F O R M L A B
Application for Kooshk 2019
Dr. Les Joynes
The artist within FormLAB at Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (2012). .
Practice in local cultures: The Inside Out Studio and the Geographically-dispersed museum
inspired by Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Innocence, I will produce installation work that relates to locality and local memory producing a temporary networked museum of within a neighborhood in Teheran. This networked museum will include a temporary exhibition of small sculptural interventions that relate to a particular neighborhood. They will include solar-powered LED lighting and small motion activated kinetic objects.
The networked museum is a reterritorialization of space and explores the proximities between the artist, the residency and the public (Enwezor, 2012).
This is an important juncture in my career. In 2017 I completed my post-doctoral research on studios in museums and am Scholar examining contemporary art and visual cultures at Columbia University. I am co-author of Museum 2050 (Long Museum, Shanghai, 2019) that explores artist-centric installations and museums-within-museums and co- editor for ProjectAnywhere a peer-reviewed journal on site-specific art. I am also recently selected as 2019 US Zero 1: Arts Incubator Art and Technology Artist.
Background on my Practice
FormLAB explores both inner spaces between artists (what William Burroughs called the Third Mind) but also outer spaces in the form of institutional critique and cultural intervention. FormLAB created a Cadavre Exquis assembly line (2010); an artist-shaman ritualized art-making performance (2012); artist-musician performances in Mongolia (2014) and a basketball game on the Great Wall, China (2017).
Image: Ghost Market (2017, Beijing) installation view and detail. multimedia installation, bartered objects from 19th-20th century Beijing, show reel, photographs. Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing.
At the Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paulo I collaborated with local shamans who taught me how to use indigenous ritual to create "magic sculptures." Later, in Mongolia I led an overland expedition to a nomadic reindeer herding community to create Shapeshifter (2014) in which I anthropomorphized into a reindeer. Last year, I produced a series called “Great Wall Basketball" (2017), US-China performances on the Great Wall in Northeastern China. I am Chair for Navigating Digital Landscapes: New Hypothetical Continents and Walking with Satellites and Poetic Research, ProjectAnywhere Conference, Parsons School of Art & Design, New York November 2018.
Selected Images
Video stills from FormLAB experiments (show-reel) on the Great Wall in Jiankou, northern China. FormLAB-Beijing (2017). Exhibited at Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing. [play sample]
Installation image, FormLAB-Sao Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, 2012
Still images from magic and ritual performance with Shaman (HD 2-channel video, 30m). FormLAB-Sao Paulo, Brazil. Brazilian Museum of Sculpture. Sao Paolo, Brazil [play sample of trailer]
Artist concept image for Four Ways of Uttering the Unspeakable (Glossolalia) installation at Manege Museum, St. Petersburg, 2020.
Stills from FormLAB Factory Assembly Line (Bull, 2010), HD video and performance, Treignac Projet, France, 2010) and the completed object (right) plastic, wood, Minitel computer ht 30 cm
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Stills from Hidden Planet, Installation from FormLAB ) (HD video and performance, Zanabazar museum of Fine Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia 2014) ht 230 cm (interior image on right)
Stills from FormLAB Voodoo You (2014) (stills from Shamanic Ritual Performances, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture (HD video and performance, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2012) image of the performance to create hanging artifact 2012 and the completed object (right) plastic, wood, ritual and magic found objects, ht 230 cm
Artist image for Superflat Wunderkammer, proposal for a neighborhood networked museum (2019) Height 250 cm, depth 30 cm wood, LED lights, kinetic objects, 1970s record player, found objects, perspex. (detail on right)
Image: still from video Shapeshifter (video 3 min, 2014) in which I symbolically anthropomorphized into a reindeer.
Image: still from Great Wall Basketball (2017) filmed von the Great Wall in Jiankou, Northeast China. Performances using tethered basketball. Presented at Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing. (video 2 min, 2014)
Curriculum Vitae
Les Joynes (b.1963) is a New York-based artist born in Santa Barbara, California, He creates installations that connect the studio and the museum. His work features in Sculpture Magazine, Art Monthly and Museum-2050 published by the Long Museum, Shanghai. He is selected as 2019 Zero1 US Art and Technology Artist and is US Public Diplomacy Awarded artist for China and Mongolia.
