AC Institute - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for AC Institute . Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
Jeanette Doyle “From A to Z and Back Again”
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[0]- Media: Painting - Installation - Video installation
- 2019-04-09 - 2019-04-26
Jeanette Doyle- is a visual artist and a PhD researcher at GradCAM, The Graduate School for Creative Arts and Media, Dublin. Her work encompasses the production of objects both material and temporal along...More »
“Bridges & Walls | Walls & Bridges” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Film
- 2019-02-08 - 2019-02-22
“Intimate Immensity” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Sculpture - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2018-11-28 - 2019-01-05
AC Institute presents Intimate Immensity and Other Daydreams, a new group exhibition featuring works by Jimbo Blachly, Kathline Carr, Peter Dudek, Alyssa Fanning, Brece Honeycutt, Rebecca Norris Webb,...More »
“Softer, Softest: Parts I, II, & III” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-09-11 - 2018-10-27
“I tell you everything And I hope that you won’t tell on me.” -Courtney Love AC Institute presents Softer, Softest: Parts I, II, & III. For this series of shows, three artists consider the...More »
Holly Crawford “13 Ways To Kill A Blackbird”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-07-27 - 2018-08-10
AC Institute presents an interactive performance art experience by Holly Crawford titled 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. An installation of black biodegradable latex balloons assembled in the form of...More »
Marvin Touré “{Fig. 27} The {X} Mutation”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Media Arts
- 2018-05-17 - 2018-06-15
AC Institute presents {Fig. 27} The {X} Mutation, the first solo exhibition of artist Marvin Touré. {Fig. 27} The {X} Mutation is the first solo exhibition by artist Marvin Touré. He presents a body...More »
“To Break the Ocean” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-04-11 - 2018-05-09
AC Institute presents, To Break the Ocean, a group exhibition featuring works by Simon Benjamin, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Kasem Kydd, Shala Miller, Marilyn Nance, Arthur Simms and the Iyapo Repository. To...More »
Carlos Martiel “Intruder (America)”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2018-03-06 - 2018-03-30
AC Institute presents Intruder (America), a new piece by Carlos Martiel. Intruder (America) is the first of two iterations of a new performance by Cuban artist Carlos Martiel. The piece derives its...More »
“Coagulants” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2016-06-15 - 2016-06-24
Serving as somewhat of a counterpoint to our series of online exhibitions, Coagulants considers the meaning of images as physically situated objects, rather than bundles of information speeding around...More »
Ryan Wurst “Drowning The Mouth Breather”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-07-09 - 2015-07-25
Drowning The Mouth Breathers ———– is part of a larger, ongoing project called The Mouth Breathers, a group of nonhumans created to reveal the failures inherent in our technological relationships. Through...More »
Kok&Deiman “Coupling Series”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture
- 2015-06-25 - 2015-07-25
Dutch artists Kok&Deiman investigate the remarkable function of the model by dragging it out of context and reinterpreting its visual language. Their work mimics, magnifies and re-creates different...More »
Wickerham & Lomax “SWIPER, NO SWIPING!”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-06-25 - 2015-07-08
Wickerham & Lomax seek to expand modes of living, viewing, and participating by employing the use of cultural practices, varied forms of communication, and the language of the digital environment to...More »
Lazy Mom “Process”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2015-05-14 - 2015-06-13
Process explores our relationship to food by focusing on packaged foods found in American supermarkets. LAZY MOM uses two points of reference–processed foods and Process Art –for this series. By preserving...More »
Keg de Souza “Temporary Spaces, Edible Places: New York”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-05-14 - 2015-06-13
Keg de Souza is an Australian artist who creates site- and situation-specific projects with an emphasis on participation and reciprocity. Her projects often take place within inflatable tents designed...More »
Takeshi Moro “Sunset Over North Korea: Yeonpyeong Island”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2015-05-14 - 2015-05-27
Presented as a comical karaoke video, Sunset Over North Korea: Yeonpyeong Island attempts to convey the geopolitical struggle between North and South Korea. Shot from Yeonpyeong, the closest South Korean...More »
Sasha Litvintseva “Evergreen”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2015-04-16 - 2015-05-02
Sasha Litvintseva’s practice investigates the possibilities of temporality using the moving image. Evergreen is the story of an immortal traveler’s journey through failed and aspirational utopias. The...More »
Julie Shiels “Ubiquitous Object, Ambiguous Things – Resisting Disappearance”
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2015-04-02 - 2015-05-02
Ubiquitous object, Ambiguous Things – Resisting Disappearance is derived from the empty space found in clearplastic packaging. The transparent form of the empty vacuum package is both an object in itself...More »
Christine Mackey “Provisional”
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing
- 2015-04-02 - 2015-05-02
