Skagastrond, 3:00 pm

Spinning string from Icelandic wool on a shaker walking wheel made of maple, oak, cherry and poplar.





photos by Oliver Gardiner

Untitled Event: Guðmundsson Re-situated. Collaboration with Eva Funk.

Each day, I place a photo negative on a piece of photo paper and put in it inside a jar. I put the jar outside for 24 hours, creating a print on the paper, a record of each day's light.






If I made a properly exposed contact print of the negative, it would look like this:



But each day's print looks different, depending on the amount of light. Here are a few prints.

November 27, exposure in Reykjavik:


December 4, exposure in Skagaströnd:


December 8, exposure in Skagaströnd:


December 11, exposure in Skagaströnd:


December 12, exposure in Skagaströnd:


All together:

Skagastrond

Hundred foot shadow.

Nes Open Studios, November:

Five pieces of paper, one with text, are layered and glued together, with blank sheets in front of and behind the sheet with text. They are placed in front of a mirror, and lit from the front, and from the front they are blank. But in the mirror reflection, a ghost of the text from the inside layer appears.

Moustache Gloves

Moustache gloves modeled by me, Oliver, Shannon, and Diane. Photos by Shannon Sullivan and Oliver Gardiner.

Some new drawings, all about 1" x 2"

Mobiles

Cloud Mobiles from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.

Wool and wire. Isolation installation view, each mobile is about 6" long.

Guðmundsson Re-situated. Collaboration with Eva Funk.

Video stills from A Drop of the Sea for Every Day I Would have Loved You (7,113 drips for Thane and Julie)

Reykjavik Studio

Green Pool

Chandelier in progress

Pennsylvania Preserved

Twins

Clamped

New Video Stills

Clock

Ring Road

LOADS of photos. See here.

Swing Idea.

"Vast empty silent.
Kinds of light unlike any other.
Weather changing every ten minutes."

-Anne Carson on Iceland




Making preparations for a research
expedition around Iceland's Ring Road.

She Floats

The Islands are coming April 4.

Another egg race.

Egg Race

Smoke

Untitled from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.

Untitled from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.

Untitled from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.

Public Book Space Providence

Read about the project here.
Thanks to Jim at Hope Bindery for the lovely book.
Images by Luke Herron.

QMA opening + the illegal two bottle saloon

See more here.
Images by Jacob Goble.

Tubergen Video Trailer from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.

The Hardest Word

Two knit socks, and I am knitting more for absent-minded layering. For right feet only.

Stilts

Stilts in Progress

Flushtopia

http://theanyspacewhatever.org/
Wiki
Blog
Flushtopia

More Dress Images

Photos by Luke Herron.

Dinner?

I have found myself in a situation with a large kitchen, so, please, if you are in New York and hungry or want some company, email me and I will have you over for dinner. Here's the deal: you bring the drinks, I'll make you something to eat. Email me at etubergen@gmail.com

New Video

Stills from an upcoming video to be screened in Providence, Rhode Island. Check it out here.

Strings too Short to Use: Sometimes it is hardly worth breathing. Cats understand this stillness, a moment when breath is impossible, the weight of a loved one slipping into sleep or a feather skimming water, the residue of flight.

Heinz swing video stills.

New tool: Stilts. More to come...

Reliable Dresses

Chair/Pulley

One and One

Ten foot candle.

Heinz Swing

Inside Outside Swing from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.
Swinging in and out of Heinz Studio.

Long Distance

A functional stethoscope for listening to heartbeats long distance. A 6 foot collaboratory project.

Pin Cushions made from dress scraps.

MacDowell Swim Team

At Willard Pond.

See MacDowell photos.
Courtesy of Loreli.

A tall candle moments before it's catastrophic demise.

Choreography Experiment with Dress and Chair

Untitled from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.

Dress

Inspired by Heinz Studio's architecture: vertical and narrow. The dress will be used as a tool for choreography as well as everyday wear. Videos to come.

Balancing Act II

Balancing Act

Heinz Studio Boulder #2 from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.

Heinz Studio Boulder #1 from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.

Words on a Thread

Recent Social Actions (for Covenant College)

Chapel Push, action, 2008.
At Covenant College, where faith is prioritized, I physically pushed the Chapel building, a center for acknowledging faith, daily. The building, on the side of Lookout Mountain, is rumored to be slowly descending into the valley because of poor design, and I lent my muscles to the force of gravity, encouraging honest doubt as a way of understanding faith in a seemingly pathetic and impossible task.



