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Lee Wells and the Blowback of Empire Porn

LEE WELLS: ACTION FOR FREEDOM
ROOSTER GALLERY, 190 ORCHARD STREET, NYC
FEBRUARY 17 – MARCH 12, 2011

Pirate Flag #2, 2010, HD Video, 10 minutes

Wikipedia: Blowback is the espionage term for the violent, unintended consequences of a covert operation that are suffered by the civil population of the aggressor government. To the civilians suffering the blowback of covert operations, the effect typically manifests itself as “random” acts of political violence without a discernible, direct cause; because the public—in whose name the intelligence agency acted—are ignorant of the effected secret attacks that provoked revenge (counter-attack) against them.

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February 22, 2011. What's in a name? "Action for Freedom", the generic, boosterish title of Lee Wells' new exhibition of paintings and recycled digital video, at first sounds like a grassroots community organization, a vigilante committee, even a policy wonk's think tank. But those two fully loaded buzzwords, which might suggest engagement or advocacy in another context, are defused here, rendered open-ended and non-specific. Like other bland amalgams which tend to litter the political landscape - could Wells have titled his exhibition "New Republic" or "National Review"? - the connotation is intentionally ambiguous.


Lee Wells, New Works : Action for Freedom at Rooster Gallery Contemporary Art

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ACTION FOR FREEDOM: NEW WORKS BY LEE WELLS
Rooster Gallery Contemporary Art
190 Orchard Street, New York, NY 10002
Reception: Thursday, February 17, 2011, 6 – 8pm
Exhibition Dates: February 17 to March 13

Rooster Gallery Contemporary Art announces “Action For Freedom, New Works by Lee Wells”, featuring new video action paintings from the “Soul Series".

Lee Wells (born 1971), offers a complex intermix of images which engage issues of war, sexuality, freedom and liberation. Deeply rooted in the history of painting and dialogue of the Avant-garde, “Action For Freedom”, presents portraits of humanity as an attempt to create order within the chaos, confusion and wonder of the early 21st century.


Guggenheim Museum publishes Andy, Nam June, and Me at the Zoo on the Take

Guggenheim Museum publishes the essay "Andy, Nam June and Me at the Zoo" by PAM co-founder Lee Wells as part of the YouTube Play Biennial of Creative Video. The piece discusses the relationship between online video, the Avant-Garde and 21st century video art.


I happily encourage everyone to go to the Take Blog and leave a comment. CLICK HERE TO ADD TO THE CONVERSATION

http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/interact/participate/youtube-play/the...

“Some people would never be considered, were it not that some excellent adversaries had mentioned them. There is no greater vengeance than oblivion, as it buries such people in the dust of their nothingness.” —Baltazar Gracian, as quoted in “Open Creation and Its Enemies,”Internationale Situationniste #5 (December 1960)


Perpetual Art Machine at Mediations Biennial Berlin

Eraced Walls - Mediations Biennial Berlin

"Transient Limits and Shifting Boundaries"

Mediations Biennial, as part of Erased Walls, at ConcentArt EV Berlin
2 Channel Installation Curated by Raphaele Shirley and Lee Wells

PAM Artists include:
Heini Aho
, Katja Aglert
, Anonymous, Jason Archer
, George Barber
, Josephin Boettger
, Tomislav Brajnovic, Michal Brzezinski
, Rodney Dickson, Stephanie Dodes, 
Tony Hultqvist & Max Valentin, Manik, Bruno Muzzolini, 
Iris Piers
, Iva Rad
, Maria João Salema, 

Evelin Stermitz
, Tim White‐Sobieski
, and Sebastian Ziegler.

The impact of the former division of Central and Eastern Europe on the balance
of societies, in this video program, is reconsidered as a metaphor for
dichotomies, separations and alienations which can be found in palpable and
impalpable forms in our lives throughout the globe.


Hanah Mishin and Lee Wells @ Smile Gallery Brooklyn

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We live in this special and strange time, we are fluent with technology and demand efficiency and lightning speed communication, yet we are appreciating more and more the attention to hand-crafted detail and the time of labor intensive work not seen on such a scale for decades.. This can be seen at every turn in this neighborhood from handcrafted jewelry to chocolate bars. Through this resurgence, we are simultaneously breaking out the shackles of corporations and industries keeping us physically and mentally unhealthy. The market collapse has enabled us to see clearly the failing systems and demand change. How can we take our efficiency in the proliferation of information and communication and apply this to the next level of development through societal improvements? Art and Science are on the forefront of the change to our society we so drastically need. Creativity and scientific development are the driving force of many new technologies that will drastically improve our way of life and reduce the burden we impose on the Earth. It is through this crucial marriage of art and science that we can begin to usher in a new way of life.

Image - Lee Wells, Untitled #10, Study for an Epic Battle, 2009


Perpetual Art Machine Open Artist Roundtable

We welcome everyone to come and participate in the dialogue.

Open Artist Roundtable
"Video art in the age of the internet"
Thursday September 6, 2007, 8:00-9:30pm

Broadcasting LIVE on http://www.perpetualartmachine.com

The [PAM] founders will be hosting an open roundtable discussion on September 6th to analyze the current state and future of the medium of video art and the emergence of new artistic communities that question the authority and connoisseurship of traditional systems of 20th century art.
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