Meghann McCrory/feelingFeelings

From left: Ian James, Buns of Steel © Greg Smithey, 1987 (abridged), 2009. DVD, 10:37 loop.

Brica Wilcox, I think, I feel, You know, 2009. Wooden sound booth, fabric, MP3 players, speakers, 3 minutes, looped.

Mariechen Danz, FIST: Emoting Structures, 2009. Views from performance with JinJin and PongPong, Beijing Open Art Festival, NTSC Color Video.

From left: Matthew Siegle, Xanax Drawing Series, Nanny’s Favorite, Psalm 27, of David, Verse By Verse, 2009. Xanax, Mixed Media.

Ian James, Buns of Steel © Greg Smithey, 1987 (abridged), 2009. DVD, 10 minutes, looped.

/images and projects

<> Partial Map or You Can't Get There But You Can Get Close

<> feelingFeelings

<> The Writing Is on the Wall

<> You've Got a Long Way to Go (Crocker Bank)

<> Past Tense of a Future State

<> Arboretum (Looking For Paradise)

<> Lost Horizons

<> Paradise Is a Wall

Andrea Merkx, MIDIS of Rio, 2009. IKEA Shelf, analogue Cassette Tape Deck, Cassette Adapter, TRS->TS Adapter, USB MP3 Player, Audio, 2009

feelingFeelings

A group show curated by Meghann McCrory and Ali Prosch

Compact/Space Gallery, Los Angeles, December 19 2009 - January 10 2010.

feelingFeelings featured performative, time-based and site-specific artworks examining the significance of affect in contemporary culture. Participating artists included Barb Choit, Megan Cotts, Mariechen Danz, Ian James, Andrea Merkx, Julie Orser, Matthew Siegle, Clarissa Tossin and Brica Wilcox.

feelingFeelings framed affect as a means to investigate the immediacy of emotive response to cultural production. The exhibition created a space in which to reconsider the manipulation of feeling on the scale of the personal and the social. Employing a range of strategies, the works address the territory of affect through explorations of Hollywood cinema, religious reverie, pop music, pharmaceuticals and historical monuments.

Andrea Merkx, Rio in MIDI, 2009. Performance, 30 minutes.

Megan Cotts, Pratyahara: The withdrawal of the senses of cognition and action from both the external world and the images or impressions in the mind field, 2009. Performance, installation, sound, 45 minutes.