news & events (category: 2008)

Outdoor Video Projection - 1515 Arts Building, 1515 14th St NW

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

projected on the external wall of the 1515 Arts Building
1515 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
8 - 9 pm

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How We Learn to Love Vol. I, 2008
HD DVD
2:53 min (looped)


This video explores the tenuous dynamics between two women as they walk the “thin line” tightrope between love and hate, and ride the “relationship roller coaster.”  The camera’s alternating distance and closeness to the subjects betrays their intimacy, and parallels how perspective influences our interpretation of another’s gestures and intentions. Regardless of the flavor of interplay, there is always a space between them.  And yet they remain with arms linked throughout the duration of the video, suggesting the continuum upon which love and understanding preside.

This video is the first in a new series of videos and photographs, funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

By Kathryn Cornelius category: , ,

(Re)DO IT - Live Performance via WebCam @ The Arlington Arts Center

Date: Friday Dec 12, 07:00 PM - 09:00PM
dual-site location: Arlington Arts Center & my studio in Washington, DC

NOW TAKING YOUR REQUESTS...RE/DO IT TODAY!!  http://redoit.kathryncornelius.com/contact/ 

From the Arlington Arts Center Press Release written by Jeffry Cudlin, Director of Exhibitions...

"ReDO IT is an artwork that employs Twitter, webcams, and video projections to connect the artist in her studio with a live gallery audience at the Arlington Arts Center located in Arlington, VA. The event will take place on December 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm as part of the AAC's show about art, mass production, and commerce entitled UNLIMITED EDITION. Washington, DC-based performance artist Kathryn Cornelius will stay home in her studio. Not to worry, though. She'll be transmitting a performance piece live via webcam to be projected onto the walls of the AAC. For ReDO IT, Cornelius will upend the typical model of artistic production and authority, allowing gallery-goers to direct her actions, turning her into a sort of service provider. Anyone who chooses to do so can send instructions for Cornelius to act out-via Twitter, through e-mails prior to the night, or at a web terminal conveniently set up in the gallery. All of the instructions will appear projected on one wall as they are updated. On theadjoining wall, viewers will see Cornelius interpret her audience's directives.

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More information on how to participate can be found on a website designed by the artist specifically for the project: http://redoit.kathryncornelius.com

Cornelius is known for pieces that create a strange, phantom territory at the edges of the art world: From offering massages at one art fair; to staging a faux red carpet event at another; to masquerading as a one-woman arts corridor cleaning company, Cornelius is often darkly funny, never boring, and typically whip-smart." - Jeffry Cudlin, Director of Exhibitions @ the Arlington Arts Center

By Kathryn Cornelius category: , , ,

Panel discussion @ the Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC

Chalkboard Talks - The Intersection of Art and Society

Hosted by the artist collective, The Floating Lab Collective
Date: Sat Oct 18, 01:00 PM
Location: The Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC
For more info: http://floatinglabcollective.blogspot.com/2008/10/chalkboard-talks.html

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By Kathryn Cornelius category: ,