Showing posts with label John Landino. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Landino. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Friday, March 18, 2022
Thursday, March 17, 2022
Waterboarding: Last Gasp for Habeas Corpus and the Geneva Conventions - YouTube JSG Jonathan Shorr Gallery September 30, 2006
Waterboarding: Last Gasp for Habeas Corpus and the Geneva Conventions - YouTube
 |
| Digital Projections by Beverly Richey 2006 |
"The event took place at the Jonathan Shorr Gallery September 30, 2006, following the passage of the Congressional Military Commissions Act of 2006 earlier in the week."
"The work was collaboratively devised by Duckworth, Landino, and Beverly Richey; texts and materials were collected by Duckworth. Video by Julia Shor; edited by Duckworth. Digital collage created by Richey follows video. In loving memory of Ezra Talmatch." David Duckworth
The event took place at the Jonathan Shorr Gallery September 30, 2006, following the passage of the Congressional Military Commissions Act of 2006 earlier in the week. Role playing the parts of a State now authorized with absolute power over the citizen or non-citizen individual, John Landino coordinated the apprehension and interrogation of David Duckworth as detainee, assisted by gallery visitors. After being suited, hooded and strapped to a canvas gurney, Duckworth was paraded along a section of a New York city street while under interrogation. Returned to the gallery for "torture," Duckworth was then stripped and covered with wet plaster cloth. Visitors applied torn texts from the Military Commissions Act, the Taguba report, a U.S. Army document on Iraqi prisoner abuse, and news accounts covering habeas corpus, torture, the rights of detainees, the United States and its obligation as signatory to international treaties governing these issues, and the moral path of this country in its war on terrorism. Live spontaneously-composed music was provided by musicians. The work was collaboratively devised by Duckworth, Landino, and Beverly Richey; texts and materials were collected by Duckworth. Video by Julia Shorr; edited by Duckworth. Digital collage created by Richey follows video. In loving memory of Ezra Talmatch
Detainee1- "Detainee" , The Lab, Monday, January 29 through Friday, February 2, 2007. "Detainee"
The Roger Smith Hotel Art Gallery, The Lab, Presents "Detainee"
Art Explores Politics in a Dehumanizing Environment Created with Paint and Digital Projections.
Detainee links the image of the United States of America with its recent decision to implement the Military Commissions Act of 2006, focusing within this performance work on the absolute power that the State has determined is within its moral and political prerogative to hold over any individual. David Duckworth, as a bound blindfolded detainee, becomes the paintbrush with which interrogators paint the American Flag on the floor of the gallery. Digital projections by Beverly Richey, painted walls by Max Yawney, and sound compositions by Patrick Todd, augment this central action by creating an environment in which detached governmental roles in a dehumanizing process is explored.
The Roger Smith Hotel is committed to relaying all types of performance and fine art to the public through its gallery and all of its wall space. With the combination of The Lab's prime location in midtown (Manhattan) and the intensity of Detainee, it is sure to attract the attention of the public. It is both courageous and bold to become involved with such an influential piece of art during such an uncertain time.
Art Explores Politics in a Dehumanizing Environment Created with Paint and Digital Projections.
Detainee links the image of the United States of America with its recent decision to implement the Military Commissions Act of 2006, focusing within this performance work on the absolute power that the State has determined is within its moral and political prerogative to hold over any individual. David Duckworth, as a bound blindfolded detainee, becomes the paintbrush with which interrogators paint the American Flag on the floor of the gallery. Digital projections by Beverly Richey, painted walls by Max Yawney, and sound compositions by Patrick Todd, augment this central action by creating an environment in which detached governmental roles in a dehumanizing process is explored.
The Roger Smith Hotel is committed to relaying all types of performance and fine art to the public through its gallery and all of its wall space. With the combination of The Lab's prime location in midtown (Manhattan) and the intensity of Detainee, it is sure to attract the attention of the public. It is both courageous and bold to become involved with such an influential piece of art during such an uncertain time.
(I felt the need to share this brilliant artistic creation through video, and want to thank its creators!! The following is an excerpt description regarding this live multi-media art exhibit I taped in NYC. "THIS VIDEO MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR CHILDREN DUE TO GRAPHIC IMAGES")
Roger Smith
Friday, March 4, 2022
John Landino/Building Facade of ABBC 1987 - Google Photos
LINK TO FuLL PHOTO ALBUM HERE:
These photos were taken in John Landino's studio on Front Street in
Fair Haven, Ct (near the Grand Ave, Bridge) on the Quinnipiac River.
