Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Emotional Outreach 4.0

Throughout January 2013 (and since December 13, 2013), the Emotional Outreach Project 4.0 has been up and running at This Red Door @ Kunsthalle Galapagos, in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.

From the site:


January 1 – January 31, 2013

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“John Keene presents Emotional Vouchers a project by the Field Research Study Group”

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A performance mediated by the serial gift exchange of small business cards called Emotional Vouchers, writer/artist/ Rutgers University professor John Keene with Field Research Study Group A presents his latest study Emotional Outreach Project, 4.0. This Red Door is assisting Keene and FRSGA’s public reach with a modest installation that houses the voucher cards in our room that is filled with an increasing volume of objects, planned events, and extemporaneous occurrences. We view Keene’s conceptual presence in the space we currently inhabit at Kunsthalle Galapagos as a constant recurring operation in collaboration with the visiting public and participating attendees during the course of our stay. We encourage people of every ilk and concern to come take a voucher and hopefully pass it on. Further details regarding this project can be found in Keene’s and FRSGA’s public announcement located on this web page.

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Note: Emotional Vouchers from  Emotional Project, 4.0 have been available at This Red Door/Kunsthalle Galapagos since December 13, 2012.
If you did select a voucher, please consider dropping FRSGA a note at fieldresearchstudygroup [AT] yahoo.com or fieldresearchstudygroup [AT] gmail.com to let us know how you used it!

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Self-Portraits

It's taken me quite a while to post something to this blog, but here, finally, is my first post, in honor of my birthday: some drawings inspired by one of my favorite artists, Adrian M. S. Piper, who throughout her long, rich and amazing career has repeatedly explored the intersections of philosophy, conceptualism, race, gender, and class.  In 1981, as part of a series of works relating her readings of the concept of the "indexical present" to racism and racial stereotyping, she created the drawing "Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Negroid Features" (at right, 1981 (pencil on paper, 20.3 x 25.4 cm). Collection of Eileen Harris Norton, from Wikipedia.com).

In femmage to Piper, here's my own playful take on self-portraiture, occasioned by my birthday (all images 2010, digital drawings on iPhone, Collectcion of the artist, copyright © John Keene, 2010. All rights reserved).

iPhone sketch, Self-Portrait w/o Looking in a Mirror
Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Roman Catholic Upbringing
iPhone sketch, Self-Portrait w/o Looking in a Mirror
Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Working-Class Roots
iPhone sketch, Self-Portrait w/o Looking in a Mirror
Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Ivy League Education
iPhone sketch, Self-Portrait w/o Looking in a Mirror
Self-Portrait Exaggerating My "Alternate Lifestyle" and "Sexual Preference"
iPhone sketch, Self-Portrait w/o Looking in a Mirror
Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Past and Current Employment Status
iPhone sketch, Self-Portrait w/o Looking in a Mirror
Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Irish Ancestry
iPhone sketch, Self-Portrait w/o Looking in a Mirror
Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Sero and Domestic Status
iPhone sketch, Self-Portrait w/o Looking in a Mirror
Self-Portrait Exaggerating My Cosmopolitan Affinities

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

Welcome to the Field Research Study Group's blog.  This is just a test message to inaugurate the blog, and new projects will be posted as they come along!