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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:47:06 EST
From: SheilaPepe@aol.com
To: SheilaPepe@aol.com
Subject: Joseph Cornell road show in NYC

HI GUYS.. soon my friend Anne Walsh will be in town for these events..
Please join us.
Sheila



On April 8, we'll be hosted by the wonderful artist's book store

PRINTED MATTER for a party launching our new cd,

Visits with Joseph Cornell, (Art After Death volume 3).

Join us from 5-7 at 535 W. 22rd St. in Chelsea



and on April 10:



ARCHIVE presents:

"An Afternoon with Joseph Cornell"

ISSUE Project Room

619 E. 6th St.

7:30 p.m. APRIL 10


Lights out. Sound up: the recorded voice of

professional trance medium Valerie Winborne

speaks as the spirit of the seminal American

artist Joseph Cornell. Cornell muses on his work,

his reputation, his legacy, his dreams. Lights

come up, and the authors of "An Afternoon with

Joseph Cornell," Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick,

step to the lectern. For the next hour, Walsh and

Kubick lead the audience on a journey that

explores biography, storytelling, spirituality,

art history, and mythology.


The primary material of their performance is a

series of audio recordings documenting

"interviews" Walsh and Kubick conducted in 2002

with Cornell at the Whitney Museum of American

Art. Professional spirit mediums were brought by

Walsh and Kubick to the museum, and in the

presence of Cornell's box constructions, his

spirit was invoked, with the mediums serving as

translators and interpreters for his messages.


"An Afternoon with Joseph Cornell" presents

samples of the five mediums through whom Cornell

communicated, framed by a Walsh and Kubick's

witty and thoughtful narration, and slides of

Cornell's enigmatic works, journal entries, paper

ephemera, family photos, historical photos of his

NYC "haunts," film stills, and related themes.

The audio is a musing on Cornell the man,

artist,legend, spirit.

The narration includes discussion of the various

ethical and practical issues involved in the

making of the "Art After Death" series of which

the Cornell work is a part: the odd conflation of

art historians and spirit mediums; the uncanny

"truths" which emerge; the meaning of

"inspiration"; the ownership of an artist's

legacy, and much more.


Recent ARCHIVE Performances have taken place at

the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, the Centre for

Surrealism Studies, Essex, U.K.; ISSUE Project

Room, NYC, San Francisco Art Insititute. Upcoming

appearances will take place in Munich, Germany,

and Terrassa, Spain.



n.b. Art After Death takes the form of an audio

cd series, performance lectures, and museum and

gallery installations which present narrated and

edited audio, recorded during "interviews"

(seances) with dead artists. (We conduct at least

4 separate interviews with an individual artist

in the presence of their work, each time using a

different spirit medium to "translate" the

spirit's responses to questions posed by Anne

Walsh and Chris Kubick.) To date we have

completed extended audio works on three artists:

the seminal American sculptor Joseph Cornell, the

French conceptual painter and performer Yves

Klein, and the 19th century Italian self-portait

photographer, the Countess of Castiglione. We

conceive these compact discs, and the lectures

and museum installations that we develop from

them, as offering an alternative form of "art

history." They suggest that (art) criticism might

be a collaborative and performative practice,

rather than an authoritative one. The act of

using metaphysical communication

prostheses-spirit mediums-to obtain information

about artists' intentions is one that brings the

interpreter's role powerfully into the

foreground. More information is available at

www.doublearchive.com



ARCHIVE is the collaborative production entity of

artists Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick. Together,

ARCHIVE has produced a series of audio CDs,

including "Conversations with the Countess of

Castiglione", "Yves Klein Speaks!" and "Visits

With Joseph Cornell". They have also produced

gallery installations for museum and gallery

exhibitions, including the 2002 Whitney Biennial.

Their work has been heard on public radio in

America, Canada and England, and their lectures

presented at L.A.'s Museum of Contemporary Art,

the Getty Museum, and recently at the Institute

for Surrealism Studies in Essex, England.


Anne Walsh's solo practice is primarily in video

installation. An upcoming screening at Berkeley's

Pacific Film Archive will show a brief

retrospective of her video projects and

performances, which look at the world as an

intricate ensemble of gestures, utterances, and

protocols. Walsh has had solo shows in New York

City, Helsinki, Utrecht, and Los Angeles, and is

an editor of X-Tra, the art and culture journal

published in Los Angeles. Walsh recently joined

the faculty in Art Practice at U.C. Berkeley as

Professor of video art and conceptual practices.


Chris Kubick is an artist and sound designer

whose work focuses on speech and other human

sounds. He is the founder and director of

Language Removal Services. His sound work has

been heard internationally, in installations at

places such as the Whitney Museum of American Art

and the 2001 Venice Biennale, as well as on radio

programs such as NPR's "All Things Considered".

He has also created sound for films and videos

which range from sublime films which have won

awards from places such as the Walker Center for

the Arts, to B-grade monster movies and tv

shows.



–

Anne Walsh

annejunior@earthlink.net

http://www.doublearchive.com