Recent Works at the Sleeth Gallery

Enid Series: Partners by Ellen Mueller, mixed media on canvas, 3’ x 4’ 6", 2011

Ellen Mueller: Recent Works
October 10 - November 1, 2012

Opening reception: Oct 11, 2012 4:30pm
Artist Talk: Oct 11, 2012 6pm

Hours: Mon - Fri, Noon-5pm
(or by appointment)

Sleeth Gallery
The Sleeth Gallery is located on the first floor of McCuskey Hall at West Virginia Wesleyan College, at the intersection of East Main Street and College Avenue in Buckhannon, WV.
Admission is free.

Mueller — an intermedia artist — focuses on humans' resistance to change and a struggle for control. How these efforts display themselves is the subject of the works collected in this exhibition, which includes large-scale paintings and video works. Recurrent visual themes include corporate management structures, cult dynamics, and Sisyphean tasks. Although these works share many specific, personal associations and a dry sense of humor, the audience is invited to develop personal narratives and explanations for each piece.

Practical Preparedness at Art:Screen Sweden

"Preparing for Bioterrorism," will be showing on Oct 5 at the Art:Screen Festival in Sweden. Specifically, my video will be showing at 4:20pm at Bio Roxy - Salong 1. They have a thorough schedule here.

Art:Screen Festival
5 - 7 October 2012
Örebro, Sweden

"Navigating a Riot" on Liminalities

"Practical Preparedness: How to Navigate a Riot" is currently featured on Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies, an open-access, peer-reviewed online publication that addresses three needs in performance studies scholarship and practice: 1) expanding opportunities to share peer-reviewed work, 2) creating a space for the publication of multimedia texts and projects that are difficult or impossible to publish in traditional print venues, and 3) international accessibility.

Check it out!

LOL in Sweden

art:screen has been invited to curate a screening program on the theme 'LoL' (Laughing out Loud) for Onskoldsviks Museum & Konsthall 'Black box', Örnsköldsvik, Sweden from September 18 - October 5, 2012.

The program consists of works from art:screen’s archive. My video 'Preparing for Bioterrorism' has been selected and will be shown during the event.

art:screen is a platform that showcases new, compelling, innovative and contemporary video art and moving image from Swedish and international artists. art:screen is, for many artists, the window for showing their work in Sweden and Europe.

art:screen shows single-channel screening programmes which have tempo and flow. To create this, the duration of works are at maximum five minutes long. The programmes explore new ways of seeing reality from a cultural, social and individual perspective and often employ humour to give new insights.

art:screen is an artist-run, non-profit initiative organised by Eva Olsson and Jonas Nilsson who are both practising professional artists with an extensive experience of curating screening programmes. 

ASPECT EZ Volume 3: txt + img in Boston

A few of my Practical Preparedness videos will be included with ASPECT EZ's Volume 3: txt + img.

Communicating with Media & Authorities

Preparing for Bioterrorism

How to preserve a severed limb

Screening & DVD Release: ASPECT EZ Volumes 3 and 4

Friday, Aug 3, 2012 at 6pm

46 Waltham St

Boston MA 02118

Facebook Event Link

ASPECT EZ is an exhibition and DVD series focusing on the work of emerging artists in time-based media. ASPECT hosts this screening and DVD release in the outdoor courtyard of our studio in Boston's South End.

Volume 3: txt + img brings together work that utilizes text in video, animation, installation and performance. Volume 4: Deja Vu focuses on repetition, memory and nostalgia.

Both volumes will be available for purchase at the event as a limited-run DVD.

Pecha Kucha Pueblo - Apocalypse Preparation

Image Credit: Phil McCollam

Don't miss Pecha Kucha this coming Thursday, Jan 26, 7pm at the CSU-Pueblo Fine Art Gallery, ground floor of the Arts/Music Building, (click for the CSU-Pueblo Campus map).  Suggested contribution of $5; CSU-Pueblo students - free (no-one turned away, though!).  Check out their Facebook page and like them!

I'll be doing a Practical Preparedness presentation on the impending Apocalypse of 2012.

