March 2010
Aurora Picture Show
Houston, Texas
Friday March 30, 2010
Our work Parametabolic and New and Improved will be shown.
The point between love and hate is a fine line when you live and work with your partner. The shared physical space of the home and mental space of love and relationships has tremendous influences on the art-making process, development and professional drive of individuals. As part of Fotofest’s Biennial event, Aurora will feature the work of six collaborative teams of artists, including Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Darrin Martin and Jamil Hellu, Potter Belmar Labs, Duke and Battersby, Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey and Dana and Travis Hanmer, this program highlights some of the video art world’s better known teams who know the ups and downs of living and working together during the creative process.
Some of the specific works featured include "I'll Replace You," described as a project that used a casting call then fifty actors to replace the artists in executing the many responsibilities they undertake every day (Jennifer and Kevin McCoy); "Equal/Opposite," which explores our reactions to emotional stimuli by focusing on the aftershock of intimate physical actions (Travis and Dana Hanmer); "Beauty Plus Pity," which sets a colorful single-channel video within a lush viewing environment populated by costumed taxidermic animals (Duke and Battersby); "Subjects Unknown," a photography series and video that takes inspiration from the ambiguous yet intimate relationships documented between men in the history of early photography (Darrin Martin and Jamil Hellu), "Double Thunder" a short video work chronicling a journey through town and country (Potter Belmar Labs) and two videos, "Parametabolic" and "New and Improved" (Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey), that explore states of being and patterns of thinking - from anxiety and restlessness to motivation and control - on personal, social, and institutional levels.
Special thanks to Art Lies, A Contemporary Art Quarterly for their support of this program.
http://aurorapictureshow.org
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March 2010
Oslo Screen Festival
Oslo, Norway
Friday March 12- 14, 2010
Our work Parametabolic will be shown at the 2nd edition of Oslo Screen Festival!
From March 12th to 14th the festival is showing a competition program with experimental film & video art including 60 international and Norwegian films. Our opening party is Friday 12th at 21:00 at Blå with a screening from CultureTV and concert with Center of the Universe.
Screenings and presentations will take place at Filmens Hus Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th at 13:00. On Saturday there will be a special screening from the festival LOOP Barcelona, and an artist talk and film screening of The Cabin (2010) with artist Per Teljer.
On Sunday we will announce the awards for Best Norwegian Video and Best International Video. There will be a presentation with curator Wilfried Agricola de Cologne and screening from his festival CologneOFF.
The program ends with The Dream That Kicks, a screening with Super 8 classics such as Guerillere Talks by Viviene Dick and T.G. Physic Rally in Heaven by Derek Jarman, presented by Greg Pope.
http://www.blaaoslo.no
http://www.screenfestival.no
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November 2009
Co-Existing and Co-Llaborating
Spaces
Cleveland, Ohio
November 20, 2009 - January 15, 2010
Opening Reception: November 20, 6-9pm
Curated by Mary Magsamen
Curator of Aurora Picture Show, Houston
Featuring film and video by artist teams who present multiple ways of working and thinking about the collaborative process in their art and personal lives.
Artists:
Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby
Travis and Dana Hanmer
Darrin Martin and Jamil Hellu
Jennifer & Kevin McCoy
Potter Belmar Labs
Robyn Voshardt and Sven Humphrey
2220 Superior Viaduct, Cleveland, OH
Hours: Tues - Sat 11-5:30, Friday open until 7, Sunday 1-5
Tel: 216.621.2314
www.spacesgallery.org
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InsideOut
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
November 18 - 22, 2009
230 The Fenway, Boston, MA
Tel: 617-267-6100
Sale dates:
Wednesday, November 18, 12-8 pm
*Opening Celebration: 5-8 pm*
Thursday, November 19, 12-8 pm
Friday, November 20, 12-6 pm
Saturday, November 21, 12-6 pm
Sunday, November 22, 12-6 pm
We'll have photographs available from "Double Bind/Double Blind" at the Museum School's celebrated annual sale, where all purchases support student scholarships.
www.smfa.edu
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October 2009
Souvenirs From Earth
Paris, France / Cologne, Germany
We're pleased to announce our affiliation with Souvenirs from Earth, the first TV Station broadcasting a nonstop program of high quality Film and Video Art on the European Cable Network. Our work will be shown on a weekly basis starting October 18th, 2009.
www.souvenirsfromearth.tv
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July 2009
Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, London, UK
Curzon Soho
Video screening, presented by Little Song Films
www.sohoshorts.com
www.littlesongfilms.com
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June 2009
culturetv.tv
featured Parametabolic
www.culturetv.tv
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April 22 - May 24, 2009
Voshardt/Humphrey
Double Bind / Double Blind
Greene Contemporary
9 Clinton Street, New York, NY
An opening reception on Wednesday, April 22 from 6 to 9 p.m. will preview the exhibition.