Provisional: Having the nature of a temporary arrangement made to meet special circumstances and intended to last only as long as these circumstances last. (Oxford dictionary) Opposing the historical...More »
Crichton Atkinson “Monologues for Orpheus”
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2015-04-02 - 2015-04-15
What is vision? seeing the unseen –Monologues for Orpheus Monologues for Orpheus is a modern adaptation of the story of Orpheus. Using an original script penned by poet Robert Kelly, Crichton Atkinson...More »
Davana Wilkins “Revival”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-02-19 - 2015-03-21
Taking inspiration from syfi-novels and pseudo-science, Davana Wilkins uses her artwork to explore the nature of consciousness among both sentient beings and physical objects. Through the trasference of...More »
Peter Fankhauser “A Quarelling Pair”
[0] [0]- Media: Media Arts
- 2015-02-19 - 2015-03-21
A Quarrelling Pair re-imagines American author Jane Bowles’ play of the same name through a shift in representational format. Drawing on traditions of shadow puppet theatre, for which the play was originally...More »
Adam Hurwitz “Clipper”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2015-02-19 - 2015-03-04
Clipper is part of an ongoing project entitled Reflective Nostalgia after the term coined by Svetlana Boym. The project is a series of looping, non-narrative videos, each attempting to convey the texture...More »
“The Future is Here Again: Visual Language” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2015-01-22 - 2015-02-07
Text-based art, or vispo, marries verbal and visual language. There are many ways to form this union: words and letters can dissolve into gestures, be obscured, faded or obliterated, or play with one...More »
Aleksander Johan Andreassen “Stille Dag (silent day)”
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2014-12-11 - 2015-01-17
Andreassen’s work is based in the traditions of experimental and documentary film. During the last couple of years he has focused specifically on the subject of mental health, exploring individual perspectives...More »
Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya “BABA MAGANA/hot issue”
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Sculpture - Performance Art
- 2014-11-20 - 2015-01-17
Olaniyi Rasheed Akindiya (aka Akirash) seamlessly blends painting, sculpture and performance to investigate the invisible power structures that govern our daily existence and perpetuate a culture of violence....More »
Karolina Bregula “The Soup”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2014-11-20 - 2014-12-12
The Soup is a reflection on the art world’s disingenuous engagement with politics. Influenced by the narrative style of the Theater of the Absurd, the work questions the sociological commitment of the...More »
Alona Rodeh “Barking Dogs Don’t Bite”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2014-10-30 - 2014-11-08
Alona Rodeh’s diverse practice uses a wide range of media to construct time-based installations that are often described as “performance without performers.” Through her work, Rodeh tests systems and cultural...More »
Elizabeth Gower “365 Rotations”
[0] [0]- Media: Graphics - Other - Installation
- 2014-10-16 - 2014-11-08
365 Rotations is assembled from an extensive collection of multiple paper units (tea bag tags, bar codes, product labels, price stickers) retrieved from routine domestic consumption and ‘junk mail’ catalogs....More »
John R. Neeson “The Urban Bodegón”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-10-16 - 2014-11-08
John R. Neeson’s practice involves site-specific installations of mimetic works. His installations stem from an examination of the still life genre, which prompted Neeson to arrange and document still...More »
Claire Gustavson “Putting on a Show!”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Video installation
- 2014-09-25 - 2014-10-04
Claire Gustavson’s sculpture and videos are reveries of total control snuggled into a hyper-consumable, semi-twee aesthetic. Her works explore banality by creating a world where boredom is transcendent...More »
Hwayong Jung “Euphoria”
[0] [0]- Media: Digital
- 2014-09-11 - 2014-09-24
Euphoria delicately reflects on the collapse of nature and the unique visual language of technology. The video gathers aesthetic forms and patterns found in our environment and recreates them using computer...More »
Mary Valverde “Parables”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-09-11 - 2014-10-04
In our attempt to learn, we revisit, retrace and repeat lessons until they become intrinsic gestures; our lives are a constant replaying of these lessons. We surround ourselves with materials that remind...More »
“Ur Head is Mine” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2014-07-31 - 2014-08-21
UR HEAD IS MINE is an intimate summer performance series that brings together [ gay and_or brown and_or fluid ] artists for nights of actions fueled by frustration. This is a takeover of spaces that we...More »
Ann-Marie LeQuesne “Encore, News, and Hive”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2014-07-03 - 2014-07-16
Ann-Marie LeQuesne stages performances with groups of people in public places. Her invitation to participate is an open one. The actions are simple, but are often disrupted or altered by their location....More »
Ann-Marie LeQuesne “To:”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2014-06-19 - 2014-07-02
Ann-Marie LeQuesne stages performances with groups of people in public places. Her invitation to participate is an open one. The actions are simple, but are often disrupted or altered by their location....More »
Ann-Marie LeQuesne “Fanfare for Crossing the Road”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2014-05-29 - 2014-06-18
