STREAM exhibitions are organized by the curatorial collective Two Chairs. As part of Two Chairs, I had the pleasure of contributing to the curating and production of these four.
STREAM
2014
Organized by Two Chairs (Cindy Smith with Wolfgang Berkowski, Rachel Stevens and Mae Brody)
Artists participating in STREAM: Edward Allington (United Kingdom), Anthea Behm (Australia), Josef Bull (Sweden), Jack Carr (US), Ingela Ihrman (Sweden), Erin Ikeler (US), Allan Kaprow (US-Allan Kaprow Estate), Rachel Stevens (US), Patricia Thornley (US).
Stream: Chapter 2 (Helpless)
2015
Artists participating in STREAM 2: Helpless: Peggy Ahwesh (US), Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin (US), Tony Do (US), Ingela Ihrman (Sweden), E.E. Ikeler (US), H. P. Lovecraft (US), Shana Moulton (US), David Nash (UK), Caleb Nussear (US), Jennifer Reeves (US), Rachel Stevens (US), George Wichelns (US), Brian Zeeger and Rachel Frank (US).
Survivalist Cinema returned, this time housing a program of experimental shorts I programmed called Anthroposcenic.
These experimental shorts re-imagine the ‘figure in the landscape’ trope, calling upon consumer objects with mystical properties, “machinema,” low-tech sci-fi performance, post-production, and decomposition to augment or devolve bodies and personhood in relationship to the landscape.
Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin, ARK3: THE WATERWAY SCENARIOS (2015, video, 13 min.), Brian Zegeer and Rachel Frank, Far Rockaway (2012, mixed-media animation, digital video, 4:53 min.), Peggy Ahwesh, She Puppet (2001, video, 15 min.), Jennifer Reeves, Landfill 16 (2011, 16mm film transferred to video, 9 min.) , Shana Moulton, Mindplace Thoughtstream (2014, video, 11:57 min.)
STREAM 3: Capitalocene
2016
Participating artists: Peggy Ahwesh (US), Annie Berman (US), E.E. Ikeler (US), Yu Jin (US), Juneau Projects, (UK), Louise Lawler, (US), Arrow Mueller, (US), David Nash (UK), Kenneth Pietrobono (US), Rachel Stevens (US), Zoe Walsh (US), Marina Zurkow (US).
STREAM Chapter 4
2017
On the site’s former life producing bricks.
One video was screened in the Survivalist Cinema – In Comparison by Harun Farocki (2009).