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choreographed demolition on November 11, 2017
Part III will be the rebuilding of the structure that is slated to begin in 2022. It will once again become an occupied structure that will function as an institute for the study of considered urbanism with a micro ethno-botanic garden . In planning for over a decade, ''prototype 180'' is described as "reconsideration of monumentality that combines live performance, sculpture, architecture and technology." Carroll was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Architecture at
Diller, Scofidio + Renfro
• ''indestructible language'' is the large scale neon work on the climate emergency. It was the inaugural commission by the Precipice Alliance in 2006, the first international organization to commission high-profile, large-scale works of art on the subject of
Mary Ellen Carroll is a conceptual artist
Conceptual art, also referred to as conceptualism, is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic, technical, and material concerns. Some works of conceptual art, sometimes called instal ...
who lives and works in New York City
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. The artist has exhibited at Whitney Museum
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, Alserkal Avenue
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in Dubai, ICA London, PS1-New York, The Menil Collection
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in Houston, and MUMOK in Vienna.
Early life and education
Mary Ellen Carroll lives in New York City. Carroll received a Bachelor of Science degree and minored in fine art and worked with Betty Woodman and made films when Stan Brakhage taught at theUniversity of Colorado Boulder
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. Carroll received a Master in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
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.
Teaching, Lectures, and Public Presentations
Teaching, lecturing and public presentations in architecture, art, and policy are an important part of Carroll’s work, stating that, “architecture is inherently a political act.” Institutions have included architecture/public policy programs at Rice UniversityColumbia University
and th
DIA Art Foundation
amongst others.
Notable artworks
• ''prototype 180
''prototype 180'' is an artwork by American conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll who lives and works in New York City and Houston. ''prototype 180'' is "the centerpiece of Carroll's Innovation Territories, an initiative co-sponsored by the Rice Uni ...
'' "makes architecture perform as a work of art" that is literally a ground-shifting exercise, in that it structurally involved the 180 degree rotation, back to front, of a house and its surrounding land in the development of Sharpstown
Sharpstown is a master-planned community in the Southwest Management District (formerly Greater Sharpstown), Southwest Houston, Texas.Houston
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, Texas
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. Following the rotation, the structure was unbuilt in choreographed demolition on November 11, 2017
Part III will be the rebuilding of the structure that is slated to begin in 2022. It will once again become an occupied structure that will function as an institute for the study of considered urbanism with a micro ethno-botanic garden . In planning for over a decade, ''prototype 180'' is described as "reconsideration of monumentality that combines live performance, sculpture, architecture and technology." Carroll was a visiting lecturer in the Department of Architecture at
Rice University
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and co-directed a graduate studio with the architect Charles Renfro Diller, Scofidio + Renfro
• ''indestructible language'' is the large scale neon work on the climate emergency. It was the inaugural commission by the Precipice Alliance in 2006, the first international organization to commission high-profile, large-scale works of art on the subject of global warming
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. The project intentionally sited and temporarily located at the former American Can Company
The American Can Company was a manufacturer of tin cans. It was a member of the Tin Can Trust, that controlled a "large percentage of business in the United States in tin cans, containers, and packages of tin." American Can Company ranked 97th amon ...
