Sunday, June 30, 2013

My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01 — Summers Home Residency


























DAY THIRTEEN

Our textual cues: accept things as they are, understand that context shapes our work. Yet, what we bring to My
Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01 — Summers House Residency, shapes the context as well.

Tuesday, June 25, 2013

My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01 — Summers Home Residency



















DAY EIGHT

Our textual cues: accept things as they are, understand that context shapes our work. Yet, what we bring to My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01 — Summers House Residency, shapes the context as well.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01 — Summers Home Residency












DAY FIVE

Our textual cues: accept things as they are, understand that context shapes our work. Yet, what we bring to My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01 — Summers House Residency, shapes the context as well.

Friday, June 21, 2013

My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01 — Summers Home Residency



DAY THREE

Our textual cues: accept things as they are, understand that context shapes our work. Yet, what we bring to My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01 — Summers House Residency, shapes the context as well.

Wednesday, June 19, 2013

My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01 — Summers Home Residency






















DAY ONE
The Summers family has left for Germany for almost four weeks. 

Deborah and Glenn and 'DOE Projekts' have been invited to intervene by residing in their home with Max, their dog. We are invited to work and create art here, a continuation of My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01

On the drive from our home to theirs, I read Glenn two newspaper articles from the New York Times. One was about James Turrell, his use of action, location,and light in his art work. The other described how "where we are shapes who we are." 

In the latter, the author describes research that suggests that changing contextual situations can shape and reshape us quickly — even when we have made only a short journey from one part of town to another. 

In the Turrell article, the writer states "Through dozens of conversations...I found him willing to examine almost any idea, so long as it didn't require any self-reflection. I would ask...about his place in the art world, or his faith, or lack of it, or how he feels about the [Roden] crater as he grows older and the forces of obsession and mortality collide — and each time he would frown and say something like, 'Well, you know you just have to accept things as they are.' ... Growing up Quaker, he was always being told to nurture 'the light within.' At 70, he seems more interested in the light without." 

So, we begin the project with these textual cues: accept things as they are, understand that context shapes our work. Yet, discussion about these articles led us to acknowledge that the counter-thesis "who we are shapes where we are" is also valid. 

What we bring to My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01 — Summers House Residency, will shape the context as well.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

"My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01" — Peripheral Visions at Garis & Hahn, NYC



























"My Workbook: Coreforms & Keywords 1.01" is an ongoing art action by Deborah Adams Doering and DOE Projekts. On June 15, 2012, from 2 to 7 pm, Garis & Hahn Gallery, 263 Bowery Street, NYC, held a "Finessage" for their exhibition titled "Peripheral Visions: Contemporary Art from Austrialia."  As part of the Finessage, Garis & Hahn hosted DOE Projekts' Coreform "Stencil Bomb" art action. Gallery visitors and pedestrians interacted with the temporary works throughout the afternoon and evening.  DOE Projekts thanks gallerists Mary Garis and Sophie Hahn for their hospitality and help in the realization of these Coreform Stencil Bombs! 

Friday, June 14, 2013

"My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01" — Peripheral Visions at Garis & Hahn, NYC




























"My Workbook: Coreforms & Keywords 1.01" is an art action by Deborah Adams Doering and DOE Projekts. 
Garis & Hahn Gallery, 263 Bowery Street, NYC, will be holding a "Finessage" for their exhibition titled "Peripheral Visions: Contemporary Art from Austrialia" tomorrow, June 15, 2013, from 2 to 6 pm. Garis & Hahn will also host a DOE Projekts "Stencil Bomb" art action -- if you are in the neighborhood, stop on by and see all the art works!

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

"My Workbook: Coreforms and Keywords 1.01" — A Project of Nature in Urban Settings


"My Workbook: Coreforms & Keywords 1.01" is an art action by Deborah Adams Doering and DOE Projekts. 

Doering began exploring concepts related to "core language of form" and "core forms" (now Coreforms) after receiving her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Doering's concept of Coreforms includes the zero (circle) seen as a one (vertical line) or a hyphen (horizontal line). The tilde (swash) represents a movement through space from one position to another.

On June 5, 2013, Doering used Keyword "Nature" as a point of departure for a Coreform in Central Park, New York City.