My other videos about watching childhood:

UNDER MY BED (2011)
About kids talking about the monsters hidden under their beds at night.

THE FORT (2011)
About kids constructing a fort for the fairies with twigs and pine cones and how it gets destroyed several times and several times re-constructed.

TELL ME SOMETHING YOU REMEMBER (2010)
About the making of a drawing.

THE MAP (2010)
About a boy describing a piece of circuit board like it is the map of where he lives.

THE HOUSE-PURSE (2008)
About the transformation by a little boy of recycled material into a house which eventually becomes a purse.

April 2 – April 29
The Billboard Art Project in Richmond, VA
Collaborative Piece Maria Dumlao and Michele Guieu

From the BAP website: On weekends, the 2012 Richmond Billboard Art Project schedule will include a Sight & Sound show, featuring works with an audio component that runs simultaneously with the imagery. Viewers can tune in to the short-range FM signal, which is audible within a radius of 150 feet of the billboard. We will be broadcasting off of 105.1 FM on Saturdays and Sundays starting at 12 a.m., 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. These shows will also be podcast. For complete information about this project and its participants, please download this pdf.

Maria Dumlao and I created a special piece for the Billboard Art Project show in Richmond taking place during the month of April 2012. We created a series of images (the rhythm of the images displayed on the billboard is 10sec per image) and a soundtrack. The length of our piece is 8:51.

TIME CAPSULE tells a story of a young woman in post-apocalyptic Richmond, VA. It imagines a world where destruction is inevitable, regrets are mourned, memory serves as the main source of happiness and finding the most basic needs is more difficult than ever. Erin, the protagonist, reminisces about her life before the destruction, describes the urgency of the situation, and demonstrates wisdom as she articulates lessons she’s learned in the end.

Images from ‘Time Capsule’

The piece is made up of a series of still images displayed on an LED billboard and sound broadcast over a short-range FM signal. Visible on I-195 and audible within one mile on FM radio, this site-specific work is experienced best from an abandoned parking lot underneath the billboard.

In “Time Capsule”, Erin talks about a box she and her friends hid at the site of the billboard. Here’s a photo of its content. The box is hidden at the site.

The parking lot where the viewer can stop is the same place where Erin used to hang out with her friends before an untold catastrophe occurred and turned her world upside down. This is the setting of the story. It is also the place where the viewer can find the box that Erin and her friends hid at the site – at the bottom of the billboard itself. The GPS coordinates are given at the end of her story.

The project is a collaboration between Maria Dumlao and Michele Guieu that began during the Billboard Art Project “Sight and Sound Weekend Residency” in January 2012. Both artists have participated individually in previous Billboard Art Project’s shows in 2011.

Erin’s voice: Morgan Fleisch

Here’s the list of the special collaborative projects created for the Sight and Sound show in Richmond:
‘Patterns of (missed)communication’
By Monica Carrier (visual) & Leah Rico (sound)
‘Time Capsule’
By Michele Guieu (visual) & Maria Dumlao (sound)
‘Drawing Breath (An Ordinary Paradise)’
By Kimberly Witham (visual) & Industry of the Ordinary (sound)
‘#lifeessentials’
By Alli Miller (visual) & Mike Bodine (sound)
‘Digital Canvas – A Constructive Art Medium’
By Jason Sayner (visual) & Mike Bodine (sound)
’37.579388,-77.474945′
By Jason Sayner (visual) & John Dombroski (sound)
‘Journey Through Broken’
By Laura Zaylea (visual) & Andrew Thomas (sound)
‘Trespasses’
By Claire Accardo (visual) & Jennifer Rarick (sound)
‘Then and Now and Everything in Between’
By Rachael Gorchov (visual) & David Morrison (sound)
‘Normal’
By Industry of the Ordinary (visual & sound)

Today I sent 4 envelopes to the Brooklyn Art Library and I should get four 4×6″ artworks in exchange – from artists participating in the project – that the Brooklyn Art Library will send to me. I was supposed to send a 4×6″ artwork in an envelope but I sent some mail art with an envelope [for the artwork in return] inside each envelope. We’ll see if this works!

The 4×6 Exchange project 2 is a project created by The House Co-op / Brooklyn Art Library.

