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PROGRAMS AND EVENTS INFORMATION SUPPORT PRESS SPACE RENTAL Exhibitions Festival Outer Space Artist Opportunity Workshop Past Programs & Events |
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June 7 - July 29 2012 Read an interview with the artists on the DAC Blog. Burns and Martin's project explores a four-way union of real-world artists Orlan and Stelarc and fictional comic-book superheroes The Scarlet Witch and The Vision. Each of these characters symbolizes transmutation and the ability to cross boundaries, be they biological, mechanical or cultural. The exhibition will take the form of photographs, graphic works, videos and and interactive sculpture that allows a viewer to be situated in the story. What-If? In the Days When the Tiger Smoked What-If? In the Days When the Tiger Smoked is the culmination of an ongoing project which began in Busan, South Korea in 2006. At the heart of the work is the unfolding of a role-playing workshop where participants reenact dates leading up to a fictional polyamorous romance. The performance, played by a rotating international cast of artists, leads to a group wedding and honeymoon between characters based upon two obscure superheroes and two internationally renowned art personalities. The happy foursome are Orlan, an artist whose actual redefinition of her own body via plastic surgery confronts representations of woman throughout art history; Stelarc, an artist whose cybernetic mission in life is to render the body obsolete; the Scarlet Witch, a mutant superhero who has unlimited powers over probability, and the Vision, a “synthezoid” superhero whose mechanically fabricated body contains a human soul. Finally we will be releasing a special 400 page catalog called Recallathon: Vilm & Fideo works 1998-2012, which includes all of our fourteen years of speculative video, performance, installation, and curated collaborations. BIOGRAPHY: Darrin Martin & Torsten Zenas Burns Torsten Zenas Burns and Darrin Martin began their collaborations in the video and sculpture programs at the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, where they both received their BFAs. Burns was born in 1968 and received his MFA in video and performance from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1993. Martin was born in 1969 and received an MFA in media and sculpture from The University of California, San Diego in 2000. Together, they have based their single-channel videotapes, curations and current performance works on their research into diverse speculative fictions including re-imagined educational practices, crypto-utopian musicals, appropriated horror genres, paranormal phenomenon, re-animation choreographies, cos-play, and trans-human love stories. Selected videotapes are distributed by VTape, Canada; Recontres Internationale, France; and Video Data Bank, USA. They have jointly participated in residencies at Eyebeam and The Experimental Television Center in New York. Their videos have screened at venues including The Museum of Art and Design (NY), Pacific Film Archive (CA), Aurora Picture Show (TX), Migrating Forms, (NY), Video_Dumbo (NY), Chicago Underground Film Festival, (IL), Madrid Museum of Contemporary Art (Spain), Stuttgarter Filmwinter Festival for Expanded Media (Germany), Art Space Bandee (South Korea), and Oberhausen Short Film and Video Festival (Germany), European Media Arts Festival (Germany), and Krowswork Gallery (CA). They most recently showed their work at The Taber Art Gallery at Holyoke Community College (MA). Darrin Martin is an Associate Professor of art Studio at UC Davis California. Torsten Zenas Burns is an adjunct Professor of media art at Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, Massachusetts. Prints: Sculptures:
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