Artist-in-Studio As Spectacle: Internal Message Search: A Performative Installation

April 18-April 30, 2008
artist reception: Thursday, April 24, 6 – 8 pm

Nina Sobell will install her studio in Location One’s Project Gallery, which includes recent wax
sculptures, drawings, keyboard, guitar and mic.
Visitors to the gallery will be able to engage in a dialogue with the artist about this work, and may bring their own instruments to improvise with her live on the web.

Sobell pioneered the use of video, computers, and interactivity in art, as well as performance on the Web. Since 1969, when she first used video to document participants’ undirected interactions with her sculptures, she investigates the extent to which video enables her to manipulate the relation between time and space, and to create a vortex for human experience, in which the mediated event coincides with public experience, memory, and relationships. Groundbreaking projects include ParkBench and VirtuAlice, and the ongoing Interactive Encephalographic Brainwave Drawings.

Nina’s work has been shown throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. An award-winning printmaker and figurative sculptor, an avid improvisational guitarist and keyboardist, she can be seen sculpting Emily in the ParkBench Performance Archives and heard playing music there as well.

LIVESTREAM & ARTIST PAGE

related works:
http://www.cat.nyu.edu/parkbench
http://www.cat.nyu.edu/parkbench/portfolio/5/frame.html

Nina Sobell’s residency at Location One is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

http://ninasobell.com