Join our Associate, Anna Ayeroff, for the opening reception of her window installation and small exhibition of works at reDiscover Center in Culver City on Saturday, June 22nd from 5-7pm.
Category: Associates
Christel Dillbohner at the ICI
Mit dem anderen Blick
2 May – 21 May, 2013
“I want to come and look with a fresh eye … then translate, transform, ferry across that deep river of inquiry.”
Visualist-in-Residence and longtime ICI associate, Christel Dillbohner, spent two weeks of inquiry and discovery at the Institute of Cultural Inquiry. On Saturday, May 18, she shared her processes of visual research along with her unique, ephemeral findings with an enthusiastic audience. Dillbohner documented her residency on the VIR blog.
You can also read or download an e-book of Dillbohner’s residency at Bookleteer: http://bkltr.it/17rSovG
Read more about the Visualist in Residence project.
ICI Associate featured in New DVD
ICI Associate, Christel Dillbohner, has been featured in a new DVD entitled Authentic Visual Voices: Contemporary Paper and Encaustic.
The DVD “offers a rare opportunity to gain insight into the artistic process [of] 28 professional artists in their own voices.”
www.authenticvisualvoices.com for more info.
New Aquisition
Thank you to Christel Dillbohner for donating a new and exciting tool to the Institute’s collection: a wooden ball winder.
As always, we are excited to see what potential uses and sparks of inspiration are brought about by our interactions with this piece in future projects.
Chritell Dillbohner at the ICI
Thank you to all those who attended Saturday night’s discussion with our most recent Visualist-in-Residence and long time ICI Associate, Christel Dillbohner, as she discussed her project based research at the ICI.
Be sure to stay tuned for details on upcoming ICI projects and events. We look forward to seeing each of you again soon.
Press Release
Mit dem anderen Blick
May 18, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
At the Institute of Cultural Inquiry
Presentation and Discussion will begin at 6:30pm
The Institute of Cultural Inquiry (ICI) presents Mit dem anderen Blick, a public presentation of our current Visualist-in-Residence, Christel Dillbohner’s practice-based research at the ICI.
The ICI’s “Visualist-in-Residence” (VIR) program offers artists, art theorists, writers, and other visual researchers and culture producers a chance to participate in studio-based visual research in a richly layered and mutable environment. The VIR ‘laboratory’ may function as an artist’s studio, a writing room, a space for gathering data or a quiet space for evaluation and contemplation depending on the needs of each individual project. At the Institute, VIRs are actively encouraged to expand current definitions of visual research and to borrow freely from ICI research practices as they develop aspects of their project in one or more of the following areas: Field work and Data Acquisition; Research and Analysis; Manipulation and Experimentation; Knowledge Transmission and Production; and Public Presentation and Publication. At the end of each residency, the VIRs are invited to present their ‘research’ in a public event/discussion session.
Christel Dillbohner’s VIR workspace and the materials associated with her findings will remain on display (by appointment only via info@culturalinquiry.org) until May 25, 2013. New applications for the Institute of Cultural Inquiry’s VIR program are being accepted through May 31, 2013. To apply, please send a detailed letter of interest to info@culturalinquiry.org.
All ICI public programs are free. Prompt arrival prior to program time is recommended. For questions regarding Mit dem anderen Blick or other ICI events, please contact info@culturalinquiry.org.
ICI Associate and Friend in Exhibition
Long-time ICI associate, Christel Dillbohner and friend of the ICI, Christine Nguyen, are featured in a new show titled WASHED UP: Ocean in Peril. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy and the tsunami that hit the coast of Japan in 2011, ‘the twenty artists gathered in this exhibition individually respond to the bewildering problems in the deep and on our adjoining shores.’
The exhibition is showing at El Camino College Art Gallery from February 11 – March 7, 2013.
Speculative Pentimenti Catalog
Working within the framework of the ICI’s 2012 research theme of “phantom worlds” and fueled by our long-held belief that all human activities leave behind a visual trace, Speculative Pentimenti presents a visual exploration of contemporary society through the works of artist and longtime associate Sande Sisneros.
The catalog features full-color images alongside essays from curator Sue-Na Gay, and ICI Director Lise Patt.
Publisher: ICI Press
Retail Price: $35
The Speculative Pentimenti Catalog is available in the ICI Gift Shop.
The Honey Gatherers
Ueber das Sammeln von Honig – The Honey Gatherers
Christel Dillbohner’s site-specific installation at SPACE, Los Angeles, February/March 1993
“Insights/Einblicke”
catalog essay by Michael Lawrence, Los Angeles, 1994
“…..The Honey Gatherers utilized approximately 3,000 square feet to investigate the various aspects of the ancient art of honey gathering.
Using a wide range of materials, the installation was a metaphor for the human condition of searching happiness. The search specifically focused on gathering and filtering experiences in order to better understand those experiences.
The installation also exemplifies the artist creating art, of finding momentary meaning in the continual flow of events.”
Searching for Sebald (Artist Edition)
The Limited Artist edition is an edition of 75 with 25 artist proofs. Suitcases are available as a premium to members and supporters who contribute to the Institute in the amount of $1,000 USD.
Each suitcase is a unique object with a name drawn from one of the many fictional or fictionalized historical figures in Sebald’s prose fictions. The valise houses a hardcover edition of Searching for Sebald along with 20 originals works of art by 20 artists or visual researchers. To purchase a suitcase or to see what suitcase ‘names’ are still available, please visit the ICI Gift Shop.
Curators: Lise Patt, Christel Dillbohner and Anna Ayeroff
Assistant curator: Lily Siegel
Project desgin:Lise Patt and Anna Ayeroff
Publisher: Institute of Cultural Inquiry
ISBN: 978-1-889917-13-9
Artist Contributors
- Thomas Becker (Switzerland)
- Suvan Geer (U.S.)
- Antoinette LaFarge (U.S.)
- Christel Dillbohner (U.S./Germany)
- Deborah Paulsen (U.S.)
- Terri Valli Trotter (U.S.)
- Tris Vonna-Michell (Germany/U.K.)
- Jo Todd (U.S.)
- Melinda Smith Altshuler (U.S.)
- Jeremy Millar (U.K.)
- Tim Wright (U.K.)
- Daniel Lash (U.S.)
- Anne Flannery (U.S.)
- ICI Research Team (U.S./U.K./Germany)
- Pablo Helguera (U.S./Mexico)
- Yolande Macias McKay (U.S.)
- Chris Rochelle (U.S.)
- Skuta (U.S./Iceland)
- Axel Forrester (U.S./U.K.)
- Sande Sisneros (U.S.
) - Danny Redfern (U.S.)