On Chewing Gum

an artist book, sculptures and a drawing

Brass Replica of Stone Age Chewing Gum, brass, 10 mm x 6 mm x 6 mm, 2013

Study: gum as form 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, folded aluminum sheet, paper, oil paint, 2013

Study: gum as form 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, folded aluminum sheet, paper, oil paint, 2013

Big Red Out Of the Box, folded aluminum sheet, paper, oil paint, 2013

Seductive Gum, ink on paper, 2015

On Chewing Gum, artist book, 2015

On Chewing Gum, artist book, 2015

On Chewing Gum, artist book, 2015

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On Chewing Gum, artist book, 2015

On Chewing Gum, artist book, 2015

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A Simultaneous Poem by Charlie Chaplin, Kurt Schwitters, IK Bonset, Lettrist International and Every (excerpt)

a performance made in collaboration with de Appel Art Centre

Six curators from the Curatorial Programme were given a script that would be translated into a a press conference. They were asked to talk about it in the form of a press conference in the present perfect tense. They were also instructed to mention that if this simultaneous poem were to take place it would be executed by Kurt Schwitters, Charlie Chaplin, I.K. Bonset, the ridiculously good-looking Letterist International and Everybody Else.

click here to view the PDF script

To Be a Pinball

a performance and sculpture

The ball said “Roll me” so we rolled, 2014

Based on my reading of Jack Spicer's lectures, I presented a performance at the South London Gallery/. This was based on Spicer’s interest in the dictation from the outside and his wish to be buried underneath a pinball machine. The piece is an homage to Jack, whose father's middle name was lovely: Lovely Spicer.

To Be A Pinball, 2015, exhibition view, SpazioA, Pistoia

To Be A Pinball, 2015, exhibition view, SpazioA, Pistoia

The Pop Bumper, 2015, carpet, Mdf, foam, plaster, iron, aluminum, acrylic paint, wood, cm 202 x 190 x 95

The Stopper (The Magic Post), 2015, carpet, Mdf, foam, plaster, iron, aluminum, acrylic paint, wood, cm 202 x 190 x 95, detail

To Be A Pinball, 2015, exhibition view, SpazioA, Pistoia

The Backglass, 2015, single channel video, sound 1’20”

The Backglass, 2015, single channel video, sound 1’20”

The Upper Left Slingshot, 2015, carpet, Mdf, foam, plaster, iron, aluminum, acrylic paint, wood, cm 202 x 122 x 122

To Be A Pinball, 2015, exhibition view, SpazioA, Pistoia

To Be A Pinball, 2015, exhibition view, SpazioA, Pistoia

To Be A Pinball, 2015, exhibition view, SpazioA, Pistoia

The Firing Lane, 2015, carpet, acrylic paint, cm 410 x 60 (variable size)

The Plunger (The Skill Shot), 2015, iron, Mdf, acrylic paint, wood cm 156 x 162 x 75

detail: The Plunger (The Skill Shot), 2015, iron, Mdf, acrylic paint, wood cm 156 x 162 x 75

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«My vocabulary did this to me» confessed the poet Jack Spicer, during his last moment of lucidity before passing away. This final statement inspired the artist Dina Danish to reflect on how something intangible, like words, can potentially become a menace. Her idea of shifting this feeling from the linguistic to the visual dimension became a way to explore the potentiality of language in art last November in the setting of a performance program at South London Gallery.

To gain a better understanding of what was dooming the poet’s art and existence to the point at which he felt threatened, Dina investigated his life, looking for signs of incompleteness and dissatisfaction. San Francisco Renaissance poet Jack Spicer was among the founders of “6” gallery in Fillmore Street where the Beat generation was launched, but he always preferred to remain an outsider to the group. Inspired by Surrealism, he used to claim that poetry was coming to him from outside forces - like Martians - and that he functioned as a transmitter for dictated lines and rhymes.

Words would come to him like radio frequencies, finally creating some sort of meaning for his presence in the world. Words would eventually become “thing-language”, as in the title of one of his poems in which he declared that there is no meaning in things without language to describe them.

The poet’s condemnation of his own words amounted to a withdrawal from the artist’s status. He expressed it well with a visual metaphor which is hilariously one of the most concrete elements of his vocabulary. Thus he conceived the idea of a poet hosting a pinball-machine where balls hit objects on the table’s surface to run up points - which he imagined to be an ideal graveyard for himself.

Following the logic that if words can threaten the poet, then forms can threaten the artist, Danish decided to avoid the production of closed and autonomous objects. This visual metaphor led her to instead turn this gallery into a space where poetry (or art) is being transmitted.

Like pinballs, which should keep rolling around inside the game waiting for the right moment to fulfil their potential, the visitors at To Be a Pinball energize the environment built inside the exhibition: a life-size playing board. The moment of encounter between life and props is the only thing that matters in the end: the props in the space lose their relevance as forms, and become facilitators for the transmission of energy, meaning, and matter.

Danish, who is interested in mimesis and repetition, “rewrites” biographies and moments of the past. Far from a perspective of historical exactness, she interprets the subject’s intentions, creating new possible understandings.

If “Words are what sticks to the real”, as Jack Spicer wrote in After Lorca, then mimicking the scoreboard of a pinball- machine sticks perfectly to Jack Spicer’s words.