factory in Jersey City
Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.The School House, 101 Portman St, Kinning Park, Glasgow G41 1EJ, UK
• ''The Circle Game'' is a permanent installation in the collection of th
Alserkal Foundation
in Dubai, UAE. Carroll was commissioned in 2016 to realize two site specific works of art that consist of two channel letter LED signs that read, WHEN DID YOU ARRIVE and WHEN WILL YOU RETURN, and a temporary five-story structure that used standard construction scaffolding to erect an edifice within the courtyard of Alserkal Avenue in 2016. The drawing as a built three-dimensional structure provided a platform from which it was possible to see one's self within Alserkal Avenue. The shift in elevation made it possible to have a 360-degree view of the city, providing a comprehensive view. The height of the structure was arrived at from the average of elevations of structures in the city and discussions were held on considered urbanism that included partners from the architecture fir
OMA
It provided a physical understanding of the city and pointed to its origins in Deira, that intimate its return. Al Quoz was ‘seeable’ and one physically understood the lateralization of Dubai and how the skyscrapers are anomalies to the rest of the metropolis and where the emphasis has shifted the foundation into the cultural and the social realm. • ''My death is pending ... Because.'' is a series of artworks and performances started in 1986 that was completed in 2017 at
• ''PUBLIC UTILITY 2.0'' is the ongoing and architects the space of radio frequency as a work of conceptual art providing equitable Internet access and groundbreaking uses of spectrum in the cultural realm. Its path-marking in policy and technology is for the development of a sustainable model and will provide wireless broadband access and associative programming for cultural, educational, and economic development. It expands the design process from what is on the ground in the built environment to what is in the airwaves as a space. It retrofits the raw material of unused radio frequency with state of the art software defined radios and the accompanying policy for broadband wireless access
PUBLIC UTILITY 2.0
was a commission featured in the biennial Prospect.3, New Orleans under the artist direction of Franklin Sirmans and used TVWS and experimental licenses from the FCC for deployments. The newly unlicensed spectrum known as the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) will be deployed in urban and rural use cases and it will include prototype 180 in Houston for the urban deployment. • ''Nothing'' is the seminal series that was started by Carroll in 1996. Invited to participate in an exhibition and presentation in 2006 at the Foundation Telefónica and a residency in Ostende, Argentina Carroll walked out of the door of her New York residence and followed the written instructions for the work to leave with no possessions for use or exchange, and every interaction and element were considered a part of the performance for this iteration of ''Nothing''. Carroll traveled with only her passport and the clothes on her back to spend six weeks in the county. By design there was no documentation of the performance.Carroll, Mary Ellen. Flatley, Jonathan. Walker, Hamza. "MEC." Steidl, 2010, p.179 Nothing fomented public outcry in 2014 by noted art historians and art professionals including David Joselit-Harvard University, Frazer Ward-Smith College, and Yona Backer-Third Streaming when Marina Marina Abramović planned and titled a performance Nothing that for the Serpentine and failed to acknowledge Carroll's performance and historical precedent. in
''Watch the Watchers''
The movie is screened simultaneously with the north facade in one theater and the south facade in another starting at 9am and continues until 9am the following day, the same time the footage was shot in Los Angeles in 2003. The project title comes from the building where the movie was filmed, the
• ''Alas, poor YORICK!'', 1998/99 - 2008, is the inclusive title of four artworks. In 1998/99 the entire text from Laurence Sterne's novel
• ''The Circle Game'' is a permanent installation in the collection of thAlserkal Foundation
in Dubai, UAE. Carroll was commissioned in 2016 to realize two site specific works of art that consist of two channel letter LED signs that read, WHEN DID YOU ARRIVE and WHEN WILL YOU RETURN, and a temporary five-story structure that used standard construction scaffolding to erect an edifice within the courtyard of Alserkal Avenue in 2016. The drawing as a built three-dimensional structure provided a platform from which it was possible to see one's self within Alserkal Avenue. The shift in elevation made it possible to have a 360-degree view of the city, providing a comprehensive view. The height of the structure was arrived at from the average of elevations of structures in the city and discussions were held on considered urbanism that included partners from the architecture fir
OMA
It provided a physical understanding of the city and pointed to its origins in Deira, that intimate its return. Al Quoz was ‘seeable’ and one physically understood the lateralization of Dubai and how the skyscrapers are anomalies to the rest of the metropolis and where the emphasis has shifted the foundation into the cultural and the social realm. • ''My death is pending ... Because.'' is a series of artworks and performances started in 1986 that was completed in 2017 at
Irwindale Speedway
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in the demolition derby — Nite of Destruction in Los Angeles and was filmed by director Giorgio Angelini, Michael Isabell of Eyespy Films, with still photographs by Michele Asselin.” http://thirdstreaming.com/events/29-my-death-is-pending-because-mary-ellen-carroll” The series conception and production was influenced by Rube Goldberg
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Goldberg is best known for his popular cartoons depicting complicated gadge ...
