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CURRENT NEWS July, 2008: Performance: SET by Marisa Jahn & Erik Carver at the Art Gallery of Knoxville (knoxville) Workshop, performance, exhibition ('SET'). Check out the review by Chris Buckner in the Knoxville Metrovoice entitled"The Rules of the Game: A new conceptual game makes its way to Knoxville" May 15 - June 30, 2008: Solo Exhibition - 'Mortise & Tenon' Collaborations by Shada/Jahn' (Marnay-sur-Seine, France) Steve Shada and I will be artists in residence at Camac (www.camac.org) - the exhibition marks the end of our residency period and will showcase some new ('Pleasurecraft') and older projects ('Lifejacket' & 'Musical Instruments')... Saturday May 31, 2008, 12-7 pm: WORKSHOP & ONE EVENING INSTALLATION: 'Volume Drawings: Invisible Structures, Movement-Triggered Boundaries' at Western Front (Vancouver) FACILITATORS: Marisa Jahn, Max Goldfarb, Joanne Bristol Public Viewing & Reception: Saturday May 31, 2008, 5:30-7 pm ...A workshop and installation inspired by the notion of "kit bashing" in which a kit is appropriated or repurposed for an alternate use. Participants attending the workshop will solder and assemble a basic kit consisting of a trip-sensor and laser used in domestic and commercial surveillance (no prior electronics experience necessary). The group will subsequently experiment with this infrared drawing tool, its bearing on the body and movement, then build/choreograph a score of triggers and responses. Throughout this experiment, participants will experiment with sound, feedback, and delays in collaboration with a Vancouver-based electronic musician (TBA). The workshop culminates in an hour-long installation open to the public where the invisible architecture will be performed and experienced. April 25 - May 31, 2008: 'Kits for an Encounter' at Western Front (Vancouver) CURATED BY: Marisa Jahn & Candice Hopkins FEATURING: Azra Aksamija (AT),Steven Brekelmans (CAN), Limor Fried (US), Max Goldfarb (US), Janice Kerbel (UK), Lize Mogel (US), Vahida Ramujkic (ES), Noam Toran (UK), Judi Werthein (US/Argentina) ...An exhibition that examines artists' kits that instigate or trouble the notion of a (social) encounter. June, 2008: Writer in Residence at The Headlands (San Francisco) working on some books! June 5, 2008: 'Sizzlin in the Fastlane: A Manifold Cookset for the Gourmand Commuter' at Zero One (San Jose, CA) As part of the Future Farmers' Free Soil Bus Tour, featured at Zero One, Steve Shada and I will cook treats for bus riders, harvesting heat from the bus's engine...As Americans have discovered and re-discovered since the advent of the Model T, harnessing the heat from any commute makes great conditions for preparing a long stew, spicy hot pot, a tasty flan, or slow-baked caserole. The accompanying cookbook suggests recipes tailored to the length of your commute and foods local to the region. This project was formerly referred to as 'Commuter Cookout.' May 22 - June 22, 2008: Blackmarket Type " Print Shop at Articule gallery (Montreal) curated by Joseph del Pesco With posters by: A Constructed World, Brad Adkins, Amy Balkin, Paul Butler, Harrell Fletcher, Amy Franceschini, Jaime Gili, Sam Gould, Marc Horowitz, Marisa Jahn, Steve Lambert, New Beginnings, Giancarlo Norese, Derek Sullivan and window display by Jeff Ramsey Fall, 2008: 'Recipes for an Encounter' at Western Front (publisher: Western Front with Pond) EDITED BY: Marisa Jahn (Artist and Co-Director, Pond), Berin Golonu (Associate Curator, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts), & Candice Hopkins (Director, Western Front Exhibitions) 2007-2009: Artist in Residence at MIT Media Lab (Tangible Media Group) Spring 2009: Solo Exhibitions in collaboration with Steve Shada and others Samson Projects (Boston, MA) MIT Museum (Cambridge, MA) Jenny Jaskey Gallery (Philadelphia, PA) Spring 2009: 'ByProducts' (publisher: YYZ Books) Book edited by Joseph del Pesco & Marisa Jahn OLDER NEWS February 13-26, 2008 I'll be travelling to a small town called El Pital where they have just built a new library. This small village has never had a library, so they have no books. As an artist-in-resident for several weeks, I'll be working with people who live there to make experimental literature. 10/30/2007 click to read a review I wrote about "On Being an Exhibition" (at Artists Space, NYC) published/posted on Stretcher, the San Francisco critical art blog. 9/28/2007 Hello - I'm back on planet earth. Apart from my two-year stint of (delightful) academic madness in Cambridge, it's also been quite a frenetic summer. Upon graduating, the FBI knocked on my door, my newly turned-in Master's Thesis in hand. Someone had tipped them off that I was involved in a mail fraud ring with my mailman. Certainly this is not true - I only asked the mailman to tuck my letter in other people's mail so that I could feel my letter going all over the world. Through their interrogation, the 2 FBI officers revealed that they had had poured in detail over my thesis for clues. I was disappointed about their poor timing – I would have gladly given them my thesis a week earlier in order to enlist their services as readers on my thesis committee. All their long hours going to waste - I would have loved their feedback. And I've moved to New York where on various art, curating, and writing endeavors with various groups. Currently, I'm working with a wonderful organization called The Canary Project helping them to realize their curatorial vision. I will be commuting several times to Boston throughout the academic year to participate as an artist-in-resident in the Tangible Media Group led by Hiroshi Ishii at MIT's Media Lab. I am currently working on co-editing a book and organizing an exhibition called "ByProduct" with curator Joseph del Pesco. Published by YYZ Books and funded by the Canadian Council, this book will be released in 2009 with an accompanying exhibition (locations and venues pending). Click here to find a little more info. |