The AC Institute presents Ann-Marie LeQuesne’s video Fanfare for Crossing the Road, the first in her five part video series that will be presented at the gallery. Ann-Marie LeQuesne stages performances...More »
Joseph Gerard Sabatino “Foul Play”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-05-29 - 2014-07-26
The AC Institute showcases the exhibition FOUL PLAY by artist Joseph Gerard Sabatino. FOUL PLAY combines crude industrial materials with elements of nature. This new body of work is the third overlapping...More »
Sebastian Kite “Echelon”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2014-04-24 - 2014-05-10
“Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light...More »
Ninia Sverdrup “Urban Scene XII - XIV”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2014-04-10 - 2014-04-23
Ninia Sverdrup’s work deals with the concept of time and its significance in everyday life. Sverdrup experiments with the expression “to have time for.” In an earlier piece titled My To- Do List, the artist...More »
Saana Inari “Self Portrait With A Deer”
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2014-03-27 - 2014-04-09
The video draws a story about a mental dilemma, the protagonist is trying to escape by adopting the roles and forms of different animals. After several failures she has to accept her own limitations in...More »
Gema Álava “Tell Me and Silences”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2014-03-13 - 2014-05-10
Álava’s projects in the form of dialogues, verbal descriptions, rumors or random encounters, explore notions of trust and intimacy, and use language as a medium to investigate the interconnections that...More »
Anna Macdonald “What I Rely On”
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2014-02-06 - 2014-02-22
What I rely on is a trilogy of screendance works, made between 2010 and 2013, that balance the pleasure of the apparent immediacy of film with the anxieties that can underlie the act of digital preservation....More »
Ezra Wube “Gela 2”
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2014-01-23 - 2014-02-05
In Gela 2 Ezra Wube explores the idea of Pluralism through an autobiography. Ezra Wube (b. 1980, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia). Ezra moved to the United States at the age of 18 and received his BFA in painting...More »
Tracey Snelling “Nothing”
[0] [0]- Media: Film
- 2013-12-12 - 2014-01-08
Nothing (15:00,2012) Written and directed by Tracey Snelling Courtesy of the artist and Rena Bransten Gallery Nothing tells the story of a young woman named Jane. She has resigned herself to a...More »
Jessica Angel Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Art Talk - Performance Art
- 2013-12-12 - 2014-02-22
“The ‘Strange Loop’ phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchical system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started.” -Douglas Hofstadter...More »
Babs Reingold “Luna Window”
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2013-09-12 - 2013-11-16
AC Institute presents a new installation, “Luna Window”, by Babs Reingold. The installation, four organza-stained and hair-stuffed ladders poking from decaying windows and doors, chronicles Reingold’s...More »
Jade Walsh “Pretty Funny Alone and Drawing Speed Dating with Jade Walsh”
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-09-12 - 2013-10-02
Pretty Funny Alone is an exhibition of lively video, installation and performance exploring material, psychology and metaphors of heartache & courtship. It comprises a video work Pretty Funny Alone...More »
“Art Engaging Gangs” Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2013-06-06 - 2013-07-27
A group exhibition of artists who have engaged with gangs in different ways. This art is the flip side of Norman Rockwell’s middle-class American paintings of Thanksgiving gatherings or getting immunized,...More »
Claudia Sbrissa "Avvolto"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2013-04-04 - 2013-05-18
Claudia Sbrissa’s artistic practice is reflective of her feminist artistic identity and is suffused with a quality of romance and material transcendence in which its human traces convey her concern with...More »
Michael Woody "Arlington"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2013-04-04 - 2013-04-20
Arlington is a brief video sketch that relates several stories from within a biker community in Arlington, Texas. It focuses primarily on the role of motorcycles within the culture. The piece features...More »
"One of a Kind: Unique Artist’s Books" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2013-04-04 - 2013-05-18
Experimental and inventive, these unique artist’s books are revealed in all their power and vulnerability. International artist, former rare books seller, and maker of unique artist’s books found in international...More »
China Blue "Photinus Biomimeticus"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Media Arts
- 2013-01-31 - 2013-03-16
China Blue is an artist who captures the tenor of our times by transforming common electronic waste into biomimetic artwork with an environmental focus that also sings. In "Firefly Tree," one of her works...More »
Gary Pennock "The Asynchronous Coma: Living Screens, Rooms, and Bodies"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Media Arts
- 2013-01-31 - 2013-03-16
Gary Pennock experiments with the intrinsic properties of phenomena and materials to form an aesthetic experience. He attempts to capture the imagination with poetic presentations of Meta themes such as...More »
Sujin Lee "This is a story for small children. a true-life love story"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2013-01-31 - 2013-02-13
