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Papers by Laura Napier
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Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Ros... more Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Rosanne Barone, anonymous, Ashley DeHoyos, Ivonne Douma, Justin Garrett, Mia DeBakker, Debra Gross, Sandra Hill, Courtney Amanda Khim, Mikhail Tsypin, Priscilla Villa-Watt, Quang Vu, (stories). Sea of Oil (2013 - present) focuses on places where oil, gas, and petrochemical industries are embedded, tracing visual and narrative social cultures. Gathering stories and objects through personal exchanges, Sea of Oil looks at how oil and gas cultures intersect with everyday life, as we are faced with massive, global climate change. Sea of Oil spans medium through a socially engaged approach. Sea of Oil has been presented as a lecture performance, a moving photograph projected for an audience, a DIY fashion show, an academic lecture at a conference on petroculture, an experimental video short, an art report from Houston, a collection of objects, and most recently an artist book, drawn from stories and objects shared during three story circle show & tells held in the Houston, Texas region in 2019. Story circles participants included industry workers and their families and environmental activists, and their stories are copyrighted in their own names. The photographs in the book were made through a collaborative, open studio process. During each story circle show & tell, lights were set up on a table, and the potential photographs were projected on the wall at large scale, so folks could set up their objects and lights, and know exactly how each photograph would turn out.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/artandsocialpractice_videos/1010/thumbnail.jp
Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Ros... more Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Rosanne Barone, anonymous, Ashley DeHoyos, Ivonne Douma, Justin Garrett, Mia DeBakker, Debra Gross, Sandra Hill, Courtney Amanda Khim, Mikhail Tsypin, Priscilla Villa-Watt, Quang Vu, (stories). Sea of Oil (2013 - present) focuses on places where oil, gas, and petrochemical industries are embedded, tracing visual and narrative social cultures. Gathering stories and objects through personal exchanges, Sea of Oil looks at how oil and gas cultures intersect with everyday life, as we are faced with massive, global climate change. Sea of Oil spans medium through a socially engaged approach. Sea of Oil has been presented as a lecture performance, a moving photograph projected for an audience, a DIY fashion show, an academic lecture at a conference on petroculture, an experimental video short, an art report from Houston, a collection of objects, and most recently an artist book, drawn from stories and objects shared during three story circle show & tells held in the Houston, Texas region in 2019. Story circles participants included industry workers and their families and environmental activists, and their stories are copyrighted in their own names. The photographs in the book were made through a collaborative, open studio process. During each story circle show & tell, lights were set up on a table, and the potential photographs were projected on the wall at large scale, so folks could set up their objects and lights, and know exactly how each photograph would turn out.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/artandsocialpractice_videos/1012/thumbnail.jp
Click here to view the videohttps://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/oil\_sea/1007/thumbnail.jp
Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Ros... more Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Rosanne Barone, anonymous, Ashley DeHoyos, Ivonne Douma, Justin Garrett, Mia DeBakker, Debra Gross, Sandra Hill, Courtney Amanda Khim, Mikhail Tsypin, Priscilla Villa-Watt, Quang Vu, (stories). Sea of Oil (2013 - present) focuses on places where oil, gas, and petrochemical industries are embedded, tracing visual and narrative social cultures. Gathering stories and objects through personal exchanges, Sea of Oil looks at how oil and gas cultures intersect with everyday life, as we are faced with massive, global climate change. Sea of Oil spans medium through a socially engaged approach. Sea of Oil has been presented as a lecture performance, a moving photograph projected for an audience, a DIY fashion show, an academic lecture at a conference on petroculture, an experimental video short, an art report from Houston, a collection of objects, and most recently an artist book, drawn from stories ...
Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Ros... more Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Rosanne Barone, anonymous, Ashley DeHoyos, Ivonne Douma, Justin Garrett, Mia DeBakker, Debra Gross, Sandra Hill, Courtney Amanda Khim, Mikhail Tsypin, Priscilla Villa-Watt, Quang Vu, (stories). Sea of Oil (2013 - present) focuses on places where oil, gas, and petrochemical industries are embedded, tracing visual and narrative social cultures. Gathering stories and objects through personal exchanges, Sea of Oil looks at how oil and gas cultures intersect with everyday life, as we are faced with massive, global climate change. Sea of Oil spans medium through a socially engaged approach. Sea of Oil has been presented as a lecture performance, a moving photograph projected for an audience, a DIY fashion show, an academic lecture at a conference on petroculture, an experimental video short, an art report from Houston, a collection of objects, and most recently an artist book, drawn from stories ...
Review of Performances II, Video documentation of various performances, Rebecca Horn, as seen in... more Review of Performances II, Video documentation of various performances, Rebecca Horn, as seen in exhibition “WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1970-1973, Article Art and the Imaginative promise, January 3, 2008
Many artists have turned away from making objects as the end-object; instead they set art in real... more Many artists have turned away from making objects as the end-object; instead they set art in real life, as lived experience in concert with other people and groups. This contemporary
dematerialization of art—conceptually and economically necessary—is tied to artists themselves living in financial precarity.
This essay discusses contemporary NYC activist and performance work in relation to conceptual art practices and US social movements of the late sixties and early 70s.
Drafts by Laura Napier
Synopsis of talk given at #CrisisPedagogy Resource Sharing Party hosted by Natilee Harren, at Fla... more Synopsis of talk given at #CrisisPedagogy Resource Sharing Party hosted by Natilee Harren, at Flatland Gallery, Houston, Texas, May 25th, 2018.
#CrisisPedagogy
HOW TO TEACH ART AND ART HISTORY UNDER CONDITIONS OF CRISIS?
Teaching Resource Sharing Party
Cosponsored by the Society of Contemporary Art Historians (SCAH)
Click here to view this videohttps://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/oil\_sea/1009/thumbnail.jp
Click here to view this videohttps://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/oil\_sea/1008/thumbnail.jp
Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Ros... more Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Rosanne Barone, anonymous, Ashley DeHoyos, Ivonne Douma, Justin Garrett, Mia DeBakker, Debra Gross, Sandra Hill, Courtney Amanda Khim, Mikhail Tsypin, Priscilla Villa-Watt, Quang Vu, (stories). Sea of Oil (2013 - present) focuses on places where oil, gas, and petrochemical industries are embedded, tracing visual and narrative social cultures. Gathering stories and objects through personal exchanges, Sea of Oil looks at how oil and gas cultures intersect with everyday life, as we are faced with massive, global climate change. Sea of Oil spans medium through a socially engaged approach. Sea of Oil has been presented as a lecture performance, a moving photograph projected for an audience, a DIY fashion show, an academic lecture at a conference on petroculture, an experimental video short, an art report from Houston, a collection of objects, and most recently an artist book, drawn from stories and objects shared during three story circle show & tells held in the Houston, Texas region in 2019. Story circles participants included industry workers and their families and environmental activists, and their stories are copyrighted in their own names. The photographs in the book were made through a collaborative, open studio process. During each story circle show & tell, lights were set up on a table, and the potential photographs were projected on the wall at large scale, so folks could set up their objects and lights, and know exactly how each photograph would turn out.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/artandsocialpractice_videos/1010/thumbnail.jp
Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Ros... more Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Rosanne Barone, anonymous, Ashley DeHoyos, Ivonne Douma, Justin Garrett, Mia DeBakker, Debra Gross, Sandra Hill, Courtney Amanda Khim, Mikhail Tsypin, Priscilla Villa-Watt, Quang Vu, (stories). Sea of Oil (2013 - present) focuses on places where oil, gas, and petrochemical industries are embedded, tracing visual and narrative social cultures. Gathering stories and objects through personal exchanges, Sea of Oil looks at how oil and gas cultures intersect with everyday life, as we are faced with massive, global climate change. Sea of Oil spans medium through a socially engaged approach. Sea of Oil has been presented as a lecture performance, a moving photograph projected for an audience, a DIY fashion show, an academic lecture at a conference on petroculture, an experimental video short, an art report from Houston, a collection of objects, and most recently an artist book, drawn from stories and objects shared during three story circle show & tells held in the Houston, Texas region in 2019. Story circles participants included industry workers and their families and environmental activists, and their stories are copyrighted in their own names. The photographs in the book were made through a collaborative, open studio process. During each story circle show & tell, lights were set up on a table, and the potential photographs were projected on the wall at large scale, so folks could set up their objects and lights, and know exactly how each photograph would turn out.https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/artandsocialpractice_videos/1012/thumbnail.jp
Click here to view the videohttps://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/oil\_sea/1007/thumbnail.jp
Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Ros... more Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Rosanne Barone, anonymous, Ashley DeHoyos, Ivonne Douma, Justin Garrett, Mia DeBakker, Debra Gross, Sandra Hill, Courtney Amanda Khim, Mikhail Tsypin, Priscilla Villa-Watt, Quang Vu, (stories). Sea of Oil (2013 - present) focuses on places where oil, gas, and petrochemical industries are embedded, tracing visual and narrative social cultures. Gathering stories and objects through personal exchanges, Sea of Oil looks at how oil and gas cultures intersect with everyday life, as we are faced with massive, global climate change. Sea of Oil spans medium through a socially engaged approach. Sea of Oil has been presented as a lecture performance, a moving photograph projected for an audience, a DIY fashion show, an academic lecture at a conference on petroculture, an experimental video short, an art report from Houston, a collection of objects, and most recently an artist book, drawn from stories ...
Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Ros... more Laura Napier (artist/photographer/producer); Liyen Chong (design); Brandy Ball, Rabéa Ballin, Rosanne Barone, anonymous, Ashley DeHoyos, Ivonne Douma, Justin Garrett, Mia DeBakker, Debra Gross, Sandra Hill, Courtney Amanda Khim, Mikhail Tsypin, Priscilla Villa-Watt, Quang Vu, (stories). Sea of Oil (2013 - present) focuses on places where oil, gas, and petrochemical industries are embedded, tracing visual and narrative social cultures. Gathering stories and objects through personal exchanges, Sea of Oil looks at how oil and gas cultures intersect with everyday life, as we are faced with massive, global climate change. Sea of Oil spans medium through a socially engaged approach. Sea of Oil has been presented as a lecture performance, a moving photograph projected for an audience, a DIY fashion show, an academic lecture at a conference on petroculture, an experimental video short, an art report from Houston, a collection of objects, and most recently an artist book, drawn from stories ...
Review of Performances II, Video documentation of various performances, Rebecca Horn, as seen in... more Review of Performances II, Video documentation of various performances, Rebecca Horn, as seen in exhibition “WACK! Art and The Feminist Revolution” at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1970-1973, Article Art and the Imaginative promise, January 3, 2008
Many artists have turned away from making objects as the end-object; instead they set art in real... more Many artists have turned away from making objects as the end-object; instead they set art in real life, as lived experience in concert with other people and groups. This contemporary
dematerialization of art—conceptually and economically necessary—is tied to artists themselves living in financial precarity.
This essay discusses contemporary NYC activist and performance work in relation to conceptual art practices and US social movements of the late sixties and early 70s.
Synopsis of talk given at #CrisisPedagogy Resource Sharing Party hosted by Natilee Harren, at Fla... more Synopsis of talk given at #CrisisPedagogy Resource Sharing Party hosted by Natilee Harren, at Flatland Gallery, Houston, Texas, May 25th, 2018.
#CrisisPedagogy
HOW TO TEACH ART AND ART HISTORY UNDER CONDITIONS OF CRISIS?
Teaching Resource Sharing Party
Cosponsored by the Society of Contemporary Art Historians (SCAH)