EXHIBITION >>>
PUNCHCARD ECONOMY: 8 HOURS LABOUR
24 / 7: Work between meaning and imbalance
1st May 2024 > 19th January 2025 @ Kunsthauz Graz, Austria
PERFORMANCE >>> 14 JUNE >>> https://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus-graz/our-programme/calendar/event/sam-meech-1
LIVE STREAM @ https://www.youtube.com/@videosmithery/live
https://www.museum-joanneum.at/en/kunsthaus-graz/our-programme/exhibitions/event/24-7-2
I will be performing a new version of my '8 Hours Labour' work in June as part of an exibition on labour in Graz. Curated by Katia Huemer and cuocurated byt Martin Grabner, 24 / 7: Work between meaning and imbalance brings together many artists looking at our relationship to work and time.
The exhibition examines the often precarious aspects of artistic and cultural work, posing questions about the blurring of boundaries between letting oneself be exploited and self-realisation.
My contribution will simply be my 'work' - 8 hours of knitting on a brother punchcard machine, as an attempt to move focus away from the art object and towards the act of artistic labour. I say 'simply', but in reality this decision has dramatically inscreased the amount of admin and planning involved, so once again I seem to have fashioned a rod for my own back. Why is there always so much work invovled just to get to the work? Still, I'm looking forward to it.
The (insane) list of exhibiting artists includes:
Maja Bajević, Julien Berthier, Louisa Clement, Manuel Correa & Marina Otero Verzier, Jeremy Deller, Antje Ehmann & Harun Farocki & Eva Stotz, Aldo Giannotti, Liam Gillick, Lisa Großkopf, Andreas Gursky, Michael Hieslmair & Michael Zinganel, Tehching Hsieh, Johanna Kandl, Peter Kogler, Luiza Margan, Pia Mayrwöger, Sam Meech, Michail Michailov, Elisa Giardina Papa, Nika Radić, Martha Rosler, Sebastian Schmieg & Silvio Lorusso, Christoph Schwarz, Selma Selman, Santiago Sierra, Lia Sudermann & Simon Nagy, KURS (Miloš Miletić, Mirjana Radovanović), Oliver Walker
VIDEO INSTALLATION >>>
SMRF: STAIRCASE
Mon 30 Sept 2024 @ AFRORACK @ Suoni per il popolo - Salla Rossa, Montreal
https://suoniperilpopolo.org/program/afrorack-ony-honeydrip-dj-unas-rob-feulner-sam-meech
Myself and Rob Feulner are presneting a new work - so new it aint finished! - at this music event featuring Bamanya Brian (Afrorack) - a Ugandan synth artist and inventor - it's worth checking out his Youtube channel for some very generous tutorials on creating synths using reclaimed materials.
Anyway, while Bamanya is doing his thing onstage you'll also be able to see STAIRCASE - a six-sceen analogue crt televsion installation on a six-step stage staircase. It will feature some iconic ups and downs from cinema and television, asceninding and descending the six screens. I'm programming it in Isadora right now!
This project is another good example of where collaboration takes you - it wasn't my idea, but I'm hopefully able to help shape it into something that makes it more than the sum of its parts, and we'll both learn a few tricks along the way.
WORKSHOP >>>
Feedback Fantômes; hybridité film/vidéo
Tue 15 & Thur 17, Tue 22 & Wed 23 Oct 2024 @ Videogrape, Montreal - $95 CAD
https://www.videographe.org/formation/feedback-fantomes-hybridite-film-video/
A very special and unusual workshop for halloween. Four evenings of spooky video with myself and video artist Guillaume Vallée. Together we will all attempt to conjure ghosts using a variety of moving image processes, from paint and scratch on film, to video feedback. Through visual incantations and exposures we will open the portal to chaos and unleash the spirit of video, before attempting to capture the phantoms on film!
Sadly this is SOLD OUT, however there is a waiting list, so if you are at all interested, get your name down on the off chance a space becomes open.
full details here: https://www.videographe.org/formation/feedback-fantomes-hybridite-film-video/
Feedback Fantômes; hybridité film/vidéo
Tue 15 & Thur 17, Tue 22 & Wed 23 Oct 2024 @ Videogrape, Montreal - $95 CAD
https://www.videographe.org/formation/feedback-fantomes-hybridite-film-video/
A very special and unusual workshop for halloween. Four evenings of spooky video with myself and video artist Guillaume Vallée. Together we will all attempt to conjure ghosts using a variety of moving image processes, from paint and scratch on film, to video feedback. Through visual incantations and exposures we will open the portal to chaos and unleash the spirit of video, before attempting to capture the phantoms on film!
Sadly this is SOLD OUT, however there is a waiting list, so if you are at all interested, get your name down on the off chance a space becomes open.
full details here: https://www.videographe.org/formation/feedback-fantomes-hybridite-film-video/