Stephen Vitiello & Paul Thulin
TRANSMISSION
presents:
STEPHEN VITIELLO
and
PAUL THULIN
Opening: Friday June 6, 2008, 7-10pm
TRANSMISSION
321 Brook Rd.
Richmond, VA 23225
804.200.9985
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Stephen Vitiello will be exhibiting several LFO speaker drawings
and a new sound piece consisting of sounds created in James River Park.
Here, he explains the work:
‘The LFO Speaker Drawings were created after several years of looking
for a method of ‘process drawings’ that would directly reflect my
processes of working with audio. Beginning in 2004, I created a number
of installations with suspended speakers, through which very low
frequency tones were played. The tones and patterns are below our
(human) threshold of hearing, therefore we can see movement on the
surface of the speakers but we do not actually hear the sounds. The
first piece of this series was installed at SculptureCenter in NYC in
2004. Subsequent versions were presented in Rome, Paris, Porto Alegre,
Brazil, Seattle, Sydney, Australia and Vienna. In 2006, after a
collaboration with the visual artist Julie Mehretu in which she
created a wall drawing in a shared space with a suspended speaker
piece, I was more determined than ever to make my sounds draw. I found
that filling those same speakers with pigment, ink and other drawing
materials and subjecting the speakers to those low frequency
oscillations (LFO), the drawing materials would be projected out onto
paper in such a way that one had a visual work that was also an
artifact of the sound. The drawings were first shown in a solo
exhibition at The Project on W. 57th Street in New York City and have
subsequently been presented in London and are now in the homes of a
number of private collectors.
As a compliment to the drawings, I will create a quiet sound piece,
based on the 1957 children’s book Listen to the Night consisting of
sounds created in James River State Park.’
Stephen Vitiello bio:
www.stephenvitiello.com/index.php?id=C0_6_2
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& Paul Thulin" />Paul Thulin will be exhibiting photographs from his series,
‘Dissolving Boundaries of the Self: A Rhizomatic Psycho-History’
Here, he explains this body of work:
‘My defining project Dissolving Boundaries of The Self: A Rhizomatic
Psycho-History aims to explore the relationship between photographic
narrative and an ongoing autobiographical record of my life. The
sequencing and plot of this mythical narrative is thematically linked
to historical, psychoanalytical, and confessional self -examination.
Dissolving Boundaries of The Self: A Rhizomatic Psycho-History
is a sequential archive of imagery that presents an ever-evolving
history of my psyche as photographic artifact. Performance and
improvisational play are essential components of this project
allowing for the transformation of real world events and personal
experiences into plot driven character development, gesture, and
aesthetic. The images are metaphorical expressions of my everyday
thoughts, emotions, memories, cultural influences, physical impulses,
and other illusive subconscious desires. The narrative is continually
unfolding and sequentially restructuring itself in direct relation to
my interpretation of present and past personal experiences.
The series is structured as a rhizomatic narrative organized and
presented by an imagined but systemically real Institute of the
Self (IOS). Utilizing psychoanalytically based textual analysis,
archeological image structure, and the power of authoritative
authorship, this collection of images is archived as a living collection of interpreted artifacts discovered within the boundaries of an examined life. The series attempts to expose the often contradictory and relative nature of truth offered within any documentary interpretation or examinationof the self and/or culture as a whole.’
Paul Thulin is an artist utilizing photography to explore aspects of personal identity, memory, narrative, and decay. He is a M.F.A. graduate and an API National Graduate Fellow. Presently, he is the Director of Graduate Studies
for the Department of Photography and Film.
