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Oliver Herring's Artist Talk
Come and experience Brooklyn-based artist Oliver Herring 'perform' his participatory and collaborative practices, and explore the world he is creating with us through the "TASKEncuentro" joint graduate-undergraduate course, all part of his contribution as Visiting Artist in Art Education during this spring/summer 2014.
When: Tuesday, June 17 at 7:30 p.m. a
Where: De Sève Cinema (LB Building - 1400 de Maisonneuve Blvd. W.)
About the artist
Oliver Herring is a Brooklyn-based artist whose experimental work encompasses sculptural, video, photographic and participatory practices. A mid-career retrospective at the Tang Teaching Museum (Skidmore College, 2009) categorized his work into three overlapping chapters, ultimately giving the show its title: Me, Us, Them. The earlier works in the show - mostly sculpture - were created in the studio as a product of physical labor. That mostly solitary practice was broadened around 2001 to include collaborative videos and performances, largely generated outside the studio, that continue still. In 2002, Herring began a participatory performance project called TASK as a way to create a platform for creative behavior. Increasingly educators use TASK as a teaching tool.