This will be our first solo exhibition in New York.
www.greenecontemporary.com
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February 7 - 21, 2009
Anonymous Drawings/ Archive Selection 2009
fruehsorge | Galerie für Zeichnung
Heidestr. 46-52 (Gebäude 6)
10557 Berlin
Germany
Opening
Feb 6: 6 - 9pm
www.fruehsorge.com
www.bluetenweiss-berlin.de
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December 3 - 7, 2008
Greene Contemporary at Aqua Art Miami, Wynwood
Greene Contemporary will feature one of our large photographs as a preview of our upcoming solo show of photo and video at the gallery opening April 22, 2009.
The Aqua Art Miami art fair again takes place in two locations simultaneously: one at the Aqua Hotel in South Beach, near Art Basel Miami Beach where the fair was first launched, and Aqua Wynwood in the heart of Miami's gallery district, just a few blocks from the Rubell Collection, and close to other important venues such as the Margulies Collection and the MOCA Goldman warehouse, and a number of other satellite fairs including NADA, Pulse, Scope Miami, Art Miami, Photo Miami, and The Photography Show.
www.greenecontemporary.com
www.aquaartmiami.com
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November 19-23, 2008
InsideOut
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
230 The Fenway
Featuring work by hundreds of established and emerging artists each year—including internationally known SMFA alumni and faculty, current students, and affiliated artists—the annual event has become the largest public art sale in New England, grossing over $1.1 million in 2007 to support student scholarships.
www.smfa.edu
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Saturday, November 1, 2008
Stars & Stripes
Locust Projects
105 NW 23rd Street, Miami
www.locustprojects.org
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October 3 - November 22, 2008
New York/Tampa, Signatures d'Artistes: Dessin
Bleu Acier
Tampa, FL
This is the first in a series of exhibitions, starting with drawing as “signature.” Bleu Acier has invited artists from Haim Chanin Fine Arts of New York as a component of this exhibition.
Drawing is the most direct and immediate manner for an artist to express an idea and create an image. There is no way to hide behind a line. Intellect travels from a personal space into the public realm of the page. Many contemporary artists use drawing as a primary media or significant part of their oeuvre - not simply a preparatory step to painting, printmaking, sculpture or installation. Drawing allows the artist to freely investigate materials and technique, and to rapidly accelerate an idea - thereby providing the viewer with a dynamic record of an inspired thought as it unfolds.
Artists’ Handwriting: Drawing New York /
Tampa includes works by:
Neil Bender
Gregory Green
Steve McClure
Kim Anderson
Joe Griffith
Brian Taylor
Elisabeth Condon
Max Neumann
Peter Soriano
Pierre Mabille
Voshardt/Humphrey
Dominique Labauvie
Herve DiRosa
Vicky Colombet
Dominica Sanchez
Eduardo Santiere
Harvey Tulcensky
Claudia Scalise
Theo Wujcik
www.bleuacier.com
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July 24 - August 29, 2008
It's Not Easy
Exit Underground
at Exit Art
New York, NY
It’s Not Easy is an exhibition inspired by the recent tidal wave of efforts to go “green”. As new buildings seek LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification, as major corporations seek to “green” their practices, and as global warming puts the need to be green at the forefront, we are virtually inundated with social pressures to be environmentally sustainable. But how is the word ‘green’ really interpreted?
www.exitart.org
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July 11 - August 10, 2008
Green: Inside/Out
Salem Art Association
Salem, Oregon
We'll show new photographs with a video installation of "When I Look Up, I Fall Down" in this lush exhibition dedicated to all things green and sustainable. Occupying the newly renovated A.N. Bush Gallery and the pastoral setting of Bush’s Pasture Park, this show includes work by artist and co-organizer KC Hancock, and artists Michael Boonstra, Tatiana Drofyak, Alexandra Opie, Paula Rebsom, Robyn Voshardt/Sven Humphrey, and others.
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April 24 - 28, 2008
Around the Coyote Video Lounge at Artropolis: Curated by LiveBox
Merchandise Mart, Chicago, 8th floor
(concurrent with Art Chicago & NEXT)
Our video New & Improved (above) will be exhibited as an installation.
