WORKS IN PROGRESS: 2009-2010
Floating World: A Tent City / Camping Ground for Displaced Human and Bird Song" may be viewed at www.afloatingworld.com This project is commissioned by the City of San Jose Public Art Program in collaboration with ZERO1 Global Art On The Edge. The temporary pubic art will be installed June through October 2010. The ZERO1 Biennial takes place September 16-19.
Robin Lasser + Marguerite Perret will present their newest public art project: Floating World: A Tent City Campground for Displaced Human and Bird Song for the ZER01 Symposium: "Global Warning-Artists, Scientists, and Environmental Activism" Friday, September 17, 2010, San Jose City Hall Council Chambers For specific time, place and content please click here. For project news click here.
Robin Lasser will speak about the Floating World project for Z Salon, August 25, 5:30pm – 7:30pm ZER01’s HQ (152 N. 3rd St., San Jose) If you can’t join us in-person: this ZSalon will be broadcast on UStream. Please click here for specific information, time, and location.
Tenten magazine, Japanese publication, features the Dress Tents series and the Floating World public art project with an interview in Japanese and English. September 10, 2010 Cover story. 10tenmag.com
Comcast's 'Inside City Limits' - a Bay Area arts and entertainment television show – features the Floating World project along with 4 other commissioned public artworks along the San Fernando Street Corridor in collaboration with ZER01 Biennial
Robin Lasser + Adrienne Pao will speak at the Palo Alto Cultural Center, about collaboration and the Dress Tent project, on Thursday, October 21, 2010.
"The Waiting Room" may be viewed at www.waitingroom.weebly.com This multi media installation is supported by a grant from Washburn University and includes a scholarly catalog. The exhibition is scheduled for The Catherine G. Murphy Gallery, The College of St. Catherine, St. Paul Minnesota, November / December 2010 and for the Sabatini Gallery, Topeka, Kansas, Fall, 2011.
The Dress Tent photographs will replace ads on the browser, Firefox, February 13-27, 2010. Download a plug-in here: http://add-art.org When you use Firefox to browse the internet, all the ads are replaced by images in the "show" curated by Anuradha Vikram.
The "Dirty Shower Dress Tent" work in progress may be viewed at www.dresstents.com Evergreen Valley College and Cal Arts commission the Dress Tent. The work will be installed and performed for Cal Arts for Earth Day, 2010. Performance space and time to be announced.
Ms. Homeland Security: Illegal Entry Dress Tent will be installed and performed at the Mulvane Museum, Topeka, Kansas in the Spring, 2010. The performance takes place on Friday, March 26.
“Ode to Pure Dirty Water” wastewater installation proposal may be viewed at www.puredirtywater.weebly.com
Public Art created by the SJSU Art in the Community Course, for the Camden Community Center, may be viewed at www.publicart.weebly.com
Dress Tents go camping, July 27 – September 7, 2009 at the Caixa Cultural Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Twelve large-scale color photographs and three dress tent installations, along with video and sound installations will be exhibited. The Dress Tents will be performed by the artists during the opening event, on Monday, July 27. Catalog will be available in English and Portuguese. The Dress Tent project in Brazil is sponsored by Caixa Bank and produced by Doble Cultura + Social.
The Dress Tents project is televised in France and Germany on Friday, January 30, 2009. The project is aired on "Tracks" channel 33 – "Arte" Project appears along with Rock Band, MGMT. May be viewed on-line Feb 1 – February 13, 2009. Language – French. An international version is available in English.
The Dirty Towel Dress Tent is performed on Saturday, February 21 at the CLIMATE THEATER, in San Francisco 8PM till Midnight. 285 9th St @ Folsom. The group exhibition is a one night event featuring interactive art, performance, painting, installation, projection, sound, photography and sculpture.
The Dirty Shower Dress Tent is partially commissioned by CalArts as part of CalArt'sViralnet on-line project titled: Home and Garden. In November, 2008, Ms. Homeland Security: Illegal Entry Dress tent was performed on the CalArts campus and filmed by "Tracks" for French/German televisions station "Arte". The Dirty Shower Dress Tent construction, installation and performance will be documented for CalArts' Viralnet. Documentation includes photographs, sound, video, and an essay. The Dirty Shower Dress Tent installation will be performed at CalArts, in the Fall, 2009.
