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JEREMY SHAW
Single Channel Higher States
Single Channel Higher States is the second installment of a twelve-part series of exhibitions entitled Has Art? Each month, for the next year, artists will be paired with a writer and a page from Stéphane Mallarmé’s Un Coup de Dés. The writer will provide a critical response to the work as it relates to the poem as well as offer scholarship about the artist’s practice as a whole. As the exhibitions progress, a publication will grow and an idea of a group exhibition will be the result.
You can follow the progress of the publication and the exhibition HERE.
A printable PDF copy of Has Art? is also available upon request
Simply email: scott@lawrimoreproject.com
REVIEWS
WORDS
Conceptual artists are mystics rather than rationalists.
They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.
– Sol LeWitt, Sentences on Conceptual Art (1969)
That’s when everything just exploded
and I felt like I was in the…
just in the middle of something
really really like intense and but not,
not of the world
– Barington (Bazz) Mathé in Jeremy Shaw, DMT (2004)
…if Jeremy Shaw juxtaposes conceptual strategies and the psychedelic experience as a means of considering the question of mysticism in art, this is not to cast these terms in an ironic light, but to open them up to scrutiny. Shaw’s work may be seen to participate in the strengthening embrace of affect, beauty and emotion in contemporary art. Yet he is equally aware that, if this earnest address is over-determined by the recent pronouncements of the Death of Irony we run the risk of disengaging from the yet to be explored histories of romance and mysticism within conceptual critique. This waning of dialectical thought is under way and the contemporary moment may be remembered as one when the legacy of intellectual rigor, critical distance and its attendant anti-aesthetics underwent a sustained challenge along terms that tended to oversimplify the workings of Irony. In contrast to this lame future, what I sense in Jeremy Shaw’s work is the desire to erect on Irony’s grave a kind of synthetic flowerbed where affect and its analysis are cultivated in equal measure.
– Monika Szewczyk
SELECTED C.V.
Jeremy Shaw (Born 1977, North Vancouver, BC; lives in Berlin)
EDUCATION
1999 Diploma of Intermedia- Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver BC
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Single Channel Higher States – SAMS, Berlin, Germany
The Wall – Live in Berlin, 1990. Public poster exhibition-project in conjunction with Program EV, Berlin
I Am a Laser/Scream Like a Baby – Caribic Residency, Hamburg, Germany
DMT. Maribel Lopez Gallery. Berlin, Germany.
2009 This Transition Will Never End #6. Toronto International Film Festival – Future Projections
Something’s Happening Here! Year-long poster project in conjunction with Presentation House and the Vancouver
Cultural Olympiad
2008 This Transition Will Never End. Blanket Contemporary, Vancouver, BC
2006 DMT. Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON.
2005 Anti-Psych. Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, BC
DMT. Cherry and Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
PERFORMANCES
2010 Best Minds Part Three (as part of Let’s Compare Mythologies). Curated by Reneske Jansen and Dorothea Jendricke.
Whitte De With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2009 Best Minds Part Two. The Office Temporary, Berlin, Germany.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance, Montreal Biennale, Montreal, Quebec
2010 Gewalt (Violence). Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Auto-Kino! Curated by Phil Collins, Temporare Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany
My Brother, My Killer. Freymond-Guth Fine Arts, Zurich, CH.
CUE. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC.
2009Nite Flights (Curated by Sabine Schaschl und Bettina Steinbrügge). Kunsthaus Baselland; CH. Art Today Association,
Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Psychedelic Lineage. Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, CH.
XXXMaleveich. White Space Gallery, London, UK.
2008 Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest (curated by Michael Darling), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
Berlinale – Forum Expanded. Kino Arsenale, Berlin, Germany.
Dark Science (curated by Carson Chan). C.W.B., Berlin, Germany.
2007 Mouth Open, Teeth Showing: Major Works from the True Collection. The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA. USA
Noorderzon Festival “Die Kist” (curated by Eric Fredericksen). Groningen, The Netherlands.
2006 Tiny Vices (curated by Tim Barber). Spencer Brownstone, NY, U. of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, Studio Bee, Tokyo, Japan.
Collette, Paris
2005 I really should…(curated by Stefan Kalmar) Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Today’s Art. The Hague, The Netherlands.