Solo artist installations:
Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey, Blake Carrington, Fabienne Gautier, Tim Geers, and Julia Oldham
Screening Room:
Marlo Bodzick, Christopher Bruchansky, Ellen Lake, Pierre St Jacques, Elizabeth Riley, Chie Yamayoshi
Around the Coyote, as a cultural partner of The Artist Project at Artropolis, brings you the Around the Coyote Video Lounge curated by LiveBox. ARTropolis is Chicago’s citywide celebration of arts, antiques and culture. The Video Lounge will open for the preview celebrations on April 24th, and run concurrently with Art Chicago through April 28, 2008.
Since the rise of You Tube and the use of video as a communication language, there has been talk about the death of video art. For many it is becoming increasing difficult to access the artistic quality of video art when the format represents entertainment and cheap reproduction. Very recently though, there has been talk of Video as “New.” New York times critic Holland Cotter wrote in January 2008, “At present it is shaped by a combination of pop fantasy, ingrained cybersmarts, neo tribalism and the angst-free take on contemporary life that marks attention-deficient internet culture.” Cotter was talking about a collection of rising video artists who were creating stunning original video. You Tube habitation and the like had liberated these artists to create fearless work. The ARTropolis Video Lounge is a celebration of video as a seminal medium for young artists today.
www.liveboxgallery.com
Newcity Chicago Critic's Pick
http://www.newcitychicago.com
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April 3, 2008
VOYEUR Video Screening
LOOP, Melbourne, Australia
Including VOYEUR members Tammy Honey, Kim Collmer, Shaun Wilson, Magda Matwiejew, Buckius/Manos, Christoph Oertli, Co Gruendler, Anina Schenker, Erica Eyres and Voshardt/Humphrey
www.looponline.com.au
www.voyeurcollective.com
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through April 10, 2008
Utopia of Space: Post for Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republik
Curated by Latitia Norkeit and Maxim Neroda
How does one bring international art into a country which does not have the financial means required to organize an international exhibition? Latitia Norkeit and Maxim Neroda, two artists from Germany who currently live and work in Bishkek, met this challenge by creating a project in cooperation with the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts, giving it the provocative title “Post for Kyrgyzstan.” For the past few months, packages have been arriving at the museum from artists all over the world. The exhibition will give visitors access to a wide variety of contemporary art otherwise not available, and also show that art does not necessarily involve expensive materials and immense effort.
Plans are underway for a new incarnation of the exhibition in Nürnberg and Berlin.
www.paeckchen.org
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HoldFast, 2007, HD video/sound, dim. variable
Part 1, (7 min. 38 sec.), Part 2 (1 hr. 28 min. 40 sec.)
March 15 - May 10, 2008
Grounded: Photography and Our Contemporary Environment
Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Chase Browder - Isabelle Hayeur - Jenny Kendler -
David Maisel - Tim Maslen & Jennifer Mehra -
John Pfahl - Nichole Van Beek - Caroline Voagen Nelson -
Robyn Voshardt / Sven Humphrey - Scott Wolniak
Curated by Dana Turkovic
Grounded: Photography and Our Contemporary Environment is an exhibition that brings together international photography and video art that focuses on the fundamental relationship between humans and nature and show the complex and dynamic interrelationship between humans and the earth, and to the environmental troubles we are currently confronted with. In partnership with the St. Louis Earth Day organization, the theme of the exhibition was developed through an ongoing discussion with about their interest in adding a collaborative and artistic component that directly involves the community. The group of photographers represented in Grounded are among an intensifying, global movement of artists who are addressing environmental concerns and critically engaging in issues like climate change, extinction, conservation, environmentally sensitive building and planning and waste management and believe that art can play a critical role in providing creative insight into these challenges. Grounded proposes art as a way of creating a better understanding about our relationship with nature and the environment and to explore the renewed role of contemporary art as a leading force in the global debate about the future of the planet. The Ellen Curlee Gallery specializes in contemporary fine art photography with a special emphasis on the work of international photographers.
The gallery is located at 1308-A Washington Ave. in
the Washington Ave Loft district. Hours are 11:00 am to 4:00 p.m. Tuesday - Saturday. (314) 241-1299
http://www.ellencurleegallery.com
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Spring 2008
artMatters
Magazine - School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
"Alumni respond to environmental phenomena and wonder if this is the end of the world as we know it"
Mushaboom - from the HoldFast series shot in Nova Scotia - is featured as the cover photograph, along with an installation view of Generator from the V|07 Venice Videoart Fair.
view cover and article excerpt
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May 1 - May 24, 2008
vt2
International Digital Art Projects
Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia
The Block - Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove
This exhibition reflects a global commitment to exploring cultural identity through leading professional arts practice in digital media. Building on 2007’s Vernacular Terrain exhibition, VT2 presents vibrant, innovative screen-based and photo-media works from international and Indigenous Australian new-media artists.
