In collaboration with WIU students Paul Guzzardo’s “Iterations
of Interface”, made art and theatre out of a 1950's surveillance
data bank. The once secret, now public, FBI files of stage personality
Josephine Baker and her relationship with J. Edgar Hoover and radio
personality Walter Winchell were activated for visitors to wear,
map and dance with. The exhibition and events were held in conjunction
with the one-hundredth anniversary of Josephine Baker's birth.
EVENTS
Gallery of Art Installation: 17 January - 9 March 2006
January 24 - Public Reception
February 7 - "Secret/The
Josephine Baker FBI Files" The documentary screening and
discussion sponsored by the McDonough County NAACP and WIU Gallery
of Art.
February 8 - Gallery Talk: Paul
Guzzardo
February 9 - THE REMIX - A video and audio multimedia performance:
VJ Zlatko
Cosic - DJ
Leon Lamont - Video Amin.
remix small - [QT][WM]
remix big - [QT][WM]
remix from the side - [QT][WM]
remix explained - [QT] [WM]
remix content small - [QT][WM]
remix staged background - [QT][WM]
remix staged rap - [QT][WM]
remix staged vertigo - [QT] [WM]
remix supremes public domain - [QT][WM]
remix supremes sonny bono - [QT] [WM]
remix supremes remixed - [QT][WM]
Postscript
Today an investigation of social spaces and storytelling strategies
requires more than just a single installation in a single venue.
Three venues were explored as part of the Western Illinois University
secretbaker cycle:
Only one came off; the gallery. This page describes what happened
at the gallery. And as often is the case, “the what and the
why” of what did not happen is probably more illuminating
than what did.
