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This image is from the Commutes: MTA series, a performative gesture enacted within the 42nd Street Times Square station where I transfer from train to bus on my commute to work. I noticed a curious hole in the low ceiling. This peculiar aperture became a landmark for me. It seemed to have no obvious function, so, I invented one for it. I constructed a simple wooden attache based on the measurements I had taken at the site. Now, when I commute, I carry my attache. When I reach the site, I put the case down beneath the hole and step up on it, inserting my body into the space between the attache case and the ceiling with my head in the depth of the hole. I pause here for a few moments, allowing this landmark a place on my personal itinerary, and then I move on. . .Grady Gerbracht
This image is from the Commutes: MTA series, a performative gesture enacted within the 42nd Street Times Square station where I transfer from train to bus on my commute to work. I noticed a curious hole in the low ceiling. This peculiar aperture became a landmark for me. It seemed to have no obvious function, so, I invented one for it. I constructed a simple wooden attache based on the measurements I had taken at the site. Now, when I commute, I carry my attache. When I reach the site, I put the case down beneath the hole and step up on it, inserting my body into the space between the attache case and the ceiling with my head in the depth of the hole. I pause here for a few moments, allowing this landmark a place on my personal itinerary, and then I move on. . .Website: http://www.gradygerbracht.net
Grady Gerbracht is an artist whose work focuses on the ordering systems of everyday life. Inspired by personal observations and life experiences, Gerbrachts projects employ art, architecture, sound and social dynamics to render these systems temporarily visible. He is Assistant Professor of Art at Stony Brook University, and serves on the Board of Directors of Fundacao Lomba Alta, which administers Projeto Lomba Alta, an international artists’ residency in the south of Brazil. His projects have been published and exhibited in the US, Canada, Brazil, Asia, and across Europe and the Nordic countries. He has curated exhibitions such as Back and Forth, Global Priority, and Civic Performance that have traveled internationally. Ongoing research includes Sonic Architectures, a series of live events wherein the artist and collaborators perform the post-industrial built environment using only their bodies. Sound compositions derived from such performances combined with ambient site recordings are later re-inserted into the original context as installations for the Site & Sound series. Gerbracht and his collaborators were awarded a Danish Arts Council Grant for 2006-07 and the Edital Conexao Artes Visuais Ministerio da Cultura/Funarte/Petrobras in 2007-08 from the Brazilian Ministry of Culture and Petrobras, to fund the PROJETO LOMBA ALTA international artists residency program and produce a book about it.
Categories: Urban, Teaching Artist, Sculpture, Public Art, Photography, Performance Art, Mixed Media, Landscape, Instrumentalist, Installation / Site Specific, Environmental, Drawing, Contemporary / Modern, Composer, Conceptual, Computer Art / New Media, Audio / Sound, Visual Arts, Multi-Discipline, Sound / Audio, Film / Video, Design / Architecture, Computer Arts / Digital
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