Curated by Stephen Danzig & Lubi Thomas, IDA Projects
Our videos Parametabolic and When I Look Up, I Fall Down will travel to multiple venues in Australia, Japan, and China
http://www.idaprojects.org/IDAA/2008QUT/index.htm
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March 7 - April 13, 2008
Drawing Beyond the Plane
Tampa Museum of Art
Curated by Elaine Gustafson
Includes four white ink drawings from the Tangles series
These four drawings from the Controlled Growth series explore issues of control and intent on an environmental and personal scale: such as natural decay and regeneration, and the surrender of control to chance in the artist's process.
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March 8 - May 18, 2008
Florida Visual Artist Fellowship Exhibition
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
Curated by Amy Vigilante Dickerson
Includes our series of seven Non-Natives ink drawings, chaotic masses of ink that create an interwoven system of marks suggestive of undergrowth.
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February 20-23, 2008
Push Play: Abstraction and Performance
College Art Association Annual Conference, Dallas
Robyn Voshardt & Sven Humphrey
Paul Slocum
Adad Hannah
Eilleen Maxson
Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand
Enid Baxter Blader
Krista Hoefle
LoVid
Brian DeLevie & Isshaela Ingham
Jeanne Liotta
Mary Benedicto
Erin O'Hara
New and Improvedwill be shown in a video program curated by Andrea Grover, Mary Magsamen & Stephan Hillerbrand
www.aurorapictureshow.org (Andrea Grover)
www.maryandstephan.com
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February 8, 2008
Monumental
Directors Lounge 2008, Scala Theater, Berlin -
coinciding with the 58th Berlin International Film Festival
Cloudland will be screened in a program curated by Kim Collmer with assistance from Voyeur Collective.
Monumental shows work which in some ways both subverts and rallies behind the notion of monument. Often a singular object suggesting timelessness, the nature of monuments and their meaning becomes more complex as we see evidence of crumbling dynasties around us. The theme for the screening is loosely addressed with works about religious ritual, technology, unfilled journeys, political commemoration, home, pompous ritual, cultural history, and nature's glories. We will be screening an international group of artists. The running time is approximately 55 minutes.
www.kimcollmer.com
www.directorslounge.net
www.voyeurcollective.com
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installation view at KM Kultururnea
November 28-29, 2007
MID_E 07
at Arteleku & KM Kulturunea
San Sebastian, Spain
Closer international video art program curated by Colectivo Yox
www.mid-e.com
www.arteleku.net
www.gipuzkoa.net/kultura/katalogoa
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November 2, 2007
Locust Projects, Smash & Grab
exhibition & fundraiser to support
ongoing programs
www.locustprojects.org
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October 11-14, 2007
Around The Coyote Festival, Chicago
Video curated by Catherine Forster of LiveBox
The Fall - video/sound installation in the exhibition hall
When I Look Up, I Fall Down - screenings in the video & media lounge
www.liveboxgallery.com/ExhibitionHallATC.html
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September 2007
New review of our work at V|07 Venice Videoart Fair
you can click here to it see it in our press section or here
www.artfairsinternational.com
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September 21, 2007
Exposed - Video art from Voyeur International Video Collective
Screening at Basement ARI, Fiskars, Finland
Will include our video work & other Voyeur artists.
www.voyeurcollective.com
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July 2007
Bleu Acier is presenting two of our new three-color woodcuts in New Editions. These works were based on our video When I Look Up, I Fall Down, presented at the DiVA video fair in New York earlier this year.
www.bleuacier.com
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installation view at V|07
June 8-9, 2007
Bleu Acier will present our work at the second edition of the V|07 Venice Videoart Fair in Italy, concurrent with the Inauguration of the 52nd Venice Biennale. 25 international galleries were invited to exhibit video and photographs on San Servolo Island.
We've also had good coverage from the V|07 Venice Videoart Fair in June. Upon our return, Art Fairs International magazine asked us to write a guest column about the fair and thoughts on the Biennale.
www.artfairsinternational.com
Exibart, the Italian art publication, just ran an article mentioning us with an image of our "When I Look Up, I Fall Down" video:
www.exibart.com
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June 2007
We'll have a video installation and several drawings in Love's Secret Domain at 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, curated by Seze Devres & Tracey Norman. A group exhibition on contemporary psychedelic art featuring work that is inspired by or inspires heightened states of mind and experimentation with visual perception.
www.seze.net/lsd/
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May 2007
Our video project When I Look Up, I Fall Down has been included in /seconds, issue 5: multitude. /seconds is a UK-based online publishing project.
www.slashseconds.org