"I work with text, video and performance, exploring the way in which different cultural and linguistic systems affect the actions of language. My experience of moving to the U.S. from Korea and learning...More »
Melanie Perreault "Cubicles Of Time Backflip Beyond Peppermint Enigmas Before Pungent Topiaries Portray Dreaming Mirages Into Intervals Of Brazilian Inquiries Of Elsewhere Orange…"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-11-15 - 2013-01-12
Jillian never wanted to make another mistake for the rest of her life. If only she could spend an unlimited amount of time reading about an unfathomable variety of subjects, she would have enough knowledge...More »
Joerg Auzinger "Avatar"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2012-11-15 - 2013-01-12
Avatar is a single projection video piece. Still and moving components of video elements and photographs are unified within this perpetual video loop. The sound track is also made up of multiple elements...More »
Lawrence Mesich "Aphorisms"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2012-11-15 - 2012-12-01
Aphorisms is a single-or two-channel video piece comprised of a series of short vignettes. Set in familiar work environments, each vignette examines the interactions of two identical figures. These brief...More »
Tré Chandler "Dallas"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2012-09-13 - 2012-09-29
Jonathon Keats "CLONING CELEBRITY"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Media Arts
- 2012-09-13 - 2012-10-27
The origin of art is human. Ever since the Venus of Willendorf was sculpted in limestone 25,000 years ago, people have struggled to craft the human form in materials from clay to marble to silicone. But...More »
Claude Closky "Barking and Meowing"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Media Arts
- 2012-09-13 - 2012-10-27
Barking and Meowing focuses on appearance, spoken language and the space between dialogue and monologue. The installation is composedof sound and two masks placed on opposite walls, one of a dog and one...More »
Jorge Catoni "Hoy Juega Chile"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-07-12 - 2012-07-21
Catherine Béchard & Sabin Hudon "Free-Fall of Possibilities"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-07-12 - 2012-07-28
Free-Fall of Possibilities is made up of ten automated mechanical units. They are in fact fishing rods to which are attached tiny vibratory motors. Swiveling freely at the end of the lines, they become...More »
Rieko Koga "FUTURE DIARY / HERE WE ARE"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-07-12 - 2012-07-28
One day I said to myself "What do I want to read now?" "What do I want to write now??" My answer was "My Future Diary." This artwork started here. "What words will you say?" It depends on the...More »
Boris Oicherman "Between the Cloud and the Clock"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-07-12 - 2012-07-28
The greater part of my practice is dedicated to creating art in response to some particular conditions in a chosen environment. As a consequence I hardly work in the studio. My approach to an artwork is...More »
Maria Anwander "Analyzing"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-06-07 - 2012-06-16
Analyzing: Influenced by conceptual art, my works are established between the fields of performative and installation art. By utilizing different kinds of artistic media, including photography, video...More »
Brigid Mc Leer "Horizontal Ontologies: One + One (The Reading) and Vexations"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2012-06-07 - 2012-06-30
Brigid Mc Leer’s practice is concerned with staging or imaging complex and contingent models of the subject. She does this through developing durational performative responses to pre-existing texts, sites...More »
Bonnie Lane "Sleepless"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2012-05-03 - 2012-05-26
Bonnie Lane’s intimate video installations question our ordinary understandings of time and space, attempting to generate an emotional connection with the audience by creating immersive environments to...More »
Buzz Evers "Pattern Variants"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2012-05-03 - 2012-05-26
In collaboration with: Marcella Durand, Paolo Javier, Joanna Fuhrman, Vincent Katz, Anselm Berrigan, Tim Trace Peterson, Adeena Karasick, Jena Osman, Lee Ann Brown And Daniel Levin Becker/Writer Roman...More »
Billy Friebele "Traversing/Suburban: Target"
[0] [0]- Media: Media Arts
- 2012-05-03 - 2012-05-26
I have always found big box stores to be disorienting. One day while filling my cart, walking from one end of a store to the other, I wondered how far I had traveled and what my path looked like. I started...More »
Jasmine Johnson "Glory Days"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Video installation - Performance Art
- 2012-05-03 - 2012-05-26
Jasmine Johnson’s practice uses techniques of montage, juxtaposition and appropriation within the mediums of video, sculpture and performance to examine social relationships and proximities. A collective...More »
Richard Kostelanetz "AVANT-GARDE EROTICAS"
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2012-05-03 - 2012-05-26
The purpose of art is to impart the sensation of things as they are perceived and not as they are known. The technique of art is to make objects ‘unfamiliar,’ to make forms difficult to increase the difficulty...More »
Dustin Grella "Notes to Self"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2012-03-29 - 2012-04-28
Notes to Self: Being obsessive and compulsive in our society often carries negative connotations. In Dustin Grella's work, the artist prefers to celebrate these traits, referring to it as OCC, Obsessive...More »
