GARDEN OF THE ARCHIVES AND HISTORY CENTER COLUMBIA, SC Fifteen Cast Stone Benches, three Engraved Glass Markers and trees marking the three regions of South Carolina. Text running from one bench to the next: and … when poetry soars, ascends between us and the sun, a wild play of light and shadow, then time and […]
Art in the Dialogue on Race One of ROOTS Charleston Rhizome productions. Charleston City Gallery at Waterfront Park. 2004 FIRST, June 6-8 2003: “Making Art, Making Home” – a Resources for Social Change workshop in Charleston created by a partnership of Spoleto’s “Rehearsing the Past” and Alternate Roots. NEXT, Summer 2003: A conversation on the […]
FOCAS (Festival of Community Arts South), Lexington KY, 2002 A vast, lightweight outdoor structure spans over the lawn, in front of the Carnegie Center. This structure, part tent part grid/netting consists of three parallel bands, 12’x60’, made of 6000 six-pack ringers. Three to four hundred freezer bags hang from the grid and contain pictures, notes, […]
THE RUNNING DOG / LE CHIEN QUI COURT http://archive.org/details/TheRunningDog POWERHOUSE, Montreal PQ; GALERIE SANS NOM, Moncton NB; GALERIE LE TOURNASSIN, Amqui PQ; Mt ALLISON UNIVERSITY, Sackville NB 1982-83 – INTERLOCHEN ARTS CADEMY, Interlochen MI 1988 – STAGE ONE, Charleston SC 1990 A one-and-a-half sound piece in two acts with one intermission. The sound circles around […]
A Per-generated Opera CAIRN, Paris 1979 – THE CASTLE of ALBI, France 1980 – Our first collaboration. A lesson in what collaborative work does to an artist raised in the mythology of self-expression, individualism, uniqueness. Our very first step was “The Sun”: two artists, two approaches. The result is dual, dialectical. Sculpturally it […]
Thirty six mixed media drawings, organized around definitions taken from a 1936 French Dictionary.
PREMIER MANIFESTE DE CAIRN – 21 Juin 1976 – PARIS CAIRN: association cooperative de production et de distribution de travaux artistiques. CAIRN: centre géré et animé par les artistes eux-mêmes. CAIRN: une volonté d’indépendance à l’égard de tout groups de pression, culturel ou autre. CAIRN: une ouverture vers un esprit non-sélectif refusant les critères d’ordre […]
ADDRESS: 3A.100, Piccolo Spoleto 1993 Composition on the move: a make-up of Madame 1and Messieurs 2 & 3, Monsieur 4, Mesdames 2 & 3, Messieurs 3 & 5. Portraits are artsy bullies; they erase in the memory all other aspects of the model… Furnishing drawings? Is that the deal? “If the concept of ‘work of […]