LIVE From The Aquarium (excerpt)

An Audience in Hiding and Live From The Aquarium are both concerned with crowd dynamics and the perpetually changing architecture of Madinat Jumeirah’s Arena Hall and the Large Aquarium at the Dubai Mall. The works, conceived of during my three-month residency in Dubai, and through multiple visits to the conference centre and mall, explores the dynamic relationship between the architecture and its waves of visitors, who pour in for a variety of events throughout the year. Inspired by sports commentary, An Audience in Hiding and Live From The Aquarium take a playful approach to analysing crowd behaviour, and its relationship with architecture – in this case the layout of the booths within the gallery halls at Art Dubai and the Dubai Mall Aquarium.
In both videos I gave precise instructions to a professional sports castor, asking him to describe the physical movements and appearances of a mesmerized crowd looking at art using footage of various art fairs and other footage of crowds looking at rare fish species at the Dubai Mall.

All My Life I had to fit Cheese on Toast

a collection of objects specifically purchased from Walgreens because they were the same size as toast.

Couch Swimming (excerpt)

Counting

Don't Start a Sentence with Numerals

Don't Start a Sentence with Numerals, 2011

Don't Start a Sentence with Numerals: One to three, whiteout and ink on paper, 23.5x32.5cm, 2011

Don't Start a Sentence with Numerals: Two to fourteen, whiteout and ink on paper, 23.5x32.5cm, 2011

Don't Start a Sentence with Numerals: Three to twenty-two, whiteout and ink on paper, 23.5x32.5cm, 2011

Don't Start a Sentence with Numerals: Four to twenty-nine, whiteout and ink on paper, 23.5x32.5cm, 2011

Don't Start a Sentence with Numerals: Five to Thirty-Seven, whiteout and ink on paper, 23.5x32.5cm, 2011

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Don't Start a Sentence with Numerals takes on one of the rules of numerals when writing. As the first word of the sentence is a digit –the chapter number this strict rule is applied through deleting the text of the first page in each chapter, and replacing it with numerals. The attempt is also to count from the number of the chapter to the number of the same page, and have this replace the content or any sentences of the page.

Lenticular Counting

The Ones, The Twos, lenticulars demonstrating all possibilities of counting two with one hand, 2011

The Threes, lenticulars demonstrating all possibilities of counting three with one hand, 2011

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Fake Documents and Special Effects

Corrected Fake Documents

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Screen Failure, ink on paper/ video, 2009

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Other Special Effects

Superstition

The Evil Eye, Glove, paper, ink, pin, 2007

Magic Salt, mixed media, 2008

The instructions in Magic Salt are based on made up, as well as popular superstitious beliefs.

Salt and Bread, bread, thread, cardboard, tape, variable dimensions, 2008

Please Step in with your Right Foot, Please Step Out with your Left Foot, ink on paper, 2008

Please Step in with your Right Foot, Please Step Out with your Left Foot was first commissioned by <Fantasy for Allan Kaprow> in collaboration with Objectif Exhibitions, Kunsthalle Bern

At the entrance of the exhibition a poster was placed instructing the visitors to enter with their right foot (an Egyptian superstitious saying meaning to bless a space). When exiting the space another poster read: Please step out with your left foot, a sentence instructing to merely do a specific physical action (or a newly made-up superstitious belief).

A variation was made for Galerie Barbara Seiler instructing the visitors to step into the gallery with their right foot and when exiting to leave with their left one.

Please Step in with your Right Foot, Please Step Out with your Left Foot, chalk on board,, 2013

Please Step in with your Right Foot, Please Step Out with your Left Foot was first commissioned by <Fantasy for Allan Kaprow> in collaboration with Objectif Exhibitions, Kunsthalle Bern

At the entrance of the exhibition a poster was placed instructing the visitors to enter with their right foot (an Egyptian superstitious saying meaning to bless a space). When exiting the space another poster read: Please step out with your left foot, a sentence instructing to merely do a specific physical action (or a newly made-up superstitious belief).

A variation was made for Galerie Barbara Seiler instructing the visitors to step into the gallery with their right foot and when exiting to leave with their left one.

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Stupid Superstition and The Dots and Crosses of Stupid Superstition

stupid superstition, ink on paper, 2008

and the dots and crosses of stupid superstition

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‘Stupid Superstition’ is written as one word without crossing the Ts and dotting the Is. Hopefully, this can be considered as a means of succeeding at the challenge of utterance. On another page, the diptych is continued through the marking and transferring of the Dots and crosses of the tongue-twister. No mistakes were made.

The Library of Things That Count

A possible retirement plan

To Whom This May Concern,

collected books, variable dimensions, 2011

One of my works, which I started in 2011 titled 'The Things That Count' was never fully realized as a project due to the lack of facilities and resources and I would now like to propose it to you. This would be ideal as my retirement plan.

The project's title if realized would be 'The Library of Things That Count'.

‘The Things That Count’ was meant as an ongoing project of collecting books which should be collected based on the condition that their title would include a number from zero to ten.

The idea was to search for objects (books) that could count on their own and to place them in chronological order, in attempt to changing their language-based narrative into a numerical one. So far, I have only managed to collect eleven books (one of each title including the numbers from zero to ten). I have also made up a list of a few of the books, which titles correspond with this library. These, I have found online but have not been able to purchase.

I wish to create a full library that is based on the collected books which I have previously mentioned. Thus, I would attempt to enforce a different function and system to the usual library, thematizing the books based on the numbers of their titles rather than their linguistic content.

