Erratic Anthropologies
A trio of performance projects--by Shana Moulton, Rancourt/Yatsuk, and Guy Benfield--that mine the artifacts and visual culture of defunct utopian communities, drawing from sources ranging from primitivist references in hippie culture to the latent promise of prosperity intrinsic to American suburbanite culture to define the psychological profile of contemporary Western society.
Shana Moulton is a New York-based video and performance artist. A graduate of the University of California Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon University, she has been awarded fellowships to the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and De Ateliers, Netherlands. She has participated in various international solo and group exhibitions, often featuring episodes of her ongoing Whispering Pines series. Most recently, she has exhibited at the Migros Museum (Zurich), Pianissimo (Italy), Contemporary Museum of Art Uppsala (Sweden), Gimpel Fils (London), and Bellwether Gallery (NY). Moulton has also participated in numerous festivals and screenings including Special Effects Film Festival at FACT (Liverpool, UK), Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid (Madrid), IAO: French Psychedelia from 1968 – Infinity at the CAPC musée d'art contemporain (Bordeaux, France), The 15th New York Underground Film Festival (NY), and Float at Socrates Sculpture Park (NY).
Guy Benfield was born in Sydney, Australia and is a Brooklyn-based artist. He has exhibited internationally with recent solo exhibitions in Sydney, Melbourne, Lisbon, New York and Brooklyn. Benfield’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Le CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux ( France), BRIX Gallerie (Berlin), Artspace Sydney (Australia), the Monkey Town Semiennial (NY), the Shanghai Biennale (China), Atelierfrankfurt (Germany), Zacheta National Gallery (Poland), the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (Lithuania), and Escola Maumaus (Lisbon). Benfield has received grants from the Australia Council for the Arts, Maumaus School for the Arts (Lisbon, Portugal), and Arts Victoria. His work has also been featured in publications such as Frieze, Flash Art, NYARTS Magazine, Art Review and Art World.
Justin Rancourt and Chuck Yatsuk are two young lifestyle artists who orchestrate events and exhibitions centered on American leisure pastimes: mixing drinks, motivational speaking, real estate speculation, multi-level marketing, boating, and vacation planning. Born in Florida, Rancourt/Yatsuk currently live and work in New York City. They have shown both nationally and internationally at locations including Kate Werble Gallery and Schroeder Romero in New York, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center in Copenhagen, Center For Contemporary Art (CCA) in Kitakyushu, Japan, and Kunst Projects in Berlin. Collaboratively, Rancourt/Yatsuk have been awarded residencies at Seok-su Art Project in Anyang, Korea and with In You We Trust, in Cushendall, Northern Ireland.
Presented by Art in General.
7pm on Nov. 11 and Nov. 18
FREE