LOCATION: Empty Storefront, 357 Warren Street
VIEWABLE: 24 hours a day
PROJECT DESCRIPTION: "SPIRIT & MARROW"
That snow you're seeing on the screen? That is
the electrical remnant of the Big Bang itself.
The endless movements, random patterns of
that fluid? The same. The installation Spirit
and Marrow by JOSHUA PELLETIER is about
technology as a translator, conduit, or interpreter.
As with all interpretations, a bias exists between what is actual
(the input) and what is being put forth (the output). Inside this
bias lays an entirely new mythology waiting to be born. It is a
rich crucible of pure data, a language which we often fail to
comprehend. Our attempts to glean meaning from this language end up not as illumination, but only
as reflections of our own hidden biases - endlessly edited, annotated and refined, but reflections
nonetheless. Technology's eyes are the purest eyes possible. It is we who are imperfect filters, all
spirit and marrow.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Joshua Pelletier is a local Hudson Valley artist, who's drawings recently earned him the prize for best in show at the CCCA's 12th Annual Juried Exhibition.
As a sculptor, he is perhaps best known for his work with Salt of The Valley, a small artist collective who put together numerous shows at Hudson's Basilica
Industria back in 2006. Last fall the group moved to Kingston, and composed two large collaborative installation pieces-- "Muranda," which featured sound and video, and a performance-based piece called
"Qua-Que Nocte." Recently, he has been getting back into drawings, composing a series based on John Ashbury's poetry for the online literary journal "Rain
Taxi." An older series of his, based on the poetry of William Carlos Williams, is also expected to be featured in the upcoming Dada issue of The William Carlos Williams Review.
Artist Website - www.saltofthevalley.com/index.php?pr=Joshua_Pelletier
