David Thorne

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David Thorne (* 1960 in Boston ) is an American artist who makes use of conceptual and video art . He worked for a long time with Julia Meltzer as the group Speculative Archives . His work was shown at the documenta exhibition.

Life

David Thorne graduated from UCLA in 2004 with an MFA . In the same year he became a Media Arts Fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation . In 2006 he was artist in residence at the Cooper Union in New York. Under the name The Speculative Archive , he works with Julia Meltzer on installations , photographs and videos that often have a political context.

In a group exhibition on the subject of disinformation at Apexart in New York in 2005, Thornes and Meltzer showed a series of digital photos of people who were arrested on suspicion of terrorism for photographing public places. From 2006 to 2007 Meltzer and Thorne lived in Damascus , where they processed their life situation in two video installations. In February 2008 Thorne and Meltzer received first prize at transmediale.08 for the work Not a Matter of If but When (2006), which was created during her time in Syria and the conditions there after Syria withdrew from Lebanon as a result of the Cedar Revolution reflected. In 2008 he was nominated for the Nam June Paik Award together with Julia Meltzer .

Thorne lives and works in Los Angeles .

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Participation in group exhibitions (selection)

  • 2008: transmediale.08 , House of World Cultures , Berlin. The video work Not A Matter of if but when was shown .
  • 2008: Exhibition of the artists nominated for the 4th Nam June Paik Award 2008 , Wallraf-Richartz-Museum , Cologne.
  • 2008: Whitney Biennial 2008 , Whitney Biennial , New York. The video works Not a matter of if but when (2006) and We will live to see these things, or, five pictures of what may come to pass (2007) were shown.
  • 2007: documenta 12 , Kassel. The work 9 Scripts from a Nation at War was shown .
  • 2005–2006: If It's Too Bad To Be True, It Could be Disinformation , shown in Apexart, New York City and the Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto .
  • 2005: RISK: Creative Action in Political Culture together with Oliver Ressler , Center for Contemporary Art , Glasgow.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Holland Cotter: Art in Review: If It's Too Bad to Be True, It Could Be Disinformation . In: New York Times of November 11, 2005.
  2. ↑ transmediale Awards 2008 transmediale press release of February 2, 2008. (Accessed November 17, 2008.)
  3. ↑ a b 4th Nam June Paik Award 2008 , Wallraf-Richartz-Museum Cologne, September 26th - November 16th, 2008. Curated by a jury under the direction of Udo Kittelmann . Catalog published by König, Cologne 2008. ISBN 978-3-86560-556-6 . Catalog online (Accessed November 17, 2008.)
  4. ^ 9 Scripts from a Nation at War , Tate Modern (London), June 13 - August 25, 2008. Curated by Catherine Wood. Online ( Memento of the original dated February 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Retrieved November 17, 2008.) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.tate.org.uk
  5. ↑ transmediale.08 , House of World Cultures, Berlin, January 29 - February 24, 2008. Curated by Nataša Petrešin Bachelez. Catalog under the title CONSPIRE. transmediale parcours 1 published by Revolver, Frankfurt am Main 2008. ISBN 978-3-86588-461-9 . Not A Matter of if but when and transmediale.08 (Accessed November 17, 2008.)
  6. ↑ Whitney Biennial 2008 , New York, March 6 - June 1, 2008. Curated by Henriette Huldisch and Shamim M. Momin. Catalog published by Yale University Press, New Haven 2008. ISBN 0-300-13689-7 . Online (Accessed November 17, 2008.)
  7. ^ Documenta 12 , Kassel. June 16 - September 23, 2007. About the work shown on the official documenta blog: Online ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed November 17, 2008) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.documenta12blog.de
  8. ↑ If It's Too Bad To Be True, It Could be Disinformation , shown at Apexart October 19 - November 26, 2005, and Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, January 19 - February 26, 2006. Curated by Mercedes Vicente. Online (Accessed November 17, 2008.)
  9. ↑ Creative Action in Political Culture: RISK 14 May 2005. Curated by Ele Carpenter - Center for Contemporary Arts, March 26. Online (Accessed November 17, 2008.)
personal data
SURNAME Thorne, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist
DATE OF BIRTH 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston