Dear friends,

In the midst of heated global discussions about economic and social structures, I am writing to ask for your help in realizing an upcoming video installation & participatory event that is in dialogue with many of these issues. The project, Spectrum of Inevitable Violence, will be part of the deCordova Museum’s 2012 biennial, curated by Dina Deitsch & Abigail Ross Goodman, with the support of the Boston Center for the Arts. (For more information, see the Boston Globe article.)

I am producing videos based on stories of class anxieties solicited from the public. Please help by sharing with me stories about your own class anxieties through the form linked below, and by forwarding this request widely among friends and family! I would love to hear from you by November 1st for the best possible time frame.

I also need to fund the production of the videos. I am offering a unique drawing of your own spectrum of social class, and two limited edition photographs from Spectrum of Inevitable Violence (2010) as part of Experience Economies, curated by Rebecca Uchill & Gavin Kroeber. I hope you will consider purchasing one of these prints, which will make my new work possible. Please see below for images & more information.

Thank you for your generous participation and support!

very best,
Caitlin

Prints & Editions


Caitlin Berrigan, Spectrum of Inevitable Violence (2011)
9 x 9″ silkscreen on paper with hand drawn ink
Unlimited edition print / unique drawing of your own spectrum of social class (take the survey, tally your scores in all categories, and I will draw your spectrum on the map)

$50 unframed

Write c@caitlinberrigan.com to inquire about purchasing



Caitlin Berrigan, Cultural Mobility (2010)
20 x 13.5″, Archival pigment print
4/5 available, $600 unframed / $900 framed

Write c@caitlinberrigan.com to inquire about purchasing

 


Caitlin Berrigan, Class Status (2010)
20 x 13.5″, Archival pigment print
4/5 available, $600 unframed / $900 framed

Write c@caitlinberrigan.com to inquire about purchasing

Caitlin Berrigan & Anya Liftig often use food in their work as a driving force of desire and social allegory. In this collaborative intervention, they will explore the obsessions, myths and terrors of motherhood through an act of  cannibalism. Amidst unsuspecting midday lunchers and farmers market shoppers, the two young & upright mommies will coddle, pet, kiss, lick and ultimately devour life-sized babies cast in fudge and cream.

Image photographer: Bami Adedoyin

 

*Three weekend interventions in New York City*

SkowheganPERFORMS | Socrates Sculpture Park
Sunday 25 September | 12 -3pm

http://www.socratessculpturepark.org/visit

 

Art in Odd Places Festival | 14th Street
Saturday 1 October | 11:30am – 2pm
Saturday 8 October | 11:30am – 2pm

http://www.artinoddplaces.org/artist.php?subj=60

Intervention begins on the Highline and continues along 14th Street into Union Square

10 – 12 June 2011 | 10am – 6pm | Governors Island NYC | Figment Festival

Caitlin Berrigan will present a new work for Governors Island. For the duration of the Figment Festival, she will enact a pathetic political gesture—circling around the perimeter of the island, endlessly declaring ‘Victory’ in an evaporating medium.

Victory Gardening was commissioned by Kleio Projects for The Purposeful Garden including work by artists Fabian Grateroles, Anne Percoco, Junko Sugimoto, and Mosstika.

For details on the festival and how to get to the island, please visit http://newyork.figmentproject.org. *Weather permitting*

Victory Gardening was produced during an invitational residency at The Wassaic Project, and made possible with the gracious assistance of Francis Rabkin, Janine Iversen, Storm Garner, Gina Siepel and Meredith Jenks.

As the final installment to the two exhibitions curated by Carson Chan in the spring of 2010, 0047 is proud to announce the launch of And the Seasons; They Go Round and Round, the catalog to the exhibitions of the same names. Featuring essays by New Yorker writer Nick Paumgarten, artist and writer Patricia Reed, and economist Amin Samman, the catalog seeks to expand the investigation of the overall geometry of our social, aesthetic and economic life that was initiated by the exhibitions.

http://0047.org/publications

Featuring work by AIDS-3D (US) Caitlin Berrigan (US) Daisy Ginsberg (UK) Elín Hansdóttir (IS) Markus Miessen (DE) Nicolas Dusollier (FR) Paolo Chiasera (IT) Patricia Reed (CA) Ralf Pflugfelder (DE) Sabina Grasso (IT) Sascha Pohflepp (DE) Susanne Gerber (DE) Thomas Eller (DE) Valerie Kolakis (CA).

