Aaron Henderson - Video, Installation and Performance http://www.aaronhenderson.com Projects examine the personal, cultural and political ramifications of all action, from intimate gestures to displays of super-human acrobatics. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:29:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Solo Show “Metamorphoses” at Terminal http://www.aaronhenderson.com/solo-show-metamorphoses-at-terminal/ http://www.aaronhenderson.com/solo-show-metamorphoses-at-terminal/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:26:40 +0000 Aaron http://www.aaronhenderson.com/?p=875
  • The Metamorphoses Series
  • Metamorphoses at White Flag Projects
  • Metamorphoses at the Niche
    • ]]>     Solo Exhibition
    February 6 – 17, 2012
    Terminal Physical Space
    Austin Peay State University
    Clarksville, TN

    Terminal Physical Space presents the entire Metamorphoses series: Michael, Britney, George, Biggie and Oprah. This project was shot at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum. It documents transgressive and playful interactions that occur as people perform and stage encounters with “celebrities”.

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  • Solo Show “Midway” at Ruffin Gallery
  • Feuerball at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
  • Solo Show “Metamorphoses” at Terminal
    • ]]>     Solo Exhibition
    February 11 – March 20, 2011
    Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
    (Pittsburgh, PA)

    Gravitron and Feuerball are being presented at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. They are both from the “Midway” project, and are created from footage captured at state and county fairs in Indiana and South Carolina. They examine the impromptu performances, staged competitions and visceral revelations that attendees experience while riding Carnival rides. Sound for these videos is by Ted Coffey.

    Opening Reception: February 11, 5:30pm – 8:00pm
    www.pittsburgharts.org/gallery_8solo.php

    Gallery Hours and Location:

    Mondays: closed
    Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-5pm
    Thursdays open late until 7 pm
    Sunday: noon-5pm

    6300 Fifth Ave
    2nd Floor
    Pittsburgh, PA 15232
    412-361-0873

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    ]]>     http://www.aaronhenderson.com/solo-show-midway-at-pittsburgh-center-for-the-arts/feed/ 0     Interview in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette http://www.aaronhenderson.com/interview-in-pittsburgh-post-gazette/ http://www.aaronhenderson.com/interview-in-pittsburgh-post-gazette/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:28:18 +0000 Aaron http://www.aaronhenderson.com/?p=864
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  • Hello Beautiful Interview
  • Teaching at the University of Pittsburgh
    • ]]>     The art of carnival rides
    by Anna Venishnick, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

    Video artist Aaron Henderson has a simple explanation for his choice of subject matter: “Carnivals are fun!” His most recent projects examine human action — from intimate gestures to grand displays of acrobatics.

    www.post-gazette.com

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    ]]>     http://www.aaronhenderson.com/interview-in-pittsburgh-post-gazette/feed/ 0     Feuerball at the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette http://www.aaronhenderson.com/feuerball-at-the-art-museum-of-greater-lafayette/ http://www.aaronhenderson.com/feuerball-at-the-art-museum-of-greater-lafayette/#comments Sat, 22 Jan 2011 02:43:09 +0000 Aaron http://www.aaronhenderson.com/?p=655
  • Solo Show “Midway” at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
  • Solo Show “Midway” at Ruffin Gallery
  • The Carnival Project – “Midway”
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    January 21 – March 19, 2011
    McDonald Gallery
    PLAY + TIME: a digital dialogue
    Art Museum of Greater Lafayette
    (Lafayette, IN)

    Feuerball is a 4-channel video examining the visceral revelations that attendees experience while riding Carnival rides. Sound is by Ted Coffey.

    Museum Hours and Location:

    Tuesday through Saturday: 11am – 4pm
    Closed Sunday and Monday

    102 South Tenth Street
    Lafayette, IN 47905
    (765) 742-1128

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    ]]>     http://www.aaronhenderson.com/feuerball-at-the-art-museum-of-greater-lafayette/feed/ 0     WATCH/PLAY http://www.aaronhenderson.com/watch-play/ http://www.aaronhenderson.com/watch-play/#comments Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:59:24 +0000 Aaron http://www.aaronhenderson.com/?p=618
  • Keyframe at Hybrid Geographies (WATCH/PLAY)
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  • STREB VS GRAVITY
    • ]]>     Public/Online/Performance Project (2010-present)

    About the Project

    Surveillance cameras observe and record all kinds of everyday actions, but their primary purpose is to record (and/or discourage) crimes. What would happen if we used these cameras to examine other aspects of our culture, and opened their feeds up to the public-at-large?

