Tuesday, September 13, 2011

21 Rooms @ The Nevada Hotel

My new performance piece Touch Me (My Skin Will Keep You) will be premiering at this incredible show! Much thanks to 3S Artspace for this great opportunity. Here's a teaser pic to entice you....

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21 Rooms
21 artists transform 21 rooms into a one-night art experience

21 featured artists will be afforded one of the motel's 21 rooms for two nights to serve as a mini-residency or act as a studio. On the second evening, two stories of rooms will be opened to the public and presented as mini-galleries. The show will transform the Nevada Motel into an interactive spectacle of installation, performance and video art. Participating artists will be coming from as close as Wells, Maine, and as far away as Dallas, Texas. 21 Rooms was guest-curated by Quinn Corey, a long-time creative presence in the emerging arts scene in Providence, RI, along with 3S co-founder, John Gayle. The event is free and open to the public (donations generously accepted) and the Nevada Motel is located at 141 Long Beach Avenue in York, Maine. 21 Rooms is part of 3S's ongoing Open Space series.

Location:
141 Long Beach Avenue, York, ME

Date and Time:
Friday, September 23 at 5-9pm

After party at Inn on the Blues at 9:30pm with music by Gentleman Outfit
Cover - Open to the public

Participating Artists:
Sarah Baldwin - Wells, ME
Bill Cifuni - Lancaster, PA
Stephanie Cornell - Portsmouth, NH
Elizabeth Donsky - Brooklyn, NY
Katherine Doyle - Newcastle - NH
Tracy Walter Ferry - Cheshire, CT
Shawn Gilheeney - Providence, RI
Carly Glovinski - Dover, NH
Katie Hickman - Brooklyn, NY
Jessica Lauren Lipton - Portland, ME
Cynthia McLaughlin - Colrain, MA
Lori Miles - Indianapolis, IN
Bennett Morris - Portland ME
Tara Nelson - Jamaica Plain, MA
Andrew Neumann - Boston, MA
Marianne Newsom - Dallas TX
Abbey Ozanich - Chicago, IL
Dillon Paul - Brooklyn, NY
Julie Poitras Santos - Portland, ME
Sunny Sliger - Dallas, TX
Douglas Urbank - Boston, MA
Jackie Weaver - Troy, NY
Lindsey Wolkowicz - Brooklyn, NY

Guest Curator Quinn Corey: Quinn Corey is an artist and arts organizer who has lived and worked in Providence, RI for the past ten years. As a member of the Providence Initiative for Psychogeographic Studies, Quinn helped organize and participated in Provflux II-V, an annual festival for participatory art, and his own work has been exhibited throughout the United States. Quinn creates psychedelic pop-art, images, sculptures, and installations inspired by the graphic language of spectacular culture. Currently Quinn is a founding member of Color Force Contemporary, an artist’s studio, exhibition space and residency program in Fall River, MA.

DJ Douglas Urbank: Douglas Urbank has hosted Boston College’s WZBC “The Pinwheels of Your Mind” radio program since 2001. The show is devoted to experimental, improvisational and other unconventional music, spoken word and sound art. For his soundtracks he combines and manipulates found, recorded, and generated sound.

Monday, March 14, 2011

In Defense of the Unconscious Mind

David Brooks: The social animal | Video on TED.com

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

Archiving the Past is like a Personal Excavation

Photos from the

first 3

installations in the Obsessive Tendencies Series....

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Obsessive Tendencies

Obsessive Tendencies

An Installation Experiment in Four Acts

October 13^th 2010 – May 29^th 2011

The Sylvia Kania Gallery is pleased to host an ambitious new series by gallery artist Jess-Lauren Lipton. Obsessive Tendencies is an eight month series of four installations exploring fixations, compulsions, reactions, and time. Each installation is created by an implied character, a persona, who uses the physical space as an attempt to structure their world and make sense of the monsters within. Sound specific to the installation echoes off the walls. At the center of each room sits a chair allowing the viewer spend time in the space.

Mea Culpa (October 13 – November 28^th) explores how we obsess over one another and how fragile our sense of self can be. The room is a saturated crimson brown covered in black and white photos of a woman. The relationship between her and the photographer is never explained. They may be lovers or perfect strangers, but she is the focus of the photographer's passion and affirmation of their existence. The one-sidedness of this relationship makes it tenuous and potentially dangerous.

The second installation is Fortress (December 8^th – January 30^th). A life size child's fort engulfs the space. The walls have been scrawled with thoughts and drawings, poetry and prose, of a mind seeking the comfort and security that these forts often afforded children. A music box repeatedly plays 'My Favorite Things.' The viewer is invited to crawl inside and lounge among the pillows and blankets.

Time is the central theme in the third installation Somme Nous les Jouets du Destin (February 9^th – March 27^th). At the opening reception over 300 white tea cups will be filled will tea and left in the space. Over the course of the installation they will begin to evaporate at their own pace, all starting in tune with each other and then forming and reforming relationships within the room. Each tea cup will go through it's own life-cycle within the context of the larger group.

The final installation in the series, Narcissa on the Brink (April 6^th – May 29^th) utilizes analogue photography to document the psychological break in a young woman. She is experiencing the stages of grief where the underlying trauma left unidentified. Whether she is allowing herself to be photographed or is unaware of the camera is unclear. So is her location. The white walls could be that of her own apartment or an institution. The chair at the center of the room allows the viewer to place themselves in the role of casual observer and psychologist.

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