Abstract for upcoming Celebrity Studies Conference, Rome, Italy June 2018 Radical Loneliness and a Little Masculinity—Kristen Stewart’s Ideological Resonance in Illiberal America (download PDF)
Après Michel de Certeau 2016-present
Artist, Teen, Zombie, Queer: In the Flesh and the Administration of Posthuman Anguish
download the paper: Artist, Teen, Zombie, Queer: In the Flesh and the Administration of Posthuman Anguish (download PDF)
Echo-logy 2014 by Allan Kaprow
Echo-logy by Allan Kaprow originally took place in a stream in Connecticut in 1974 and in 1975. On August 9th, 2014 it was re-invented on the occasion of the exhibition STREAM in a stream in South Windham, Vermont with the … Continue reading
Après 1871
Après 1871 2014 a project by Cindy Smith Après 1871 is the second project in a trilogy that explores the notion of utopian impulses and their dystopian counterparts through a miniaturized lens. The Paris Commune of 1871 is habitually referenced … Continue reading
(Utopia/Dystopia) 2014
(Utopian/Dystopian) 2014 This miniature bridge is part of a larger project that imagines a future that builds on Vermont’s colonial past as well as the part it played in the utopian re-imagining of America in the 1960s and 1970s. Covered … Continue reading
Hideout (après J.-L.G.) 2013
Hideout (après J.-L.G.) 2013 Hideout (après J.-L.G.) focuses on themes first explored in Smith’s one-person exhibition Teach-in installed at the Pedagogical Museum, Belgrade in 2009. Both Hideout and Teach-in are reflections on Jean-Luc Godard’s 1967 film La Chinoise in which … Continue reading
Things are gonna change I can feel it.. 2013
Video program, Dedalus Foundation, during College Art Association Conference 2013 download the brochure: thingsaregonnachange_reduced
hyper-modern-post-alter-anti- 2012
Film and video program, The Bonaventure, Los Angeles, during College Art Association Conference 2012 download the brochure: hypermodern_reduced
Chapter 3: Gaslit! 2011
Chapter 3: Gaslit!: noun to verb, wall sconce (1944) and gas lamp (Bec Auer type 1946-1966) to Gossip Girl (2010) March 19th through April 30th, 2011 (Saturday, 12 to 6 or by appt.) C. Bass International Fine Arts Co. is an … Continue reading
Chapter 2: boredom and fear and anger…..Jonathan Livingston Seagull 2011
C. Bass International Fine Arts Co. is an experimental commercial venture located in a small 1940’s storefront on Main Street in art world “outpost” Beacon, NY. Its projects encompass an interdisciplinary approach that references art history, cultural studies, material culture, … Continue reading
Chapter 1: Ever After… 2010
CHAPTER 1: EVER AFTER…… November 13th through December 29th (Fri.-Sun., 12-6 PM or by appt.) Opening: Saturday, November 20th 6-9 PM C. Bass International Fine Arts Co. is an experimental commercial venture located in a small 1940s storefront on Main … Continue reading