inaugural exhibition
WAYS OF SOMETHING
Curated / Compiled by Lorna Mills
with contributions by more than 100 artists
September 22 – October 20, 2018
Opening reception: September 22nd, 6 – 9
“Ways of Something” is a contemporary remake of John Berger’s BBC documentary, “Ways of Seeing” (1972). The project consists of one-minute videos by over 114 network-based artists who commonly work with 3D rendering, gifs, film remix, webcam performances, and websites to describe the cacophonous conditions of artmaking after the internet.
Curated and compiled by Lorna Mills, this remake is based a four-part series of thirty-minute films created by art theorist John Berger and produced by Mike Dibb. In the original films, voice-of-God narration over iconic European paintings offer a careful dissection of traditional “fine art” media and the way society has come to understand them as art. This current project invited artists to respond to what Berger called “learned assumptions” about art in dialogue with the camera and the screen in its reproduction.
It is, in effect, art about art about television about the internet.
Featuring formal, figural and kitsch practices to videomaking, “Ways of Something” consists of aesthetically diverse interpretations of Berger’s ideas on looking at art after the introduction of digital media. Ultimately, it turns the highbrow nature of documentary film into a wondrous and disjointed series of alternative outlooks on how artists understand art today.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Episode 1
Minute 1: Daniel Temkin
Minute 2: Rollin Leonard
Minute 3: Sara Ludy
Minute 4: Rhett Jones
Minute 5: Jaakko Pallasvuo
Minute 6: Dafna Ganani
Minute 7: Jennifer Chan
Minute 8: Rea McNamara
Minute 9: Theodore Darst
Minute 10: Matthew Williamson
Minute 11: Hector Llanquin
Minute 12: Christina Entcheva
Minute 13: V5MT a.k.a Małgosia Woźnica
Minute 14: Marisa Olson
Minute 15: Joe McKay
Minute 16: Carla Gannis
Minute 17: Nicholas O’Brien
Minute 18: Eva Papamargariti
Minute 19: Rosa Menkman
Minute 20: Kristin Lucas
Minute 21: Jeremy Bailey & Kristen D. Schaffer
Minute 22: Giselle Zatonyl
Minute 23: Paul Wong
Minute 24: Alfredo Salazar-Caro
Minute 25: Sally McKay
Minute 26: RM Vaughan & Keith Cole & Jared Mitchell
Minute 27: Andrew Benson
Minute 28: Christian Petersen
Minute 29: Faith Holland
Minute 30: Jennifer McMackon
Episode 2
Minute 1: Kevin Heckart
Minute 2: Geraldine Juárez
Minute 3: Gaby Cepeda
Minute 4: Angela Washko
Minute 5: Emilie Gervais
Minute 6: LaTurbo Avedon
Minute 7: Lyla Rye
Minute 8: Mattie Hillock
Minute 9: Antonio Roberts
Minute 10: Georges Jacotey
Minute 11: Daniel Rourke
Minute 12: Sandra Rechico & Annie Onyi Cheung
Minute 13: Yoshi Sodeoka
Minute 14: Alma Alloro Germany
Minute 15: LoVid
Minute 16: Andrea Crespo
Minute 17: Ad Minoliti
Minute 18: Arjun Ram Srivatsa
Minute 19: Carrie Gates
Minute 20: Isabella Streffen
Minute 21: Esteban Ottaso
Minute 22: Silke Zil Kuhar ZIL & ZOY
Minute 23: Hyo Myoung Kim
Minute 24: Jesse Darling
Minute 25: Tristan Stevens
Minute 26: Erica Lapadat-Janzen
Minute 27: Claudia Hart
Minute 28: Anthony Antonellis
Episode 3
Minute 1: Carine Santi-Weil
Minute 2: Nicolas Sassoon
Minute 3: Tom Sherman
Minute 4: Kim Asendorf and Ole Fach
Minute 5: Rafaela Kino
Minute 6: Alex McLeod
Minute 7: Kate Wilson & Lynne Slater
Minute 8: Aleksandra Domanović Germany
Minute 9: Systaime
Minute 10: Erik Zepka
Minute 11: Adam Ferriss
Minute 12: Rodell Warner and Arnaldo James
Minute 13: Debora Delmar Corp.
Minute 14: Brenna Murphy
Minute 15: Nick Briz
Minute 16: Carlos Sáez
Minute 17: Jenn E Norton
Minute 18: Juliette Bonneviot
Minute 19: Luis Nava
Minute 20: Vince McKelvie
Minute 21: Claudia Maté
Minute 22: Evan Roth
Minute 23: Shana Moulton
Minute 24: Sabrina Ratté
Minute 25: Jordan Tannahill
Minute 26: Vasily Zaitsev feat. MON3Y.us
Minute 27: Ann Hirsch
Episode 4
minute 1: Mert Keskin a.k.a Haydiroket
minute 2: A. Bill Miller
minute 3: Alix Desaubiaux
minute 4: Krystal South
minute 5: Rachael Archibald
minute 6: Will Pappenheimer
minute 7: Dave Greber
minute 8: Chiara Passa
minute 9: John Boyle-Singfield
minute 10: Gunilla Josephson
minute 11: Melanie Clemmons
minute 12: Curt Cloninger
minute 13: Terrell Davis
minute 14: Morehshin Allahyari
minute 15: Amy Lockhart
minute 16: John Marriott
minute 17: Lilly Handley
Minute 18: Emily Vey Duke
Minute 19: Kate Armstrong
Minute 20: Myfanwy Ashmore
Minute 21: Luke Painter
minute 22: Aram Bartholl
minute 23: Elena Garnelo
minute 24: Lorna Mills
minute 25: Ellectra Radikal
minute 26: Nicole Killian
minute 27: Jacob Ciocci
minute 28: Rick Silva
Image credit: Kristin Lucas, Ways of Something, Episode #1, minute 20