Education
2015-2017 Post Doctorate in Fine Art Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
2007-2012 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
2008-2018 Visiting Scholar in Art and Philosophy Columbia University, New York
1999-2001 Masters in Fine Arts Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
1996-1997 MA Fine Art Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
1992-1996 BA (Hons) Fine Art Central St. Martins Collage of Art, London, UK
1995-1995 Erasmus Scholar Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY
2020 Музей нонконформистского, Museum of Nonconformist art, Russia
2017 Inside Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
2014 Zanabazar Museum of Fine Art, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2013 Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, São Paulo, Brazil
2012 Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil
2011 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel, New York, NY
2010 Treignac Projet, Correze, France
2010 FormLAB-Yoyogi, (public performance), Tokyo, Japan
2009 FormLAB-Manhattan (with Tom Bogaert), Chashama, New York
2009 Bauhaus Foundation, Queenstown, Singapore
2008 Åmotgård Museum, Bygstad, Norway
2008 Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York, NY
2005 Space Gallery, London, UK
1998 Casa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1997 Norimatsu Museum, Matsuyama, Japan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 US Art & Technology Network (international - in progress)
2015 Museu de Arte Brasileiro, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2013 Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics/ SECS São Paulo, Brazil
2016 The Cultivist, Norwood Club, New York
2016 Pulse Art Fair (screening of Shapeshifter, HD Video 3 min 2014)
2015 976 Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Launch for Venice Biennale
2012 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
2012 Fenberger Museum, Nagano, Japan
2010 University of Minnesota, Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2010 Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, São Paulo, Brazil
2010 Welsh Museum of Modern Art, Wales, UK
2010 Exit 11, Grand-Leez, Belgium
2010 San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
2007 The Guy Debord Show, 2007, New York
2007 Mazzeo Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Sandra Bürgel Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2008 South La Brea Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2006 CBGB, New York, New York, NY
2005 Art Fair Tokyo, Japan
2005 Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2005 Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004 Bergstübl Mitte, Berlin, Germany
2003 Klaus Winichner, Berlin, Germany
2003 Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Tactical Museum/ AIT, Tokyo, Japan
2002 Maejima Art Center, Okinawa, Japan
2001 Mizuma Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2001 The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
2001 Gallery 4a, Sydney, Australia
2001 Seoul Foundation for Art and Culture, Korea
2000 Nylon Gallery, London, UK
2000 Asahi Contemporary Art 2000, Tokyo, Japan
1999 Bangkok Experimental Film Festival. Bangkok
1999 Tatsumi Orimoto, Kawasaki, Japan
1996 Milch Gallery, London, UK
1995 Barbican, London, UK
Fellowships and Awards
2018 US Department of State American Arts Incubator, Art and Technology Network
2018 Columbia University Visiting Scholar and Scientist Program (Visual Culture)
2017 CEC ArtsLink Foundation. New York (Grantee, St. Petersburg, Russia)
2017 Fulbright Hays US Public Diplomacy Award, China
2017 Renmin University of China Merit Award for Teaching, Beijing, China
2016 Columbia University Visiting Scholar (Art and Education 2016-2017)
2016 US Department of State sponsored Research Fellow, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2016 Taiwan Ministry of Education Huayu Scholar National Cheng Kung University.
