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Intercalary Art Event Website Online!
January 19, 2022
Jocelyne Prince, Katie Bullock, Sean Salstrom and Robert Horton’s multi venue Intercalary Art Event, opened only to be closed shortly after due to Covid pandemic restrictions. It was decided that an online version of the exhibition would be the best way to have the work seen.
RISD Museum‘s assistant director of graphic design Derek Schusterbauer, and Artist Online Presence and Archiving‘s UI expert, Don Goodes, teamed up to produce the bold and comprehensive website. Participating artist Katie Bullock’s original pencil drawings of maps and the three buildings where the exhibition’s works were hosted add to the site’s unique look and feel.
Video walk-thoughs were produced for two of the locations, the Ladd Observatory and the John Hay Library, and are available on the site pages. An essay by art theorist Tom Zummer entitled How to Do Words (with Things): Inference, Reference, and Difference in Aesthetic and Scientific Practices (a work in progress) rounds out the online exhibition’s offerings. As the title implies, Zummer posits a deep consideration of the exhibiting artists’ works in relation to the connections between scientific and aesthetic practices.
Visit the Intercalary Art Event site.
Exhibition with New Work at Redwood Library, Newport, RI
July 10, 2021
This summer Jocelyne Prince presents two works. Including a new site-specific installation for the historic Abraham Redwood summer house.
Library of Amorphous Matter
July 9-October 10, 2021
Rovensky Delivery Room in the Redwood Library
Open Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Octadic Beacon
Summer 2021-Spring 2022
Opening July 9, 2021
Abraham Redwood’s summer house on the Redwood Library Grounds
(Grounds always open – best viewing is after sundown)
In Library of Amorphous Matter, Jocelyne Prince considers the material properties of glass, an amorphous or non-crystalline solid that is the central protagonist of a fantastical library of cracks, drips and scars. Slide Library (2002-present), exhibited in the Redwood’s Rovensky Delivery Room on custom “athenaeum-like” bookcases, features hundreds of intimately scaled, hand-blown glass slides, attesting to what Prince calls her longstanding “love affair with libraries.”
Outside on the Library grounds, the artist has installed one hundred and ninety-two glass panes in the windows of Abraham Redwood’s eighteenth-century summer house to create the site specific installation Octadic Beacon (2021). The historic structure, illuminated from within as if lit by a fiery hearth, transforms into a radiant edifice: a shining beacon on a hill. Semi-post-pandemic, the stakes of this Puritan image – and whether it can remain an American ideal – feel very timely.
50 Bellevue Ave.
Newport, Rhode Island
Intercalary Event in Providence RI
February 4, 2020
Jocelyne Prince is joined by artists and fellow faculty from the RISDI Glass Faculty Katie Bullock and Sean Salstrom, as well as artist and Manager of Astronomy Laboratories and Ladd Observatory at Brown University Robert Horton for a cross-discipline, multi venue event.
They “invite” intercalary events/objects into the Chazan Gallery, Hay Library’s Wills Reading Room, (Brown University) and Ladd Observatory.
The process the artists engage is one of letting inquiry guide new paths; by inserting surprising elements into a narrative of objectivity and data. Observation and systems of observation are embraced but give way to a looser idea of “things related to science”. (source: Chazan Gallery)
Runs from January 21, 2020 – December 18, 2020
Exhibition website: intercalaryartevent.com/
DMZ, then and now Live Event at K-Arts, Seoul Korea
April 20, 2019
K-Arts artist in residence Jocelyne Prince will present a performance work on April 24th, 2019. She will be accompanied by musician Jun Jae-ho.
Mystic Lamb Live Event at Gent Glas in Belgium
February 20, 2019
Jocelyne Prince, along with artists Monali Meher and Katarzyna Klich, was selected for the Gent Glas series INSPIR[E](REN) – INSPIRATI(E)[ON], a visiting artist program for artists who use glass as a primary medium or experimentally. This international program brought her to Gent, Belgium to do residency that resulted in a performance titled Mystic Lamb Live Event.
“Sol Obscura” Live Event in Norway Dec. 20, 2018
October 29, 2018
Sol Obscura is a live event performance spanning one of the shortest days of the year, when the Nordic sun is at its most minimal. S12 Galleri og Verksted will be the site where the sun is re-inserted into the day.
Date: December 20, 2018 19:30 – 23:30
Venue: Sol Obscura Live Event at S12, Bergen, Norway.
In honour of endings and new beginnings S12 in Bergen, Norway is hosting Sol Obscura – a live event performance spanning one of the shortest days of the year when the Nordic sun is at its most minimal. Rhode Island based artist Jocelyne Prince will use the S12 workshop to re-solarize the long hours of darkness into bursts of light. Akin to our ancestors’ winter solstice rituals, the play between light and dark suggests the infinite continuum of beginnings and ends that mark our lives.
Percussionist Owen Weaver (Brooklyn, NY) will be accompanying the performance. Weaver is known for his use of recycled objects, homemade instruments and electronic sounds that construct a kaleidoscopic sound world.
Participation in Project Atalanta
October 28, 2018
In spring 2018 I participated in an online collaborative project, Project Atalanta, in honor of the 400th anniversary of Michael Maier’s book Atalanta fugiens (1618).
An ongoing project that is located in the Instagram space projectatalant. Every week artists, poets, scientists and others respond to different emblems in the Maier book. I created 3 Instagram videos in response to “Emblem 18: FIRE LOVES FIERY THINGS” (see image to the left).
The hearth/furnace in this emblem plays a central role echoing the statement “what falls into fire becomes fire”. The Latin word “focus” originally referred to a hearth. Maier seems to note this etymological relationship in his observation that the sun can become fire through the potential of a burning lens (in 1604, Kepler, a contemporary of Maier’s, comes to use the word focus to denote the point of convergence of a lens). The description of the sun rays being multiplied and projected through a lens are connected to ideas of propagation and multiplication as core mechanisms of nature. Mattheus Merian’s etching shows us the alchemist as one who works with Fire; his tools sit near or in the fire. A bowl of coins, perhaps gold coins are birthed or multiplied through the nature of fire. This homey scene with dog and possibly some bread in the background conveys the Fire’s glow despite the absence of color.
Jocelyne Prince Project Atalanta Videos on Instagram
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