With the opening of our new Art + Design building on the campus of Austin Peay State University we are happy to bring <terminal> back to the physical world starting with the work of JEFF&GORDON. Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko have been collaborating on video, sound, and performative work since 2007. Their work, often physical and humorous, utilizes play and heightened social structures to interrogate class and culture.
Each of the four weeks of the exhibition feature a different video: Draw! – “the archetypal cinematic rendering of human interaction;” How You Play The Game – “an investigation of the culture of the ‘temporarily embarrassed millionaire;” Day Job – an “8-hour long performative document of labor in the 24/7 networked age;” and Running With Scissors – “a portrait of the Souther California home in the form of a ‘real estate walk-through video,’ with interruptions.”
JEFF&GORDON: Behaving Appropriately for the Situation, curated by Assistant Professor McLean Fahnestock, will run from August 28 – September 22 in the Art + Design building. Look for <terminal> outside of The New Gallery.
More about the artists:
Jeff Foye and Gordon Winiemko met in Southern California when the two were grad students at Cal State Long Beach and UC Irvine, respectively. The two began collaborating together in 2007. Since then, the artists have had solo shows at the UC Riverside Sweeney Art Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles, the Eastern Edge Gallery in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and other venues. Together and separately they have been involved in exhibitions at such venues as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Torrance Art Museum, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art. Their work has been covered by several media outlets. In 2016 Christopher Knight of the Los Angeles Times singled the artists’ work out of a group exhibition for praise. Also in 2016, the artists were profiled by a national CBC arts program (picked up in the US by Public Radio International) for their participatory telephone project “Not at the Dinner Table.”
Visit them on the web at jeffandgordon.net
