Arizona Biennial 2023

The Arizona Biennial 2023 is currently on view at the Tucson Museum of Art. The exhibition opened on April 1st and will remain on display through October 1, 2023. If you’re in the Tucson area please stop by and check out my artworks in the exhibition.

Image by Julius Schlosburg, © 2023.

The Biennial was curated by Taína Caragol, Curator of painting, sculpture, and Latinx art and history at the National Portrait Gallery.

RTVE Article

The Madrid-based media company, RTVE (Radiotelevisión Española), makes brief mention of Dan Majka and I’s Biennale installation in the article below and also featured the project in their television series, Metrópolis.

Read the article in Spanish here.

An English translation of the mention is below:

Neither nature nor the threat that looms over it knows borders. Aware of this idea, Dan Majka & Gary Setzer (USA) warn, with The Corridor: Climate Change, Border Permeability, and Ecosystem Resilience (2021), of the problem that the crossing of physical borders built by man poses for the animals that, driven by climate change, seek new habitats; while Common Water: The Alps (2020), by the Chair of Gunther Vogt ETH Zürich (Switzerland), exposes the consequences, for all of Europe, of the thaw in the Alps.

Mention in The Cube Magazine's Not-To-Be-Missed List

The Cube Magazine’s article, Biennale Architettura: Exhibitions Not To Be Missed In A Day Walking Between The Giardini And The Arsenale, “ mentions our installation.

The article is in Italian, here.

Here is an English translation of the relevant passage:

At the Central Pavilion we start from a simple but essential premise: the planet Earth is architecture and as such its body is modified by the presence and actions of those who inhabit it. Buildings and urban agglomerations mix with what has always been found here: rocks, earth and organic matter, in an inevitable relationship of relationships. Architecture is not what is placed on the planet, but its perpetual modeling. From this call to awareness, broad reflections unfold on the issues of borders, coexistence between species, the inability of territories and communities to react to exploitation and impoverishment.

A reading that encourages us to change points of view, to start looking at rivers, lakes and mountains not as topographical barriers, but as connecting elements of cultures and identities. In general, there is a sense of urgency: it is no longer the time to think about the future, but to act and face the emergencies of the Earth. To understand this, just stop in front of The Corridor (2021) installation by Dan Majka and Gary Setzer which records climate change, or Antartic Resolution (2020) by Arcangelo Sassolino (created in collaboration with the glaciologist David Vaughan), which reproduces the disturbing sound of crumbling glaciers in Antarctica. In the As one planet section you enter the glass and steel greenhouse of Resurrecting the Sublime (2019), where you can breathe the scent of a mountain hibiscus from the Hawaiian Islands, extinct in 1912.

Artribune

The Italian publication mentions Dan Majka and I’s Biennale installation in the article, “Biennale Architettura 2021. Comments on the pieces from the exhibition at the Central Pavilion at the Giardini.”

Read the article in Italian here.

Below is an English translation of the relevant passage:

And here the word together, already present in the question of the title, returns in the design of the installations, almost always made by collectives composed not just of architects but together with artists, scientists, researchers and professionals from various sectors. As Sarkis points out, "the architects suggest possible social organizations through the way in which they organize, collect and connect spaces": in this first part of the exhibition, in reality, space is the world we live in, a tired and weary planet, where people move, making the concept of border more and more unstable, and at the same time man threatens the existence of our common goods such as the poles and oceans, the Amazon rainforest and the earth's atmosphere, which must be protected and safeguarded. Thus Dan Majka and Gary Setzer propose The Corridor (2021) a video and audio installation that records climate change; the Aereocene foundation, started by the artist Tomas Saraceno in 2015, proposes the Aero Solar Museum (2007) a large floating museum made with hundreds of plastic bags glued and joined together to tell personal stories of visitors, while the members of Monsoon Assemblages and Office of Experiments present Between the Dragonfly and the Barometer (2020), an immersive installation based on the flight of a species of dragonfly that follows the monsoon route from Africa to the Far East.

Solo Exhibition Opening Saturday at MOCA Tucson

My exhibition, The Unique Title of this Museum Exhibition Differentiates It from Other Exhibitions Produced by the Artist While It Simultaneously Hints at the Substance of the Artwork It Contains, opens Saturday night, January the 11th, and will be on view through May 3rd, 2020.

Member’s Opening (for MOCA Members): 7PM

Public Opening: 8PM

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NAGASAKI PREFECTURAL ART MUSEUM

My video artwork, Panderer (Seventeen Seconds), will be on view from October 1st through November 18th at the Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum in Japan.

The work will be featured as part The 21st Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival Winning Works and will be continuously screening on their enormous “Art Vision” monitor and also at selected dates and times indoors. For further information, read here (in Japanese) or here (translated to English).

ARS ELECTRONICA & MORE

ARS ELECTRONICA opens tomorrow, and my work will be screened there in a special screening of eleven "highly distinctive" works by award winners from the 2018 Japan Media Arts Festival.

ARS ELECTRONICA Center, Linz, Austria. Photo credit, Ars Electronica / Robert Bauernhansl.

More developing through 2019, but here is a list of some recent and forthcoming exhibitions:

2018        Ars Electronica, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria

2018        Japan Media Arts Screening, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China

2018        Camera Japan, LantarenVenster, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2018        Sendai Short Film Festival, Sendai Mediatheque, Sendai, Japan

2018        Festivāls Ūdensgabali ’18, NOASS, Riga, Latvia

2018        El Festival, Cine Morelos, Cuernavaca, Mexico

2018        SICAF 2018, MEGABOX Dongdaemun Theater, Seoul, South Korea

2018        Aniventure, Inter Expo Center, Sofia, Bulgaria

INTERVIEW WITH POSITIVE SPACE

I had the opportunity to have a conversation with artist, professor, and F.A.T.E. President, Valerie Powell, for the current edition of the Positive Space podcast. We talk about my artwork, my process, my teaching, and (of course) nacho cheese. If you know me and my giant mouth, you won't be surprised that I broke the podcast's record for length of the interview. Thanks for the opportunity!

Click the image above, or click here, to listen to (or download) the interview.

AWARD WINNER, JAPAN MEDIA ARTS FESTIVAL

I am excited to announce that I will be receiving a New Face Award this summer at the 21st Japan Media Arts Festival.

Additionally, the award-winning works will be exhibited at the National Art Center, Tokyo from June 13 to June 24, 2018. I am honored that the jury selected my work and recognized it with this award, especially considering that there were 4,192 entries from 98 different countries. I will put the award to good use on a new body of work that is currently in development.