The Library of Things That Count

Later on, as a retirement plan, I want to collect these books through opening a space (maybe in Amsterdam?), where the books will be ordered, donated, collected and displayed based on an open call and basic crowd-sourcing. This space will act as an open source library and a small cafe will provide free and basic refreshments to donors and visitors.

Upon arrival of each of the books a picture documenting the packaging and arrival of the book will be taken and included in the library data base that I will develop (with the help of a librarian) which will list all the books in numeric chronological order.

The database will include the title of the book (which includes a number from zero to ten), the number of pages, chapters and the ISBN number. Upon the receipt of each book, the libraries’ website which will include the database will be updated as soon as possible. Once enough books have been given in, the library then travels to another location. There a librarian (possibly myself, as an old woman) should also be present to welcome the visitors, and assist them with their book search, accept new donated books that correspond with the library’s system, label the new books and enter their details into the database system. Whenever this library travels to other places, this process is activated again and the library can proceed with its collection of books that count from zero to ten.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.

All the best,

Dina

Lip Sinking in Water

a work based on the misunderstanding of the sounds of the two words: synch and sink

Halim: Ongoing Project

Halim: The Dark Whistling Nightingale, single-channel video, 2011

A Short Break But We Won't Be Back, single-channel video, 2012-2013

20 to 25 Audience Members Suspected of Using Referee Whistles, lambda print, 63 x 52.5 cm, 2012

20 to 25 Interruptions (The Commas), 20 to 25 whistles, ink, table, 170 x 25 x 80cm, 2012

Halim and The Whistlers, lambda print, 63 x 52.5 cm, 2012

Halim and the Suit (2 coffee cups, a cup of tea and a bottle of Coca Cola), lambda print, 63 x 52.5 cm, 2012

The Whole Audience Was Looking at The Suit, lambda print, 63 x 52.5 cm, 2012

The Whole Audience Was Looking at The Suit, lambda print, 63 x 52.5 cm, 2012

Halim and the Suit Thank The Audience, lambda print, 63 x 52.5 cm, 2012

Halim and the Suit Thank The Audience, lambda print, 63 x 52.5 cm, 2012

The Disappearance of Halim, lambda print, 63 x 52.5 cm, 2012

The Censored Poem (Halim over Qabbani), ink on paper, 50x80x80cm, 2012

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This is an ongoing project and investigation based on found footage of Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez where he is seen and heard angrily whistling back at his audience for mysterious reasons.

After further investigating the concert, I was able to find more footage on this event. A body of work including a second video was created based on the newly found interviews.

In it, Halim attempts to justify his behavior recalling rather absurd stories such as a person getting on stage trying to force him to wear a bizarre looking jacket. He also mentions that 20 to 25 audience members were trying to intentionally ruin his concert using actual referee whistles.

Recently, I was able to find a living friend of Halim, who was also present at this concert. A third video is being currently made recording his testimony of the event.

Molloy

Molloy Re-translated to French

The following version of Molloy is a re-translation from English to French in collaboration with its author Samuel Beckett.
It takes 124 pages of the English version to translate the first page of the first page of the French text using the method I have chosen.
I find the letters of the French words one by one, and cover the print that does not match.
I have only completed the first page, so this is a work in progress.

first page of original French version of Molloy, mixed media, 2008

score written on English version of Molloy, mixed media, 2008

detail: score written on English version of Molloy, mixed media, 2008

detail of re-translated English version of Molloy (first sentence: Je sui(s)), mixed media, 2008

continuation of first sentence: (s) dans la chambre de ma mere. C'est moi qui.. mixed media, 2008

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NAMES OF ARTISTS

This is an ongoing archive of names of other artists that have been suggested to me by other people during studio visits and other occasions.

Pirate Private Property

Performing a Tongue-Twister

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Act One in Ten Scenes

Pirate Private Property

An actor dressed as a pirate holding a private property sign fixes it to the floor, as if marking the stage as his own territory. A few seconds later, he undoes the fixture and leaves the stage. His act is to be repeated ten times.

This work belongs to a body of works that act as an alternative to the failure-bound utterances of tongue twisters. This I try to accomplish through various means, such as the writing of them, their visualization and also through the creation of theatrical stages that are able to host them as performances.

Through my collection of mainly English tongue-twisters the following body of work have been constructed.

Post-its, Legal Paper, Construction Paper And Other Formal Things

Back in 10 Minutes, acrylic on wood, 100cm x 100cm, 2008

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This painting together with another depicting a blank sheet of standard US legal paper were given to my late friend and mentor Steven Leiber in San Francisco, which resulted in an ongoing conversation around the idea of reproducing these works and standardization in the artistic process. In recreating some of my earlier pieces I used this as a starting point to navigate the use of mimicry in contrast with recreating by simply copying with my own hand.

Artists & Editions, 2013, © 2013 RITE EDITIONS

Artists & Editions is a tribute to Steven Leiber (1957–2012) co-founder of RITE EDITIONS. All proceeds from the sale of the edition will benefit the Steven Leiber Scholarship Fund at California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco.

Artists and Individual Pieces
• Tauba Auerbach
• Elisheva Biernoff
• Luke Butler
• Claude Closky
• Dina Danish
• Sam Durant
• Liam Everett
• Colter Jacobsen
• Ben Kinmont
• Ruth Laskey
• Adam McEwen
• Dave Muller
• Bruce Nauman
• Franz Erhard Walther

Artists & Editions was modeled after the 1970 Multiples Inc. publication Artists & Photographs.

