Share Prize Application
All three submissions are titles from the feature-length video-performance – or performance alongside video projection – project First Assignment.
Submission Titles:
(1) Fake Afghanistan, 2010, 5min
(2) We Are Mired In Clouds, 2010, 6min
(3) HomeMade, 2009, 4:30min
Artist’s CV Below.
Description of Work (1)
Fake Afghanistan, 2010, 5min
Using footage from Agnes Varda’s “The Vagabond” and Gertrude Stein’s “The Making of Americans,” the video incorporates documentation and reflection upon a stint at the National Training Center for the military in Fort Irwin, California. Intelligence officer Lieutenant Kelly LaVorgna is pictured as well as one of the combat simulations.
http://www.danielleadair.com/FakeAfghanistan/FakeAfghanistan.mov
Description of Work (2)
We Are Mired In Clouds, 2010, 6min
We Are Mired in Clouds integrates photos taken on base (Afghanistan) and an updated version of Walter Cronkite’s 1968 Tet Offensive speech, “We Are Mired in Stalemate”. It is both homage to Cronkite who passed away in 2009 and response to President Obama’s speech calling for more troops to Afghanistan.
http://www.danielleadair.com/WeAreMiredInClouds/WeAreMiredInClouds.mov
Description of Work (3)
HomeMade, 2009, 4:30min
HomeMade is composed of photographs of signage and markings on base taken during my 12-day ‘media embed’ with US Forces stationed in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. The sound comprises audio recordings taken on base as well as a recording from an interview with a young supply sergeant.
http://danielleadair.com/Homemade/Homemade.mov
More on First Assignment:
First Assignment involves my following US servicewomen in training, deployment (I embedded as a “journalist” with Forces in Afghanistan), and after their return home. I have examined their experiences and my role as “media” through a number of short video-performances, or performance alongside video projection. The three works included and described here – Fake Afghanistan, We Are Mired In Clouds, and HomeMade – are generated from each of the three stages of this project’s trajectory. You can read further details about the project and its additional related artworks here (http://danielleadair.com/first-assignment) and here (http://first-assignment.com). First Assignment is currently in post-production as a feature-length composite of these multiple short video-performances. As a project it actively straddles documentary and performance in investigating what it means to be a “journalist” or “serviceperson” in the theater of wartime.
Danielle Adair’s CV:
EDUCATION, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2010
California Community Fund 2010 Visual Arts Fellow
I-Park Foundation Resident, Connecticut, USA
Digital Arts Studios Resident, Belfast, Ireland
2007
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
M.F.A. in Studio Art and in Critical Studies. CalArts Scholarship (2005-07)
2006
Second Place in the Decadal Juried Art Show at Dennos Museum of Art, Traverse City, MI
2003
The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
B.A. with Honors in Human Development and with Honors in Visual Arts. Dean’s List (1999 – 2003), Halperin Scholar (1999 – 2003), Foreign Language Acquisition Grant (Summer 2002), Metcalf Scholar (Summer 2001), The Louis Sudler Prize in the Performing and Creative Arts
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND SCREENINGS
2009
First Assignment, Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles (screening and performance)
From JBAD, Lessons Learned, The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles (performance/ book)
Coverlands, Work Space, Los Angeles (exhibition)
2007
“Sex and Rage” and Responsibility and March 17th and “The Documents of 20th Century Art” and Texas Holdem and Art Groupies and Walter Hopps and Tripods and “That’s Hot” and War Protest and Theory., D301 Gallery at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (exhibition)
2006
form into words, Lime Gallery at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (exhibition)
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, AND SCREENINGS
2010
The Way of Progress, ArcheTime Conference, EFA Project Space, New York (screening)
We Are Mired In Clouds, Silverlake Jubilee Festival, Los Angeles (performance)
The Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here memorial reading, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles (reading)
2009
1969 curated by Vincent Ramos, Dan Graham Gallery, Los Angeles (performance)
Welcome To Fake Iraq, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles (exhibition)
The Space Between Presidents, Washington Blvd Concert, Los Angeles (performance)
2008
Hollywould, LA Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles (screening)
Ornament is a Crime at Gallery 1927, Los Angeles (exhibition)
Interrupt, Intervene! Art as Social Practice Conference at University of California – Santa Cruz (screening)
Exchange Rate 2008 at Remy’s, Los Angeles (performance)
&Now Conference at Chapman University, Orange, CA (performance paper)
Just How Does A Patriot Act, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA (screening)
Here We Are, Cologne OFF Video Festival, Cologne, Germany (screening)
Fake Afghanistan Video Night at Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles (screening)
San Fernando Road Concert, Los Angeles (performance)
Future Potentials and Ex-Nons at BetaLevel, Los Angeles (performance)
GLARE Quarterly launch at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (performance)
SoundinSpace at Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles (performance)
Danielle Adair and Garrett Caples at Machine Project, Machine Project, Los Angeles (performance)
Possible Impossible Dimension at Eagle Rock Center for the Arts, Los Angeles (performance)
The Queen Schmooquan “Say My Name” Show with Danielle Adair at BetaLevel, Los Angeles (performance)
2007
Late Night Snack at BetaLevel, Los Angeles (performance)
TrenchArt: Parapets at Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles (performance)
West Hollywood Book Fair, Los Angeles (reading)
The Smell, Los Angeles (reading)
“Corteania” in Conduction in the Catacombs at Artists’ Television Access and 21 Grand, San Francisco (performance)
End of the Year Show at Eveningside Drive, Val Verde, CA (performance)
For Ever, curated by Eungie Joo and Clara Kim, at 915 Mateo, Los Angeles (exhibition and performance)
Next Words at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Los Angeles (performance)
Next Words at High Energy Constructs Gallery, Los Angeles (reading)
The Powder Room at Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles (exhibition)
Lights, Camera, Actions at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles (performance)
Exquisite Acts and Everyday Rebellions at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (exhibition)
The Juice Is Loose at 507 Rose Gallery, Los Angeles (exhibition)
2006
It Was the Blurst of Times at Commerce Street Warehouse, Houston, TX (exhibition)
Mid-Residency Show at D300 Gallery at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (exhibition)
How To Do Things With Words at The Cube Gallery, Los Angeles (exhibition)
7th Annual Abstraction Juried Online International Art Exhibition, Upstream People’s Gallery, online (exhibition)
Decadal Juried Art Show at Dennos Museum of Art, Traverse City, MI (exhibition)
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
2011
[forthcoming] “excerpts from Selma,” in Thirty Under Thirty, Starcherone Books, Buffalo, NY
[forthcoming] “The Way of Progress” in [out of nothing] Edition #0
2010
[forthcoming] Models for a Building Block (chapbook), P S Books, Los Angeles
“Residual-Bonus” in Casebook Series, ValeVeil, Stockholm
2009
A Contributor to BigOther, an online literary blog. (December 2009 – present)
From JBAD, Lessons Learned (artist’s book), Les Figues Press, Los Angeles
2008
“What does WAR stand for?” in GLARE Quarterly, Portland
Series Cover Artist for the Material Series with Les Figues Press, Los Angeles
2007
“Chen Xiaoyun at MC Gallery” in Afterall Online, Los Angeles
Writing has also appeared in the following publications: Poetry Sz (New Zealand), Next Words (Los Angeles), Chronometry (Los Angeles), TrenchArt: Parapets (Les Figues Press), BeWhich (Which Press)