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Guido van der Werve

Concert for Piano and the Exact Volume of Tears Cried on Earth at any Given Moment (or 211,5 liters per second), 2012.

Additional Credits:

Camera: Ben Geraerts

Sound: Irene van de Mheen

Thanks to: 

Camelot Amsterdam

Van der Kamp Pompen Zwolle

Guido van der Werve (b. 1977, Papendrecht, NL)

Guido van der Werve’s films situate the artist as protagonist, with his own piano performances paired with romantic landscapes and sentimental narrative text.  For his Art Breaks video, van der Werve presents an image of the artist sitting behind a piano in a vast landscape, next to a pipe gushing water to a height of 80 meters at the exact volume of tears that are cried per second in the world. On average, people cry 65.1 liters over the course of their lives; taking the world population and average life expectancy into account, this translates to a total volume of 211.5 liters per second. Van der Werve’s work received the René Coelho Award from the Netherlands Media Institute in 2003.  Recent exhibitions of his work include solo exhibitions at the Hayward Gallery in London, the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, de Hallen Haarlem in the Netherlands and the Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland as well as a presentation of his latest film Nummer twaalf at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. 

Guido van der Werve currently lives and works in Finland and Amsterdam. 

Website:

www.roofvogel.org

Andrew Kuo (b. 1977, Queens, NY)

Andrew Kuo obsessively compiles data on musical events and personal experiences through humorous and vibrant abstractions in the form of meticulously drawn diagrams. For Art Breaks, Kuo uses video to present a new graphic in the form of cable interface.  His film, entitled Now and Later, is inspired by artist Chris Burden’s work Through the Night Softly, which aired during commercial breaks on a local LA television station for the duration of one month in 1973. In Now and Later, Kuo presents a digital menu that, as it scrolls, reveals a series of channels, titles and summaries that together tell a story. As previous viewers of his work will find familiar, Kuo’s text encourages closer inspection to piece together the narrative. Andrew Kuo’s iconographics regularly appear in the New York Times music section. His work has appeared in solo exhibitions at Taxter and Spengemann, New York, Franklin Art Work, Minneapolis, and Artists Space, New York.  Recent group exhibitions include shows at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ, and Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. Kuo’s upcoming solo exhibition will open in January 2013 at Marlborough Gallery in New York.

Andrew Kuo lives and works in New York, NY.

Articles And Links: 

The New York Times Art Beats: Andrew Kuo

Marlborough Chelsea Gallery

Cody Critcheloe (SSION) (b. 1981, Lewisport, Kentucky)

Cody Critcheloe straddles the world of visual art and music through his elaborate performances, videos, and as the front man of SSION, a musical group founded in 1996. Often involving characters placed in constructed modern tragedies, Critcheloe’s animated videos and stage presentations tackle such issues as gender, sexuality, power, loneliness, and revenge, utilizing humorous satire and DIY set design aesthetics. SOMETIMES I THINK ABOUT YOU EVERYDAY presents an internet induced, neon narrative where SSION meets his long-lost lover half within the depths of a technological landscape. As a modern alliance turns into a modern trap, man’s best friend is a casualty in this tale of the struggle between good and evil. Cricheloe’s artwork has been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions at Peres Projects, Los Angeles, Grand Arts, Kansas City, and the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago. SSION’s new album is set for release in September 2012. 

Cody Cricheloe lives and works in Kansas City, MO and Brooklyn, NY.

Website:

www.ssion.com

Divya Mehra (b. 1981, Winnepeg, Canada)

Divya Mehra’s multimedia work incorporates comedic and often slapstick elements in order to address issues of cultural identity, displacement, and appropriation. For Art Breaks, Mehra uses artist Richard Prince’s original Art Breaks video from 1985 as a point of departure. In that earlier video, Prince, dressed in a white shirt and dress pants nonchalantly turns to address the camera, smiles, and then delivers a short monologue convincing the youth-of-the-time to stay home—if, and only if, they are equipped with Art and MTV. The gag playfully subverts and references the popular slogan ‘Don’t Leave Home Without It’, coined for American Express commercials. Like Prince, in her video Mehra appears dressed in a white ensemble, standing directly in front of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. After purchasing an ice cream cone from a vendor, the ice cream topples over due to its exaggerated height, ruining her clothing and leaving the viewer with a sense of her personal frustration. In this sense, the work fails before it even begins; the connection established between Mehra, an emerging female artist whose personal history lies intertwined in the post-partition South Asian Diaspora, and well-known male artist Richard Prince, evokes the humorous relationship between Danny DeVito’s and Arnold Schwarzenegger’s characters in the 1988 blockbuster movie Twins. Mehra’s work has been included in a number of exhibitions and screenings across the US and overseas, most notably at The Queens Museum of Art and The Guild Art Gallery in New York (2009, 2010), the Beijing 798 Biennale (2009), Plug In ICA in Winnipeg, Canada (2009), and Gallery OED in Cochin, India (2009). Since 2006, she has also been the recipient of various grants and fellowships.

Divya Mehra currently lives and works in Winnepeg, Manitoba. 

Website:

www.divyamehra.com

Semâ Bekirovic (b. 1977, Amsterdam, NL)

Semâ Bekirovic uses photographs, videos, and installations to explore the tension between control and chance, often letting go of the ultimate end result of the situations presented in her work. In her video for Art Breaks, Bekirovic presents the image of a knife, seemly skydiving as it falls at a rapid pace from the sky. The image of the beautiful surrounding landscape is contrasted with the alarming idea of what might occur should the object hit the ground.  Bekirovic’s work has been exhibited widely throughout the Netherlands, and the Hayward Gallery Project space in London featured her solo exhibition Matters in Space as part of the See Further Festival of Science and Arts in 2010.  Recent group exhibitions include venues 21 Rozendaal in Netherlands and Flachlandfest in Berlin in 2010. Upcoming projects include a group exhibition at FOAM in Amsterdam, and a group show at the Jan Cunen Museum in Oss, Netherlands in May 2013.

Semâ Bekirovic lives and works in Amsterdam, NL. 

Website:

www.semabekirovic.nl

Articles And Links:

The Guardian: Artist Of The Week Semâ Bekirovic

Mads Lynnerup
Astrobright (fake and temporary), 2012 

Jani Ruscica
in collaboration with Sini Pelkki
Screen Test (for a living sculpture), 2012

Additional Credits
Living sculpture: Magnús Logi Kristinsson
Living sculpture (hands): Miia Pelkki
Cinematographer: Anu Keränen
Camera assistant: Nea Salminen
Make-up: Salla Yli-Luopa
Costume: Emmi Leeve
Color Grading and Post-Production: Inka Ruohela / Generator Post