Here are the presenters:

Brian Spillman, B.Vant.Garde
JoLynn Westerholt, Keyhole Lingerie and Harlequin Aces Burlesque
Ye (Charlotte) Ming, Photographer
Sam Sumeracki, Raconteur
Gilbert Ortiz and Dena Abeyta, Pueblo County
John Wark, Airphoto
Mathias Valdez, LastLeaf Print and Design
Ellen Mueller, Artist-in-Residence
David Bemis, Chemist
Jacqueline Stroud, Historian

Paradoxes in Video moves on to Tehran

Turns out "Paradoxes in Video," which was shown in San Diego earlier this year, has moved on for a brief 1 week engagement at the Mohsen Gallery in Tehran, Iran.



Wednesday at 4:00pm until Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 8:00pm

Sazmanab Project, Tehran | Mohsen Gallery
Mina Blvd., Farzan St., Nadji St.
Zafar, Tehran, IRAN

"Paradox" investigate the contradictions between documentary and performance, fact and fiction, order & chaos. What is real and what is staged? The absurdity of real life, the ambiguity of movement and the enigma of space are some of the perceptions raised in "Paradox".

...Curated by Larry Caveney and Sohrab Kashani
Organized in collaboration with Sazmanab Project, Tehran; and The Garage, San Diego

Artists:
Krista Caballero, Arthur Tuoto, Ellen Lake, Ellen Mueller, Eric Knowles, Ezra Wube, Kim Engelen, Mel Edelman, Nisha Duggal, Richard Gleaves, Toby Kaufmann Buhler, John Anthony, Yoni Goldstein & Meredith Zielke, Angela Washko, Neil Ira Neddleman, Cara Marisa Deleon, Benjamin Funke, Shahar Marcus, Lauren Marsden, Juan José Herrera

Third Strike: 100 Performances for The Hole

If you're in the San Francisco area, you won't want to miss "Third Strike: 100 Performances for The Hole."  I'm collaborating with Victoria Skelly on a presentation of one of my Practical Preparedness videos for the hole ("How to Use the Hole in Case of Emergency").

If you're wondering what an array of such brief performances might look like, check out this video.

December 10, 2011, 5:58pm–midnight

SOMArts Cultural Center

934 Brannan Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103

WATCH IT! at Taubman Museum of Art

If you're going to be around Roanoke, VA on Friday, Dec 2, please stop by the Taubman Museum of Art to catch "WATCH IT!," a showcase of contemporary video art curated by Virginia Tech students from the School of Visual Arts (SOVA) under the direction of Dr. Simone Paterson.

"Isolation," from my Practical Preparedness series of videos will be on view.

A printed catalog & DVD will be available for the exhibition (they received 134 submissions and 13 were selected for the exhibition - exciting!).

If you can't make it for this opening event (5-10pm on Fri, Dec 2, 2011), the exhibition will be on view December 2, 2011 through February 26, 2012.

Taubman Museum of Art
110 Salem Avenue SE
Roanoke, VA 24011

9/11 Memorial Exhibit

If you will be in Reading PA between November 6 and December 15th, swing by the Freyberger Gallery on the Penn State Berks campus.  Five of my Practical Preparedness videos will be on view.

In honoring the 10th Anniversary of Sept. 11, 2001, and the heroes who have fallen, the families torn apart, and those volunteers who gave hours of their time to help, the Freyberger Gallery, Penn State Berks is hosting a multi-venue exhibition.

Part 1: Crises/Reaction (Sept. 11 through Oct. 20) and

Part 2: Response/Healing (Nov. 6 through Dec. 16, 2011).

Over 80 artists submitted work for the exhibition with 40 selected. The Jewish Community Center located at 1100 Berkshire Blvd., and Penn State Lehigh Valley are partnering to exhibit work for this important event.  Refreshments will be served at the reception on Sunday Nov. 6, at 4 p.m. where guest speakers will include:

Loren Ellis, founder and director, Art for Healing, NYC
Dr. Jennifer Hillman, Professor of Psychology, to discuss PTS, causes, symptoms, healing  

Diana Kurz , exhibiting artist on the healing power of animals        
Dr. Bill Ellis, PSU Emeritus, to entertain the role of humor in healing 

