COLLABORATIONS. I'm all about them, and I've been really, really into them this past year. Unfortunately, although the outcome has been amazingly fortunate, since June started I've somehow given all of my time away and most of the collaborations I've been interested in haven't moved past the "inspired idea" stage. This drives me crazy. This makes me cranky. This makes me restless.
Enter January 2011. Quiet time. STUDIO TIME. Full blown, mostly uninterrupted, studio. time. I'm kicking it off with the beginnings of a sound installation, something I've been interested in for a very long time now, with Matt Mayer of A Snake in the Garden and NNA Tapes, a fellow 180 resident. The collaboration is a match made in abstract heaven, as our work runs along parallel conceptual paths: My work is and always has been about manipulating colors/textures/application to evoke emotions that create some kind of inner noise, and Matt's is about "manipulating sound and sonic texture (more specifically from found metal) in a cathartic and primitive way in order to convey emotion/feeling without any direct reference or representation.. and attempting to communicate thought/emotion that cannot be communicated in any other way". I'm so excited to see where we can go with this and which direction we push it in. I've been obsessed, obsessed, with the idea of erasing and destructing memories and their attached emotions, tearing them into nonrepresentational still frames that exist on their own and can create new paths, so maybe this is the perfect opportunity for the concept to be recognized. Here's a video of one of Matt's shows at his 180 studio:
Enter January 2011. Quiet time. STUDIO TIME. Full blown, mostly uninterrupted, studio. time. I'm kicking it off with the beginnings of a sound installation, something I've been interested in for a very long time now, with Matt Mayer of A Snake in the Garden and NNA Tapes, a fellow 180 resident. The collaboration is a match made in abstract heaven, as our work runs along parallel conceptual paths: My work is and always has been about manipulating colors/textures/application to evoke emotions that create some kind of inner noise, and Matt's is about "manipulating sound and sonic texture (more specifically from found metal) in a cathartic and primitive way in order to convey emotion/feeling without any direct reference or representation.. and attempting to communicate thought/emotion that cannot be communicated in any other way". I'm so excited to see where we can go with this and which direction we push it in. I've been obsessed, obsessed, with the idea of erasing and destructing memories and their attached emotions, tearing them into nonrepresentational still frames that exist on their own and can create new paths, so maybe this is the perfect opportunity for the concept to be recognized. Here's a video of one of Matt's shows at his 180 studio:
OTHER and equally exciting collaborations include the creation of a new book with my studio mate Haley Bishop (finally!), whose work also revolves around the importance of memory,
Haley Bishop, 'City Scape'
a new Borough show revolving around the idea of storytelling that includes artists such as Rich Pellegrino, Eric Reinemann, Jessica Deahl, Cameron Schmitz, Borough residents Haley Bishop and Stephen Orloske, and hopefully Isaac Pelepko, among others (all images courtesy of respective artists),
And, finally, if we can ever get it together, my most beloved and amazing friend Phil Hardy, who I'm already working on a children's book with, and I have been talking about a really conceptual installation for months now, one that wraps together the abstract sublime and dadaism. So, maybe in this year of collaborations, we'll eventually make it happen.
I'd say this is enough to look forward to, and I'm excited and preparing to kick off 2011. It's ambitious, and I'm excited to see which direction all of the above Not that the rest of December isn't enough to look forward to as it is, because I definitely have amazing things coming up: two of my most loved friends are coming in to Vermont from Norway and Africa next week (ahhh!!!!). Can't wait to start these collaborations, and I can't wait to see where they all go.
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