2016 Wheatley Fellow in Fine Art, Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK
2016 Fellow, UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation, London
2014 Fulbright Hays US Public Diplomacy Award, Mongolia
2014 CEC ArtsLink (New York) Foundation Grant for Mongolia
2013 Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation, São Paulo, Brazil
2010 Columbia University Visiting Scholar and Scientist Program (Philosophy)
2010 Professional Development Grant, Harlem Arts Alliance, New York
2009 Abbey Fellowship in Public Art, National Academy Museum, New York
2009 Queenstown Council, Singapore Citation Award, Singapore
2009 Bauhaus Foundation Artist Fellowship, Dessau, Germany
2008 Columbia University Visiting Scholar and Scientist Program (School of Arts)
2008 The Nordic Artists Center Artist Fellowship, Norway
2001 Japanese Ministry of Education and Culture Scholarship (1997-2001)
1995 Erasmus Scholarship, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-arts, Paris
1995 King Sturge Award for Sculpture, London
Studio Residencies
2017 CEC-ArtsLink Studio, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017 Inside Out Art Museum Studio Residency, Beijing, China
2013 Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado. São Paulo, Brazil
2012 Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, South Korea
2010 Treignac Projet, France
2010 Chashama Harlem 2010-2013, New York
2009 National Academy Museum, New York
2008 Nordic Artists Center/ Nordisk Kunstnarsenter (ResArtis), Norway
2008 Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany (Artist Resident)
2007 Toosneger Studio Residency, Dordrecht, Netherlands
2006 Nagasawa Artist Park Studio Residency. Awaji, Japan
1994 Inner-Spaces, Poznan, Poland
Press
2017 Columbia University Global Center Beijing [internet]
2017 US Department of State Cultural Affairs [internet]
2014 Өнөөдөр (Unuduur), Mongolian national newspaper [newspaper Interview]
2014 E-Flux, New York [internet]
2013 Kim, Hee-young, Archaeology of Time: Les Joynes [book] SFAC, Seoul
2012 Epoca São Paulo, Brazil, Exposição transforma Museu Brasileiro da Escultura
2012 Cultura e Arte , São Paulo [magazine Interview]
2012 Form Laboratory ganha primeira versão no Brasil [magazine]
2012 TVO-São Paulo, Television interview, Les Joynes, Brazil [television interview]
2008 Sele, Katrine, Firde, Norway: Joynes Parallel Universes [newspaper Interview]
2008 Ewald, Gritta, Dagbeeld, Rotterdam, Netherlands [magazine]
2008 Fujimori, Manami, City on the Move: Featured artists: Boon, Japan [magazine]
2007 Gossart, Séverine, Columbia University Oral History Archive [Interview]
2006 Kobe Shimbun, Japan [newspaper review]
2002 Commons & Sense, Tokyo, Japan [magazine]
2002 Savannah, Gae, Sculpture, Washington DC [magazine]
2001 Playgraph, Tokyo, Les Joynes Featured Artist [magazine]
2001 Japan Design, Tokyo [magazine]
2000 Charlesworth, J.J. The Raft, Art Monthly, London [magazine]
1997 NHK Television Japan: Featured Artist [television interview]
Contemporary Arts Research
2018-2019
Columbia University, New York
Department of Art and Archeology
Scholar in Contemporary Visual Culture
Columbia Visiting Scholars and Scientist Program
2013-2017
Renmin University of China, Beijing, P.R. China
Visiting Faculty in the School of Art
Professor of Record for American Art History
Renmin University International Summer Program
2016-2018
Columbia University, New York
Teachers College, Department of Art and Education
Scholar in Art, Education and Curriculum Design
2015-2015
Chelsea College of Art, London, UK
University of the Arts London (UAL)
Research Fellow in Visual Art and Collaborative Practice in Public Spaces
Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN).
Led UAL doctoral masterclass on arts practice and research .
2010-2012
Columbia University, New York
Department of Philosophy
Scholar in Art and Philosophy
Columbia Visiting Scholars and Scientist Program
2008-2010
Columbia University, New York
School of Art
Visiting Scholar in Contemporary Art and Intercultural Collaboration
Columbia Visiting Scholars and Scientist Program
2008-2009
Bauhaus Kolleg, Bauhaus Foundation, Dessau, Germany
Artist Fellow
Researching the implementation of Le Corbusier’s concepts of Cities of Tomorrow within the social fabric of Singapore. Directing research on local identity and urban planning.
1999-2012
Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Tutor and Lecturer in Department of Sculpture
1998-1999
Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Japan Ministry of Culture Postgraduate Research Scholar in Asian contemporary art
Selected Video Links
Brazil (2012) http://vimeo.com/51863255
Shapeshifter (Performance, Mongolia)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oxk98eiaraelad1/Joynes.Shapeshifter%282014%29.mov?dl=0
FormLAB Mongolia (8 min documentary)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/02rjih5nqzck03r/FormLAB-Mongolia%20%282014%29%2A.mov?dl=0
FormLAB Beijing (performances)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/7oc2u2mnlczufqs/gameclip17.mov?dl=0
Pink Dress (Beijing, 2013)
Selected Bibliography of Current Research
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Babaie, Sussan (2015)‘Transcultural trends, personal desires, and collective agendas’ in Traces of the Poet, Artist, and Patron, ed. Amy Landau, Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (Walters Art Museum, Baltimore.)
