by Caroline Picard | Jul 6, 2011 | Blog
On the first floor of Chicago’s MDWY Fair, Hui-min and James Barry installed the boat they’d made together for The Mt. Baldy Expedition. The boat was the result of seven years of collaborative work. It was the first time I saw it, though I remember numerous...
by Caroline Picard | Jun 22, 2011 | Blog
I met Peter Burr and Christopher Doulgeris for the first time about five or six years ago. “Hooliganship,” the name of their performative duo, was on tour with the second issue of a DVD cartoon compilation called Cartune Xprez. They came to do a...
by Caroline Picard | Jun 15, 2011 | Blog
I am always interested in the way narrative is built up and developed, particularly when it is constructed by multiple parties. It happens every day in a number of ways: events and thoughts are interpreted, communicated and reflected upon. People working together will...
by Caroline Picard | Jun 8, 2011 | Blog
The first time I met Aay, he was was giving a presentation at Version Fest in 2007. Aay, Ilana Percher and Rebecca Grady had just returned from Art Shanty Projects on Medicine Lake, where they installed a soft shanty/sculpture called The Soft Shop. They...
by Caroline Picard | Jun 1, 2011 | Blog
I have been both in classes and casual conversations where “Artist-as-entrepreneur” is raised as an explanation or model for behavior. It feels like a fashionable phrase. Its sounds nice, exciting even, in that million-dollar-idea kind of way. It suggests...
