Posted July, 2010 12:17PM by Staff
Private Security Forces in San Francisco’s Financial District are gearing up for a month of interventions as the city-wide festival “Capitalism Is Over” gets underway, but the ordinary drills may not be enough to protect them from Sean and Isabel. On August 10th, the two performance artists will try and grease their way into ten downtown offices that profit somehow from oil while maintaining a heated argument. They plan to fuel their domestic quarrel with real-life drama that could spill billions of secret details about their personal lives all over the city -- embarrassing information that will leave you gushing! Their slick sounding public intervention could burn out early, or it could blow so out-of-control that the two artist land themselves in the slammer.
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Filed under: Performance Art
Posted February, 2010 8:17PM by Staff
Expecting the worst, many Bay Area residents have begun sandbagging their
homes, checking their emergency supply kits, and digging trenches - not
because of the weather, but because of the upcoming production of Sean and
Isabel's stormy pseudo-biographical drama. "Performance Art in Front of an
Audience Ought to be Entertaining," a play about the turbulent relationship
between Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, has more dark clouds than a tropical
tsunami.
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Filed under: Play, Performance Art
Posted November 2, 2009 12:10PM by Staff
Finding no other venue on planet earth that would allow them to perform their edgy drama about artists Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, Sean and Isabel accepted an invitation to turn an artist's loft-style apartment into a stage. Kathrine Marty, resident and proprietor of LightBox performance and exhibition space in Grand Rapids, MI hosted, "Performance Art in Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining" for a three-night engagement. A surprisingly composed group of attendees were permitted to stand anywhere they liked in the apartment setting, while the cast made full use of the amenities to deliver the tragic story behind Andre and Mendieta's fatal relationship.
Despite Sean and Isabel's wide spread reputation for having a rowdy and ill-tempered following of angry protestors, the artists managed to attract the amazing acting talents of Greg Rogers and Lisa Catrett, best known for their contributions to high profile productions at the Grand Rapids Civic Theater.
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Filed under: Play, Performance Art
Posted March 2009 12:10PM by Staff
Fans are wondering how much of their real life arguments come out in this online snippet created for fellow artists Scott Kildall and Nathaniel Stern.
This past June, Scott and Nathaniel asked Sean and Isabel to "remix" the scandalous intervention of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia, for the internet pavilion of the Venice Biennale. Appropriating a scene from the 1966 Mike Nichols film "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", Sean and Isabel turn the fight into a debate over whether or not Scott and Nathaniel should be allowed to use Wikipedia as a canvass for their project.
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Filed under: Wikipedia Art, Video Art,Performance Art
Posted February 2009 11:17AM by Staff
What were they "inking"?!?
Why would you give conceptual artists like Sean and Isabel the opportunity to do a three month residency at a high-end printmaking studio like Kala in Berkeley, CA? These kitschy little comics were turned into letterpress prints, but they didn't get much press. You might say "they aren't worth the paper they're printed on!"
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Filed under: Print, Conceptual Art
Posted February 2009 11:17AM by Staff
When Andy Warhol said, "in the future everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes," Sean and Isabel weren't who he had in mind. For an exhibition honoring the late pop artist these two conceptual art mavens turned their Paparazzi Photographs into tabloid spreads blown up to a size that was larger than life -- well, their life anyway.
Laden with articles about their wildly UN-famous careers, the six spreads featured in the exhibit do little to improve their reputation. The operative phrase here might be "DON'T stop the presses!"
No worries, Andy... these two still have 15 minutes left.
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Filed under: Print, Conceptual Art
Posted August 2008 8:30AM by Staff
Their grim sounding play frightens audience members and leaves a trail of empty theater seats.
They say there's a point in every literary success where the author throws themselves into the writing. Despite almost a year of developing a script and many more months of promoting their ghoulish drama about the last argument between Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, Sean and Isabel can't get a break anywhere! Could their shocking revelations about this heated art-world drama be too traumatic for art fans to bear? Or could Sean and Isabel's own torrid relationship be keeping them from their opening night on Broadway?
