Corin Hewitt’s practice fuses photography, sculpture and the sort of critical inquiry into the classification of natural and cultural objects normally undertaken by scientists and spirited amateur collectors. At Dorsch Gallery until June 5, an exhibit of Hewitt’s carefully arranged still-life photography entitled “Drying Flowers in a Microwave” features studio shots of flower arrangements…
We Live Inside the World 5 minutes 2010 Hollow Earth propaganda! The video’s point of departure is an assertion by a 19th century Utopian community in isolated coastal Florida that the Earth is a hollow sphere, cradling the entire universe inside. The video We Live Inside the World is constructed as a didactic document of performative…
A few weeks ago nearly a hundred academics, artists, educators and critics descended upon the University of North Carolina’s Asheville campus for an on-site conference examining the legacy of Black Mountain College, the first since the institution’s closure in 1957. Founded in 1933 by a group of academics and students eager to practice theories of…
Engines roaring, Jeepers conquer Potato Salad Hill while spectators watch in the right foreground from atop a building sprayed with Utopian graffiti. “The goddess is alive and magic is afoot.” Meanwhile a woman (the goddess?) demonstrates another kind of mastery, dramatically screeching as she cracks a whip which echoes through the canyon.
Canario 2008 Site-specific video & performance Created in collaboration with Nicolas Lobo and Psychic Youth Video light show and live psychedelic music performance at an abandoned marijuana grow house in a residential neighborhood deep in Dade County. All of the raw footage in the video projection was shot inside of the house, where light seeped…
Mounted Horse Men 2008 Video edition on USB stick Part sculpture, part accessory, part documentary, Mounted Horse Men is a primitive tool that, once removed from its sheath and inserted into a USB drive, launches a video study of men imposing order on the landscape. The order of the clips is reconfigured each time the…
Moab Video Project Throughout 2008 I organized a video program called Moab Video Project on MAC21, a small cable station broadcasting in a single secluded desert community. Part curatorial project, part intervention/installation, I inserted a different artist’s video into regular programming every week for a year. MAC21 functions as the community information channel, viewed by…
Contemplating a Stream 2007 Performance for live webcast Inspired by Whitman, this performance was broadcast via live web stream. Contemplating a Stream was conceived for PerformaTV, artist Ronnie Bass’s internet-based performance venue created for Performa 07.
Amazonian News Network 2005 video, 5 minutes 45 seconds Amazonian News Network explores the Female Soldier archetype, representing both gender transgression and patriotism in popular media since the 17th century, through the visual language of a 24-hour news channel. Segments, both factual and fictional, magnify a reporting style in which individual narratives overshadow broader sociopolitical…
Female Soldier Ballads 2005 A cappella folk song cycle and screen printed broadsheets Female Soldier Ballads is a cycle of ballads about U.S. military women Lynndie England, Jessica Lynch, Shoshanna Johnson, and Lori Piestewa that I composed and sang. The compositions are printed on decorative lyric sheets that reference 18th century broadsides, the forebearers of…
Lady Presidential Candidates Commemorative Plates 2004 & 2008 Repurposed ceramic plates, hand painted These plates are hand painted with portraits of some of the first women to run for President of the United States, each in a style relevant to the era of her campaign. The collectible plate is a familiar element of presidentiana, the…
Left Mitten and The Great Denudation 2004 Sculpture & performance Fabricated of silicon-coated ripstop nylon, Left Mitten is decked out like a Country and Western performer, replete with fringe, appliqué, and embroidery. Country and Western costuming as a craft was perfected by Nudie’s Rodeo Tailor, among others, to outfit Hollywood’s singing cowboys and Grand Ole…
2003 Monster Tree is a sculpture and performance created in collaboration with Fabienne Lasserre for High Desert Test Sites 2 in Joshua Tree, CA. ” order_by=”sortorder” order_direction=”ASC” returns=”included” maximum_entity_count=”500″]
For High Desert Test Sites 4, I collaborated with artist Fabienne Lasserre on Free Radio HDTS, a low power FM radio station. We compiled over ten hours of audio art, music, and archival material, inspired by high desert geography, which was broadcast during the three-day event held at sites near Joshua Tree, California. Many listeners tuned in as…
Cloud Seeding: Circus of the Performative Object Cloud Seeding Circus was a touring performance project produced collaboratively by ten visual artists. A mobile installation, exhibition space and vehicle for performance, the compact caravan lumbered into unsuspecting towns and anticipating art venues, unpacking its wares in the spirit of the best bell-laden gypsies. Drawing inspiration from…