VALERIE GEORGE
  • Stage One, Two & Three
    • Cheer Me Up, Cheer Me On
    • Welcome to My Party
    • Entropic Force
  • Survey Exhibition
  • World Heritage Site Work
  • Curatorial Collaborations
  • Nam June Psyche

SOUNDING ROOM | LOCUST PROJECTS, MIAMI, FL   2015
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​This transitory project is a meeting place for sound, object, and gesture to form a multi-layered experience for the viewer.  Sounding Room is a collaborative project conceived with co-founder Felecia Chizuko Carlisle, both as an environment of sculptural works that produce sound and a series of performances that activate the objects within a traditional art exhibition format.  Sounding Room brings together artists that find points of intersection amongst their practices in a series of curated events.  Valerie George records each event for the Nam June Psyche Archive, a project begun in 2010 to document experimental sound projects across the country.  



​Mindy Abovitz, Terry Berlier, Luciano Chessa, Christy Gast, Daren Kendall, Eli Lehrhoff (Smoak Moshien), Ian Szydlowski, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung participated in this exhibition and series of performative events. 

HOW TO RAISE THE DEAD | PUBLIC ADDRESS (PA), BROOKLYN, NY   (2014)
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This performance and sonic event featured Taylan Cihan (musician),  Tyran Grillo (writer), Daren Kendall, and Valerie George (both visual artists.).  Blending musical, literary, and visual art forms, the ensemble of interdisciplinary artists improvised in concert with sounds, spoken word, and materials.  Inspired by the view overlooking Brooklyn and the Manhattan skyline, a sculptural framework provided a base for collaborative activity amongst the evolving urban and performative soundscape.  Like the employees working within an industrial location, players assume roles as operators and specialists, performing tasks of menial labor while giving form to both materials and sounds.  The objective is to awaken the potential for creative life within systems of modern labor and production while also giving meaning to the disciplined body at work.  At the center of the system are the subjective minds of the artists, bound only to the dictum of individual choices and the contingent natures of their actions in turn. 

I WISH,  2010
​Dimensions Variable
Video     
​Fluorescent Buddha's, plexiglass stands, black light, 
Disco ball tree ornaments, plastic gems, glass objects,
Audio ​in collaboration with Eli Lehrhoff (Smhoak Mosheein)
This work is inspired by a preoccupation with American consumerism and the commodification of spiritual images and objects. Spiritual icons such as dreamcatchers, spirit animals, feathers, bones, crosses and pagan symbols show up in the fabric of our contemporary lives as decorative consumables. This work examines my observations and the correlation to the notion of the "Society of the Spectacle" as theorized by Guy Debord.  Are we enlightened, or have we seductively been sold many fashionable ways to "appear" to be?  
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Included in the installation is an audio composition titled As a Child I Had Salamander. It is a remix of Miley Cyrus's 'Pablow' by Brooklyn based collaborator Smhoak Mosheein which generates an aural experience much different from that of Cyrus's popular tune.


“... just as early industrial capitalism moved the focus of existence from being to having, post-industrial culture has moved that focus from having to appearing.”      
​                                                                                                                   ― Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

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  • Stage One, Two & Three
    • Cheer Me Up, Cheer Me On
    • Welcome to My Party
    • Entropic Force
  • Survey Exhibition
  • World Heritage Site Work
  • Curatorial Collaborations
  • Nam June Psyche