Next South First Fridays is March 2, 2012 at 7:00pm.
See Wall #1 here.

Kaleid Gallery
88 So. Fourth St.
San Jose, CA
(408) 947 1785

Statement about the videos presented in the show

My videos are a “carnet de voyage” through childhood. I am taking notes (videotaping) on a regular basis. My background is socio-political graphic design but when I became a mother, it was obvious to me that one of the strangest and most interesting thing was happening right there in my house. So I decided to watch and videotape. I have two boys, they are usually willing to let me enter their space, sometimes it is them who ask me to videotape something specific.

I am using different medium in my work, both traditional and nontraditional: video, photography, murals, paintings, drawings, digital prints. My videos are often included in large scale installations where “here” (embodied by my close family) is put in perspective with “there” (represented by events happening in the world).

February 9 – February 29      
Rosalux Gallery: Open Door 7, Minneapolis, MN.

Selected artists for Open Door 7:  Samantha VanDeman, Morehshin Allahyari, Michele Guieu, Laura Andrews, Jonathan McFadden, Janet Abrams, James Hannaham, Justine Di Fiore, Garet Martin, Evie Woltil Richner, Dan Gerber, Dave Beck, David Wischer, Christopher Houltberg, Christi Furnas, Broc Blegen, Anthony Donatelle, Anne Labovitz, Amy Tillotson.

This year’s show was juried by Steve Dietz who is President and Artistic Director of Northern Lights.mn, which is responsible for the all night city wide art event Northern Spark Fest as well as Art(ists) on the Verge.
Opening Reception: Friday February 10th from 6pm – 10pm.

“Behind The Glass” was selected for the exhibition “Blue” at the Sebastopol Center for the Arts. This video is inspired by the events which occurred in Japan in March 2011: the tsunami and its aftermaths, the disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.

BLUE
February 9 – March 17, 2012
Juried Exhibition by Karen Sjoholm, Program chair John F. Kennedy university, Berkeley Campus.

Sebastopol Center for the Arts
6780 Depot Street
Sebastopol 95472

9 collages on envelopes

Today I’ve sent 9 envelopes (9×12″ – 23x31cm) to the French nonprofit organization “Une vie un Arbre” which organizes each year an exhibition of mail art: “Festival d’Art Postal” in Vienne, France. The envelopes are for sale and the money goes to help children who are very ill.
The series I have sent is made of torn pieces of tissue paper and origami paper.

My friends Eric Meyer and Ivan Sigg have sent envelopes that you can see on their blogs. They will be special guests and present at the exhibition in Vienne, along with Christiane Berti, Sylvie Graindorge, Agnès Lachard, Evelyne Lanno, Eni Looka, Mariette.

More information about the association here (in French).

L’Association “Une vie, un arbre”
Festival d’art Postal
23, 24 et 25 mars 2012 à Vienne (Isère), France.

Nonprofit organization “Une Vie, Un Arbre”
Mail Art Festival
March 23, 24 & 25, 2012
Vienne, France.

See the envelopes I’ve sent in 2011 here.
The envelope I’ve sent in 2009 here.

Timeline Notes is an ongoing series of two minute videos about photographic notes I am taking every day with my cell phone: family, friends, landscapes, exhibitions I see, moments at home, in the car. Through the process of transforming the photos, I am getting closer to the idea I have of the memories layering through time in my mind: almost unrecognizable and abstract.

I have a version of “Alice” installed at Kaleid Gallery right now in San Jose.
This is a series of 5 from a larger series of drawings (paint and ink) on pages of “Alice in Wonderland”.
11″x7″ and 5.5″x7″ each. Size of the wall:8′x4′.

Next South First Fridays is February 3, 2012 at 7:00pm.

Kaleid Gallery
88 So. Fourth St.
San Jose, CA
(408) 947 1785

The dates of the show have been extended and the ensemble of paintings “Correspondences and Elevation” is still on display at NextSpace San Jose.
It comprises a series of crylic on canvas and mixed media on canvas. Sizes varies and are either 60″x36″, 48″x36″ or 36″x36″.

NextSpace Coworking + Innovation San Jose
97 S. 2nd St, Suite 100
San Jose, CA 95113
Open Monday to Friday, from 8:30am to 5:30pm.
nextspacesj@nextspace.us