The following is my contribution

Back in x Minute

I will make thirty-five paintings to represent Post-its. Each Post-it will read: “Back in x minute(s),” depending on the edition (x=from 1–35). Machines make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. I want to make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. Because I am NOT a machine each Post-it MUST be slightly different.

Artists & Editions Catalog
The entire catalog is available as a PDF here and for more information on the project click here

Artists & Editions, 2013, © 2013 RITE EDITIONS

Artists & Editions is a tribute to Steven Leiber (1957–2012) co-founder of RITE EDITIONS. All proceeds from the sale of the edition will benefit the Steven Leiber Scholarship Fund at California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco.

Artists and Individual Pieces
• Tauba Auerbach
• Elisheva Biernoff
• Luke Butler
• Claude Closky
• Dina Danish
• Sam Durant
• Liam Everett
• Colter Jacobsen
• Ben Kinmont
• Ruth Laskey
• Adam McEwen
• Dave Muller
• Bruce Nauman
• Franz Erhard Walther

Artists & Editions was modeled after the 1970 Multiples Inc. publication Artists & Photographs.

The following is my contribution

Back in x Minute

I will make thirty-five paintings to represent Post-its. Each Post-it will read: “Back in x minute(s),” depending on the edition (x=from 1–35). Machines make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. I want to make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. Because I am NOT a machine each Post-it MUST be slightly different.

Artists & Editions Catalog
The entire catalog is available as a PDF here and for more information on the project click here

painting: acrylic on MDF bord, 11.8x11.8 inches. Certificate: ink on paper, 11.8x11.8 inches. Photograph: lambda print, 11.8x11.8 inches. Sleeve: ink on cardboard, 11.8x11.8 inches. Box: ink on cardboard, 12.6x12.6x0.5inches. Signed, dated, and numbered, edition: 35, 2013, © 2013 RITE EDITIONS

Multiple. Screen printed cardboard box containing five prints (three silkscreens, one edition variée and one etching,) four artist generated archival publications, two three-dimensional paper pieces, two posters, a painting, a drawing, a coupon for redeeming a record, an artist’s book, a metal stencil, a weaving, a sewn canvas work and an edition catalog. Catalog is black and white. 7 × 7". 20 pp. Staple bound. Text: Leigh Markopoulos. Edition of 35. 14 × 14 × 4.5

Artists & Editions is a tribute to Steven Leiber (1957–2012) co-founder of RITE EDITIONS. All proceeds from the sale of the edition will benefit the Steven Leiber Scholarship Fund at California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco.

Artists and Individual Pieces
• Tauba Auerbach
• Elisheva Biernoff
• Luke Butler
• Claude Closky
• Dina Danish
• Sam Durant
• Liam Everett
• Colter Jacobsen
• Ben Kinmont
• Ruth Laskey
• Adam McEwen
• Dave Muller
• Bruce Nauman
• Franz Erhard Walther

Artists & Editions was modeled after the 1970 Multiples Inc. publication Artists & Photographs.

The following is my contribution

Back in x Minute

I will make thirty-five paintings to represent Post-its. Each Post-it will read: “Back in x minute(s),” depending on the edition (x=from 1–35). Machines make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. I want to make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. Because I am NOT a machine each Post-it MUST be slightly different.

Artists & Editions Catalog
The entire catalog is available as a PDF here and for more information on the project click here

painting: acrylic on MDF bord, 11.8x11.8 inches. Certificate: ink on paper, 11.8x11.8 inches. Photograph: lambda print, 11.8x11.8 inches. Sleeve: ink on cardboard, 11.8x11.8 inches. Box: ink on cardboard, 12.6x12.6x0.5inches. Signed, dated, and numbered, edition: 35, 2013,© 2013 RITE EDITIONS

Multiple. Screen printed cardboard box containing five prints (three silkscreens, one edition variée and one etching,) four artist generated archival publications, two three-dimensional paper pieces, two posters, a painting, a drawing, a coupon for redeeming a record, an artist’s book, a metal stencil, a weaving, a sewn canvas work and an edition catalog. Catalog is black and white. 7 × 7". 20 pp. Staple bound. Text: Leigh Markopoulos. Edition of 35. 14 × 14 × 4.5

Artists & Editions is a tribute to Steven Leiber (1957–2012) co-founder of RITE EDITIONS. All proceeds from the sale of the edition will benefit the Steven Leiber Scholarship Fund at California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco.

Artists and Individual Pieces
• Tauba Auerbach
• Elisheva Biernoff
• Luke Butler
• Claude Closky
• Dina Danish
• Sam Durant
• Liam Everett
• Colter Jacobsen
• Ben Kinmont
• Ruth Laskey
• Adam McEwen
• Dave Muller
• Bruce Nauman
• Franz Erhard Walther

Artists & Editions was modeled after the 1970 Multiples Inc. publication Artists & Photographs.

The following is my contribution

Back in x Minute

I will make thirty-five paintings to represent Post-its. Each Post-it will read: “Back in x minute(s),” depending on the edition (x=from 1–35). Machines make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. I want to make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. Because I am NOT a machine each Post-it MUST be slightly different.