The Ice Queen: Glacial Retreat Dress Tent is commissioned by Zero1, Global Art on the Edge Biennial and supported by the James Irvine Foundation, Intersection grant.
Installations and performances take place at the following times and venues:
Circle Of Palms, San Jose Museum of Art, Wed. June 4 from 6:00-8:00 PM
SOFA District, First Street, Friday June 6 from 7:00-10:00 PM
Chavez Plaza, Saturday June 7 from 4-7 PM
Ms. Homeland Security: Illegal Entry Dress Tent installation will be exhibited at the Kohler Art Center, in an exhibition titled Vested Interests, summer, 2008.
Our newest creation, Climatic Shifts; Glacial Retreat Dress Tent will be performed on Friday, May 16, in the afternoon on the Porter College Campus at UCSC. This multi media wearable weather station was commissioned by the UCSC International Interventionist Project to be held on the UCSC campus May 14-17, 2008.
The debut of the Green House Dress Tent will take place at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History from February 23 to June 29. 2008. Opening Reception, 4:00-6:00, Saturday February 23. The atrium of the museum features the Green House Tent Dress by Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao, as part of a collaboration with the Sesnon Gallery and the UCSC Interventions Festival: Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice.
The Dress tent project will be installed and performed on two occasions at the San Jose Museum of Art in conjunction with their newly developed One Night Stand series. Ms. Homeland Security, Illegal Entry Dress Tent was installed and performed on June 7, 2007. The Picnic Dress Tent will be installed and performed on March 6, 2008 from 6-8PM.
The Dining in the Dump video, will be exhibited at Exit Art Gallery, New York City, Opening reception March 15, 2008. This video will be archived at Exit Art, as part of the exhibition titled Environmental Performance Actions. The video may also be viewed at the Sacramento Museum of Art, February-May, 2008 as part of an exhibition titled: Eccentric. Exit Art exhibition is curated by Patricia Watts and Amy Lipton.
Robin Lasser will present her activist public art projects at the National Society for Photographic Education Conference on a panel titled: TeraGloba, on Saturday, May 15 in Denver Colorado.
Three Dress Tent photographs and a video series are exhibited at the Natalie Thompson Gallery on the San Jose State University Campus late January-February 22, 2008
The Dress Tents traveled to China September 19-25, 07. Ten large-scale photographs were exhibited in the Pingyao International Photography Festival. The Dress Tents are one of five projects representing leading artists/educators from the US.
The Dress Tent project traveled from the Recoleta Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina to the Sala Saracco in Neuquen Patagonia.
Ms. Homeland Security: Illegal Entry Dress Tent photographs and video were exhibited as part of a group show titled, TERGLOBA. The opening reception is Saturday, March 10, 2007. The show ended April 15. The exhibition takes place at the Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Rochester, MI. The artists featured in this exhibition explore different facets of globalization.
Public Art commissioned by the city of San Jose and created by Lasser and her students in the Art in the Community Course, SJSU, was installed at the Camden Community Center in May 19, 2007. The project consists of 7 distinct artworks including bronze sculptures, photo based installations, and sound installations. The grand opening took place on May 19, 2007.
The entire Dress Tent project will travel to Sao Pablo, Brasil in the summer, 2007.
Multiple recent articles published about the Dress Tent project in South America are now posted in the Dress Tent project area of this web site.
The Ms Homeland Security Dress Tent is featured in the August, 2007 Italian edition of Marie Claire, and in the September, 2007 edition of Marie Claire, Greece. Ms. Homeland Security was also published as the front cover image for the San Francisco Chronicle book section, June24, 2007. The Picnic Dress Tent and Eco Tourism Dress Tent are featured in the August 6 edition of In Touch Weekly. The Dress Tent project isfeatured in the Weekend Weekly, Travel and LIfestyle Magazine printed and distributed in Hong Kong, 2007. The entire series of dress tents, published in August by an Italian on-line journal. Please visit espresso.repubblica.it and view the project in the Style and Design Section.