[Video + Documentation] Artwork in "Another Dimension" at FR MoCA
After the "Another Dimension" (2024) group show opened at FR MoCA last June, it became clear, through conversations with directors Brittni Ann Harvey & Harry Gould Harvey IV and visitors, that my installation would really benefit from a thorough explanation of the history and concepts I was driving at. The effort of creating context and generating discourse is crucial to my work as what I produce is meant to provoke a dialogue. I have learned that I need to take the time to give people the language and research references to engage the work in order to have it travel beyond the walls of the gallery or museum. Perhaps in a pervious era of art, this didactic dissection would happen externally through the lens of criticism or art journalism, but today, I find myself doing this work.
The importance of this self-cataloguing effort became apparent after the "Spooky Castle" project, in which curator Aaron Moulton, artist Abbey Pusz and I wrote, acted, shot and edited a full TV show in order to present the complex stories of the Influencing Machine show in an easily transmissible package. With a near media blackout surrounding this groundbreaking show of novel research and contemporary political art, it was clear that if we didn't contextualize and package the work ourselves it would be lost in the ocean of churning content that overflows our feeds everyday. You can watch the TV show on DIS.art.
Spooky Castle was in many ways a precursor to this video performance. A big difference is that this time around I was not playing "the mummy, Jak'Ra, representing undead academic activism" but rather I was playing the character of myself the artist. I really tried to key it up a notch and bring my best "content creator voice." After editing this video for the past 5 months, it has become something like "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives" meets "Skinwalker Ranch", but with Simon Schama, Art Safari or John Berger aspirations. It was really such an incredible experience working with Brittni and Harry at FR MoCA and I am so happy to launch this video as part of a new Youtube channel that will be documenting and exploring all of the intriguing work that is happening at Fall River Museum of Contemporary Art.
I have organized installation documentation below for your reference as you watch. All works are vinyl wall graphics made using a vinyl cutter and original drawings, designs, and typographic design.
An Abbreviated Collection of Models for the Better Understanding & Appreciation of Higher Dimensional Action in the Expanded Field of Time and Space: 1. Hyperobject Evolution 2. Newport Tower Mystery 3. Realism Continuum", 2024, Vinyl, Dimensions Variable
- Hyperobject Evolution - Buckminster Fuller, Geodesic Dome
- Hyperobject Evolution - Claude Bragdon - Hypercube Diagram
- Hyperobject Evolution - Charles Hinton, Cube Passing Through Space
2. Newport Tower Mystery
2. Newport Tower Mystery - Details
3. Realism Continuum - Representation vs. Abstraction Timeline Model
3. Realism Continuum - Drawing of an Animating Tesseract
3. Realism Continuum - Hypercube Text Extrusion
Hidden details within installation space
"Strata-Cut Line Marking Summer Solstice to Autumnal Equinox in the Year Two Thousand Twenty Four at Forty One Point Seven Zero Zero Five Repeating Degrees North by Negative Seventy One Point One Five Two Repeating Degrees West & Two Hundred Feet and Three Inches Above the Level of the Sea.", 2024, Vinyl, Dimensions Infinite
“Projective Ornamentation for Exhibition Another Dimension: Neogothic Hypercube, Camera Obscura Iris Motif, Camera Obscura Diagram, Cyberfeminism Circuit-Weave", 2024, Vinyl, Dimensions Variable
Neogothic Hypercube - (This vinyl did not end up being installed, but the image was used for promotional material)
Cyberfeminism Circuit-Weave (after Sadie Plant, "Zeros + Ones: Digital Women and the New Technoculture")
Iris Motif for Camera Obscura
Camera Obscura Diagram