Artists & Editions Catalog
The entire catalog is available as a PDF here and for more information on the project click here

painting: acrylic on MDF bord, 11.8x11.8 inches. Certificate: ink on paper, 11.8x11.8 inches. Photograph: lambda print, 11.8x11.8 inches. Sleeve: ink on cardboard, 11.8x11.8 inches. Box: ink on cardboard, 12.6x12.6x0.5inches. Signed, dated, and numbered, edition: 35 Editions, 2013, © 2013 RITE EDITIONS

Multiple. Screen printed cardboard box containing five prints (three silkscreens, one edition variée and one etching,) four artist generated archival publications, two three-dimensional paper pieces, two posters, a painting, a drawing, a coupon for redeeming a record, an artist’s book, a metal stencil, a weaving, a sewn canvas work and an edition catalog. Catalog is black and white. 7 × 7". 20 pp. Staple bound. Text: Leigh Markopoulos. Edition of 35. 14 × 14 × 4.5

Artists & Editions is a tribute to Steven Leiber (1957–2012) co-founder of RITE EDITIONS. All proceeds from the sale of the edition will benefit the Steven Leiber Scholarship Fund at California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco.

Artists and Individual Pieces
• Tauba Auerbach
• Elisheva Biernoff
• Luke Butler
• Claude Closky
• Dina Danish
• Sam Durant
• Liam Everett
• Colter Jacobsen
• Ben Kinmont
• Ruth Laskey
• Adam McEwen
• Dave Muller
• Bruce Nauman
• Franz Erhard Walther

Artists & Editions was modeled after the 1970 Multiples Inc. publication Artists & Photographs.

The following is my contribution

Back in x Minute

I will make thirty-five paintings to represent Post-its. Each Post-it will read: “Back in x minute(s),” depending on the edition (x=from 1–35). Machines make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. I want to make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. Because I am NOT a machine each Post-it MUST be slightly different.

Artists & Editions Catalog
The entire catalog is available as a PDF here and for more information on the project click here

painting: acrylic on MDF bord, 11.8x11.8 inches. Certificate: ink on paper, 11.8x11.8 inches. Photograph: lambda print, 11.8x11.8 inches. Sleeve: ink on cardboard, 11.8x11.8 inches. Box: ink on cardboard, 12.6x12.6x0.5inches. Signed, dated, and numbered, edition: 35,2013, © 2013 RITE EDITIONS

Multiple. Screen printed cardboard box containing five prints (three silkscreens, one edition variée and one etching,) four artist generated archival publications, two three-dimensional paper pieces, two posters, a painting, a drawing, a coupon for redeeming a record, an artist’s book, a metal stencil, a weaving, a sewn canvas work and an edition catalog. Catalog is black and white. 7 × 7". 20 pp. Staple bound. Text: Leigh Markopoulos. Edition of 35. 14 × 14 × 4.5

Artists & Editions is a tribute to Steven Leiber (1957–2012) co-founder of RITE EDITIONS. All proceeds from the sale of the edition will benefit the Steven Leiber Scholarship Fund at California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco.

Artists and Individual Pieces
• Tauba Auerbach
• Elisheva Biernoff
• Luke Butler
• Claude Closky
• Dina Danish
• Sam Durant
• Liam Everett
• Colter Jacobsen
• Ben Kinmont
• Ruth Laskey
• Adam McEwen
• Dave Muller
• Bruce Nauman
• Franz Erhard Walther

Artists & Editions was modeled after the 1970 Multiples Inc. publication Artists & Photographs.

The following is my contribution

Back in x Minute

I will make thirty-five paintings to represent Post-its. Each Post-it will read: “Back in x minute(s),” depending on the edition (x=from 1–35). Machines make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. I want to make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. Because I am NOT a machine each Post-it MUST be slightly different.

Artists & Editions Catalog
The entire catalog is available as a PDF here and for more information on the project click here

painting: acrylic on MDF bord, 11.8x11.8 inches. Certificate: ink on paper, 11.8x11.8 inches. Photograph: lambda print, 11.8x11.8 inches. Sleeve: ink on cardboard, 11.8x11.8 inches. Box: ink on cardboard, 12.6x12.6x0.5inches. Signed, dated, and numbered, edition: 35, 2013, © 2013 RITE EDITIONS

Multiple. Screen printed cardboard box containing five prints (three silkscreens, one edition variée and one etching,) four artist generated archival publications, two three-dimensional paper pieces, two posters, a painting, a drawing, a coupon for redeeming a record, an artist’s book, a metal stencil, a weaving, a sewn canvas work and an edition catalog. Catalog is black and white. 7 × 7". 20 pp. Staple bound. Text: Leigh Markopoulos. Edition of 35. 14 × 14 × 4.5

Artists & Editions is a tribute to Steven Leiber (1957–2012) co-founder of RITE EDITIONS. All proceeds from the sale of the edition will benefit the Steven Leiber Scholarship Fund at California College of the Arts in Oakland and San Francisco.

Artists and Individual Pieces
• Tauba Auerbach
• Elisheva Biernoff
• Luke Butler
• Claude Closky
• Dina Danish
• Sam Durant
• Liam Everett
• Colter Jacobsen
• Ben Kinmont
• Ruth Laskey
• Adam McEwen
• Dave Muller
• Bruce Nauman
• Franz Erhard Walther

Artists & Editions was modeled after the 1970 Multiples Inc. publication Artists & Photographs.

