THROUGH 2009 & 2010 THIS EXHIBITION TOURED FROM SEATTLE TO PORTLAND AND CONCLUDED (IN-PART) AT DITCH PROJECTS IN SPRINGFIELD OREGON. THIS SITE SERVES AS AN ARCHIVE OF THE EXHIBITION, IT'S TRAVELS, AND THE ARTISTS INVOLVED.
ARTISTS INCLUDE:
DAVID BERMAN, JOSEPH BURWELL, DOMINIC DEJOSEPH, BILL DANIEL, ANNA FIDLER, ANNA GRAY + RYAN PAULSEN, ALEXANDRA LAKIN-GORDON, DONALD MORGAN, MELODY OWEN, LINAS PHILLIPS, GREG POND, QUALIA TINKERING INSTITUTE, JAN TUMLIR, LAURA VANDENBURGH, & ANKE WEYER.
((FIND COMPLETE ARTIST BIOS, EXHIBITED WORKS, AS WELL AS THE TEXT OF JAN TUMLIR'S "CROSSING PATHS" WRITTEN, AND PUBLISHED, FOR THE OCCASION OF THIS EXHIBITION)).
- JACK RYAN: CURATOR
The exhibition poster is a production still from Dominic DeJoseph’s elegant film produced for this exhibition.
Anke Weyer was born in Karlsruhe, Germany and resides in Brooklyn, NY. She is represented by Canada, a New York gallery. She studied at The Cooper Union and at Hochschule fuer bildende Kuenste Staedelschule in Frankfurt. She has exhibited in Stockholm, Toronto, London, Copenhagen, at Leo Koenig in NY, at Mary Goodman in Los Angelos and been written about in the New York Times.
Filmed and produced for Of Walking In Ice by Dominic DeJoseph with sound by Sean Eden.
David Berman is an artist, writer, poet, and musician based in Nashville who received his MA in creative writing from the University of Virginia. He is the singer/ songwriter for The Silver Jews and his book of poetry, Actual Air, was published by Open City Books in 1999. Portable February, his collection of drawings and observations was published by Drag City in June.
Dominic J. DeJoseph has directed music videos for indie rock bands, working extensively with R.E.M. throughout their career, and documentaries featuring Wim Wenders and Bono as well as the “Johnny Berlin” series. His independent films and documentaries have screened at the Tribeca FilmFestival, SxSW, SILVERDOCS, and The Robert Flaherty Documentary Seminar,as well as internationally.Dominic’s most recent production is the short sci-fi horror film, “Turn It Off,” and is currently working on a feature-length screenplay about the history of wireless technology. He lives in Brooklyn.
Melody Owen is a visual artist and curator living in Portland, Oregon. She was recently working at the Gästeatelier Krone Residency in Switzerland. She has also done residencies in Iceland, Paris, Quebec and Eastern Oregon. She is represented by Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland and has also shown work at the Portland Art Museum, PDX Gallery, PICA, Fugitive Art Center in Nashville, Contemporary Arts Center in Massachusetts, London Metropolitan University, and the PDX Film Festival. http://thistlepress.net/
Qualia Tinkering Institute is a consortium of collaborators from the Pacific Northwest. They work between the collisions of art/design/and philosophy in order to alter, engineer, rethink, and scape space.
Seattle Installation Documentation: Greg Pond’s Of Walking Stick (Sound, electronics, wood).
Portland Installation Documentation from The White Stage Building. L to R: exhibition tabloid (floor), Anna Fidler (Swamp Band), Alexandra Lakin (Man Catches Woman, Private Home), Greg Pond (Of Walking Stick).
