WORK ONLY :: IN THE STUDIO WITH KATE CLARK
Kate Clark creates striking sculptures that synthesize the human face onto the bodies of wild animals. In the pursuit of a longstanding interest in the face and its unique abilities for expression, abilities which separate us from other mammals, she brings
FIELD NOTES:: FILM :: LINCOLN LETTERS II: PATRICK WANG
Benjamin Wiessner I met Patrick Wang this summer, as part of a weekend film oasis in Tacoma. Starting then, we have had a running conversation about building the film world that we want to live in, rather than the one that
ART :: HELIOPOLIS PRESENTS :: STRUCTURES of FEELING
HELIOPOLIS PROUDLY PRESENTS STRUCTURES OF FEELING //Painting, video, haptics.// An exhibition featuring SANDRA SITRON and TED KENNEDY with special guests CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MINOTAUR (in the Annex) Curated by RACHAEL RAKES and LEO GOLDSMITH OPENING: FRIDAY FEBRUARY 8, 7-10pm CLOSING: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24. from curator Rachael Rakes: For this show, (and we
Independent film:: A New Year Re:solution
After an incredible 2012 it is time to look forward at the challenges and opportunities of 2013. The story of this new year is yet to be defined. I have spent the last few days thinking about what is to
FILM :: HELP ROOFTOP FILMS STAY ON TOP!!!
In 2001, when I had just returned from Philadelphia to find Williamsburg, Brooklyn a very different place than the old Italian neighborhood I'd grown up in, I worried my mother by telling her I was venturing farther into Bushwick than
ART :: HELIOPOLIS PRESENTS : CIRCLED THE MAN
"You could say that a reckoning has to be made with the coyote…” Joseph Beuys on I Like America and America Likes Me, 1974 Circled the Man through November 30th Daniel Bozhkov Dineo Seshee Bopape Erkan Özgen and Sener Özmen Ji Hye Yeom Susana
FIELD NOTES: WHAT WE ECHO::Perpetual Creation—Collaborative Momentum
This week Danny and I passed the three month mark of our journey across the United States. Three months in, the goal still centers on journeying outside of our selves. That task complicates itself at every turn, but the motion
FIELD NOTES: WHAT WE ECHO::Animating in Mississippi: Danny Madden and Benjamin Wiessner
Travel often makes me aware of the many roles that I continually fulfill without realizing them. There are moments in any successful trip that cause the traveler to come face to face with his/her own intentions, hopefully causing the traveler
FILM : A PLACE TO STAND :: Help Support the Completion of this Beautiful Documentary on Chicano Poet Jimmy Santiago Baca
I am learning to look at myself differently, to see the scattered remnants of hope and dreams and collect them again, return to my old house after the war, pick through debris for old photos of mind and soul, glue together my
FILM: ornana
A month ago, I left New York—drove from Brooklyn sixteen hours straight to Peachtree City, Georgia. When I pulled up, a few of my favorite people were on the back porch of a normally quiet suburban house. We were gathered to film another ornana short.