Nov 6 - Dec 16

Freyberger Gallery

Penn State Berks

Tulpehocken Rd

Reading PA 19610

Micromanagement at The Performance Art Institute

Awesome news: I'm going to be performing my practical preparedness character LIVE in San Francisco on Oct 15 at the Performance Art Institute.  Find the press release below:

The Performance Art Institute of San Francisco presents:
An evening of 16 experimental performance artists with an overbearing interest in their audience

San Francisco, CA – conceptual artist duo Sean Fletcher and Isabel Reichert present MICROMANAGEMENT, an evening of performative artworks by 16 artists from around the world. Artists participating in the exhibition include CNS (Mabel Negrete and Timothy E Robertson II), Jordan Essoe, Peter Foucault, Jennifer Gwirtz, Barbara Kristoff, Anya Liftig, Cheryl Meeker and Dan Spencer, Ellen Mueller, Naomi Sex, Ann Marie Stoehr, Merav Tzur, Kathryn Williamson, Kathrine Worel, and Gordon Winiemko. 

Micromanagement is characterized by close observation and control over someone else’s work, frequently accompanied by an acute focus on minor details, to the point where it often seems more an matter of control than the successful realization of a project. The artists of MICROMANAGEMENT will spend the evening “observing, controlling, attending to minutia, and insisting on results.” These artists impose double binds, they question our competence, they exploit our fears, they set us up to fail. Through performances, temporary installations, and sound works, the artists in MICROMANAGEMENT provide a dynamic evening of work that is compulsive, manipulative, overbearing, and always completely brilliant.

Ellen Mueller delivers a “Practical Preparedness” demonstration speech and guides the audience through the proper way to navigate a mob situation. Peter Foucault manipulates a small sensor-activated artist/robot using sound and percussion. Gordon Winiemko edits, rewrites, rephrases, and “micromanages” the efforts of curators Sean and Isabel, for a contribution that is in dialogue with the event itself.

MICROMANAGEMENT -- One night only!  Free admission!

Saturday, October 15th -- Doors: 7:30pm, Performances: 8:00pm 

(estimated running time: 2 hours)

Seating is limited -- first-come/first-serve.

The Performance Art Institute

575 Sutter Street

San Francisco, California

CNN.com 9/11 Ripple Project

Just wanted to share some exciting news! The CNN.com 9/11 Ripple Project is featuring one of my Practical Preparedness videos.

It is the 4th piece under "The Absurdity" tab, and it can take a moment to load.
Each day for the next 4 days, they will be adding more artists to the gallery under different topic tabs, so check back each day to see even more artwork.

A Decade On: Artists Respond to 9/11 at the Playwright's Center

As a part of A Short Play About 9/11 written & directed by Dominic Orlando, the Workhaus Collective in Minneapolis MN will be putting up an exhibit entitled, A Decade On: Artists Respond to 9/11.

The exhibition will be Sept 11 - 24, 2011 at the Playwright's Center. 

Artists include:

Anna Leahy

Ellen Mueller

Jessica Turtle

The opening reception for the visual art is at 7pm on Sept 11th, 2011.

The play starts at 8pm, and is funny from what I hear!  

Tickets are pay-what-you-can (suggested donation $18)
The play will be followed by a comedy after-party, with stand-up by Brian Beatty and “Paige & Erin: 9/11,” written & performed by Paige Collette & Erin Search-Wells, directed by Maren Ward.

Playwrights’ Center

2301 East Franklin Ave 

Minneapolis MN 55406

This exhibition is a great chance for those in the Minnesota area to get a glimpse of some of my Practical Preparedness videos.

Tampa's Neighborhood Watch: A Projection Walk

Neighborhood Watch will take place Saturday, August 27 in Hampton Terrace (link to map) a division of Seminal Heights Neighborhood in Tampa FL. The walk will begin at 1400 Comanche, and wrap around to 1221 Powhattan. This is a one-night-only art exhibition running 8:30 PM - 11:30 PM. Admission is free.

For one night only, Hampton Terrace is transformed into an alternative exhibition space. Various forms of Fine Art will be projected throughout the neighborhood.  Over 25 local, national, and international artists will be featured in this exhibition.