The following is my contribution

Back in x Minute

I will make thirty-five paintings to represent Post-its. Each Post-it will read: “Back in x minute(s),” depending on the edition (x=from 1–35). Machines make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. I want to make numerous identical standard sized Post-its. Because I am NOT a machine each Post-it MUST be slightly different.

Artists & Editions Catalog
The entire catalog is available as a PDF here and for more information on the project click here

Heavy Legal paper (sitting next to two books), acrylic on canvas, 2012

Transparent Legal Pape, glass paint on glass, watercolor on paper, frame, 2012

Legal Paper with Water, watercolor on paper, 2010

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Practicing Foreign Languages

Re-reading Kurt Schwitter's Ursonate

The entire original Ursonata is available as a PDF here

Color and Music Composition

Translating Color To Music

detail: Color and Music composition, mixed media and sound, 2008-2011

detail: Color and Music composition, mixed media and sound, 2008-2011

detail: Color and Music composition, mixed media and sound, 2008-2011

SCORE: Color and Music composition, mixed media and sound, 2008-2011

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Stop, Sun! Continue, Sun!

Direction & 2D Time-Based

stop sun!, continue, sun!, oil and sun on paper, 40x80cm, 2010

Continue, sun! exposed to light and script, 2014

Script for Continue, sun!, 2014

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Stop, Sun! Continue, Sun! is a diptych of paintings, one of which is destined to fade in sunlight. (The lack of natural light in Project Arts Centre is cannily circumvented by a pledge to move the piece to the window should the temperature sizzle and pop to above 23 degrees.) This fading event was documented in the form of a dialogue between the relevant ‘characters’, the Director, Paper One, Paper Two and the Sun, as they worked through the various steps involved. The dialogue could be read on the gallery window from the street.

click here to download the PDF of the full script

The diptych was first commissioned by Kunsthall Oslo and was made in reaction to John Smith's work 'The Girl Chewing Gum'. The titles of the work intend to order the sun to change or preserve the image of the diptychs I have created. Continue, Sun!, is a result of a specifically folded acid-based paper that has been exposed to the sun, resulting in an abstract image. Once unfolded and due to the exposure to daylight when exhibited, the image will continue to fade and finally disappear. Hence, the title is an order to control what is beyond my power. The other image of the diptych, ‘Stop, Sun!’ is a re-creation of first image created by the sun. It has been painted in oil and its title is again an instruction to the sun, this time to preserve the image.

Square Dance (excerpt)

Following the geometrical square and line (and triangle) of a carpet in order to structure a new method for the square and line dance.

The Sailor’s Shirt (excerpt)

Type Sonata

Type Sonata: Clef de Sol

Type Sonata: Clef de Fa

Here I try to type a line from right to left, and a line from left to right through using an Arabic and an English typewriter which move in opposite directions.
Because of the way they are set up next to each other, the two objects move slowly until they meet together in one point.
This action is repeated a few times, until the imperfect “Sonata of lines” are fulfilled.
The result is the production of two scores,
Clef de Sol –the lines typed with the right hand-,
and Clef de Fa –the lines typed with the left hand.

An Audience in Hiding (excerpt)

An Audience in Hiding and Live From The Aquarium are both concerned with crowd dynamics and the perpetually changing architecture of Madinat Jumeirah’s Arena Hall and the Large Aquarium at the Dubai Mall. The works, conceived of during my three-month residency in Dubai, and through multiple visits to the conference centre and mall, explores the dynamic relationship between the architecture and its waves of visitors, who pour in for a variety of events throughout the year. Inspired by sports commentary, An Audience in Hiding and Live From The Aquarium take a playful approach to analysing crowd behaviour, and its relationship with architecture – in this case the layout of the booths within the gallery halls at Art Dubai and the Dubai Mall Aquarium.
In both videos I gave precise instructions to a professional sports castor, asking him to describe the physical movements and appearances of a mesmerized crowd looking at art using footage of various art fairs and other footage of crowds looking at rare fish species at the Dubai Mall.

So I Got This Paper, and Then I copied Its Lines onto Another Paper, And Then I Made Mistakes, And Then I Copied The Mistakes Onto The Other Paper, And Then I Got A Ruler, And Then I Copied The Lines With The Ruler and Then…

Chaliff Dance (excerpt)

From a series created in collaboration with the artist Farley Gwazda for the exhibition Howwa We Ana - However We Wanna at PlaySPACE Gallery in San Francisco.
The exhibition consisted of various projects, each of which was the result of a set of rules that we had created to structure our collaborations, which we termed "Chaliffs." The communication games resulted in videos, audio, text, and drawings. Alongside each of them a text was displayed, structured as a "chat," that explained the structure whereby it was created.

Following is the "chat" displayed alongside Chaliff Dance.
Eff: I will film myself dancing a made-up dance.
Then I will write down its choreography send you the directions.
I will dress formally and it would only be right if you would, too.
Oh - I don't send you the video - that would ruin it!
Dina: I am also going to choreograph a dance,
film myself dancing my dance, and send you the written directions.
Then I will film myself, wearing a formal dress,
trying to follow your steps.
Eff: And I will film myself trying to dance your dance.
Eff: Wait - it's a little confusing. So, I dance my dance and you dance my dance?
Dina: We both dance our own dance, but only once at the beginning,
then we dance the other person's dance
by following each other's written dance instructions.
Eff: I don't think they will get totally coordinated.
Or even semi coordinated
Dina: They might, though. What music should we use?