More on the exhibitions

The Anxious Prop, Case 4: Reviewing Making-Visible

Open Phrases, cut-out paper print for The Anxious Prop, Case 4

Available for download at: http://www.theanxiousprop.org

This feuilleton is both a sporadic publication and a loose collective operating under the aegis of The Anxious Prop. That which is common is the desire to work with two looping, yet sequential parameters: 1. We are into the labor of producing forms, shapes, and figures as a method to explore collective knowledge by challenging the discourse of digital fabrication; 2. These forms, shapes, and figures emerge with the disposition to be activated, triggering their condition as theatrical objects and their consequent instrumental or anthropological role in the world.

Case 4 is co-directed by Jan Bovelet and Luis Berríos-Negrón, and contains contributions by Caitlin Berrigan, Luis Berríos-Negrón, Jan Bovelet, Rick Buckley, Eric Ellingsen, Tim Gough, Mendel Heit, Alexandra Hopf, Anna Kostreva, Boris Kajmak, Miodrag Ku, Fotini Lazaridou-Hatzigoga, Pia Marais, MIT Museum, Olivia Plender, The Product, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Carrie Roseland, Salottobuono, Gabi Schillig, George Stiny.

I will be giving a presentation at the Boston Upgrade! Please come see me blabber about recent projects.

http://turbulence.org/upgrade_boston/2010/11/caitlin-berrigan

MIT Media Lab (E14), 6th Floor, Room 633
75 Amherst Street
Cambridge, MA

Spectrum of Inevitable Violence


Experience Economies 2: Class Warfare
featuring Caitlin Berrigan‘s work-in-progress Spectrum of Inevitable Violence
8pm  •  Thursday, December 9
MEME Gallery •  55 Norfolk St., Cambridge
Pot-luck desserts and drinks gratefully accepted!
*Dress appropriately (see below)

Hegemonies of the new elite, Bobos, creative class, bourgeois, working class, middle class—all these terms fly in America with the velocity of rotten tomatoes. At the Experience Economies event, the social currency, creative capital, economic status, upward mobility and toxic assets of participants will be analyzed and instigate a class confrontation. Food will be the ammunition of this class war—dress appropriately, or do your best to dodge the rage!

8pm Recruitment
9pm Battle
9:30pm Spoils/Booty

About Experience Economies:
Experience Economies is a nomadic social event series where cultural producers are audiences to each other’s spectacles. Not a lecture and not a party, the events incorporate performance, presentation, discussion, scheming, drinks and food. Experience Economies welcomes experimentation, works-in-progress, audiences that want their spectacles to mess with them and presenters who need a space to make that mess. Experience Economies is produced by Gavin Kroeber and Rebecca Uchill, with rotating guest presenters.

Heal Dara G Online Art Auction: November 29 – December 5 only!

Heal Dara G Online Art Auction

Includes work from an impressive roster of artists! Bid on contributions from me: a DVD of ‘The Marshmallow Suicide’ and a film still print on photo rag.

The Heal Dara G online art auction is live! All proceeds go to artist/activist Dara Greenwald, who was recently diagnosed with cancer. Nearly 200 artists have donated their work to raise money for her and her partner Josh MacPhee to support them during their healing process. The goal is to raise enough funds to help them live worry-free for 2011, and to support medical expenses not covered by insurance.

The auction comes just in time for the holidays and includes a range of items— including books, dvd’s, prints, photographs, paintings, works on paper, sculptures, music/audio cds’, and other miscellaneous goods! Work by both established and emerging artists/writers/musicians is represented.

Please take the time to check out!
http://healdarag.org/auction

L.A. Freewaves :: Video on the Loose
New DVD & Catalog Celebrating 20 Years of Media Arts

After a celebratory video installation in June at LACMA, L.A. Freewaves has released a catalog with essays and interviews on the Freewaves experimental media experience, and a DVD with with an awesome selection of 23 films culled from 20 years of L.A. Freewaves programming.

I am very excited that my video Teeth in the Wrong Places is included on the DVD. Check it out: $20 for the DVD, or $40 for the catalog + DVD. http://freewaves.org/bookdvd Such a steal!

Featured artists
Brooke Alfaro; Barbie Liberation Organization; Caitlin Berrigan; Jaco Bouwer; Portia Cobb; Tony Cokes; John Davis; Stephane Degoutin, Marika Dermineur & Gwenola Wagon; Matt Dibble & David Chung; James Duesing; Daniel Mason; Matthew McDaniel; Meena Nanji; Michael O’Reilly; Johanna Priestley & Joan Gratz; John Richey; Marlon Riggs; Janice Tanaka; Aaron Valdez; and Zhou Xiaohu.

Extra special thanks to the awe-inspiring Anne Bray!