PODS Unit with Fog video, runtime 15 minutes, 2008.
At Covenant College, an environment where there is little room for contemporary art and the discourse surrounding it, I created a portable and temporary space in which I exhibited a video shot in the fog: a common weather occurrence at the college. In the video, a wandering figure disappears and re-appears with no apparent aim or end.

Recent Actions: Spiral Staircase and Power Line Swing

Using the choreography of function to incite curiosity and encourage play in unlikely circumstances. Projects done with the 6 Foot Collaboratory in mind.

new work for the Underground Studios

Pink book corners, individually cut and sewn together,
approximately 1" x 1" x 1.5".




Space between words, approximately 3" x 2" x .5"

Untitled from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.
In order to conquer my fear of surprises and loud noises, I popped fifteen balloons consecutively. I did not succeed in conquering my fear.

Here and There is about distance: the space that is here, the
space that is there, and the space between here and there.

In my Senior Integration Project, physical objects provide a
point of departure for the viewer, evoking a mood of
frustrated intimacy while necessitating viewer interaction.
The space in which each piece exists is intimate and
temporary—words of dust live in a slice of mirror,
photographs of former backyards in the darkness of plaster
boxes, videos on precariously balanced stands and in a
portable on demand storage unit. While encouraging the
viewer to interact and play with new tools, these pieces
simultaneously gasp for breath, futility longing to close the
gap between here and there, fighting dislocation, transience,
shallow roots, and their own dwindling life spans. These
objects exist in the space between nostalgia and cynicism,
exchange and change, and reference a specific and genuine
personal narrative characterized by doubt, desire, risk, pain,
and grace.

Raining Lake, Here and There exhibition footage

Untitled from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.

Portable on Demand Storage Unit for video

Certain Hope

Certain Hope from Elizabeth Tubergen on Vimeo.

Tools in Action

Here and There reception

More images coming soon...

MacDowell Colony

I'll be at the MacDowell Colony working in the Heinz studio for the month of July. Check it out here : http://www.macdowellcolony.org

Here and There

The Elusive Home is a part of a larger exhibition, Here and There. Read about it here: http://www.bagpipeonline.com/?p=3147

Show: The Elusive Home

Show: The Elusive Home
Covenant College, Jackson Space
& the PODS unit in the Jackson parking lot
April 14 - May 3, 2008
Reception April 18th, 7 - 8 pm

Public Book Space project

Image from Kresge Memorial Library in Lookout Mountain, GA, 2008.

Project Description

In order to create Public Book Space, I will produce an edition of fifty books to be given permanently to fifty public libraries in the United States. The books will be blank, except for a brief foreword, which will encourage library patrons to mark in the books, filling it with their own content. The books will become a part of each library’s collection—they will be catalogued, shelved, and available for checkout by library patrons. Each book will undergo a separate and normal shelf life, including its eventual discard or censorship if the individual library determines either is necessary. Hardcover, hand-bound and letter-pressed, each book will be unique to the community in which it is placed. The area and population of the city in which each book is placed will determine its size and number of pages.



Project Goals

In presenting Public Book Space to the art community, I hope to present it not only as my project, but also as a continuing collaboration with the American public. Library goers are integral to the development of the project. In a gallery setting, Public Book Space should provide comparisons between communities and evoke relevant questions about books, collaboration and public art. However, the intended settings for the books are the public libraries and residencies of library patrons across the United States.

Public Book Space will be a direct invitation, promoting generosity of thoughts, stories, and ideas by creating a space for a continuous written dialogue. It will use the widely accepted framework of the library to interact with the public—the audience for this project includes any library-goer in one of fifty participating cities in the United States.

By placing blank books in public libraries, I hope to facilitate a space for tangible accumulation of public interaction and participation. Public Book Space hopes to challenge the way library goers consider information by transforming an informational space, the book, into a space not only for information but also for interaction. Not only will these books be passages to information, but also destinations, places of give and take, tools for interaction.

Pons exhibit

Exhibit at the Holland Area Arts Council in 2007 with Grant Goeman. Pink paint and wire.

Formal study using seeds and pins, 2006.

Under Cover exhibit

At the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in 2006. Every word from a book pinned to the wall. Exhibited with In Pursuit of Rest, a book with every word removed.

In Pursuit of Rest

A copy of Logan Pearsall Smith's The Unforgotten Years with every word removed. Exhibited at Under Cover at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in 2006.

Work for the Lafontsee's Underground Studio in Grand Rapids, MI.

Selections

One-inch book cubes with shelves, 2004.

Investigating the various textures and structures of the book.

Nests

Shot books.

Context

Best of Show at "Debut" at the Holland Area Arts Council in 2004.

Paper Molding

Experiments in paper molding from 2004-2005.

No Reason show

With Grace Van't Hof, 2004

Chair