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Filed under: Play, Performance Art
Posted January 2009 8:25AM by Staff
Their latest online intervention consists of using their own Wikipedia entry "Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert" as a therapists couch for their marital disputes. But on this couch it doesn't matter what "he said" or "she said", it only matters if it's cited. By now the page is so full of flags it looks like the front of UN Plaza. These two artists belong on Wackypedia, not Wikipedia.
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Filed under: Wikipedia Art, Conceptual Art
Posted May 2008 8:23AM by Staff
View shocking wedding videos of Elizabeth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle's fourth matrimonial event in Santa Cruz, CA that was anything BUT garden variety. Following the theme of green, Sean and Isabel's contribution to the event was a public display of aversion so disagreeable it caused some audience members to lose their color!
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Filed under: Marriage Tax Penalty,Virginity,Performance Art
Posted througout 2006 and 2007 8:15AM by Staff
Banks fail, financiers wind up in prison, economists fumble with even the most basic principles, and the world markets are forever in turmoil... but somehow conceptual art just never goes out of style! With their spending out of control, these two artists do what any contemporary capitalist would: find a way to blame someone else!
For an entire year, Sean and Isabel handed their lives over to a fifteen member corporate board of directors for a performance called Death & Taxes, Inc. But things went horribly wrong when their board members actually tried to solve their problems!
Find out what happens when the heartless corporate model of "turning a profit" is applied to the intangible poetry of conceptual art-making. Can these two starving artists turn things around? Or is this project just a Ponzi scheme disguised as performance art?
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Filed under: Performance Art, Endurance Art
Posted November 2007 8:00AM by Staff
They couldn't fast talk their way out of this debacle! Their debut performance in Healdsburg, CA fell totally flat in front of an audience more receptive to auctions than to art. Going Once... Going Twice... Going Three Times... Gone!
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Filed under: Performance Art
Posted December 2004 7:20AM by Staff
This argumentative couple can't seem to agree on anything, whether they're arguing about their own lives, or someone else's murder trial. This extreme video diary tells all about their endless arguments over whether Scott Peterson was really guilty of killing his pregnant wife, Lacy in 2003.
Hear the shocking evidence that nearly caused these two artists to have their own day in court.
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Filed under: Video Art,Performance Art
Posted September/October 2004 7:01AM by Staff
Patrons say they could barely hear a word of what the artists were saying. Sean and Isabel claim it wasn't meant for their ears, it was meant for their pets'. For this week long radio broadcast, they turned the gallery into a farm yard... but this artwork wound up going to the dogs! These two have definitely tuned in to the wrong frequency!
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Filed under: Sound Art
Posted April 2003 8:53PM by Staff
The scandalous performance that rocked the corporate coaching industry!
They unleashed a sales trainer on a room full of artist, but in the end, this corporate coach blew the whistle on the conceptual artist duo. Could Sean and Isabel turn out to be the death of this salesman?
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Filed under: Performance Art
Posted November 2002 7:20PM by Staff
Fans are wondering what they're doing here at the mall with those suspicious looking bonbons?
And San Francisco shopkeepers were even more confused by the couple's recent decision to hand out free chocolate bombs in front of their stores. Are Sean and Isabel hoping to reignite their passion by sharing some of their explosive home crafted candies with the public? And could all the confusion about their performance instead cause it to blow up their faces?
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Filed under: Performance Art
Posted November 2000 5:39PM by Staff
Isabel gave Sean the scare of his life when she decided to post a blank birth certificate on E*Bay. The conceptual artist and mother-to-be thought it a harmless gesture against branding and corporate identity. But Sean panicked when the bids over who would have the right to name their unborn child started pouring in! Is she knitting those booties for little baby Cisco?!?
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Filed under: Performance Art, Internet Art
Posted August 1998 4:57PM by Staff
Insiders say there's growing reason for concern about the stability of their relationship.
They seem to be getting further and further away from what they both started out to do, and now they've decided to get some help. For this performance at Southern Exposure Gallery, the artists hired a couples' counselor to help them mend the broken relationship between art and its audience.
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Filed under: Performance Art
Posted April 2003 4:31PM by Staff
Somebody radio for help! They're broadcasting on the wrong signal. Somehow the whole conversation got totally disconnected.
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Filed under: Sound Art, Performance Art