Photo Credit: Tim Feresten or Roberta Chambers
In the studio with him that night are other ABBC members of the ABBC operations crew:
Judith Johnston
Joyce Greenfield
Ellen Wolpin
Beverly Richey
Phillip Chambers
LINK TO JOHN LANDINO IN THE ARCHIVE: 1980'S NEW HAVEN ARTISTS UNITED-ONLINE ARCHIVE | Facebook
1980'S NEW HAVEN ARTISTS UNITED-ONLINE ARCHIVE | Facebook
John Landino was very aggressive about getting his images and articles in the archive
when you search his name you get a thread here in this group about his work... https://www.facebook.com/groups/514691815799451/search/?q=john%20landino%20photos
Sunday, January 26, 2020
John Landino; Sculptor The Hartford Courant
THE HARTFORD COURANT
February 13, 1987
"In the past four or five years Landino has made 350 pieces out of scrap, he estimates. They range from a 2.000 - pound model of a tall ship he created for the city of New Haven to a mammoth ball and chain he fashioned out of an old marker buoy and a chain from a bulldozer."
Photo Caption: John Landino of Cheshire is framed by two of his sculptures outside his studio along the Quinnipiac River in New Haven
Photo Credit: Michael Levingham (special to the Courant)
Is a rested, curved piece of scrap metal art? Is an old sail billowing in the breeze, with children struggling to hold onto it?
What about an 11 story building partially wrapped in nylon?
For sculptor and conceptual artist John Landino of Cheshire, art is all of these things and more. Using anything he can find, Landino works in abstract forms to produce objects and "art experiences" that he says deal with change, the future and the subconscious.
"I've always tried to take a material that was stable and create movement and change," says Landino, whose artistry takes him from his home in Cheshire to scrap metal yards, roadside tag sales, and landfill sites. Dealing primarily in "found objects," Landino creates abstract art forms.
To create his metal sculptures he never cuts, but rather welds together various pieces until they reach a form he is satisfied with. "I find objects and resurrect them into a new form, "he says with confidence.
The art he creates is not always something people immediately lie. but make no mistake, his work often attracts a lot of public interest-something that Landino says is all part of his art form.
A case in point. In September 1084, Landino and another artist - in the fashion of master site artist Christo -c completely wrapped a four-story Victorian building in New Haven in clear plastic. Last year, he wrapped several exterior floors of the Gateway Center Building in New Haven with 3,000 yards of nylon.
"What I do may be uncomfortable for people, "Landino says, But part of what I am trying to do is to make people react."
Landino's abstract sculpture titled "Homage to Creativity" caused a stir at a Cheshire park two years ago. Consisting of a curved piece of steel resting upon an 8 - foot I -beam on top of a metal post, the piece eventually was removed.
"Artwork doesn't have to be accepted by everybody," he says carelessly.
Still Phyllis Satin owner of the Wave art gallery in New Haven says a major attraction of Landino's sculptures is that try invite the observer to come closer, to touch or rub or climb on them.
"People seem to really respond to them," Satin said. Last fall, the gallery helped Landino organize a self - guided tour of his sculptures placed throughout New Haven.
Rarely paying for objects, Landino is always on the lookout for pre-art junk. "I try to make some sense of waste or scrap - there's beauty wherever you look. A dump is a place I feel real comfortable in."
In the past four or five years Landino has made 350 pieces out of scrap, he estimates. They range from a 2.000 - pound model of a tall ship he created for the city of New Haven to a mammoth ball and chain he fashioned out of an old marker buoy and a chain from a bulldozer.
Although he has been working in metal only for the past five years, the 39 - year old Landino has quickly made an impression on the Connecticut art community.
"It was the meditative quality of his work that first attracted me, "said Deborah Frizel of the Connecticut Gallery in Marlborough. "I heard about his sculpture walk [in New Haven] and I went to see some of his pieces. I became very excited by his work and personality.
"Usually people aren't attracted to abstract sculpture, but it has something to do with his forms. proportions and relationships. "she said. "They invite you to touch and sit on them." Combining his career as an artist with a separate career as a recreational therapist, Landino sees part of his life's work as helping people relieve stress. One of Landino's major goals is to create sculptures that invite the observer to touch, to imagine and to fantasize.
"My sense is that in our society we don't have a lot of outlets to relieve stress, anger or tension, "said Landino, who works in a studio by the Quinnipiac River in New Haven: "Public art takes people out of their ordinary environment"
He points to Christo and Alexander Calder as major influences in his evolving career, " I always thought I was going to be a traditional sculptor but once I got a torch in my hand," he says excitedly," ...it was the fire and the element of stell that did it."
He divides his art and his therapy practice equally, but lately, as his art projects have grown, so has his time commitment to art. Recently he purchased a small crane to assist him in fashioning larger, "more pubic" sculpture outdoors.
Landino has set his sights on more large projects. He says he would like to work more in nylon and in kinetic wind forms. He'd also like to completely wrap the soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, which is now under renovation, in Harford's Bushnell Park.
"Imagine, " Landino says excitedly. "I know if I wrapped it I'd get at least 3 million people to see that arch who didn't even notice it in the past."
