Video: Touching You, Touching Me @ Roxaboxen

Touching You, Touching Me, 2011


A performance created for the exhibition Splay
at Roxaboxen Exhibitions in Chicago, IL (August 26, 2011).
Performers: Steven Frost & Michael Earl
Choreographed by Steven Frost
Script adapted from "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond
Exhibition Curated by Marissa L. Perel
Video by Ivan Lozano

Openings: every man a winner, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN

Steven Frost: every man a winner
Coop Gallery
75 Arcade, Nashville, TN 37219
July 3 - July 30, 2011
Photos courtesy of Coop Gallery

Openings: Please Touch the Artwork

Please Touch the Artwork
2130 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL
July 16 - July 21, 2011

Adam Rose, Asha Tamirisa, Eric Stefanski, Fereshteh Tooshi, Hyeon Kim, Jennifer Grossman, Kate Hampel, Marci Rubin, Micele Bock, Steven Frost, and Youn Joon Kwak

Curated by Emma Stein

A multi-sensory, contemporary art exhibition that makes art accessible to the visually impaired. 

The exhibition will feature non-visual curatorial methods and artwork that is accessible by its multi-sensory nature. In addition to advancing the field of art accessibility, the exhibition will also provide a meaningful experience for the sighted, giving participants an opportunity to branch out of strictly visual modes of engagement with artworks.

[Photos courtesy of James Martin Pepper Kelly (top 6) & Emma Stein (bottom 3)]

Video: BOOK OF THE TUMBLR ON FIRE (A COLLABORATION WITH JOHN NEFF)

"Invited to participate in an evening of artists' lectures on the subject of "magic" organized for the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art by the blog Bad at Sports, but unable to attend the event in person, John Neff and Ivan Lozano instead produced the collaborative "video lecture" BOOK OF THE TUMBLR ON FIRE. Improvised within a tripartate structure over three short editing sessions, BOOK... was assembled from a collection texts and video clips gathered from the web. Its montage technique and "look" were inspired by the wildly heterogeneous visual style of image-and-text based Tumblr microblogs. Using this approach, BOOK... presents a materialist interpretation of "magic," concentrating less on concepts of magical cause and effect and more on the fantastic pleasures that can erupt in the embrace of impurity, polysemy and randomness." -I.L.

Video: Lazarus Taxon

Lazarus Taxon, 2010

Using archival footage and ritualistic costumes, the video Lazarus Taxon tells the story of the lost love between a man and a marsupial. The video’s narrative draws from the work of Ernest Hemmingway and the field of Eclipsazoology (the study of extinct animals).