Category Archives: Projects

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 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 →

(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.) 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 →

Teach-in The Pedagogical Museum, Belgrade, Serbia, December 2008-January 2009. Teach-in was conceived for the Pedagogical Museum in Belgrade as a series of interventions (installation, performance and video) situated throughout the museum’s permanent exhibition. Teach-in positions itself between two textual boundaries–Letter … Continue reading →

The Moral Museum Otis College of Art and Design, Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, California, January-March 2007. This installation began as a critical examination of the popular 1946 Capra film It’s a Wonderful Life based upon the fact that Capra’s … Continue reading →

Homage à  2006  Commission for Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Rome Italy, May/June 2006 Both Homage à and The Governess are context-specific works that use the horror film genre as a cultural referent. Homage à is concerned with the work of Dario … Continue reading →

The Governess PS1, Romantic Detachment, October/November 2004, Long Island City, New York. The Governess examines the role of British gothic traditions in representing and reinforcing relations of property, class and cultural imperialism. Drawing from a diverse grouping of narratives–Jane Eyre, … Continue reading →