DISCOGRAPHY
2009 Circlesquare - Hey You Guys EP, K7 Records, DE
Circlesquare - Ten To One EP, K7 Records, DE
Circlesquare - Songs About Dancing And Drugs, K7 Records, DE
2008 Circlesquare - Dancers EP, K7 Records, DE
2006 Circlesquare - Fight Sounds EP, Output Recordings, UK
2004 Circlesquare - 7 Minutes/Shiny Star (7” split w/Colder), Output Recordings, UK
2003 Circlesquare - Pre-Earthquake Anthem, Output Recordings, UK
2002 Headgear - Believer’s Goodbye, 240 Voltz, UK
1999 Circlesquare - The Distance After EP, Output Recordings, UK
REMIXES
2009 Patrick Wolf - "Hard Times (Circlesquare Remix)", Bloody Chamber Music, UK
2005 Grizzly Bear - “Shift (Circlesquare Remix)”, Kanine Reccords, US
2003 UNKLE - “In a State (Circlesquare Remix)”, Island Records UK
UNKLE - “In a State (Headgear Remix)”, Island Records UK
Swayzak - “State of Grace (Headgear Remix)”, 240 Voltz, UK.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2010 Collins, Phil “Auto-Kino!” Temporäre Kunsthalle Press, DE.
Sanders, Leah “The Innocence of a New-Born McBarge” Jan. 13, National Post. CAN.
Something’s Happening Here!/Have Not Been The Same – PHG Press, CAN.
2009 Cornell, Lauren, Massimiliano Gioni, and Laura Hoptman, Ed. “Younger Than Jesus Artist Directory”,
New Museum & Phaidon Press, 2009
Bang Larsen, Lars “PCP – Pop, Conceptual, Psychedelic - Lars Bang Larsen and
Jeremy Shaw” C Magazine, CAN.
Rittenbach, Kari. “Around The Water Cooler at The Office’s Far-Flung
Performances”. Art In America Blog, US
“Sound and Vision: Jeremy Shaw”. Flaunt Magazine, US.
“See it - Jeremy Shaw: Prescience and Poster Art”. Canadian Art Online.
Riolo, Stephen. “Back to the Future” V Magazine.com US
Camblin, Victoria “Jeremy Shaw”. Interview Magazine Blog
Olsen, Christopher. “xSaladxDaysx”, The Capilano Review, CAN.
2008 “See it - When the Mood Strikes Us” Canadian Art Online
Crowston, Catherine “Generations” (catalogue) Art Gallery of Alberta, CAN.
2007 Burnham, Clint. “Jeremy Shaw: Best Minds Part One”. C Magazine, CAN.
9 or 10 works I used to like in no order. Rolling Stone Italy.
2006 Jeremy Shaw - DMT. Presentation House Press, CAN.
Zellen, Jody. “Jeremy Shaw”. ArtUS Magazine, USA
2005 Wilder, Matthew. “Critic’s Pick: Jeremy Shaw”. Artforum.com, USA
Burnham, Clint. “Critic’s Pick: Jeremy Shaw – Anti–Psych”, The Vancouver Sun
Gainor, Mark. “The DMT Sessions”, (interview and photo essay) Made Magazine
Grahauer, Curtis. “Party’s Over” Only Magazine, October 1-14, p.13
Guner, Fisson. Art Review: I really should…, The Metro, London, UK
Herbert, Martin. “I really should…” Time Out, London, UK.
Huttner, Per. I Am a Curator. (catalogue) Foreningen Curatorial Mutiny, Sweden.
Olson, Christopher A. “Jeremy Shaw – DMT,” Bordercrossings, Vol 24, no. 1
issue 90.93, February, 2005, 96-97.
Searle, Adrian. “Don’t Look Now,” The Guardian, UK. ,July 19, Arts pp.12-13.
2004 “High – Jeremy Shaw” The Face, Vol. 3 #84, January 2004, p.4
Gilbert, Sylvie. Video Hero(e)s. Saidye Bronfman Centre For the Arts, Montreal,PQ
Udall, Tyler. “Framed – Jeremy Shaw,” Dazed and Confused, UK. Volume 2, issue
#19, November 2004 p. 48
Page, Hugo. “Bombs Away!”,Tart Magazine, Vol. 13, 2004. p. 17 – 18
Laurence, Robin. “DMT Subjects Seek Bliss, Find Gummy Worms,” The Georgia
Straight, October 7-14, 2004, 56.
Pakasaar, Helga. “DMT & Underwater Sea Fantasy,” Arts Alive, vol.9, no. 4,
September/October 2004, 21.
Reighly, Kurt. “Art of Darkness “ BPM Magazine, USA, issue 55, August. 2004
Van Evra, Jennifer. “Into the Psychological Landscape,” The Vancouver Sun
September 24, 2004, D-19.
2003 “All We Need,” 29 for United Bamboo. (illustration) p. 22-23
2002 “Arena Series.” (photo essay) K48 Magazine.Issue #3 pp.182 - 183
Brayshaw, Christopher. “South Granville Spawns a Satisfying Summer Show,” The
Georgia Straight, August 15. p.
Rimmer, Cate. Voir Grand/Think Big. Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts,
Montreal, PQ.
