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Afternoon light at the #knockdowncenter A continuous Stream of Occurrence is open this weekend Fri 5-9PM Sat-Sun 2-8PM https://knockdown.center/event/a-continuous-stream-of-occurrence/ #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart #lubadrozd #digital #sound #video #videoprojection #copper #knockdowncenter
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We start installing my project at #socratessculpturepark in one month from today ! Is casting time 🧱⛏ #concrete #casting Chronos Cosmos Opens May 4
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Excited to speak at #bard today! 5pm Fisher Studio Arts Building, Seminar Room
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A big thank you for everyone who came out on friday. It was incredibly exciting to see Badwater presented at the #knockdowncenter along side #lubadrozd mesmerizing installation. Thank you to @parkcmyers @xaviacarin @alexiswilkinson @lubadrozd for helping to make this all happen! A continuous Stream of Occurrence is up until April 28. https://knockdown.center/event/a-continuous-stream-of-occurrence/ #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart #lubadrozd #digital #sound #video #videoprojection #copper #knockdowncenter
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A continuous Stream of Occurrence opens Tonight!! 6-9pm. https://knockdown.center/event/a-continuous-stream-of-occurrence/ #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart #lubadrozd #digital #sound #video #videoprojection #copper #knockdowncenter
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Very excited to be showing with Luba Drodz at the Knockdown Center! A continuous Stream of Occurrence with opens Friday March 1! 6-9pm. https://knockdown.center/event/a-continuous-stream-of-occurrence/ #lubadrozd #digital #sound #video #videoprojection #contemporaryart #copper #knockdowncenter
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Excited to have In The Roaring Garden included in #DigitalNatureLA at the La Arboretum February 27-March 3 2019! A big thank you to @sawatts02 and @laarboretum ! More info here: https://www.arboretum.org/digital-nature-2019/ #laarboretum #botanicalart #digitalnature #artinstallation #thingstodoinla #naturaldiscourse #videoart
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A new copper plated piece that will be part my two person show with #lubadrozd that opens at the Knockdown Center this friday March 1! 6-9pm. A continuous Stream of Occurrence Friday March 1! 6-9pm. https://knockdown.center/event/a-continuous-stream-of-occurrence/ Badwater is a complex installation of objects, materials and processes that create an abiotic ecosystem, a network of non-living things that, while inanimate, continue to exert their material agency. #copper #copperplated #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart
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Installation day 2 at #knockdowncenter A continuous Stream of Occurrence with #lubadrozd opens Friday March 1! 6-9pm. https://knockdown.center/event/a-continuous-stream-of-occurrence/ Badwater is a complex installation of objects, materials and processes that create an abiotic ecosystem, a network of non-living things that, while inanimate, continue to exert their material agency. #williamlamson #badwater #contemporaryart #salt #glass #time #crystals #sculpture #geology #geologic #installationart
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A research image I have been keeping on my desktop... waiting for ❄️ #sollewitt #snow
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Cast #concrete components for an upcoming installation opening at #socratessculpturepark May 4 #wip #geology #stack
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Honored and excited to be artist in residence this summer at the former home and studio of one of my favorite artists!! Thank you @calderfoundation @ateliercalder 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 Repost from @calderfoundation using @RepostRegramApp - We are excited to announce the 2019 Atelier Calder (@ateliercalder) artists-in-residence: Eva Kot'átková, William Lamson (@williamlamson), and Alice Anderson (@aliceandersonstudio). Established in 1989 in Calder’s home and studio in the Indre-et-Loire, Atelier Calder is the oldest residency program of its kind in France, celebrating thirty years of operation this year. Designed by Calder and completed in 1963, the studio embodies a simple and functional aesthetic, blending seamlessly into the surrounding natural environment. International artists are invited to live and work on the property for three months, receiving a living stipend as well as technical and financial support to realize artistic projects that might otherwise prove daunting. • Image: Postcard showing aerial view of Calder’s home and studio in Saché. © 2019 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York • #Calder #AlexanderCalder #CalderFoundation #AtelierCalder #EvaKotatkova #AliceAnderson #WilliamLamson
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#casting #test #fountain
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Casting test
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Repost from @knockdowncenter using @RepostRegramApp - JUST ANNOUNCED | #KnockdownCenter's Spring Exhibition: A Continuous Stream of Occurrence, with installations by @lubadrozd and @williamlamson, will transform KDC's gallery into a living laboratory to explore how time manifests in natural and physical phenomena. Curated by XP, the curatorial signature of @xaviacarin and @parkcmyers ✳️ Opening Reception: March 1, 6-9PM ➡️ Details and RSVP: Link in Bio
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Something new #salt
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Studio test day with new assistant #casting #plaster #castingvoids