's stream-of-consciousness
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methodology. ''My death is pending ... Because.'' exhibition and performance at Third Streaming Gallery in New York City
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and in Bridget Donahue Gallery.
• ''PUBLIC UTILITY 2.0'' is the ongoing and architects the space of radio frequency as a work of conceptual art providing equitable Internet access and groundbreaking uses of spectrum in the cultural realm. Its path-marking in policy and technology is for the development of a sustainable model and will provide wireless broadband access and associative programming for cultural, educational, and economic development. It expands the design process from what is on the ground in the built environment to what is in the airwaves as a space. It retrofits the raw material of unused radio frequency with state of the art software defined radios and the accompanying policy for broadband wireless accessPUBLIC UTILITY 2.0
was a commission featured in the biennial Prospect.3, New Orleans under the artist direction of Franklin Sirmans and used TVWS and experimental licenses from the FCC for deployments. The newly unlicensed spectrum known as the Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) will be deployed in urban and rural use cases and it will include prototype 180 in Houston for the urban deployment. • ''Nothing'' is the seminal series that was started by Carroll in 1996. Invited to participate in an exhibition and presentation in 2006 at the Foundation Telefónica and a residency in Ostende, Argentina Carroll walked out of the door of her New York residence and followed the written instructions for the work to leave with no possessions for use or exchange, and every interaction and element were considered a part of the performance for this iteration of ''Nothing''. Carroll traveled with only her passport and the clothes on her back to spend six weeks in the county. By design there was no documentation of the performance.Carroll, Mary Ellen. Flatley, Jonathan. Walker, Hamza. "MEC." Steidl, 2010, p.179 Nothing fomented public outcry in 2014 by noted art historians and art professionals including David Joselit-Harvard University, Frazer Ward-Smith College, and Yona Backer-Third Streaming when Marina Marina Abramović planned and titled a performance Nothing that for the Serpentine and failed to acknowledge Carroll's performance and historical precedent. in
New York City
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. Carroll retains the registered trademark and copyright for ''Nothing''.
• ''Federal'' the 24-hour, two-theater movie was shot in 2003 and supported by the Guggenheim Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation
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t''Watch the Watchers''
The movie is screened simultaneously with the north facade in one theater and the south facade in another starting at 9am and continues until 9am the following day, the same time the footage was shot in Los Angeles in 2003. The project title comes from the building where the movie was filmed, the
Wilshire Federal Building
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.
• ''Alas, poor YORICK!'', 1998/99 - 2008, is the inclusive title of four artworks. In 1998/99 the entire text from Laurence Sterne's novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
''The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman'', also known as ''Tristram Shandy'', is a novel by Laurence Sterne, inspired by ''Don Quixote''. It was published in nine volumes, the first two appearing in 1759, and seven others followin ...
was drawn on a 72 x 50 inches sheet of Arches paper, from which a silkscreen print was produced. On the ten-year anniversary of the drawing, August 8, 2008, Carroll procured a fire permit from the National Park Service in Truro, Cape Cod, Massachusetts. The drawing was burned at Long Nook Beach which is located on the ocean side of the Cape in Truro. The burning of the drawing took 00:10:15:07 minutes to complete and was filmed in Super 8 which was then transferred to MiniDV and finally to 16 mm film. The ash and charcoal was removed from the sand and was used to make a drawing of the black page on Arches paper. The film was screened in New York City, through the organization Light Industry, alongside Rachel Harrison as presented by David Joselit. Artworks from the series were included in ''The Evryali Score'' an exhibition at David Zwirner Gallery
David Zwirner Gallery is an American contemporary art gallery owned by David Zwirner. It has four gallery spaces in New York City and one each in London, Hong Kong, and Paris.