FOR IMAGES AND INTERACTIONS:
MEET & ENGAGE WITH JOHN LANDINO & OTHERS IN THE ARCHIVE
Link to John Landino in the Archive:
Link to John Landino New Haven Environmental Art Works in the Archive
February 13, 1987
Sculptor scours scrapheap
Abstract shapes meant to provoke
by RICK GREEN Courant Staff Writer
"In the past four or five years Landino has made 350 pieces out of scrap, he estimates. They range from a 2.000 - pound model of a tall ship he created for the city of New Haven to a mammoth ball and chain he fashioned out of an old marker buoy and a chain from a bulldozer."
Photo Caption: John Landino of Cheshire is framed by two of his sculptures outside his studio along the Quinnipiac River in New Haven
Photo Credit: Michael Levingham (special to the Courant)
Is a rested, curved piece of scrap metal art? Is an old sail billowing in the breeze, with children struggling to hold onto it?
What about an 11 story building partially wrapped in nylon?
For sculptor and conceptual artist John Landino of Cheshire, art is all of these things and more. Using anything he can find, Landino works in abstract forms to produce objects and "art experiences" that he says deal with change, the future and the subconscious.
"I've always tried to take a material that was stable and create movement and change," says Landino, whose artistry takes him from his home in Cheshire to scrap metal yards, roadside tag sales, and landfill sites. Dealing primarily in "found objects," Landino creates abstract art forms.
To create his metal sculptures he never cuts, but rather welds together various pieces until they reach a form he is satisfied with. "I find objects and resurrect them into a new form, "he says with confidence.
The art he creates is not always something people immediately lie. but make no mistake, his work often attracts a lot of public interest-something that Landino says is all part of his art form.
A case in point. In September 1084, Landino and another artist - in the fashion of master site artist Christo -c completely wrapped a four-story Victorian building in New Haven in clear plastic. Last year, he wrapped several exterior floors of the Gateway Center Building in New Haven with 3,000 yards of nylon.
"What I do may be uncomfortable for people, "Landino says, But part of what I am trying to do is to make people react."
Landino's abstract sculpture titled "Homage to Creativity" caused a stir at a Cheshire park two years ago. Consisting of a curved piece of steel resting upon an 8 - foot I -beam on top of a metal post, the piece eventually was removed.
"Artwork doesn't have to be accepted by everybody," he says carelessly.
Still Phyllis Satin owner of the Wave art gallery in New Haven says a major attraction of Landino's sculptures is that try invite the observer to come closer, to touch or rub or climb on them.
"People seem to really respond to them," Satin said. Last fall, the gallery helped Landino organize a self - guided tour of his sculptures placed throughout New Haven.
Rarely paying for objects, Landino is always on the lookout for pre-art junk. "I try to make some sense of waste or scrap - there's beauty wherever you look. A dump is a place I feel real comfortable in."
In the past four or five years Landino has made 350 pieces out of scrap, he estimates. They range from a 2.000 - pound model of a tall ship he created for the city of New Haven to a mammoth ball and chain he fashioned out of an old marker buoy and a chain from a bulldozer.
Although he has been working in metal only for the past five years, the 39 - year old Landino has quickly made an impression on the Connecticut art community.
"It was the meditative quality of his work that first attracted me, "said Deborah Frizel of the Connecticut Gallery in Marlborough. "I heard about his sculpture walk [in New Haven] and I went to see some of his pieces. I became very excited by his work and personality.
"Usually people aren't attracted to abstract sculpture, but it has something to do with his forms. proportions and relationships. "she said. "They invite you to touch and sit on them." Combining his career as an artist with a separate career as a recreational therapist, Landino sees part of his life's work as helping people relieve stress. One of Landino's major goals is to create sculptures that invite the observer to touch, to imagine and to fantasize.
"My sense is that in our society we don't have a lot of outlets to relieve stress, anger or tension, "said Landino, who works in a studio by the Quinnipiac River in New Haven: "Public art takes people out of their ordinary environment"
He points to Christo and Alexander Calder as major influences in his evolving career, " I always thought I was going to be a traditional sculptor but once I got a torch in my hand," he says excitedly," ...it was the fire and the element of stell that did it."
He divides his art and his therapy practice equally, but lately, as his art projects have grown, so has his time commitment to art. Recently he purchased a small crane to assist him in fashioning larger, "more pubic" sculpture outdoors.
Landino has set his sights on more large projects. He says he would like to work more in nylon and in kinetic wind forms. He'd also like to completely wrap the soldiers and Sailors Memorial Arch, which is now under renovation, in Harford's Bushnell Park.
"Imagine, " Landino says excitedly. "I know if I wrapped it I'd get at least 3 million people to see that arch who didn't even notice it in the past."
FOR IMAGES AND INTERACTIONS:
MEET & ENGAGE WITH JOHN LANDINO & OTHERS IN THE ARCHIVE
Link to John Landino in the Archive:
Link to John Landino New Haven Environmental Art Works in the Archive
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)