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brief and informative view of the artistic practice
of John G. Boehme.
John’s work integrates new practices with a trans-disciplinary
approach, which often incorporates the vocabulary of sculpture
and painting, performance,
photography, video,
digital technology,
and installation. As you will see
from the attached curriculum vitae, over the
past twenty years John has developed an extensive exhibition record
both nationally
and internationally. United States (Chicago, Cleveland, Houston, Los
Angeles, New York,Boston, Seattle, Phoenix), Canada (Calgary,New Brunswick, Newfoundland,Nova Scotia, Ottawa, PEI, Quebec, Saskatoon, Toronto,Vancouver. Prince
Edward Island, Art
Gallery of Greater Victoria,
Toronto, Sackville, Montreal, Banff Centre for the Arts, Australia (Brisbane,Melbourne,Sydney), China (Beijing,Xian,Chengdu), France
(Paris, Marnay sur Seine), and Mexico (Mexico City) Wales
(Cardiff) Poland(Gdansk),
Finland(Vaasa,Helsinki),
Germany (Berlin) N.Ireland, (Belfast) Chile (Santiago) Argentina
(Buenos Aires), Serbia, (Nova Sad,Odzcii,Belgrade,Montenegro, Brussels (Belgium), Italy(Monza,Venice,) Singapore, Netherlands(Amsterdam) Scotland(Glasgow).Critically, John is
engaged
with
theory
and practice
surrounding performance, installation, video and interactive media.
John is the receipient of numerous International, Federal and Provincial
Grants. He is presently teaching Ceramics, Intermedia and Sculpture as a continuing faculty at Camosun
College.
"Labour, Leisure and Sport are a set of inter-related phenomena: we labour to procure leisure, yet leisure activities are often labourious - the challenge to perform is common to both activities. Although its generally obvious that labour requires applied effort, consider as well the fixed determination that we apply to 'recreation', for example, "craft marathons". I see Labour, Leisure and Sport as facets of the same unconsidered compulsion to fulfill societal expectations. Canine Freestyle channels this observation.
As regards multi-disciplinarity, I prefer the alternative terms "inter-disciplinarity" or "trans-disciplinarity". Theses terms refer to integration between media, as opposed to, say, a sequential use of different forms - for instance, I employ performance, video, audio and objects simultaneously in a number of my pieces. I am not constrained to any particular mode, rather, I utilize integrated approaches to realize the work.
Live artwork presents a direct relationship with material, with action and process, with human interaction. As I understand it, physical involvement is the most thorough and embodied way in which to create meaning. Through durational works both the artist and the audience become privy to knowledge available only through this kind of commitment.
I produce art works that engage a durational aspect of experience. This is of course the archetypal modality of 'performance art', an experience that unfolds through a set period of time. Nothing can replace that learning, that specific duration of being. But although there is no alternative to the durational aspect of performance per se, I remain interested in the question of representation of performance, the very clear and obvious problem of making the ephemeral available to a larger audience at a different time. "
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Last update Jan 2017
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