Exhibition Checklist and Artists' Statements
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Sarah Berkovich |
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Félix Buo Godless Mixed-Media Artist’s Book 2012 Godless is the result of a game the author privately improvises, a game whose boundaries constantly expand. The goal is to arrive at the boundary before it expands so that the author may cross over into the next dimension of the game. The book’s narrative follows a boy who decides to stay behind and play video games when the rest of the world is evacuating planet Earth due to an impending end of days. Written in the author’s personally synthesized version of Esperanto and temporally located in an ambiguous future, the persistent yet whimsically varied articulations of text, image, and color create an ensemble effort by the author’s faculties to bring forth a narrative from the unconscious. The author’s efforts do not presume a collective unconscious, but rather entertain themselves in the anachronistic encounters of multiple streams of loose associations at close proximity. The book’s protagonist himself, a brown boy in an empty planet, plays a video game whose boundaries constantly expand but conceal behind them the god of the video game whose title purports to be “godless.” |
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Tenyia Lee “The Juniper Tree,” or Some Grimm Stories Altered Book (Hansel and Gretel) 2012 I bet you know Cinderella, and Snow White, and Belle, and maybe even Rapunzel. But do you know the story of Little Marlene and her brother, whose step-mother chopped his head off and cooked him for dinner? Your parents probably didn’t tell you that one. After all, children are so impressionable. |
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Tenyia Lee This Way Out Altered Book (Essays / Ralph Waldo Emerson) 2012 We’ve all been told not to judge a book by its cover, but really we all still do—or at least I do. That’s why I was under the impression when I got this little book that Emerson would be a delightful read, fairy-blue and full of pocket-sized pieces of wisdom and poetry. Sadly to say, his essays were pretty boring. Working with this book, I wanted to fulfill that initial sense of the beautiful cover holding something beautiful. I wanted to build the reader a way out of Emerson’s essays, a way into Narnia or Hogwarts or just out into the woods where stories happen. |
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Elise Macmillan Constructions 7” Lathe-Cut Picnic Plastic Records 2012 |
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Elise Macmillan |
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Sarah Parker Untitled Altered Book (Xaipe / E. E. Cummings) 2012 |
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Raegan Truax this is the moment i left carried in my body in ten parts: in edition of two Compiled Performance Materials 2012 Raegan Truax is a performance artist interested in the residues and traces created by her live performance work. In her performance piece of the same title, Truax creates an environment out of flesh like materials and paper in a theatre or gallery space. Truax performs inside this environment for a live audience for a set duration and then dismantles the environment. Edition 1 contains residue from a four hundred twenty three minute performance that took place in Prosser Black Box at Stanford University on February 27, 2012. Truax weighed one hundred forty nine pounds at the time of this performance and was five feet nine and three quarter inches tall. The papers used for this performance are the pages within the book. The book “text” is the marks of Truax’s body, the bodies of spectators to the performance, and the residues from performance materials as well as Prosser Theatre at the time of performance. The invitation to readers of the book found on the written pages marks the new residues that will accumulate in and on each page as traces from the live performance deteriorate over time. |