Investment in Big Oil Could Yield a Night in Jail for Bay Area Artists

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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blowout performance

 

Filed under: Performance Art


Bay Area residents brace themselves for the arrival of Sean and Isabel's tempestuous "Performance Art..."

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.

Performance Art in Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining



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Filed under: Play, Performance Art


Sean and Isabel Turn an Artist's Loft Into a Stage

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.

Performance Art in Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining


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


Wikipedia Art Remix

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


Art Is...

 

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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Art Is...

 

 

Filed under: Print, Conceptual Art


Paparazzi Tabloid Series

Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert, Paparazzi Tabloid Series

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


Performance Art in Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining

Performance Art in Front of an Audience Ought to be Entertaining

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


Ceci n’est pas une wiki

Ceci n'est pas une wiki

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


Green wedding

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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Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert Green Wedding

Filed under: Marriage Tax Penalty,Virginity,Performance Art


Death and Taxes, Inc.

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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Death and Taxes


 



Filed under: Performance Art, Endurance Art


Conversation with an Auctioneer

Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert - Conversation with an Auctioneer


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


Proceedings

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. 

Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert - Proceedings

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


All Animals are Equal

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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Porta Potties





Filed under: Sound Art


Sell Yourself and Not Your Art

The scandalous performance that rocked the corporate coaching industry!
 

Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert -Sell Yourself and Not Your Art

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


The Bomb Project

Fans are wondering what they're doing here at the mall with those suspicious looking bonbons? 

Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert - The Bomb Project



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


Bait

Sean Feltcher and Isabel Reichert - Bait




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


Therapy

Insiders say there's growing reason for concern about the stability of their relationship.

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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


An interview with Robert Barry

An Interview with Robert Barry



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

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Internet art (often called net art) is art which uses the Internet as its primary medium or platform. Artists working this way are sometimes referred to as net artists.
Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus.
Endurance art is an artistic expression through acts of physical pain, trauma, survival or deprivation.
The condition or quality of being a virgin.
The Marriage Tax Penalty is the disproportionate amount of tax levied against two married people filing a joint tax return vs. two unmarried people filing individual tax returns.
A play is a story prepared in advance and intended for performance on the stage.
Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper using a printing press.
Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns.
Performance Art differs from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face and presence as a medium for art.
Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data.
Wikipedia Art is a conceptual art work composed on Wikipedia, and is thus art that anyone can edit.