Online performance: "This is my piece!"

Using Wikipedia.org as a medium for our newest work, we attempt to argue over the content in a Wikipedia page that was constructed about our work. Some of our edits are allowed to remain while others are quickly removed by more seasoned wiki-editors as they unwittingly mediate between the two of us as to which elements of our biography are historically relevant.

To access the piece, visit our history page at Wikipedia.org. By clicking on the date of any edited entry found in the History, you can view older versions of the page. You can also visit the discussions tab to follow specific topics that were disputed.

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Play, video, photography, and performance: "Performance Art In Front of an Audience Ought To Be Entertaining"

We are developing a play which is loosely based on an historical re-enactment of what the last argument between artists Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta might have sounded like on the night Mendieta fell to her death in New York City on September 8, 1985.

More than simply an attempt to portray this conversation, our play becomes a conversation between the jaded cynicisms of the established art world and the hopeful energetic vigor of the younger generation. While the dialogue is truthful and heavily researched (in terms of what Mendieta and Andre might have said to one another), the direction of the play follows its own path -- departing from the necessity to recreate history. Their argument, which starts out being about the weather then turns into an argument about what people want from art and ends up being about an illicit affair, reaches a crescendo (in narrative terms, the climax) and at this point the play ends. (The play is not allowed to reach the next stage of the narrative structure, the fall.)

For the performance, we will be present as directors and periodically block the scenes with the actors, causing a repetition of several theatrical beats.

As part of this performance, we spent three weeks in an acting intensive course with Michael Torres.

Please visit our web blog with excerpts of the play and venues.

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Drawing/Printmaking: "Art Is…"

Art is… is a series based loosely on a comic strip called "Love Is..." originally from the 1970s. Through this series we attempt to oversimplify some of the more profound notions in contemporary art in Kim-Casali-fashion using somewhat obtuse single lines of text.

Each of our images features a contemporary artwork, for example "Art is… contextualized by its surroundings." shows the comic strip cherubs dressed as Vanessa Beecroft models in the lobby of the Guggenheim, while "Art is… difficult to explain to the living. " features one of the cherub figures with his head covered in gold-leaf donning a Joseph Beuys vest and cradling a dead hare.

Printing assistance for this project is made possible through the support of an artist residency at Kala Art Institute in
Berkeley, CA.

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