YOUR SWIMMING BRAIN
Kent Isaacs in his Knowledge Box, 1962, courtesy Life Magazine
Stan Vanderbeek's Movie-Drome, Stony Point, NY 1962
Fleisher/Ollman Gallery invites you to participate in YOUR SWIMMING BRAIN, a temporary video and sound event. Asserting Jean Luc Godard's belief that linear narrative was the enemy, this event allows all imagery and sound to occur at once while aligning nothing.
Loosely playing with architect Isaacs' famous 1962 design, the Knowledge Box, and Stan Vanderbeek's 1960's brainchild the Movie-drome, YOUR SWIMMING BRAIN will attempt to cram as much imagery as possible, as fast as possible, into your "swimming brain" (as Isaacs appositely reported to Life magazine in its September 14, 1962 issue). Perhaps feeling a restless, impatient state due to the growth of imagery and information in the 1960s, these visually stimulating, semi-psychedelic experiments might have been the fledgling precursors to the Internet.
Local and regional artists are invited to project videos, images, and sound (playlists/mix tapes) using your own video/slide/overhead/shadow/homemade projectors and stereos/boom boxes to grow into a large chaotic critical mass - its total effect becoming a powerful and lively synthesis of multi-directional yet simultaneous imagery and sound.
Please RSVP by Friday, September 3 to Rachel Reese, Assistant Director:
Include your proposed contribution and any installation specifics. Resources may be provided to artists who need help procuring projectors or necessary equipment. Fleisher/Ollman gallery does not have equipment to loan.
TIMELINE FOR PARTICIPATION
- RSVP: by Friday, September 3
- Installation: Wednesday, September 8 from 10:30 am - 6 pm
- Exhibition Hours: Thursday, September 9 from 10:30 am - 6 pm
- Reception: Thursday, September 9 from 6 - 9 pm
- Deinstallation: Friday, September 10 from 10:30 am - 6 pm