Félix Lazo "m:n:m::l "
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation - Media Arts
- 2012-02-23 - 2012-03-17
Is there a possibility of creating a piece that becomes an experience deep enough that it transforms our neuronal conditioning and presents reality anew? Félix Lazo’s field of interest relates to the...More »
Chris Twomey "TRIUMPH of the XX"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Video installation
- 2012-02-23 - 2012-03-17
Our origins, our identity, and the ramifications of genetic discoveries are the themes that drive the imagery of Chris Twomey’s work. Triumph of the XX evokes the passion of the XX chromosome (female)...More »
Jan Hakon Erichsen Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Installation - Video installation
- 2012-02-23 - 2012-03-06
I work within a variety of media focusing on topics like fear, anger and frustration. I have spent several years perfecting a D.I.Y aesthetic with found objects being the main source of work material. In...More »
Marco Pinter "Reflections and Object Permanence"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Performance Art
- 2012-01-12 - 2012-02-04
Marco Pinter explores the fusion of physical movement with visualizations in the virtual world. He finds inspiration in dance and sculpture, but also in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and mathematics....More »
Stephen Eakin "Trying to Save it all"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2012-01-12 - 2012-02-04
“At the origin of painting and sculpture there lies a mummy complex. The religion of ancient Egypt, aimed against death, saw survival as dependent on the continued existence of the corporeal body.” --...More »
Megan Mjaatvedt "DENSELY WOODED AND PRECIPITOUS MOUNTAIN"
[0] [0]- Media: Prints - Video installation
- 2012-01-12 - 2012-02-04
DENSELY WOODED AND PRECIPITOUS MOUNTAIN consists of two components: the first, a cluster of small prints featuring segments of battle maps from American wars; the second, a large projection animating a...More »
"Occupy The Wall: A Poster Show" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Prints
- 2011-12-08 - 2011-12-16
Art heeds the clarion call of the Occupy Wall Street movement at the AC Institute. This special show of posters is dedicated to the spirit evinced by the patriots at Liberty Square. Original, commissioned...More »
Betty Boehm "Slapp and Und wenn"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-11-17 - 2011-12-03
About Slapp and Und wenn: In my work, videos and films are playing a major role, which vary from short loops to longer narrations, and at the same time refuse to take the shape of a conventional narrative...More »
Amapola Prada "Modelo para Armar"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-11-03 - 2011-12-03
Modelo para Armar is the effect of the artist’s ongoing study regarding the subjectivity and apparent tensions of collectively engaged individuals, and the expression of these tensions through pulsiones...More »
Micah Bowers "Who's There?"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-11-03 - 2011-11-16
Micah Bowers enjoys stories but rarely believes them. They're too tidy, too convenient. His work has a narrow focus. Instances. Occurrences. Like joining a conversation well underway. Who's There? noses...More »
Chris Stockbridge "Relative Space, Son/Husband"
[0] [0]- Media: Other
- 2011-09-08 - 2011-10-08
Relative Space looks at a family relationship shown in an expanded moment of time. It is made up of a series of still images extended with film editing software and looped. The still camera becomes a witness...More »
Gary DiBenedetto "Sweat Equity"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2011-09-08 - 2011-10-08
During his early years as a struggling musician, Gary DiBenedetto also worked as a carpenter. During this time, he began collecting antiques. Both of these pursuits cultivated an affinity for craftsmanship...More »
Graham Dunning "Loss Sheds a Light on What Remains"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2011-09-08 - 2011-10-08
“Loss sheds a light on what remains, and in that light all that we have and all that we have had glows more brightly still.” - Michael Bywater, Lost Worlds. Sound is temporal and temporary; a reproduced...More »
Sebastian Mahaluf Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2011-06-30 - 2011-07-30
Joseph Farbrook "Strata-Caster"
[0] [1]- Media: Painting - Installation - Digital
- 2011-05-12 - 2011-06-18
Scantly a generation ago, moving image screens were restricted to television and cinema and the content was nearly exclusively generated by corporations and conglomerates that dictated the form and aesthetic...More »
Michael Georgetti "The Duty Free Shop is on the 3rd Floor as You Pass Through the Eye of Needle"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2011-05-12 - 2011-06-18
Michael Georgetti makes installations and sculptures that usually move or fall apart. Using a combination of painting, kinetics and found objects these structures are made with an emphasis on poetics,...More »
Jonathon Keats "Quantum Entanglements"
[0] [1]- Media: Photography
- 2011-05-12 - 2011-06-18
With five millennia of history, and a plethora of religious and civil ceremonies, marriage is a popular means of producing families. Yet matrimony isn't the only method of uniting people, nor even is it...More »
The KIT Collaboration + Robert Saucier "Virutorium"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2011-05-12 - 2011-06-18
Virutorium is the second joint project by The KIT Collaboration + Robert Saucier. Their first project named Infrasense was a large-scale sound installation that toured 11 galleries in Canada, UK, USA and...More »