Letter from me to Farley

Letter from Farley to me

Robert Wayne Rutter

Performing a tongue-twister

Robert Wayne Rutter, performance, image courtesy of Robert Huber, Pool Projects, 2015

Robert Wayne Rutter, performance, image courtesy of Robert Huber, Pool Projects, 2015

business card and business card case of Robert Wayne Rutter, Pool Projects, 2015

business card of Robert Wayne Rutter, Pool Projects, 2015

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Act Two in Ten Scenes

Robert Wayne Rutter

During the opening, a person (or several) with great social skills is to socialize with as many visitors as possible, while also giving out their business card.The card should read: Robert Wayne Rutter- A Tongue-Twister.

This work belongs to a body of works that act as an alternative to the failure-bound utterances of tongue twisters. This I try to accomplish through various means, such as the writing of them, their visualization and also through the creation of theatrical stages that are able to host them as performances.

Through my collection of mainly English tongue-twisters the following body of work have been constructed.

I see Susie Sitting in a Shoe Shine Shop

Performing a tongue-twister

I see Susie Sitting in a Shoe Shine Shop, performance, shoes by David Shrigley, image courtesy of Robert Huber, Pool Projects, 2015

I see Susie Sitting in a Shoe Shine Shop, performance, shoes by David Shrigley, image courtesy of Robert Huber, Pool Projects, 2015

I see Susie Sitting in a Shoe Shine Shop, performance, shoes by David Shrigley, image courtesy of Robert Huber, Pool Projects, 2015

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Act Three in Ten Scenes

I see Suzie Sitting in a Shoe Shine Shop, Where she sits she shines and where she shines she sits

I saw Susie sitting in a shoe shine shop, where she sits she shines and where she shines she sits An actor or actress (preferably named Susie) is to kneel or sit on a low chair. While holding her two arms upwards, and gesturing the act of shining shoes, a light is to shine on her.

This work belongs to a body of works that act as an alternative to the failure-bound utterances of tongue twisters. This I try to accomplish through various means, such as the writing of them, their visualization and also through the creation of theatrical stages that are able to host them as performances.

Through my collection of mainly English tongue-twisters the following body of work have been constructed.

Stages For Tongue-Twisters

a proposal

Based on a collection of tongue-twisters, short and repetitive performances are to be acted out on a small theatre stage. Placed on top of the stage, the name of each tongue-twister is to be changed depending on the one being acted out. (please see attached illustrations below) The performances are based on my ongoing project of finding alternatives to the impossible utterances of tongue-twisters. Some of the performances will not be limited to the stage, but will also take place at the venue (for example: Robert Wayne Rutter) A booklet of the acts are to be given out to the audience watching from behind the glass. Here are scripted “tongue-twisting” performances, which I have divided into ten acts. Each performance or act is accompanied by an illustration of the stage scene. The repetition of the performances are meant to serve as a mimicry to the repetition of the utterance of tongue-twisters.

Act One in Ten Scenes

Pirate Private Property

An actor dressed as a pirate holding a private property sign fixes it to the floor, as if marking the stage as his own territory. A few seconds later, he undoes the fixture and leaves the stage. His act is to be repeated ten times.

Act Two in Ten Scenes

The Queen in Green Screamed

An actress in a green costume and a crown runs while screaming in a caricature-like manner and disappears into stage left. Her act is to be repeated ten times.

Act Three in Ten Scenes

Six Snails Sailed Silently

Six actors dressed as snails silently act as if sailing from stage right to stage left. Their act is to be repeated ten times.

Act Four in Ten Scenes

Elizabeth’s Birthday is On The Third Thursday of This Month

On the third Thursday of the month, a few actors gather on stage and celebrate the Birthday of someone named Elizabeth in a conventional manner (i.e. They bring gifts, eat cake, sing Happy Birthday, balloons etc.) The act is to be repeated ten times on an hourly basis.

This act can also take place in a normal venue (apartment, museum, etc.). In this case, simply find a person named Elizabeth. Invite her and her friends (optional) to celebrate her Birthday on the third Thursday of the month. Send out invitations of Elizabeth's Birthday stating that it would take place on the third Thursday of the month. Celebrate her birthday conventionally (cake, balloons etc.). Take a picture of the event and attach it to the instructions.

Birthday invitation that was sent out

Act Five in Ten Scenes

One-one was a race horse. Two-two was one too. One-one won one race. Two-two won one too A trained choir sings the words of this tongue-twister to the tune of another well-known, slow song (i.e. I Did It My Way, Ave Maria etc.)

Act Six in Ten Scenes

Robert Wayne Rutter

An actor walks around the venue and while attempting to socialize with other visitors he gives out his personal business card. The business card would read: Robert Wayne Rutter. He is to give out his cards to as many people as possible.

Act Eight in Ten Scenes

He Threw Three Free Throws

An athlete throws a basketball three times into a basketball net that is to be fixed to the stage wall and then gets off stage. He repeats the act ten times.

Act Nine in Ten Scenes

Black Background, Brown Background

A brown backdrop is to be covered by a black backdrop followed by another brown backdrop. The act is to be repeated ten times.