Featured Artists include Felici Ancatar, Toni Danette Billick, Jaime Bird, The Church of Holy Colors, Michael Covello, Vanessa Diaz, JD Durham, Stephen Ellis, Dave End, Kale Roberts, Robb Fladry, Adam Hill, Aaron Hutcheson, Reiko Kawahara, Vincent Kral, Sarah Krupp, Culture Laboratory, Ben Lewis, Chalice Mitchell, Desiree Moore, Ellen Mueller, Brinson Renda, Selina Roman, Noah Simblist, Kirk Ke Wang, and many more.

Both my Practical Preparedness videos and the Book of Enid will be projected at this Neighborhood Watch.  

The Neighborhood Watch was originally designed after the classical all American drive-in theatre, and aimed to share art by creating an accessible space outside of the traditional museum setting. For the past five years this event has been exchanging and projecting artwork in various neighborhoods and in multiple countries. Participating countries are Bhutan, Australia, France, Mexico and cities in the United States including Tampa Florida. The Neighborhood Watch is a global simultaneous one-night event of projected art, performance, and sculpture brought to your own lawn.

Videoholica in Bulgaria

Anybody going to Bulgaria around August 5-12?  Two of my Practical Preparedness videos will be included in the Videoholica International Video Art Festival 2011 in Varna, Bulgaria. I wish I could go!

Paradoxes in Video 2

If anyone is going to be in San Diego on July 9th, be sure to check out this exhibition, which will feature a few of my Practical Preparedness videos.

Saturday, July 9, 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Paradoxes in Video 2
Garage
4141 Alabama Street
San Diego, CA

“Paradox” investigates the contradictions between documentary and performance, fact and fiction, order & chaos. What is real and what is staged? The absurdity of real life, the ambiguity of movement and the enigma of space are some of the perceptions raised in “Paradox”. 1500 submissions have been screened and the selection showcase will take place 07/09/2011 from 7pm-9pm. Go ahead and mark it as an international event within global proportions.

Artists:
Arthur Tuoto
Ellen Lake
Ellen Mueller
Eric Knowles
Ezra Wube
Kim Engelen
Mel Edelman
Nisha Duggal
Richard Gleaves
Toby Kaufmann Buhler
John Anthony
Yoni Goldstein
Angela Washko
Neil Ira Neddleman
Cara Marisa Deleon
Benjamin Funke
Shahar Marcus
Lauren Marsden

2nd Annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival

If you're going to be in Morgantown, WV on May 1st, swing by the Gluck Theater of the WVU Mountainlair to see my video, "Communicating with Media and Authorities After a Crisis."  This video is a part of my Practical Preparedness Series, and has been selected for the 2nd Annual West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival.


Communicating with Media and Authorities After a Crisis from Ellen Mueller on Vimeo.

My video will be on view during the May 1st, 10:15 pm - 1:00 am slot.
Gluck Theater of the WVU Mountainlair

1550 Maiden Lane

Morgantown, WV 26506

Established in 2010, The West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival celebrates exceptional, compelling, original and innovative works in film, video and animation. Its primary mission is to help foster creative approaches to these media and to expose West Virginia University students and the surrounding Morgantown community to the world of independent filmmaking. The festival also strives to highlight issues and themes that help define contemporary culture and experience in West Virginia and the surrounding Appalachian region.

Pics from the opening of "Starting Fires" at USF CAM

FILMIDEO at Index Art Center

If you're going to be in Newark NJ on Saturday, April 16th, swing by Index Art Center to take in the 6th Annual FILMIDEO, a screening of independent short films and videos.

I will have 5 videos from my Practical Preparedness series in the mix.

Index Art Center
585 Broad Street

Newark, New Jersey 

3rd Annual Terminal Short Video Festival

If you're going to be in Clarksville, Tennessee this Thursday, check out the 3rd Annual Terminal Short Video Festival at 8:30pm on the Trahern Front Lawn (rain location Trahern 401).

This year’s festival includes videos by:
Tahir Un
Nestor Armando Gil
Heejoo Kim
Charmaine Ortiz-Rountrey
Riccardo Banfi
Ellen Mueller
Ebenezer Sunder Singh
Alexander Mendelevich
Alexei Dmitriev
Matthew de Leon
Mary Jo McGonagle
Ryan Murray
Patrick R. Moser