"Unlikely Savages" Exhibition
[0] [1]- Media: Video installation
- 2011-03-24 - 2011-04-30
"See You on the Flip Side!" Exhibtion
[0] [0]- Media: Media Arts
- 2011-02-03 - 2011-03-12
The group show “See you on the Flip Side!” explores the tenuous border crossings through which we define ourselves by questioning the frontiers of cultural, social and medial identities. In putting the...More »
Harm van den Berg "Lullaby Land"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-12-16 - 2011-01-22
For the installation Lullaby Land artist Harm van den Berg asked people from all over the world to sing a lullaby they remember from their childhood. He recorded these songs and merged them together into...More »
Takafumi Ide "Life is fleeting; therefore, life is beautiful"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-12-16 - 2011-01-22
Takafumi Ide presents the sound, object and light installations propagate, gemerate, reverbarate and never before seen escalate.More »
Three Solo Exhibitions
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-10-28 - 2010-12-04
Derek Curry: Viaticus Par Eximo Sermo (money is free speech) and Tulip Feteo Derek Curry’s work aims to make people aware of their own actions as performing a function within a social system. He intends...More »
Max Liboiron "The New York Trash Exchange (NYTE)"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-09-09 - 2010-10-16
The New York Trash Exchange (NYTE) is a cross between a cultural laboratory experiment, environmental activism, and a model of economic change. Like all of Max Liboiron’s recent work, this piece is a participant-determined,...More »
Be Andr "Structure"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-09-09 - 2010-10-16
The piece "Structure" explores the links between exchange and value. It is an interactive installation that continues to be created and grow as the audience interacts with it by exchanging something of...More »
Kim Wan "When does an art gallery give away artworks?"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-09-09 - 2010-10-16
Just when does an art gallery give away artworks, hand-made especially for the free market? In a world of climate change and water shortages does free, clean water mean anything to a person living in the...More »
Katie Latona "The ‘Eat My Problems’ Bake Exchange"
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2010-09-09 - 2010-10-16
Taking the form of a traditional “bake sale,” this project presents a group of anonymous problems, baked into cookies, that are available for exchange with the viewer. To receive a cookie, the viewer (now...More »
Sebastjan Leban and Stas Kleindienst "Buy Your Own Art Experience"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography - Performance Art
- 2010-09-09 - 2010-10-16
Who, how and what defines what an artwork IS? The answer to this question can be traced in the system of valorization of artwork, which defines, values and places the artwork in a larger social context...More »
The KIT Collaboration + Robert Saucier "Virutorium"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-07-01 - 2010-07-31
Virutorium is the second joint project by The Kit Collaboration + Robert Saucier. Their first project named Infrasense was a large-scale sound installation that toured 11 galleries in Canada, UK, USA and...More »
Owen Mundy "You Never Close Your Eyes Anymore"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-07-01 - 2010-07-31
Owen Mundy’s artwork considers places where money and culture collide. Often involving collaboration, software and interventions, it manifests in both private and public spaces, initiating dialogue by...More »
Hannah Ross "I Have Plagiarized"
[0] [0]- Media: Other
- 2010-07-01 - 2010-07-31
In honor of Hal Davis' 1985 court case, Hannah Ross has taken famous contemporary works and copied them. Without altering the images in any manner, she converted the digital images to computer code, and...More »
Jennifer Wroblewski "Get Free"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Installation
- 2010-07-01 - 2010-07-31
For Get Free, Jennifer Wroblewski frames "the real" as the perceived limitations inherent to life in the material world. The temporary installation investigates possibilities of finding freedom through...More »
Ruben Aubrecht "Please Be Patient"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2010-05-13 - 2010-06-19
Loading... on the standard blue screen background ... Loading... the screen displays a promise to play a DVD, shortly. Loading... the infinite loop of never-ending loading processes in the video Please...More »
Roma Pas "Early Picture"
[0] [0]- Media: Other
- 2010-05-13 - 2010-06-19
Early Picture is Roma Pas’ semi-spatial remake of an early picture by Auguste Rosalie Bisson depicting a snow expedition on the Mont-Blanc (1861). The first steps in the snow and on the mountain also symbolize...More »
Selin Kocagöncü "Teacher’s Dilemma"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-05-13 - 2010-06-19
Selin Kocagöncü composes game-like structures which are at times socially-engaged and at other times particularly personal. Teacher's Dilemma is a cathartic drinking game dealing primarily with failure...More »
Jeff C. Wright "The Good Outlaw"
[0] [0]- Media: Other
- 2010-05-13 - 2010-06-19
The Good Outlaw proposes a dialogue in the form of a graffiti, stencil and collage mural that will employ the tools of street art. Poet and artist Jeffrey Cyphers Wright will begin the piece, focusing...More »
Tirtza Even and Toby Millman "Palestine Revisited"
[0] [0]- Media: Drawing - Photography - Video installation
- 2010-03-25 - 2010-05-01
