Over the last fifteen years that has made up the most substantial portions of my practice, I have consistently found that my desires to work within particular genres or with particular ideas has an important life outside of my own work. Thus, I have found it important to curate, produce and exhibit works of other artists to not only show different approaches and cultural perspectives, but to also extend opportunities to develop further reaching art communities and to give access to a more diverse gathering of works to local patrons than what they might normally see. Below are some brief descriptions highlighting
3 of the 18 different exhibitions I have curated and organized.
DEPICTING ACTION is the most recent of my curatorial ventures. Information on how to get a copy of the exhibit catalogue can be found on the “Publications+Videos” page. The first installment of this series took place at the 18th Street Art Gallery in Santa Monica, California in 2006. The exhibition went on for 4 weeks, with 2 artists exhibiting work each week. The gallery was divided into 2 equal parts, and each artist presented a multi-hour work combining performance and installation during that weeks opening event. The remnants of the work were left on exhibition for the following week along with video footage of the performance action. Participants included: Alastair MacLennan (Belfast), Mariel Carranza (Los Angeles), Nezaket Ekici (Stuttgart), Jeff Huckleberry (Boston), Sinead O’Donnell (Belfast), Paul Couillard (Toronto), Alejandra Herrera (Santiago) and Marilyn Arsem (Boston). A second installment of this same project took place at the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow, Scotland, February 2008 featuring: Suzanne Lacy, Dan McKereghan, Gertrude Berg, Derek Horton, Micol Hebron, Angela Ellsworth, Mariel Carranza, Jeff Huckleberry and Marilyn Arsem.
Alejandra Herrera
Marilyn Arsem
Jeff Huckleberry
Nezaket Ekici
Mariel Carranza
Alastair MacLennan
Paul Couillard
Sinead O’Donnell
CORPOREAL HEAT was an international performance art festival that took place Spring of 2004 at an abandoned police station in the heart of Boston, Massachusetts. I had been acting as a full time visiting artist faculty member in the performance department at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts and one particular course I taught was leading students through the process of curating and producing such an event. Participating artists included; Deva Eveland (Chicago), Dan McKereghan (New York), Julie Andre T. (Montreal), Dominic Gagnon (Montreal), Jeffrey Byrd (Cedar Falls, Iowa), John Boehme (Victoria, Canada), Nezaket Ekici (Stuttgart), Marilyn Arsem (Boston), Hiroko Kikuchi (Boston), Helge Meyer (Germany)
Helge Meyer (Germany)
Dan McKereghan (New York)
Hiroko Kikuchi (Boston)
Julie Andre T & Dominic Gagnon (Montreal)
Jeffrey Byrd (Iowa)
John Boehme (Victoria, B.C.)
FULL NELSON is an international festival of installation, video and performance art works. It has taken place in Seattle and Los Angeles in an airplane hangar, train station, abandoned theaters and a old brewery. Thousands of people have attended the periodic event and almost a hundred artists have participated. The most recent installment took place in Los Angeles in 2003. Participants have included:
Jean Dupuy, Andre Stitt, Skip Arnold, Irma Optimist, Bobby Wane, Jessica Buege, Leslie Clague, Walter Wright, T. Lee Gilliam, Derek Horton, Ladan Yalzadeh, Micol Hebron, The Elizabeths, Bison, Pekka Luhta, Julie Bacon, Roddy Hunter, John Boehme, Angela Ellsworth, Dan Mckereghan, Mariel Carranza, Elizabeth Tobias, Juliet Waller, Powderkeg, Gyrl Grip, Alexander Del Re, Tamara Paris, Matt Fontaine, Brian O’Hare, Martin Durazo and Joshua Okon.