Act ten in Ten Scenes

Four Friends Fought Furiously For the Phone

A large red phone booth is placed on stage. Four actors wearing masks of the characters of the TV series F.R.I.E.N.D.S (Rachel, Ross, Monica, and Phoebe) get on stage and aggressively fight for the phone. Once one of them manages to get into the booth, they all run off stage. They repeat the act ten times.

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77 Benevolent Elephants

Collecting a tongue-twister

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The Collection

77 Benevolent Elephants

Collect 77 benevolent looking elephants. These can be figurines, images, or actual elephants.

This work belongs to a body of works that act as an alternative to the failure-bound utterances of tongue twisters. This I try to accomplish through various means, such as the writing of them, their visualization and also through the creation of theatrical stages that are able to host them as performances.

Through my collection of mainly English tongue-twisters the following body of work have been constructed.

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don't eat with your mouth full!

Performing a tongue-twister

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don't eat with your mouth full, performance, 2013

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don't eat with your mouth full, performance, 2013

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don't eat with your mouth full, performance, 2013

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don't eat with your mouth full, performance, 2013

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don't eat with your mouth full, performance, 2013

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Act Seven in Ten Scenes

Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thick, say it quick! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Spread it thicker, say it quicker! Yellow butter, purple jelly, red jam, black bread. Don't eat with your mouth full

This work belongs to a body of works that act as an alternative to the failure-bound utterances of tongue twisters. This I try to accomplish through various means, such as the writing of them, their visualization and also through the creation of theatrical stages that are able to host them as performances.

Through my collection of mainly English tongue-twisters the following body of work have been constructed.

Batik Stylus and Keyport

Batik Stylus, (Device for generating electric signals representing the position coordinates of a stylus on a reference surface) Patent code US 4444997 A, 116x160cm, batik, 2013

detail: figure1, Electronic Stylus, (Device for generating electric signals representing the position coordinates of a stylus on a reference surface) Patent code US 4444997 A, batik, 2013

detail: figure2, Electronic Stylus, (Device for generating electric signals representing the position coordinates of a stylus on a reference surface) Patent code US 4444997 A, batik, 2013

detail: figure3, Electronic Stylus, (Device for generating electric signals representing the position coordinates of a stylus on a reference surface) Patent code US 4444997 A, batik, 2013

detail: figure4, Electronic Stylus, (Device for generating electric signals representing the position coordinates of a stylus on a reference surface) Patent code US 4444997 A, batik, 2013

Polytel Keyport (Multikey keyboard for inputting data into a computer) Patent code US 4555693 A, variable dimensions batik, 2013

Patent code US 4555693 A, variable dimensions batik, 2013

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Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?

Corrected Writing

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?, training Microsoft word to utter the tongue-twister instead of myself, lambda print, 2008

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked. If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers that Peter Piper picked?, training Microsoft word to utter the tongue-twister instead of myself, lambda print, 2008

Corrected Tongue Twister Written as One Word, ink on paper, 2008

Corrected Tongue Twister #2, ink on paper, 2008

Tongue Twister written as one work, ink on paper, 2008

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Elizabeth's Birthday is in the third Thursday of this month

Performing a tongue-twister

Birthday invites for Elizabeth's Birthday, 2014

a form to be filled out once Elizabeth's Birthday is celebrated, 2014

a possible stage for Elizabeth's Birthday, 2014

image documenting the performance after it had occured, 2014

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Act Four in Ten Scenes

Elizabeth’s Birthday is On The Third Thursday of This Month

On the third Thursday of the month, a few actors gather on stage and celebrate the Birthday of someone named Elizabeth in a conventional manner (i.e. They bring gifts, eat cake, sing Happy Birthday, balloons etc.)

The act is to be repeated ten times on an hourly basis.

The Witch and a Shipwreck Full of Paintings

On a Man who Hated but Secretly Painted like Mondriaan

installation view: overhead projector, sound, paper, magnifying glass

Photograph re-constructed based on Bart Peizel's painting

Bart Peizel, Still Life with Books, 1933, oil on canvas

The Witch and a Shipwreck Full of Paintings, materials variable, 2013

Book on shipwrecks purchased seen in Bart Peizel's painting

Book on a travel diary purchased seen in Bart Peizel's painting

special thanks to generous contributions and narration by Hans Ansingh, sorella's nephew

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I acquired the books depicted in Bart Peizel's Still Life with Books (1933) and used them as a starting point to cross-examine the painter's biography. I re-created and projected a photograph of the painting with new additions including the original swimming certificate of Peizel’s wife, Thérèse Ansingh (aka sorella), one of her paintings, and Bart's attractive self-portrait, trying to portrait their failed relationship. Hans Ansingh, Peizel's wife's nephew, provides a voiceover, describing Peizel's distain for modern art. Other stories emerge of the boxes of candy sorella sent to herself to make Bart jealous, a sunken boat full of paintings, and his destroyed paintings in imitation of his nemesis Mondriaan.

This project was commissioned by de Appel arts centre's curatorial program in collaboration with the Van Abbe Museum

More information on de Appel's exhibition Bourgeois Leftovers

List of Characters

HANS ANSINGH, the narrator
BART PEIZEL/ OOM BART, a Dutch painter,

uncle of Hans THERESE/ SORELLA PEIZEL ANSINGH, wife of Bart and also a painter

LIZZY ANSINGH, sister of Thérèse/ Sorella, a painter and member of de Joffers

UNCLE HAN, Bart Peizel's inheritor
JAN JOSEF SCHWARZER, a painter from the USA