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Badwater is back from LA! Excited to be installing it at the Knockdown Center in a two person show with #lubadrozd opening March 1. More soon #badwater #knockdowncenter #makeroomla @knockdowncenter https://knockdown.center/event/a-continuous-stream-of-occurrence/
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Anthony McCall stand in #anthonymccall #solidlightworks #seankelly
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morning inspiration . . . #collapse #readymade #fail #gravity
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Tomorrow is the last day to see 10,000 Fahrenheit at the San Francisco Arts Council. Also, here is a nice write up on the show in the San Francisco Chronicle. Installation view by Phillip Maisel https://www.sfartscommission.org/experience-art/exhibitions/10000-fahrenheit #videoart #contemporaryart #solar
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One highlight from my visit to the Sau Paulo Biennial was meeting Thiago Rocha Pitta. I had seen his show at Marianne Boesky in 2015, a video installation of earth and sand collapsing slowly, (Temporal Maps of Non Sedimented Land) and was really taken by the work. In a conversation with co curator of the symposium Stephanie Hessler he argued (I am paraphrasing) that art, as it is presented in museums and collections, has sold us a peter pan fantasy, a big lie that claims the art (and us) will not change, that it will stay forever as it is today. In contrast, he described the current projects he is working on in the landscape that are constantly changing, collapsing, growing, with ecological and entropic forces that remain integral to the work. 🤛🏽 #thiagorochapitta #landart #contemporaryart #marianneboeskygallery #stephaniehessler
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Of salt and water #wip #salt #water
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John Cage sitting an Anechoic chamber, Harvard University, 1951. I have been thinking about this image as I start to develop a class I want to teach called LOOK HEAR NOW: Critical and experiential inquiries into practices of attention. After years of working with undergrad and graduate art students, I am realizing that perhaps the most valuable thing that I could give these students are deep and varied experiences of sustained attention. These experiences are of course exceedingly rare and despite the massive economic value that our attention produces for IG, FB and other advertisers, it seems to be a subject that our education system has all but ignored. #johncage #anechoicchamber #attention #pedagogy #practicesofattention #cognition
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My installation for Untitled Miami 2016. The final piece, a cast sand fossil of a prehistoric shark tooth from the Helicoprion I made on the beach in front of the fair.…. best. studio. ever. . . . . . A detail of All that is solid melts into air, an installation made for the Site Lab booth of the 2016 UNTITLED art fair that connects the temporary exhibition space to the coastal geography in which it is located, its geologic history and our tenuous place within it. Over the course of the fair, the installation will function as an active experiment, a site of material transformation as salt water collected from the ocean continues to crystallize onto glass vessels and panels, aided by oscillating fans that accelerate this geologic process. At the same time, ultrasonic humidifiers will transform sea water into fog, a mineral vapor that will collect on the glass panels to reveal a fine powder of ancient dust. Other elements in the installation include prehistoric sharks fossils cast in sand collected from the beach, photograms made from salt formations, and illuminated crystalized spheres lit from within which take on the appearance of a planetary body. All that is solid melts into air is a collision of processes, materials and forms spanning deep geologic time and continuing to the present moment. #tbt #untitledartfair2016 #allthatissolidmeltsintoair #sitelab #untitledartfair #glass #experiment #salt #saltcrystal #geology #contemporaryart #installation #fineart #artobject #sculpture #installationart #sculptor #americanart #williamlamson
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I had not thought about this project for a while, but I am happy to have it and few of the graphite and sharpie drawings on view as part of “What is a drawing” at the Pierro Gallery in South Orange NJ. What Is A Drawing? The Pierro Gallery The Baird Center 5 Mead Street, South Orange November 8 - December 15 Automatic is a video and drawing project in which I used the wind and the ocean to power three rudimentary drawing machines. The three contraptions employ a windmill, a kite and plastic bottles to form a systems that, once in motion, continues to operate without my involvement. #automatic #drawing #nature #wind #ocean #machine #automaticdrawing #drawingmachine #windpower #pierrogallery
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One of the best parts of attending Sao Paulo Biennial was discovering so many great artist that I had never heard of. Anibal López, who died in 2014, a was a Guatamalan artist who performed actions like, A ton of books dumped on Avenida Reforma, 2003 and 9mm, a Marble base shot with 9mm hand gun. #aniballopez #bienalsaopaulo #performanceart #videoart
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Concrete, glass, light and air! Back from an amazing 4 days at the São Paulo Biennial, where I attended a symposium on practices of attention. Too much to describe in a single post, but I wanted to share a few images of the pavilion itself designed by Oscar Niemeyer 1957. Without the need for tickets, or check in lines, viewers just walk in and out of this airy building, creating a remarkable fluidity to the park around it. #oscarniemeyer #architecture #bienalsaopaulo
