The vernacular of the office is a constant and unavoidable presence in many of our lives, a sub-culture that spans disciplines, boundaries and societies. HRI (Unpaid Internship) takes that language and distills it into a microcosm — an immersive performance and installation that reconfigures the workplace as a musical instrument. HRI (Unpaid Internship) explores the… Read more »
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The Librarians
In a series of five Untitled works, The Notion Collective explores the changing role of the library in our increasingly digital culture. The Librarians was exhibited in conjunction with Hawkeye Collective at Queens College Art Center.
Farmwork: a retrospective
For the past eight years, visual artist Douglas Rosenberg and choreographer Li Chiao-Ping have opened their home, land, garden and studio in Oregon, WI to an annual gathering of artists, dancers, writers, musicians and creative people of all kinds. Called Farmwork, these yearly retreats are open to anyone who wants to participate in periods of… Read more »
Circling
Circling is a meditation on place, the passing of time and the cyclical nature of life. Featuring renowned choreographer/dancer Sally Gross and shot at locations including architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin, Circling is a poetic rendering of what it means to be deeply at home in both the landscape and the dancing body. Jason Bahling… Read more »
Hot Air
Hot Air is a web-based arcade game that challenges players’ abilities to decode the language of U.S. partisan politics. Pick a side of the aisle and deflate your foes’ real-time twitter rhetoric. You start by picking a side – and in this game you have two choices; Democrat or Republican. You will then enter a… Read more »
Untitled (Umbrella Project)
The Notion Collective proposes to cover a public space with a suspended array of individual networked umbrellas which, responding to current weather predictions and local precipitation conditions, open to create a radiant, colorful canopy when it rains. Untitled (Umbrella Project) aims to take the ordinary experience of rain and transform it into something to be… Read more »
Beyond the Debt Ceiling
Beyond the Debt Ceiling was a response to the 2011 “debt-ceiling crisis” in American politics. The U.S. House of Representatives was embroiled in a stalemate, with far-right congresspeople refusing to pass a necessary increase in the U.S. debt ceiling to avoid defaulting on existing debt. While the “crisis” was hitting a fever pitch in the national… Read more »
Station Identification
WNYC, KNOW, KCRW, KUT, KEXP, WHYY, WWOZ, WBEZ, WOLX, WORT. These are letters that may mean nothing or everything to you depending on where you’ve lived and what you’ve listened to. They’re radio call signs, and they can be as much a part of a city’s landscape as mountains, rivers, skyscrapers, and freeways. Station Identification… Read more »
340 Degrees
340 degrees is the temperature at which sugars begin to caramelize. The process we call caramelization occurs when we heat a variety of foods past this temperature. In fact, caramelization is responsible for much of what we aim for and find delicious in cooking. It’s true for nuts, it’s true for cane sugar, and it’s… Read more »
Spoken For
Spoken For is a multimedia performance work conceived by Marina Kelly and Megan Katz. Four male performers re-animate four women’s intimate stories of desire, using live performance and video.
The Rotarians Society Presents Tate Fabrication
The Rotarians Society Presents Tate Fabrication is a simulated media event that centers around a fictional corporation (TATE Fabrication) and its visually stunning yet somewhat dubious IMPEL High Impact Peg Driver. Inspired by real-life media events like the Steve Jobs keynote, as well as masters of critical simulation like Ant Farm and The Yes Men,… Read more »
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