1.07.2015

allisonHOLT | WINTER 2015: Oilly Oowen... at the Smithsonian?

The tail-end of 2014 had more than the usual in store. 
At the top of the year, I give you an overview in brief:
Djerassi Artist Residency 2014 Work-In-Progress: the Tatal Pawukon in 3D
Dear Friends,

Happy 2015!!!  I hope all of your holidays were sublime, and that your year unfolds with excitement and love.

I am thrilled to announce that, on 12.30.2014, I became a finalist for a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship.  Douglas Herman, Senior Geographer at the National Museum of the American Indian, nominated me this fall so that we might collaborate on new media versions of my interpretations of Javanese cosmology.  Really, if you're reading this right now please know that your support is and has been instrumental in achieving this phenomenal honor.  Your thoughts are tangibly felt.  Thank you!!

It’s also very exciting to have this same work included in Living With Endangered Languages In The Information Age, curated by Hanna Regev, and it has already earned some very nice press.  The show opens this Saturday, January 10th, at Root Division.  I would love to see you.

This fall, I left Djerassi Artist Residency with a new videosculpture series, which I test drove in Mutable Commute, an expanded cinema performance with Scott Stark (12.13. 2014, Other Cinema, SF, CA).  In November, our dual-16mm film performance, Nocturnal Symmetries, also featured in Scott Stark's retrospective, More Than One Way To Find Out at Anthology Film Archives (NYC).

Post-Djerassi, surprise events led to the immediate re-relocation of OOwen Labs: we are now perched just off of lovely Lake Merritt in Oakland, CA.

Again, as always, thank you all for reading and for your incredible support.
I hope to see you real soon!

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