“A Series of Walks” is part performance, part installation. Schelling attached 10 cameras to her body and tread the streets of New York with robotic movements, mimicking Google’s cameras and recording a nearly 360-degree view of where she went. For the installation, Schelling built a telephone-booth sized box for the viewer to enter. With six projectors, the videos were played on the walls, simulating the Street View digital environment. A laptop adjacent of the box showed footage of her walking. Exhibited at ITP’s Thesis Week in May, you can watch a clip of the installation and Schelling’s performance here. (A Series of Walks/A Series of Walks (Displaced) on Cool Hunting)
Studio 360: “Damaged homes are the focus of artist Alison Elizabeth Taylor’s show at New York’s James Cohan Gallery, called “Foreclosed.” A native of Las Vegas, one of the cities hit hardest by the mortgage crisis, Taylor snuck into empty houses in the region. Her pictures show the frustration and rage that homeowners took out on their repossessed houses. Kurt asks Taylor why she used the challenging medium of inlaid wood to recast quick images of vandalism.”
“Jake Longstreth is an artist who muses on the open-ended banality of contemporary landscapes.” loud paper: resurrecting boring: jake longstreth
