House Pencil Green explores relationships between low and high culture, between the vernacular and the absurd, between color and memory. House Pencil Green sits at the intersection of sculpture and post-dramatic theatre, on the corner of time-based media and installation, just a block north of video and performance. At House Pencil Green, pre-recorded and live-produced video elements interact with built and modified objects, environments, and live performance. Events further the physical, aesthetic, and conceptual evolution of the space that contains them.
With House Pencil Green, demonstrably harebrained and visibly skewed investigations into the nature of media are juxtaposed in the delineated space of exhibition – all in a demonstrable attempt to understand our contemporary sublime – all in a bright futility colored struggle to reconcile our past, future, and present. Through the development of interactions among objects, environments, and technologies, House Pencil Green simultaneously courts and resists a relationship with narrative inquiry, creating projects equally influenced by vernacular performing traditions, the history of children’s television, and sculpture in the expanded field.
HAIR CITY INTERSTATE FAIR
Hair City International State Fair explores the electro-magnetic draw of the cultural production of carnies as House Pencil Green examines the exquisite sleaze of the beachside boardwalk, the intoxicating odor of the county fair, the homemade surrealism of the midway show, and more…
Mink Hole [NERZBAU]
Mink Hole [NERZBAU] examines the implications and influences of comic book culture on adolescent sexual development from the distanced perspective of an imaginary post-human future, a future populated by highly evolved mustelidea, a future ruled by telekinetic yucca plants forced into technologically dependent reproductive practices due to the extinction of their only pollinator, the yucca moth, and more…
Feast of Flowers
Feast of Flowers was an eight months long residency with the city of Hammond, LA in the form of a series of community collaborations and workshops, culminating in a series of installations and performances throughout the town and more…
HurdyGurdyHotDog
In HurdyGurdyHotDog, absurdist musical theatre, carnivalesque puppetry explore the relationships between carnival cart vendors, carnival foods, and condiments.
TOADSTOOL
TOADSTOOL is a forest floor variety show in which anthropomorphic mushrooms confront issues of scale and compression while struggling to cope with life in their own quantization matrix. Existential crises are filtered through graphic standards as O horizon neighbors including frogs and flies regard their own optimization techniques as proprietary. Toadstool borrows strategies from Greek theater and popular animation to reconfigure organic spectral subjectivity systems.
KAPPA KAPPA BANANA
A performed Yōkai induction ceremony into the Fraternal Order of Art Historical References as a form of pedagogy (the communal singing of hazing-hymns as a participatory lecture on the work of Mike Kelley, specifically his collaborations with Bruce Yonemoto and Paul McCarthy)
Semiotic Street Series
Episode 1: The Exploding Box
The Exploding Box uses Sesame Street style semiotics to explore the ‘exploded view,’ a Renaissance diagrammatic construction in which an object is represented as if there had been a small controlled explosion emanating from its middle, causing the object’s parts to be separated from its nucleus.
Semiotic Street Series
Episode 2: The Extruded Snack
The Extruded Snack explores the validity of the concept that technological advancement can be an alternative to snake oil through a Sesame-style rockoperetta-examination of the myriad of possibilities for human hair replacement technology first presented in 1977’s Fuzzy Pumper Barber & Beauty Shop
Palm State Champs
More from Episode 1: Broward County Botanical Melodramatics and Episode 2: Dade County Botanical Melodramatics here…
LightningFish/LightningBug
LightningFishLightningBug considers the current Caribbean Sea/Western Atlantic/Gulf of Mexico venomous marine fish invasive species crisis through the lens of the mythological while utilising animation, sound poetry, and cut-up folk choreography.
INFERNAL CAKES/ADJACENT MANIAS
INFERNAL CAKES / ADJACENT MANIAS is a multimedia performance representing a hybrid of folk dance, early cinema, televised cook-offs, collision sports (with all of the surrounding pomp and circumstance), and video games. The piece explores the evolution of popular forms of human interaction including specifically: the cakewalk and its evolution a from a cathartic lampooning of plantation society dance into a county fair ceremonial game of chance; the square dance and its relationship as a variation on dances of similar sociological origin including the Quadrille; the live-telecast football event; the cooking-based time management video game and more…
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