Date: August 8th to September 8th, 2005

Location: Triptych gallery 2801 Adeline St. Berkeley, CA

Contact the artist:
Ian Winters

List of Prints

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About the work: The work in this show includes selections from 3 ongoing projects of the artist.  All 3 projects share an interest in  the intersections between live art, the still image, and the inconsistent fragments of story that thread through the world. Some of those ideas are the present and the physical-  sound / movement / the structure of bones, breath of the heart in one’s ears, the rhythm of rain in the face, the rhythm of the three not quite parallel cars stopped, the sky opening, vast for moment, the right now, and the voice of yesterday tomorrow.

Another feature of the work presented here is the collaborative origin of many of the images. More details about each series follow.

Photographs: Ian Winters

Recent images with paige sorvillo - wander.kill.die. Work in the first window comes from collaboration with  paige sorvillo, a local dance-theater artist.  This particular series involves scenes from her current work in progress, wander.kill.die. WKD places our immediate U.S. historical/political moment within the landscape of dream, and is a performance installation utilizing Butoh, experimental music and a five(6?) sense saturated physical environment to create, for both performers and audience, a physically unavoidable visceral experience of our intimacy with and disconnection from the atrocities and ambiguities of war and human violence. The work shows at Counterpulse in San Francisco this September.

Shipyard series 2005: The middle window features work from the shipyard series of work. This work in progress is  based in a series of industrial sites in Europe and the US and will grow into a group of site-specific performances and visual  installations over the next two years including live work with Stine Jorgensen, Sonja Regard, and others.  Working with artists from several countries the work explores the shared fragments of industrial past,  fragmenting cultural identity. Also weaving in and out of the project is our shared atomic shadow, shadows and moments burned into the stone and concrete fabric of the city. Left behind are these ‘traces’, the residue of what is, will be or was or isn’t, or could be that inhabit every bit of lived landscape.  The panels take on a sense of urban concrete/ mass and permanence while simultaneously being fading transient images- a moment of fog passing, the particular face seen crossing street.

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Pictures of Mary, collaborations with Mary Armentrout: The south window features images from an ongoing collaboration with local dancer Mary Armentrout. These images come from joint improvisation and later darkroom editing work by the photographer.  

About the artist:

Ian Winters was trained in photography, film and performance at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Tufts University. His recent work focuses on the intersection of visual and live art including still photography, video, site-specific installations, and  collaborative performance / theater projects in the US and Europe.  He is a long time resident of South Berkeley and active in the emerging Ashby Arts District.