Instructional Photograph no. 7: Instruction for how to point to the future
[for Amy Balkin]
12.08.2008
Instructional Photograph no. 6
Instructional Photograph no. 6: Instruction for how to contact the elves
[for Erik Davis]
Instructional Photograph no. 5
Instructional Photograph no. 5: Seat of the Self--Instruction
for how to discover where consciousness truly resides
[for Jennifer Dumpert]
Instructional Photograph no. 3
Instructional Photograph no. 3: Instruction for how to exercise restraint,
while performing 22 other important tasks
[for Annabeth Rosen]
Instructional Photograph no. 2
Instructional Photograph no. 2: Instruction for how to explain Nigel's overthinking
everything to her [for Nigel Poor]
Instructional Photograph no. 1
Instructional Photograph no. 1: Instruction for how to delay time to
make space for waiting, or weight time to make space for delay
[for Lynette Hunter]
10.02.2008
9.01.2008
7.05.2008
Instructional Photographs
Assignments and tasks have been a part of the arts at least since Yoko Ono’s celebrated book Grapefruit, with its deadpan instructions on dada-inspired actions. Much of performance art in its heyday involved artists giving themselves labors, such as Ann Hamilton’s enormous piles of clothing to be sorted, or Tom Marioni drinking enough Anchor Steam beer to fill his bladder, and then relieving himself into a bucket while standing on a ladder. LissaIvy brings this tradition into the 21st century in Instructional Photographs, her MFA thesis project. Friends and acquaintances are asked to assign her to make a photograph of a poetic emotional or psychological state that they describe, becoming collaborative instigators of her work. A large-scale photograph is indeed the result, along with related visual materials. The exhibition is a conglomeration of these assignments received on postcards, her resulting photoworks, ephemera, notes and marginalia, that in fact document the artist’s circle of peers in a place and time, forming a kind of time capsule. Photography is finding digital means to liberate itself from the tyranny of the rectangle, through conceptual approaches as well as new formal possibilities. LissaIvy contextualizes her lens-based work as one possibility for visual expression among many other forms of self-documentation.
– Renny Pritikin
7.03.2008
5.13.2008
5.11.2008
the glimpsed unland of light
all i want to do this week is read paul auster poems. they are all about earth [celan], eyes [bataille], and light [photography].
4.28.2008
MFA exhibition in Davis-don't miss it
2008 UCD MFA Exhibition May 30 through June 20, 2008
Opening on Friday May 30, 5-7 pm at the Memorial Union Gallery and 6-8 pm at the Nelson Gallery
*afterparty at grad studios 8pm
*note: galleries closed on weekends*
Irman Arcibal Caroline Cloak Chau Thuy Huynh Mary Alison Lucas Nickolas Mohanna LissaIvy Tiegel
4.08.2008
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