,W Whitehall / 2,3 Wall Street /J,M Broad Street / 1,9 South Ferry
Stranger Comes To Town
28 minutes 2007They say there’s only two stories in the world: man goes on a journey, and stranger comes to town.
Six people are interviewed anonymously about their experiences coming into the US. Each then designs a video game avatar who tells their story by proxy. Goss focuses on the questions and examinations used to establish identity at the border, and how these processes in turn affect one’s own sense of self and view of the world.
“Stranger Comes to Town” re-works animations from the Department of Homeland Security –combining them with stories from the border, impressions from the on-line game World of Warcraft, and journeys via Google Earth to tell a tale of bodies moving through lands familiar and strange.
How To Fix The World
28 minutes 2004Adapted from psychologist A.R. Luria’s research in Uzbekistan in the 1930s, “How to Fix the World” brings to life Luria’s conversations with Central Asian farmers learning how to read and write under the unfamiliar principles of Socialism.
Colorful digital animations play against a backdrop of images shot in Andijian (where Soviet-era President Karimov’s supression of Islam lead to violence in May 2005.) At once conflicting, humorous, and revelatory, these conversations between Luria and his “subjects” illustrate an attempt by one culture to transform another in the name of education and modernization.
The subtleties of this transformation, as well as the roots of current cultural conflicts, are found in words exchanged and documented seventy-five years ago.
Jacqueline Goss makes videos and web-based works exploring the rules, histories, and tools of language and mapmaking systems. Her projects take as their source specific acts of writing and cartography that bring about cultural change, technological innovation, or create social narrative ruptures.
For the last few years she has used 2D digital animation techniques to work within the genre of the animated documentary.
A native of New Hampshire, she attended Brown University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She teaches in the Film and Electronic Arts Department at Bard College in the Hudson Valley of New York.
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