From the Perspective of An Artist Who Writes
From The Perspective of An Artist Who Writes is a series of texts and video-performances that together function as a formal, elective “thesis”, one which I presented for my MFA degree at California Institute of the Arts. The project explores the notion of responsibility, what it means to be responsible to or within a given, in particular, art history. For the video installation “Sex and Rage” and Responsibility and March 17th and “The Documents of 20th Century Art” and Texas Holdem and Art Groupies and Walter Hopps and Tripods and “That’s Hot” and War Protest and Theory. I taught artist and CalArts teacher Michael Asher poker, in reference to the famed photograph of Marcel Duchamp and, nude model and writer, Eve Babitz playing chess. Together we read aloud an interview with Babitz about the circumstances surrounding the photograph’s staging, my reading the interviewer’s and Asher Babitz’s responses, as well as selections from Babitz’s novel, Sex and Rage. A number of additional texts and video-performances make up the accompanying “thesis” works.
“Sex and Rage” and Responsibility and March 17th and “The Documents
of 20th Century Art” and Texas Holdem and Art Groupies and Walter
Hopps and Tripods and “That’s Hot” and War Protest and Theory.,
2007, 1hr 24min on loop, 2:30min excerpt
Art Talk, 2007, performance (on video), 5min
Reflections by Danielle Adair on Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia,
2006, text
, 2:00 min excerpt
The Movement, 2007, performance, 10min
Art School Alma mater, 2007, performance, 5min
The Morel Story, 2007, performance/event, 5 hrs