Lauren Petty & Shaun Irons

 

Our work frequently engages connections and confrontations between human beings, technology and the natural world, seeking a dialogue between the spiritual, ecological, and physical realms. For all of our projects, we aim to generate an arresting visual and sonic environment, which is not easily definable, utilizing both low and high tech means to obscure the lines between analog/digital, live/pre-recorded, and reality/dream.

 

Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty are Brooklyn based multi-platform artists who make interdisciplinary performances, multimedia installations, single-channel works, documentaries and interactive video scores for live performance. Recently, they created a multidisciplinary performance called Keep Your Electric Eye On Me, which was commissioned by HERE (NYC) through their Artist Residency Program. In addition, they are also completing a backstage documentary portrait of Elevator Repair Service’s acclaimed 8-hour theatrical event Gatz, as well as developing a self-generating, video/sound installation called Atmospheres & Accidental Ghosts.

 

Their work has been exhibited in diverse locations in New York and internationally including BAM’s Next Wave Festival (in collaboration with Phantom Limb Company), The Brooklyn Museum, Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory, Brooklyn BEAT Festival, Anthology Film Archives, REDCAT (Los Angeles), Z Space (San Francisco), the Center for Contemporary Art (Santa Fe), Rencontres Paris/Berlin, and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Havana, Cuba).

 

Shaun and Lauren have received numerous awards in support of their work including two NYFA Fellowships, multiple grants from the NEA, NYSCA, Jerome Foundation, Greenwall Foundation, Experimental Television Center, and the Asian Cultural Council, and residencies from MacDowell, Yaddo, Harvestworks, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Tokyo Wonder Site and The Bogliasco Foundation. Their video design work has been seen at venues such as St. Ann’s Warehouse, The Public Theater, The Kitchen, HERE, PS 122, EMPAC, the Pompidou Center, Prototype Festival, Holland Dance Festival, the Venice Biennale, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

 

Shaun and Lauren both teach video and moving image production at the International Center of Photography and are visiting artists at The Kitchen, creating videos and performances with New York City high school students. Lauren is also an Associate Teaching Professor at The New School and Parsons and was a Visiting Artist at Sarah Lawrence College.

 

 

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