ART AS RESEARCH Opening Reception Thursday, Sept 25, 5 – 7:30 pm September 25 – October 24, 2014 Fine Art Gallery, Art & Design Building, George Mason University, Fairfax Campus Featuring: Greg Bloom with Jenn Stowe (DC), Gareth Branwyn (DC), Riah Buchanan (Los Angeles), Kate Chandler (DC), Edgar Endress (St. Augustine), Paul Farber (Philadelphia), Katie […]
Steve Rowell’s Parallelograms is a film, photography, and mapping project, investigating the geography and architecture of influence, power, and money. The project contextualizes natural, post-natural, and built environments, appropriating methods and tools from geography and geospatial analysis. The project was completed with support from the Gaea Foundation. Rowell is an artist, curator, and researcher, with […]
Ding Ren’s Migrations examines cross-cultural patterns and phenomena through analog photographic practice. This ongoing archive extends her work around notions of home and migration in relation to geo-cultural impressions and observations. Ding is a nomadic artist and writer, born in China, who is currently based between Washington, DC and Amsterdam, NL. With a field-driven approach, […]
April 11-May 4, 2013 The aspiration of outer space defines our relationship to other realms as an ethos, aesthetics, and ecology. This residency considers the role that space programs play in cognitive and spiritual life, social consciousness, and political progress: how the micro and macro cosmos regenerate the potential for space as a ground […]
October 11- November 3, 2012 The Republic considers the values underpinning deliberative democracy, popular citizenship, public transparency, accountability, polling, and representation during the final month of the 2012 election cycle. Involving residents participating in research, projects, and actions that animate issues surrounding the national election and democratic process. In particular, the project explores movements […]
January 24- February 16, 2013 The Copy Rights Research Residency investigates individual and collective authorship in the digital age–considering how reproductivity and replication enable free expression, empower creative re-use, and mobilize social justice actions. This residency explores the structure and organization of mass digital communication systems, and examines debates around media policy and rights, […]
In July 2012, PARKS & PASSAGES sent a group of DC-based research fellows–interactive artist Edgar Endress, artist James Huckenpahler, architect Pam Jordan, and scholar Paul Farber–to Berlin to source ideas for re-purposing and re-activating this underground space. Their creative investigations draw from Berlin’s exceptional approach to sustainably re-purposing architecture and infrastructure. This project includes interdisciplinary works from the four […]