Space and response: architecture as collaborator
Up to and Including Her Limits, Carolee Schneemann, 1973.
This summer Wönzimer gallery has been hosting bi-weekly film screenings curated by an array of different artists, directors, and collaborators. I was honored to be asked to put together a program, which took place last night, Thursday, September 15.
The gallery got the word out about the screening by posting an image from one of the films on their Instagram a couple of days prior to the event. Several people, including myself, reposted the image of a Carolee Schneemann performance. The posts got lots of comments and hearts, but likes do not equal RSVPs, and I was very curious as to how many people would actually show up. Well…a lot! The seats filled-up quickly and it became a standing room only event.
I’m sharing my selections here, in the order in which they were played. (There was a brief intermission after the Bruce Conner trailer.)
The films and videos center around artist's studios as well as how artists interact with space in their practice and or present space in their work. I'm interested in how architecture becomes a collaborator. I spend six days a week working for artists, as Studio Manager and Estate Manager, and at least one day a week at my own studio, where I live. It is endlessly fascinating to me the environments in which artists work and how it becomes an integral part of their practice. The selections offer snippets on space and response.
10 Bullets. (21:07) Directed by Van Neistat; Written by John Furgason and Tom Sachs
OnLine: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Carolee Schneeman Up To and Including Her Limits 1973-76 (2:46); The Museum of Modern Art
CASSILS Up to and Including Their Limits RAW (1:55); Gardiner Museum
Corridor (13:15); Lorna Simpson; Music by John Davis
Jay DeFeo’s The Rose (3:54); SF MOMA
The White Rose trailer (0:31); Bruce Conner
High Line Art Performance, Simone Forti Huddle (2:38); Friends of the High Line
2 & 4 Max Richter’s Recomposed Four Seasons (10:32); Directed & Filmed by Darrel Friidom Dunn and Mattew Et Gibbs
Kim Gordon plays MoCA Geffen (0:30); Sacha Baumann
The Blues (21:16); Directed and Edited by Seejon Thomas; Produced by Mike Nesbit & Seejon Thomas
It was an enjoyable and also somewhat puzzling process to come up with the program. The theme immediately came to mind and I knew that I would begin with Tom Sach’s wonderful 10 Bullets., but I wasn’t quite sure where to go from there. I spoke to many artists friends and it sent me down lots of highly enjoyable rabbit holes. It was gratifying to share my final, carefully curated selections to a rapt crowd. Sending big thanks to Aidan and Alaïa for the gallery’s generous programming and the invitation to participate.