[NetBehaviour] Commonwealth - Video installation and billboard project

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Commonwealth

Video installation and billboard project by Derek Larson

October 7 - November 5

Opening Reception Friday, October 7, 6-10 PM

Good Citizen is pleased to present Commonwealth, a billboard project and 
sculptural video installation by Derek Larson.

http://www.goodcitizenstl.com/gallery/CommonWealth/index.html

Commonwealth will be an immersive installation in which Derek Larson 
creates a dilapidated sculpture garden incorporating projected video 
statuary.  The work will rely heavily upon the viewer's previous 
experiences with classical statuary in large institutions.  Larson will 
present a virtual likeness to a grand garden, questioning its function 
and validity as a common space for public interaction. Commonwealth is a 
response to Federica Bueti's article Give Me The Time in which she 
states "satisfaction of temporary desire falsifies experience". With the 
installation, Larson will point to the divisions in experience between 
private property and commonality by referencing the curatorial 
grandiosity of the Getty Center as a reminder of where we are not.

Derek Larson is an artist living in Georgia where he is the director of 
new media at Georgia Southern University.  He has exhibited extensively 
in the US and internationally. Larson received his MFA from the Yale 
School of Art in 2007 and recently lectured on his work at the Finnish 
Museum of Photography in Helsinki. His work is on view at the NURTUREart 
Gallery in Brooklyn, New York until May 2012. View more of Larson's work 
at www.dereklarson.net