ACRE Solo
http://www.acreresidency.org/219-accidents-of-gravity-new-works-by-michelle-anne-harris/
ACCIDENTS OF GRAVITY
new works by MICHELLE ANNE HARRIS
FEBRUARY 19-20, 2012
Opening Reception: Sunday, Feb 19, 4-8pm
Open Hours: Monday Feb 20, noon-4pm
ACRE Projects
1913 w 17th Street, Chicago 60608
ACCIDENTS OF GRAVITY is an exhibition of prints and sculptures invoking anxieties over trauma and loss, both past and present. On the wall are a series of wax transfer prints based on a photographic series destroyed in a house fire. The prints distort the original works into variations of black and white noise or static suggesting deteriorating vision, fading memories, and absence. The theme of gravity as a force is approached both in the physical sense and in describing the weight of experience. On the floor, an arrangement of objects pairing found and raw elements collected while traveling, sit precariously on top of minimally constructed tables. The materials of wood, porcelain, stainless steel, and coral are repeated as variable elements that present a range of relationships from the intended to the actual function, signifying the roles of observer, collector, and traveler.
MICHELLE ANNE HARRIS, Associate Professor Photography and Art Education (2011). BFA, 2008, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; MFA, 2010 Cranbrook Academy of Art Bloomfield Hills, MI. Exhibitions: Roots and Culture Contemporary Arts Center, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit; Buckham Gallery, Flint. Publications: Shots Magazine; Chicago Reader. Bibliography: Hour Detroit, Art Beat; James Madison University Literary and Arts Journal. Collections: Marriot Inc., Sherine Marzouk. Awards: Community Arts Assistance Program Grant, Steketee Scholarship, Ox-Bow Residency Program.
More information about Michelle Anne Harris can be found at www.michelleanneharris.com
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Solar Powered Sound Lamp, Permanent Installation, ACRE residency
Installation at Roots and Culture Contemporary Art Center, Chicago IL 10/14-11/13/2011
Kaleidoscope Goggles with Pivoting Arm
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During a benefit for Threewalls, the musicians and I, the documentarian, have been hypnotized by Jacob C. Hammes and lead out to perform during a benefit for the gallery. Paul Giallorenzo, Aaron Zarzutzki, Jeff Kimmel, David More, Chris Hefner, and Steve Lacy.
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Workshops and Artist Lectures
Workshop and artist presentation at the annual education fair at the Art Institute of Chicago
Kaleidocycle template for Hyde Park Art Center booth at the MDW Fair. Featuring the work of Betsy Odom, Kim Piotrowski, and Jeff Carter. Copy image and follow instructions to make your own.
Artist lecture and camera obscura building workshop at Forest Hills Elementary
Terrerium Family Day workshop using recycled CD spindles and found materials for Jef Geys exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
At MOCAD 2010
Cranbrook Institute of Science
Workshop at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit in conjunction with "Out of the Woods" exhibition
Kaleidoscope Viewing Post demonstrations at an artist lecture for 3rd grade classes at Brookside Academy
Workshop at the "Clothesline" exhibition at the Hyde Park Art Center as a part of Los Cago's Media Box project at InCUBATE. Participants could arrange objects on the scanner bed to be projected and rendered onto post cards which were mailed to random people around the world.
Los Cago Media Box Media was sent between artists in Chicago and Los Angeles. Artists were asked to add to the contents of the box and pass it to another person.
Field Notes Books for Los Cago Media Box
- Detail of Media Box contents by Japeth Mennes
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Recent Work 2011
"Kaleidoscope Viewfinders" with view through lenses, wood and custom lenses
Observations from an Outpost, single channel color video with sound, 5 minute excerpt from an ongoing project.
This piece incorporates video collected while in residence at FLACC Workplace, text from a collaborative writing project with Chicago-based author David Berthy, and audio from travel logs my father kept while stationed overseas in the army.
"Field Recordings: Belgium 06.09" (installation view), looped color video triptych (approx.4 min ea.) projected inside constructed wooden boxes with accompanying 6-channel sound piece of audio field recordings played through speakers inside repurposed lamps.
"Untitled Video Stills", C-Print, 24"x40", stills of field recordings used for video installations. The videos capture subtle actions documented while traveling throughout Belgium while in residence at FLACC Workplace in Genk, Belgium.
"A Break in the Clouds" with untitled Sound Lamp (installation view), 8'x10', wallpaper, conduit, extension cords, electricity. Here I create my own "disguised" sources of electricity with wiring inside aluminum conduit-one functional (left) and one not (right). The conduit and outlets are wrapped in wallpaper to match the background mural. The extension cord runs electrical power to a mutli-channel video/sound installation (see image for The Objects Stare Back)
"The Objects Stare Back", 4-channel color video installation with 9-channel sound piece. Shown in tandem with A Break in the Clouds at Buckham Gallery in Flint, MI. A symphony of natural and machine sounds play through speaker lamps while projection boxes play videos of looped daydreams of clouds, trees, and balloons moving with the wind.
"The Objects Stare Back", detail view (left) This suitcase holds one of the two 5-channel dvd players used to support the sound for the 9-channel audio piece; "Projection Box", detail view (right), 19"x4"x5", wood and custom electronics. Projection boxes play subtle images of video field recordings. Here clouds are pushed slowly through the tips of gently swaying tree tops.
"Untitled Sound Lamp" (right), 20"x20"x5', aluminum, DVD player, speakers, sound, electronics. The 6-foot sound sculpture plays the sound of a dog barking somewhere far off. The base of it holds a 5-channel DVD player that runs a multi-channel video/sound installation (see image of installation view The Objects Stare Back) and a short speaker lamp plays the a high-pitched sound of a brisk wind. "Untitled Light Sculpture" (left), 20"x20"x6', wood, aluminum, speaker, sound, electronics.
These sounds lamp sculptures were shown with the multi-media installation "The Objects Stare Back" in Flint, MI. All of the video and sound used in the installation were recorded while traveling between Chicago and Flint. On the left, a duet of different church bells ring in the distance (one recorded in Chicago and one recorded in Flint). On the right the sculptures play a mixture of sounds- rain pattering on a windshield, in the middle the sounds of a squeaky machine roller, and on the right a train intermittently passes by and by.
"The Eyes Do Not See Things But Images of Things That Mean Other Things", Multi-media installation of collected and reassembled/constructed objects and field recordings. On the far left- an I.V. stand is combined with a log and topped with a brass bicycle bell. Next to it- a cast ceramic base sits a wasp nest and intricately coil of continuous plastic paper. With video and sound.
"Observations #54-189" (installation view),5-channel video and two-channel sound piece incorporating images and sounds recorded while in residence at Frans Masereel Printmaking Center in Kasterlee, Belgium paired with sound and images my father recorded in travel logs he kept while oversees in the Army.
"Observation no 55, 74, and 83" detail view
"Media Cart", 8'x20"x20", wood, DVD players, monitors, each monitor plays out of sync the same 5-minute video of a silent swing carnival ride spinning hypnotically. In between the loop, each monitor plays a unique video with sound. Here, the observer is invited to participate in the work by looking through the Kaleidoscope Glasses and adjusting the tripod-base.
Abandoned coal mine in Genk, BE, untitled C-prints, 2009, 24"x40"
Ardennes, BE, untitled C-Prints, 2009, 24"x40"
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