Becker, C (2002) Surpassing the spectacle: Global transformations and the changing politics of art. New York: Rowman & Littlefield
Bishop, C (2004). Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics: October 2004, p. 52).
Blanchot, M (1986) The Writing of the Disaster. Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press
Bourriaud, N (2007) The Radicant. New York, Lukas & Sternberg
Breton, A (1948) Le Cadavre Exquis: Son Exaltation. Paris, La Dragonne, October 7–30, Paris, Galerie Nina Dausset.
Craig-Martin, M (2015) On Being an Artist. London, Arts Books Publishing, Ltd.
Deleuze, G (2006) Two Regimes of Madness: Texts and Interviews 1975–1995. David Lapoujade (ed), Semiotexte, MIT Press.Cambridge, MA
Enwezor, O and Bouteloup, M [et al.] (2012) Intense Proximity: an Anthology of the Near and the Far. Paris, Artlys: Centre National des Arts Plastiques.
Ezard, J (2002) “Mystic's 350-year-old treatise to be published,” The Guardian Online, October 15, 2002. Accessed May 30, 2018, http://www.guardian.co.uk/.
Foster, H (1996) The Return of the Real. Cambridge, MA, MIT Press.
Foucault, M (1988) Diacritics. Baltimore, MD, The Johns Hopkins University Press
Joynes, et al, (2018) Going Beyond: Art as Adventure (Cambridge Scholars, UK
Joynes, L (2017) Intercultural Collaboration in the Arts: Shamanism, Ritual in Brazil. [post-doctoral thesis] School of Communications and Arts (ECA), University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Joynes, L , (2016) FormLAB in Anywhere v.1. Lowry, S and Douglas, S (Eds.), New York: Parsons Fine Arts, School of Art, Media and Technology, Parsons The New School for Design; Project Anywhere; and School of Creative Industries.
Joynes, L and Vu, T (2015) Draw: Artists from China and the US at Beijing’s Inside Out Art Museum [catalogue] LeRoy Neiman Foundation, New York.
Joynes, L, (2014) in Art and Research at the Outermost Limits of Site Specificity. Lowry, S, and Douglas, S eds 2014), University of Newcastle, Australia
Joynes, L and Basu, S, (2012) The Invisible and the Transvisible in contemporary Art, Singapore. Journal for Visual Culture, University of California, Irvine
Lévi-Strauss, A (1975) Tristes Tropiques, translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman. New York, Penguin Books).
Lyotard, J-F. (1984) The Connivances of Desire with the Figural. In: McKeon, R., ed. Driftworks. New York, Semiotext(e) Inc., pp. 57-68.
Muir, P (2014) Gordon Matta-Clark’s Conical Intersect; Sculpture, Space, and the Cultural Value of Urban Imagery. Burlington, VT, Ashgate, Publishing Co.
Oldenburg, C (1967) Store Days: Documents from the Store (1961) and Ray Gun Theater (1962): Selected by Claes Oldenburg and Emmett Williams, (New York, NY, Something Else Press, Inc.
Smithson, R, (1996) in Flam, J., (ed.) Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings. Berkeley, University of California Press.
Sontag, S (1997) On Photography. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Taussig, M (2008) Walter Benjamin’s Grave. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.
Languages
French-English bilingual. German (spoken, written), Italian (spoken, written), Japanese (spoken, written); Mongolian (learning), Traditional Chinese (spoken, learning)
Images: Voodoo You, Construction space, Brazilian Museum of Sculpture, Sao Paolo (2012) and Artist rendering of Three-floored Cantilevered laboratory (2018) for Manege Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Copyright
All images and text 1996-2018 © Les Joynes, FormLaboratory, FormLAB and ARS, New York.
All Rights Reserved. This item is protected by original copyright and licensed under Creative Commons License and Artist Rights Society, New York and DACS, London.