Tirtza Even and Toby Millman each translate their experiences of personal encounters in Palestine in their collaborative exhibition, Palestine Revisited. The two projects, Once a Wall, or Ripple Remains...More »
Linda Post "Approach"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2010-03-25 - 2010-05-01
Continuing her investigations into the sculptural application of time-based media, Linda Post creates a site-specific installation for the AC Institute’s Chapel space. Approach uses choreographed video...More »
Lawrence F. Mesich "At Work"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2010-03-25 - 2010-05-01
At Work investigates the specific relationship between the interstitial spaces of institutional interiors –lobbies, waiting areas, and hallways – and the routines of the people employed to inhabit them....More »
"Imaging the Apple" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Photography
- 2010-03-25 - 2010-05-01
Imaging the Apple is a development of a successful show that toured the Eastern states of Australia in 2004 and 2005. The original exhibition was organized by artist/curator John R. Neeson who is co-curating...More »
Jonathon Keats "Strange Skies"
[0] [0]- Media: Film - Video installation
- 2010-02-04 - 2010-03-20
Directed and Produced by Jonathon Keats Plants have roots. As a consequence of this simple fact, they do not travel naturally, lacking the chance to experience the world's vast diversity, and even missing...More »
Ardan Özmenoğlu "1Bird2Birds3Birds"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2010-02-04 - 2010-03-13
Since her first solo exhibition in Istanbul and the second in Berlin in 2008, Ardan Özmenoğlu tirelessly continues to carve a unique place for herself in the art world, somewhere in between the disciplines...More »
Elise Rasmussen "Salzburg Bough"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2010-02-04 - 2010-03-13
"At the salt mines of Hallein near Salzburg the miners throw a leafless wintry bough into one of the abandoned workings. Two or three months later, through the effect of waters saturated with salt which...More »
Marcy Chevali "Without A Safety Net"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Furniture
- 2009-12-10 - 2010-01-23
In her work, Marcy Chevali creates places of ambiguity where dualities are identified and explored within space, place and situation. By articulating these moments, her objects generate parallel duplicities,...More »
Shlomit Lehavi "Time Sifter"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-12-10 - 2010-01-23
Time Sifter is a viewer-controlled environment immersed in visuals and sounds that plays on the concept of the time-machine in the digital age. The piece suggests a journey in time through motion, space...More »
Elisabeth Molin "Gaps"
[0] [0]- Media: Photography
- 2009-12-10 - 2010-01-23
Elisabeth Molin’s photographs explore different ways of thinking about and looking at reality. These different views are inspired by dreams, lies vs. truths and anecdotes. Through the use of props and...More »
Lea Bertucci "Crossing"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-12-10 - 2010-01-23
Lea Bertucci’s work focuses on questioning and redefining the representational boundaries of the photographed image. With an interest in (mis)representing space by using light as an active sculptural force,...More »
Joseph Farbrook "Nostalgia for Neverwas"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation - Video installation
- 2009-10-22 - 2009-11-28
Nostalgia for Neverwas is a mixture of old and new technologies and styles. It is a joining and a recombinant hybrid of a fictionalized past and an idealized future. As we find ourselves immersed in turbulence...More »
Maya Suess "It It and the Gimme Box"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation - Video installation
- 2009-10-22 - 2009-11-28
It It and the Gimme Box is a playful look at our relationship with consumer objects. It It and the Gimme Box renders portraits of three objects, each a ubiquitous item from the contemporary urban lifestyle:...More »
"Pan-demonium" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Painting - Drawing - Video installation
- 2009-09-03 - 2009-10-10
Pan-demonium resonates with the current global political, ecological and economic situation—one in which the hegemonic forces of order have been overwhelmed by a dynamic of chaos and disorder, turning...More »
Deborah Johnson "In A Star Orbit (CandyStations One, Two, Threemix)"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2009-09-03 - 2009-10-10
Deborah Johnson’s music video installation "In A Star Orbit (CandyStations One, Two, Threemix)," draws from Rebecca Gates's (formerly of The Spinanes) newly released set of remixes "The Ruby Series." Johnson...More »
"Tone and Temperament: Live Transmission" Performance
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2009-06-25 - 2009-06-25
A special performance featuring Barkus Born, Natalie Rose LeBrecht, and Mike Wexler in conjunction with the current gallery exhibition (http://www.nyartbeat.com/event/2009/9F85). Barkus Born is a Brooklyn...More »
Group Exhibition "Tone and Temperament"
[0] [0]- Media: Other
- 2009-06-18 - 2009-07-18
"Tone and Temperament," a group-exhibition that considers the temporal and expandable material of sound. Curated by Sophie Landres and in collaboration with the eight participating artists, this exhibition...More »
Sawako Live Performance
[0] [1]- Media: Performance Art
- 2009-06-11 - 2009-06-11
The AC presents Sawako as part of it’s live performance series. In an intersection and interaction between virtual, luminescent, digital, sonic and organic networks, Sawako performs in situ among Christine...More »
Dan Waber "A Depiction of a Broken Allegory"
[0] [0]- Media: Other
- 2009-05-14 - 2009-06-13
