- (photo by Caitlin Gianniny)
My video project on the Mariner IV is being screened at the Storefront Studio in Chicago as part of the exhibition series Proximal Distance curated by Cathy Mooses & Caitlin Gianniny. My video project featured interviews with Dan Goods & Dick Grumm, and was an examination of the first images of Mars taken by the Mariner IV space mission in 1965.
- Storefront Studio in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, a temporary art space set up by artist Cathy Alva Mooses (photo by Trey Burns)
Mariner IV: First Images of Mars pairs archival footage with interviews from former JPL Engineer Dick Grumm & artist/curator Dan Goods, who share their insights into the Mariner’s first close range photographs of the Martian surface. These images, recorded on July 14, 1965, were the catalyst to an ongoing legacy of Martian exploration and represent an incredible leap of technology. Supplemental to the video is a small publication produced for exhibition at Proximal Distance in the Storefront Studio (Chicago, IL).
In 2009 I worked with artist Kristina Solomoukha on a multi-media project in Las Vegas, called Let’s Go Vegas Baby (2009). For both of us, it was our first cross country drive in the United States. Above is a series of images that show all the physical “state lines” we crossed during our trip, in chronological order.
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“My New Dad” – Trey Burns & Taylor Shields, 2012
Vocals: Taylor Shields, Baritone Ukulele: Trey Burns, Drums: Dan Catucci
From our project NGHBRS, this is a theme song from a fictional sit-com.
Alli Miller & Trey Burns, Shore Signs (2012)
Artist book, exhibited at et al Projects: April 13 – April 30th
♫ “Handmade in Bed-Stuy” ♫
Alli Miller & Trey Burns 2012
Shore Signs: Paintings for Use or Pleasure. A short video proposal about vernacular paintings in Coastal New Jersey – part of our on going collaboration documenting sign painting, murals, and other forms of commissioned painting in view from the public space.
We are designing a publication for an upcoming exhibition at et al Projects, this is a possible spread.
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Tied for 3rd Place in the Concour de Monument II (La Tournée Mondiale) at the ENSA Paris-Malaquais, Curated by Kristina Solomoukah & Elfi Turpin in 2010. For my submission to this “monument contest”, I chose the spectacle sport of monster truck racing – and specifically the Grave Digger. This truck as an object represents to me the kind of merger of vanitas & hypermodernism that I was trying to convey in my ideas of the contemporary monument. At this particular moment I was fascinated by Roland Barthes The World of Wrestling, a short essay from his book Mythologies – it’s an interesting concept to me that a sport can become complete spectacle, where all gestures are obvious and opaque parts of a story we already know the ending to. At monster truck events, the racing portion is not really sport at all, because winners are chosen before hand – no competition, just pageantry.
This is a photo I snapped at Digger’s Dungeon in the Outer Banks of North Carolina in 2011
contemporary sculpture found in a smoky dance hall on the outskirts of houston, tx.
analogous to duchamp’s ideas of the readymade and following in the legacy of found art, is the concept of the “all ready made”. simply: it’s something that strikes you (the highly qualified artist) as something that you would/should have made, or would/should like to have made, or would/should be willing to make again for the sake of art for art’s sake.