Exhibitions

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2006-2010
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Sounding the Subject/Video Trajectories:
Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and the New Art Trust

2007, MIT List Visual Arts Center

Sounding the Subject/Video Trajectories features works drawn from the collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust. Sounding the Subject considers the use of sound, the human voice, and theatrical performances by artists Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Stan Douglas, David Hammons, Nam June Paik, and Pipilotti Rist. This exhibition was organized by guest curators Daniel Birnbaum, Rector of the Städelschule Art Academy and Director of the Portikus Gallery in Frankfurt–am-Main, Germany, and Mechtild Widrich, Ph.D. candidate, MIT’s History, Theory, and Criticism program.

The exhibition's theme continues in a library-format exhibition, Video Trajectories, that features works by artists that were created from the 1960s to the early 2000s.Video Trajectories was organized by guest curator Caroline A. Jones, MIT Professor, MIT's History, Theory, and Criticism program. Video Trajectories presents time-based media works by Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Vito Acconci, Doug Aitkin, Allora & Calzadilla, John Baldessari, Dara Birnbaum, Dan Graham, Gary Hill, Joan Jonas, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Mariko Mori, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik, Pipilotti Rist, Richard Serra and Carlotta Fay Schoolman, Bill Viola, and Jane and Louise Wilson. This 80-page catalogue publication features essays by curators Daniel Birnbaum, Mechtild Widrich, and Caroline A. Jones, and introductions by Pamela and Richard Kramlich and List Center Director Jane Farver.
(ISBN-13:  978-0-938437-68-2  ISBN-10:  0-938437-68-2)

$25
80 pages
Color and b/w illustrations

Cameron Jamie Exhibition Catalogue

2007 Published for the Walker Art Center

Cameron Jamie's work--a blend of video, sound, performance, photography and drawing--confronts the dysfunction of European and American society. His critical gaze often focuses on ritualistic practices in popular culture such as hot dog eating contests and backyard wrestling. Taking suburban phenomena of this sort as his primary material, Jamie explores the dark underbelly of the American dream in drawings, film and performance. This artist-designed exhibition catalogue features more than 60 works in various media, illuminating the artist's process with selections from his personal archive of clippings and ephemera, as well as raw sketches for his projects. An essay by exhibition curator Philippe Vergne, a forward by Walker director Kathy Halbreich and a reprint of a poem by Charles Bukowski selected by the artist provide context for this first large-scale, museum presentation of Jamie's work.
(ISBN10: 0935640878 ISBN13: 978-0-935640-87-8)

$35
size 8.5 x 10.5 inches
176 pages
178 color and 73 b/w images

Sensorium: Embodied Experience, Technology, and Contemporary Art

2006, the MIT Press, co-published with the MIT List Visual Arts Center, edited by Caroline A. Jones

The relationship between the body and electronic technology, extensively theorized through the 1980s and 1990s, has reached a new technosensual comfort zone in the early twenty-first century. In Sensorium, contemporary artists and writers explore the implications of the techno-human interface. Ten artists, chosen by an international team of curators, offer their own edgy investigations of embodied technology and the technologized body. These range from Matthieu Briand's experiment in "controlled schizophrenia" and Janet Cardiff and Georges Bures Miller's uneasy psychological soundscapes to Bruce Nauman's uncanny night visions and François Roche's destabilized architecture. A 260-page catalogue contains a main essay by Caroline A. Jones; essays on the artists by Bill Arning, Jane Farver, Yuko Hasegawa, and Marjory Jacobson; and an Abecedarius (from "Air" to "Zoon") that offers an extensive rethinking of the body's relations with technology. Abecedarius entries are by Bill Arning, Caroline Bassett, Michael Bull, Zeynep Çelik, Constance Classen, Jonathan Crary, Chris Csikszentmihàlyi, Mark Doty, Joseph Dumit, Michel Foucault, Peter Galison, Donna Haraway , Martin Jay, Amelia Jones, , Hiroko Kikuchi, Stephen M. Kosslyn, Bruno Latour, Thomas Y. Levin, Peter Lunenfeld, William J. Mitchell, Yvonne Rainer, Barbara Maria Stafford, Neal Stephenson, Michael Swanwick /William Gibson, Sherry Turkle, and Stephen Wilson.
(ISBN-13: 978-0-262-10117-2, ISBN-10: 0-262-10117-3)

$30
Color and b/w illustrations

9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theatre, and Engineering, 1966

2006, MIT List Visual Arts Center

In 1966, a Bell Laboratories physicist brought a group of avant-garde artists together with 10 open-minded members of the science and technology fields for 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering, a series of investigatory Happenings which took place at the 69th Regiment Armory and were duly noted by critics Lucy Lippard and Brian O'Doherty. The resulting seminal performances included John Cage's Variations VII, in which 30 photocells were mounted around the performance space, activating a variety of sound sources--including a blender, 20 radio channels and two Geiger counters--as the performers moved around. An 88-page exhibition catalogue includes original essays by Clarisse Bardiot (researcher at Daniel Langlois Foundation), Michelle Kuo (Harvard PhD. candidate), and Catherine Morris (exhibition curator). It also includes reprinted reviews of the original performances 9 Evenings: Theatre and Engineering by Lucy Lippard and Brian O'Doherty, and an interview with Herb Schneider (engineer).
(ISBN-978-0-938437-69-7)

$25
Color and b/w illustrations

America Starts Here: Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler

No Longer Available at the List Visual Arts Center. Please contact the MIT Press [http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10785].

2006, Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, MIT List Visual Arts Center, MIT Press

During their decade-long collaboration (1985-1995), Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler produced some of the most influential conceptual art projects of the time. Among their witty and stimulating installations and outdoor projects was Camouflaged History, a house painted in a U.S. Army-designed camouflage pattern using 72 commercial paint colors included in the municipally-approved "authentic colors" of historic Charleston, South Carolina. The commercial name of each paint, commemorating an aspect of the city's history, is also painted on the house, revealing and illuminating the lingering Civil War-era past of the region. Like the Earthwork pioneers, Ericson and Ziegler took the whole country as their working space; but rather than impose a conspicuous work of art upon a site or situation, they devised projects that altered sites subtly, creating a patchwork of poetic narratives and histories to be excavated. A 216-page exhibition catalogue including descriptions of all Ericson and Ziegler projects as well as photographs and installation views of their exhibitions and previously unpublished and never-before-exhibited plans and drawings from their archives. The catalogue contains essays by exhibition curators Bill Arning and Ian Berry, an interview with Ziegler, and an extensive biography and bibliography. In addition, curators who originally commissioned Ericson and Ziegler's public works-Judith Hoos Fox, Kathy Goncharov, Mary Jane Jacob, Patricia Phillips, Lane Relyea, Ned Rifkin, Valerie Smith, and Judith Tannenbaum-provide texts about their experiences of working with the artists.
(ISBN-13: 978-0-262-01228-7, ISBN-10: 0-262-01228-6)

$40
Color