AC [Chapel] presents Dan Waber’s latest series of visual poems created by taking detailed rubbings from memorial plates on-site at local churches around Northeastern Pennsylvania. Entitled A Depiction...More »
Christine Sciulli "planeSPACE"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-05-14 - 2009-06-13
AC [Direct] I presents Christine Sciulli’s planeSPACE, the latest installation in her current series Intercepting Planes. Points of light map the intersections of light planes and network pathways. The...More »
Mary Ivy Martin "Untitled Abstract No. 3"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-05-14 - 2009-06-13
Untitled Abstract No. 3 demonstrates Martin’s current work with natural materials such as grass and dried leaves which conjure up a sense of nostalgia and longing within herself. The act of working with...More »
"Openings" Performance Event
[0] [0]- Media: Performance Art
- 2009-05-07 - 2009-05-07
The AC [ Institute Direct Chapel ] continues in its performance series offering a program of a sole work—though presented in a fashion that is decidedly not solitary. With Richard Kostelanetz’s score Openings...More »
Nico Vassilakis "5IVE SEQUENCES"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-04-16 - 2009-05-09
5IVE SEQUENCES, a visual poem by Nico Vassilakis is being exhibited in AC [Chapel] as an installation for the first time since its publication. Enlarged in scale from its original chapbook size and offering...More »
Stephen Day and Sibylle Peretti "Scuicide Notes"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-04-16 - 2009-05-09
Stephen Paul Day and Sibylle Peretti’s mixed-media installation Suicide Notes. is composed of fifty-four text and image/drawing based collages directly onto everyday, white napkins. The impetus behind...More »
Lemeh42 "Sightlines"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation - Digital
- 2009-04-16 - 2009-05-09
AC [Direct] I presents “Sightlines,” by two Italian multimedia artists who go under the collective name Lemeh42. A digital collage of video, animation and performance, their work explores classic narrative...More »
Ann Torke "The Residue Series: Everyday Accumulation"
[0] [0]- Media: Sculpture - Installation
- 2009-03-19 - 2009-04-11
AC [Direct] II presents Ann Torke’s “The Residue Series: Everyday Accumulation”, a continuation of her interest in tracking the detritus of everyday life. Part Petri dish, part performance, part sculpture—this...More »
Bryan Whitney "Myriad - The Ten Thousand Things"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-03-19 - 2009-04-11
Whitney’s images are drawn from digital snapshots taken with various cameras including an iPhone and an Elph camera. Like most people’s snapshot collection, his multitude of disparate images range from...More »
"Domestic" Exhibition
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2009-03-19 - 2009-04-11
AC [Direct] II presents a group video exhibition, by members of Rhizome and/or Perpetual Art Machine (PAM), that investigate the various facets of the definition of “domestic” within a 3 minute time frame....More »
Andrew Erdos "Santalope"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-03-19 - 2009-04-11
Andrew Erdos’ humorous, invasive, ferocious, creepy and delicious spectacle that is Santalope has found its way to the AC [Direct] I and II exterior walls and ceiling. For this installation, Santalope,...More »
Jeff Becker "CapaCity Project"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-03-19 - 2009-04-11
Jeff Becker’s “CapaCity” project, on view in AC [Direct] II, was initially started as a response to his inability to recycle plastic caps and container lids. It quickly grew to include all plastics that...More »
Elizabeth Gower "he loves me, he loves me not"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-02-19 - 2009-03-14
AC [Direct] I and II presents Australian artist Elizabeth Gower's installation project he loves me, he loves me not along the outer walls of the galleries. The familiar phrase "he loves me, he loves...More »
Holly Crawford "Outsourced Critics 2006-2009"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-02-19 - 2009-03-14
Presented for the first time as a full installation in AC [Chapel], "Outsourced Critics" is a project conceived by artist Holly Crawford. Through an unconventional use of the catalogue from the Amory International...More »
Martin Gantman "Empire: Davos"
[0] [0]- Media: Other - Other
- 2009-02-19 - 2009-03-14
AC [Direct] I and II presents the first complete showing of Martin Gantman's new project "Empire: Davos." Each January the founder and President of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Wachs, announces the...More »
"Benjamin Lanz and Kyle B. Resnick: chapel-scapes" Performance
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2009-02-12 - 2009-02-12
The AC [Institute] inaugurates its performance series this Thursday, February 12th from 6-8pm through a dialogue between John Neeson’s site-specific installation Northern Light in the Chapel space and...More »
Richard Kostelanetz "SCRAM/BLEDS"
[0] [0]- Media: Installation
- 2008-12-18 - 2009-01-17
AC [Chapel] presents "SCRAM/BLEDS," a sequence of visual poems by Richard Kostelanetz, one of America's foremost intellectuals and prolific avant-garde artists. Enlarged in scale from its original chapbook...More »
Michael Greathouse "What Is It that Wakes the Sleeper?"
[0] [0]- Media: Video installation
- 2008-12-18 - 2009-01-17
In AC [Direct] I, Michael Greathouse exhibits his most recent series of video shorts: Banquet, Valentine, Badlands, Windows, Everything Seems to Be OK..., In Dreams as well as the first showing of Incarnation....More »
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