ATC Lecture: Anne Walsh and Chris Kubick, 7 Years of Collaboration April 5, 2010

Concatenating, Condensing, Conflating, Confounding, Contaminating, Contemplating, Conversing, and Conjuring: these are some of the means and ways Chris Kubick and Anne Walsh employ in their artwork. Often, but not always, their art employ language, pictures, and sound. Computers, cameras, psychics, magicians, librarians, film sound effects designers and balloon sculptors are sometimes involved. Their practice begins from a shared love of the spoken word, the recorded human voice, unreliable witnesses, true believers, eccentric craftspeople, libraries and museums of all kinds. They are interested in translation, particularly the questions that arise when different systems of knowing and understanding collide. These collisions are the substance and subject of the work. In this lecture, the artists will present examples from three projects created over the past 7 years: Art After Death, The Sound Library, and our newest, still untitled, project.

Biography:
Chris Kubick and Anne Walsh, both Oakland, CA-based artists, often work together under the name Archive. They produce sculpture, works on paper, video, video games, audio CDs and sound installations. From 2001 to 2005, their project Art After Death centered on the overlaps of metaphysics and art history. From 2004-2007, they produced works from a massive commercial sound effects library, exploring the rhetorical and sculptural dimensions of these complex cultural archives. In recent video projects, Archive continues its work with specialist performers and craftspeople to focus on the residue of fantasy left behind at "historical" sites and monuments.

Projects have been exhibited at San Francisco Camerawork, the Rosenbach Museum and Library (Philadelphia), Artists Space (New York City), Royal College of Art (London), Lothringer 13 (Munich), the Whitney Museum of American Art (2002 Biennial exhibition) and as part of the Hayward Gallery's (London) traveling exhibition program, and many other venues.

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