"Echo of the Object" Travels to Knoxville, Tennessee

Ken Josephson, Tennessee, 1979

Here are some random pictures of the road trip to Knoxville, Tennessee to install Echo of the Object with David Hannon, Hannah Barnes, and Jennifer Halvorson. The professional (not iPhone) installation images will appear tomorrow.

The exhibition of many, many grids.

David making Hannah's drawings even more crooked.

Wall signage!

In progress installation panoramas.

One more name to add to my growing list (this one was a practical joke but I'm happy it included a "q").

Chairs congregating in the Painting classroom at University of Tennessee

The University of Tennessee Art and Architecture Building reminded me Le Centre Georges Pompidou c. 1981.

We stopped at Cumberland Falls, Kentucky on the way back to Indiana (hello brown water).

Hannah's map of Daniel Boone National Forest and the Red River Gorge at Cumberland Falls.

Paper Bags by Jennifer Halvorson

Check out Jennifer Halvorson's new glass cast paper bags - two of which are featured in the Echo of the Object at the Downtown Gallery in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Jennifer Halvorson, Provision, 2013

Jennifer Halvorson, Bounty, 2013

 Jennifer Halvorson, Benevolence, 2013

Jennifer Halvorson, Disposition, 2013

This is my favorite new work (four jars cast in bronze and one in glass) included in the Knoxville exhibition. Installation images coming soon!

Autobiography: 25.5 Years

Jacinda Russell
25.5 Years
Archival Inkjet Print
Size TBD
2013

"Inheritance" by The Bridge Club

I am fascinated with the Bridge Club's March 2013 performance of Inheritance in Houston, Texas. I have a deep affinity with the care placed into the group's washing and saving of broken objects. The ritualistic aspect, silent group participation, and monochromatic color add to the appeal.

See the video documentation here.

All the images above are courtesy of the Bridge Club's website (photo credit: Matt Woodman).

The Collections of Susan Hiller

I recently discovered Susan Hiller on one of my new favorite blogs, Nihilsentimentalgia.

Susan Hiller, Homage to Joseph Beuys (felt lined cabinets of bottles of holy water collected by the artist from around the world), Ongoing from 1969

Susan Hiller, Painting Books and Painting Blocks, 1972-1984 (previously exhibited paintings reconfigured as sculpture)

 Susan Hiller, Homage to Marcel Broadthaers: Voyage, 2009

 Susan Hiller, The Last Silent Movie, 2007/2008 (20-minute single-screen video, continuous soundtrack of extinct and endangered languages subtitled on black screens)

From the artist's website:

"Each of Susan Hiller’s works is based on specific cultural artifacts from our society, which she uses as basic materials. Many of her works explore the liminality of certain phenomena including the practice of automatic writing, near death experiences, and collective experiences of unconscious, subconscious and paranormal activity."

Postcard Collective: Participation Art

See my blog post on Participation Art and the Postcard Collective here.

Answering Cat Lynch's call for participation at Ucross, Wyoming, August 2013

In case you are curious, the coordinates are: 44°33′39″N 106°32′24″W
and I checked "tragic flaw." Hope it made it through the mail! 

Burying (a piece of) Camden's Rock at Triple Creek Park

The collaboration continues (it will be a very long time before the entire concrete block is gone).

Random Photographs from Ucross

I was fascinated by the wall of Miss Indian America photographs from the mid 1950s through the early 1980s at the best museum in Sheridan - the Don King Museum in King's Saddlery.

Visual chaos at the Don King Museum.

Daily bike ride (sometimes multiple times) down Big Red Road. Imagine 10-50 deer on either side of the lane depending on the time of day.

Curtains in Buck's Cabin (the rec room)

Double rainbow (quickly followed by a rainstorm) on an evening walk to the studios

Eating breakfast outside (Cindy, the resident chef's homemade granola = WOW)

Label found on leftovers which accurately sums up our eating experience

Evening walk to the studios / reflection on the irrigation water with the Bighorn Mountains in the distance

Piney Creek, a short walk away from the studio

Obligatory Population 25 sign

One of my favorite smells: sagebrush

Teepee circles (either Crow or Sioux) overlooking Piney Creek and the Ucross Foundation (the land is former Sioux bison hunting grounds)

Triple Creek Park and Kocur (two writers' studios) in the distance

View from my bedroom window in the Depot

Reflection from the studio window onto a table top propped against a wall

Studio at Ucross

Rock studios - approach by bicycle

Rock Studio #3 where I spent the most time

Studio editing and table set-up

Second best use of a Fed Ex account: ground delivery of all of this that arrived on the second day

Samples of paper dipped in Clear Creek

Temporary installation of 139 books checked out via Interlibrary Loan and read in a 13 month period (still processing this piece but it will be featured as a list in some capacity).

Tape leftover once the Interlibrary Loan slips were removed.

The Pool at the Ranch at Ucross

The first day when three of us biked over to the Ranch at Ucross, the pool was emerald green. Maintenance said it was due to the water running through copper pipes, though who knows the accuracy of that statement.

The second day I went alone and it was even murkier as the brand was barely visible as seen in the photograph above.

The third time it resembled glacial melt. None of this prevented me from swimming (a huge bonus compared to the previous residency in 2008 - access to a pool in 90º August weather). We will see if I contract a rare disease, though we were assured that the chemical balances were fine each and every time.

"Brown Stone" - Richard Hugo