We are pleased to offer a lamp that turns on and off when you clap, when you clap your eyes. A lamp that lets you see in the dark without disturbing the dark. A lamp producing natural light. A lamp that when you clap turns on and on.
– Ben Lerner, Angle of Yaw
Were the Eye Not Sunlike Program
PROLOGUE, April 1-3, 2015
- Penelope Umbrico, Sun Burn (Screensaver), 05:00, looped
SUNRISE, April 3-19, 2015
- Dana Carter, Aurora, 00:34
- Patrick Andrew Boivin, Stèphane Charpentier and Alyssa Moxley, Pieces of Time We Taped on the Hills, 08:14
- Eric Watts, Sunrise Chart, 00:23
- Eric Watts, Yukon Radio, 01:01
- Cassandra C. Jones, Takeoff, 00:11
- Eileen Rae Walsh,The Sky, 00:55
- Stephanie Hough, Instant Calm, 06:08
- Christopher Bailey and Charles Woodman, Megurs Ehd Ffleweh Bq Nsolst, 09:36
- Laura Bouza, Eight Women, 29:00
- Andrew Payne, Light and Shadows 6, 01:00
- Andrew Rosinski, Beads II, 07:21
- Karen Y. Chan, Myths, 01:00
- Eric Watts, Studio Sunset, 30:34
- Pablo Marín, Sin título (abril), 03:34
- Ben Russell, Greetings to the Ancestors, 28:53
- Kate Casanova, Rise and Fall (Beijing), 02:04
- Blair Bogin, Galileo and Selfies, 02:01
- Chris Rice, So This is What You Do With Your Time Off, 03:07
- Silvana D’Mikos, Time Perception, 24:24
- Patrick Tarrant, Brokenflo, 10:00
- Robert Todd, Within, 05:56
- Ilan Gutin, Íslenska, 42:51
214 min 47 sec (03:38:47), looped
HIGH NOON, April 19-May 10, 2015
- Dana Carter, Azimuth, 00:29
- Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (1), 02:03
- Ben Russell, Trypps #7 (Badlands), 09:58
- Jean-Michel Rolland, Cicadas in the Sun, 06:02
- Max Grey, Untitled (white), 02:15
- Robert Todd, Short, 04:43
- Meredith Lackey, Nature Gaping, 02:49
- Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (2), 02:32
- Patrick Tarrant, The Take-Up, 10:54
- Pablo Marín, film, 03:24
- Fern Silva, Passage Upon the Plume, 06:35
- Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (3), 01:45
- Tommy Becker, Pulling Down the Sky to Give You the Sun, 01:57
- Rebecca Najdowski, Untitled (Sun), 02:33
- Karen Y. Chan, Pilgrimage, 04:30
- Karl Lind, A Brief Portrait of the Eternal Recurrence, 00:32
- Amy Hicks, Luminiferous Aether, 05:50
- Elina Malkin & Jónó Mí Ló, Untitled #11 (excerpt), 04:58
- Rachael Starbuck, Transfer of Attention (4), 02:02
- Sarah & Joseph Belknap, Joseph Lights Sarah’s Cigarette With the Sun, 00:40
- Tony Balko, Emotional Sundiving, 15:26
- Thomas Dexter, Optick I: Blinded, 10:57
- Eden Mitsenmacher, A Poem For You, 01:57
- John Szczepaniak, A Bao A Qu, 04:22
- Aaron Oldenburg, The End Sands, 03:28
- Jason Judd, Into the Sun, 03:27
- Dana Carter, ZombieBling, 00:26
137 min 52 sec (02:17:52), looped
SUNSET, May 10-31, 2015
- Dana Carter, Arrhythmia, 00:33
- Robert Todd, LoveSong, 05:57
- Mike Gibisser, Day of Two Noons, 70:01
- Laura Bouza, Naomi and Irving, 04:00
- Laura Mackin, Dean Sunsets, All of Them (1952-2006), 01:31
- Eric Stewart, Wake, 07:51
- Sara Condo, Sunset Over the Wonder Valley (For Barbara), 10:50
- Takahiro Suzuki, That Which Moves the Sun and Stars, 08:32
- Eeva Siivonen, Star, Light, Nothing, 01:42
- Andrew Rosinski, A Beach, 02:17
- Eileen Rae Walsh, Paradise, 02:01
- Sarawut Chutiwongpeti, Untitled (Wishes, Lies and Dreams), 09:48
- Jeremiah Jones, Gallows (High Noon), 11:28
- Collin Bradford, Accelerating the Sunset (by riding a bicycle away from the sun as fast as I can), 38:13
- Eric Watts, 9th Ave Sunset, 06:06
- Christine Lucy Latimer, The Pool, 04:13
- Max Grey, Untitled (together), 02:54
- Sam Hoolihan, Sun Song, 05:01
- Fern Silva, Windsor Roll, 03:03
- Christine Lucy Latimer, nationtime, 01:40
- Alexei Dmitriev, Hermeneutics, 03:15
- Penelope Umbrico, Neverending Sunset (Second Life), 12:27
- Ying Liu, Ham Over Rice, 03:39
- Cassandra C. Jones, Eventide, 05:06
- Mathew-Robin Nye and Marc Wieser, In a Flash, 13:24
- Jae Pas, Sun of Venice, 04:59
- Chris Rice, Tommy Sky, 02:09
- Collin Bradford, Eclipsing the Sun, 14:00
- Chris Little, Capt. Jack Sparrow and Ernest Miller Hemingway, 01:01
- Robert Ladislas Derr, Sun Sunset Set, 20:19
280 mins (04:40:06), looped
For more information regarding Were the Eye Not Sunlike‘s gallery component, please visit fernwey.com.
Were the Eye Not Sunlike is curated by Third Object, a curatorial collective based in Chicago. thirdobject.net