    Public Performances
    Various locations throughout Baltimore, MD
    Sunday, March 14, 2010, 12-6pm
    More info

    Live Performance
    Wang Center Theatre at Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY
    Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 7pm
    www.hybridgeographies.net
    More info

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    ]]>     http://www.aaronhenderson.com/watch-play/feed/ 0     DVD – artists against agency http://www.aaronhenderson.com/dvd-artists-against-agency/ http://www.aaronhenderson.com/dvd-artists-against-agency/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2011 23:55:15 +0000 Aaron http://www.aaronhenderson.com/?p=798 AVAILABLE SOON!

    The “agents against agency” DVD features emergent and improvised musical forms in dialog with the natural world.

    Features “Parabolic Fountain Music”, a collaboration with composer Ted Coffey.
    In the Spring of 2010, with the help of composers Matthew Burtner and Yuri Spitsyn, Ted installed “Parabolic Fountain Music” in a stream just outside of Charlottesville, VA, recording both video and sound.

    Featuring:
    Nigel Brown (Australia)
    Christopher Burns (USA)
    Matthew Burtner (USA)
    Ted Coffey and Aaron Henderson (USA)
    David Dinnell (USA)
    Emergence Collective / IMRG
    Rosalind Hall (Australia)
    Alice Hui-Sheng Chang (Taiwan)
    Mobile Interactive Computer Ensemble (MICE) (USA)
    Pinko Communoids (USA)
    Yuri Spitsyn (Russia)

    www.ecosono.com

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  • Midway Reviews – The Hook and C-Ville
  • Solo Show “Midway” at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
  • Interview in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    • ]]>     The 2010 visual vault
    by Laura Parsons, The Hook

    The University of Virginia’s Ruffin Gallery upped its art ante with two particularly imaginative shows last winter. Aaron Henderson’s video installation, “Midway,” playfully examined how people act out on carnival rides and provided a welcome dose of summer during a frigid February…

    www.readthehook.com

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    ]]>     http://www.aaronhenderson.com/memorable-leap-the-hook/feed/ 0     Teaching at the University of Pittsburgh http://www.aaronhenderson.com/teaching-at-the-university-of-pittsburgh/ http://www.aaronhenderson.com/teaching-at-the-university-of-pittsburgh/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:06:59 +0000 Aaron http://www.aaronhenderson.com/?p=835
  • Solo Show “Midway” at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
  • MFA!
  • Interview in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
    • ]]>     I just began teaching digital media in the Studio Arts Department at the University of Pittsburgh!

    Let me know if you’re coming through town…

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  • Solo Show “Metamorphoses” at Terminal
  • Solo Show “Midway” at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
  • Solo Show “Midway” at Ruffin Gallery
    • ]]>     Screening
    April 15, 2010 at 8:30pm
    Trahern front lawn
    Austin Peay State University
    Clarksville, TN

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  • WATCH/PLAY Performances in Baltimore
  • WATCH/PLAY
  • STREB VS GRAVITY
    • ]]>     Live Performance
    Wang Center Theatre at Stony Brook University, Long Island, NY
    Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 7pm

    This live/audio/visual performance is a part of Stony Brook University’s HYBRID GEOGRAPHIES concert which examines the transformations of space that have taken place with the advent of digital technologies.

    Collaborators

    Video: Aaron Henderson
    Sound: Ted Coffey
    Choreographer: Mikey Thomas
    Mover: Sunshine
    Pre-recorded Movers: Mikey Butane Thomas, Lynne Price, Lilly Susskind, Jenny Berkowitz, Marilyn Mullen, John Hoobyar, Melissa Talleda and Angelica Daniele

    www.hybridgeographies.net

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