Enacting Exhausted Language / Exhausting Enacted Language
An Artist Talk @ Bobo Gallery
November 24, 8pm ... $3

New media artist and UNCA assistant professor Curt Cloninger will discuss his art work and related research at this month's Off the MAP event. Cloninger's art undermines language as a system of meaning in order to reveal it as an embodied force in the world. His materials are spoken words, sounds, hand-written words, lines, objects coupled with words, objects as words, light, and time. He orchestrates these materials using video, software, performances, installations, and networks. By layering, restructuring, hashing, eroding, exhausting, and (dis)splaying language, he causes language to perform itself until its "meaning" has less to do with what it denotes and more to do with how it behaves.

This talk is in conjunction with Cloninger's upcoming performance at Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center on November 29... info is here.

Curt Cloninger is an artist, writer, and Assistant Professor of Multimedia Arts & Sciences at the University of North Carolina Asheville. His work has been featured in the New York Times, ABC World News, and at festivals and galleries from Korea to Brazil. Exhibition venues include Digital Art Museum [DAM] Berlin, L'Instituto de México à Paris, Living Arts of Tulsa, and The Art Gallery of Knoxville. Cloninger also maintains lab404.com, playdamage.org, and deepyoung.org in order to facilitate a more lively remote dialogue with the Sundry Essences of Wonder.