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\"Confabulator,

Confabulator, 2009, installation by Joyce Yamada and Joanne Ungar, photo by Fred Hatt<\/p><\/div>\n

I support my art and keep it free by doing a lot of technical and visual work for others – video production, photography, projection and audiovisual work.\u00a0 I know a lot of people in the creative fields, so I’ve made a specialty of working with visual and performing artists.\u00a0 Often it’s fascinating work, and it gives me a window into other peoples’ creative processes.\u00a0 In photographing artwork<\/a>, I’m often asked to shoot artwork that’s especially challenging to capture – paintings in silver on white<\/a>, or elaborate installations inside curtained boxes<\/a>, or paintings in molten glass on shiny metal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The piece shown above, Confabulator<\/em>, is a collaboration between Brooklyn-based artists Joyce Yamada<\/a> and Joanne Ungar<\/a>.\u00a0 Check out their sites by clicking on their names to get a sense of them as individual artists.\u00a0 This installation is on view now through April 19 at the PS122 Gallery<\/a>, the visual art space attached to the famed incubator of performance art in New York.\u00a0 It’s in the “Hallway Space”, just outside the main gallery space, so I guess that makes this real outsider art.<\/p>\n

As a photographer of artwork, this one presented an agglomeration of challenges.\u00a0 It’s in a niche about a foot wide, maybe 18 inches deep and seven feet tall.\u00a0 That niche is on the side wall of a narrow passageway, so it’s impossible to get more than a few feet away from it.\u00a0 It has mixed lighting sources, with blacklights, amber bulbs, and a video projector.\u00a0 I shot lots of details, but for the overall shot the one you see above was made by setting the tripod right up close to the opening of the niche and shooting a series of shots, tilting from top to bottom, and later combining them digitally into a “vertical panorama”.<\/p>\n

The stimulating ideas behind Confabulator<\/em> have to do with neuroscience and mythology.\u00a0 The archetype of the three-tiered world, this earth plus heaven and hell, or the underworld and upperworld described by shamans, is related to the levels of the brain that filter incoming sensory data and make sense of it by turning it into stories, or “confabulating”.\u00a0 Here the underworld is seen as an intestinal tangle, the heavenly world is portrayed by a looping video image of blissful fluidity, and the terrestrial realm is depicted by a block of resin slowly melting into an oozy pool, attended by industrious dung beetles.<\/p>\n

If you’re in the East Village of New York, stop in to meditate on this piece.\u00a0 The space is open from noon to 6 pm Thursday thru Sunday.\u00a0 Be sure to pick up the artists’ written statement about the work.\u00a0 Something that’s not captured in the photo is the way the ever-changing video images bathe the middle level of the piece in cycles of colored light, a lovely depiction of the influence of the heavenly realm on the earthly one.<\/p>\n

NOTE:\u00a0 Updated and corrected information added March 25:\u00a0 The PS122 gallery is closed for installation of the next show in the main gallery March 26 through 28.\u00a0 There’s an opening for that show on March 28, 5-7.\u00a0 Confabulator<\/em> will remain in the Hallway Space through that time and Joyce and Joanne will be there at the opening on the 28th.\u00a0 Regular gallery hours resume Sunday, March 29 and Confabulator<\/em> will be on view through April 19 (not through April 26 as earlier reported here).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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