The Following is a quick summary of some of my activities from the past year. Please enjoy.
1st: Solo
In the Spring I exhibited a multi-channel installation titled “Asterism_001” at Audible Gallery at ESS here in Chicago. In the fall I went on tour with some of the artists of the close/far family and we helped each other present live material by our projects Coppice, Quarry House, Awn, and NNN Cook at art galleries, hacker spaces and rock bars throughout the Midwest. I built a new instrument for my sister, vocalist Meg Kramer, which we may be calling “Sister”. Please check back for more documentation on all of these things soon.
Look out in the new year for the inclusion of some of my work in the online journal, Requited. There will be included a portion of my ongoing text/sound work “Antiviral Exercises (Incomplete Interventions)”.
Also, for students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, check out my course – Hacking the Object. I have been invited to teach the new course offered by the department of Art and Technology in the Spring semester of 2012. We will be voiding warranties…
2nd: Coppice
I want to, once again, direct anyone reading this over to the Coppice site if you haven’t been there recently. The beautiful documentation offered by our friends and colleagues as well as the thorough archiving by Noé have developed into a wonderful source of information related to the last two+ years of the Coppice project. The material there should help anyone coming to the project develop a thorough understanding of what we have done as we prepare for what I expect will be an even busier year for Coppice in 2012.
A few Coppice highlights for the early part of 2012:
- We will be exhibited in collaboration with Mark Booth as part of his installation, THE SEA IS REPRESENTED BY AN IRREGULAR SHAPE opening Saturday, December 11th 4 – 7pm at devening projects + editions in Chicago. We will be present for a performance of God is Represented by the Sea on January 14th, 2012 with Mark Booth and guest vocalists.
- Coppice will be sponsored artist at High Concept Laboratories for their Spring season in Chicago. We will be developing a new installation to be presented at the end of the Spring
- Our first 7″, “The Pleaseance & The Purchase” is being released by the wonderful Italian label Senufo Editions.
- …two full lenght albums are complete…
3rd: Quarry House
Quarry House is the song-based project of myself, Jonathan James and Meg Kramer. Formerly a studio-only project, Quarry House was able to go on tour in 2011 with other acts from the close/far family. We released our first EP, “THOSE”, in October. The EP is streaming online for free, available for purchase as a digital download, and is also available in physical form as a limited edition handmade artist book. Watch for future EP releases in 2012.
Joseph Kramer 