History
The Zwirner Gallery opened in 1993 on the ground floor of ...
.
Publications
''MEC'' was published by Steidl/Mack in May 2010 and is designed to reflect the conceptual system by which Carroll makes art. Its chapters bear the titles of sixteen of the 209 categories that Carroll has used since 1988 to organize a card catalog index of her ideas and potential works. The book received the AIGA award in 2010. "A Modest Proposal/A Modist Prepozel" by Mary Ellen Carroll and Jonathan Swift The book includes illustrations from the artist visually representing every word of Swift's text on World War I1 era armylnavy blankets, taking even a version of Swift's title for her own. It is a phonetic translation which forces the viewer to pay close attention to the text, also is stitched in a Bauhaus typeface to the blankets, showing her fidelity to Swift's text.(New York, NY: Presse Endémique, 1994. "Without Intent" is a documentation of Manhattan, using a camera mounted on the photographer's back. The focus is set to infinity and the walk is from Broadway from the Harlem River to Battery Park. The photos, printed to the edge, give the reader a near-actual walk through New York City—almost better than a videotape, since the interactivity comes with the hand. Yet people are real, and blocks are actual. Edition of 500, signed and numbered by the artist. New York, NY: Presse Endémique, 1996. "100 German Men" Synopsis: After more than a year's worth of nearly one thousand encounters with men on the street, Carroll collected photographs of one hundred men who responded "Germany" when asked where they were from (implying their heritage), and who then also agreed to be photographed. In this investigation of ethnicity, Carroll examines the effects of history on the development of Germany's cultural identity. The back cover reprints a passage from Norbert Elias, “The Germans, Civilization and Informalization” (in German). New York, NY: Presse Endémique, 1998. "All the men that think they can be me." What would it be like if one day everyone you encountered said that they were you. Would you let them assume your identification, knowing that ultimately they can only be themselves. These questions are what Carroll provokes us with in "All the men that think they can be me." In this artist's book whose title says it all, Carroll takes the issue of the normative in relation to aesthetics and identification in photography from the universal to the particular—where all meanings exist subjectively. Onestar Press, 2004.Awards, grants and honors
Carroll is the recipient of numerous grants and honors including: * American Academy in Rome Fellowship * IASPIS—Swedish Arts Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual and Applied Artists * American Academy in Berlin Guna S. Mundheim Fellowship *Guggenheim Fellowship
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* Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship
* Rockefeller Fellow
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Grant
* MacDowell Colony
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Fellowship
* Pollock-Krasner Foundation
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* In 2010, Carroll was awarded a Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts Fellowship for '' prototype 180 and innovation territory'' and the AIA's Artist of the Year Award."http://www.art-agenda.com/shows/mary-ellen-carroll/"
* Robert Rauschenberg Residency Fellowship.
See also
*prototype 180
''prototype 180'' is an artwork by American conceptual artist Mary Ellen Carroll who lives and works in New York City and Houston. ''prototype 180'' is "the centerpiece of Carroll's Innovation Territories, an initiative co-sponsored by the Rice Uni ...
* Robert Blanchon
Robert Blanchon (1965–1999) was an American artist born in Foxboro, Massachusetts. His conceptual artworks often dealt with histories of American Conceptual Art, the politics of AIDS and representations of queer sexuality.
Blanchon attended the ...
* Conceptual art
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External links
* http://prototype180.org * http://www.artlies.org/article.php?id=1750&issue=62 * http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/octo.2009.129.1.143 * https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OMxn98_bj4 * http://www.artreview.com/forum/topics/sense-and-sensibility * http://www.esopus.org/contents/view/120 * http://thirdstreaming.com/artists/10-carroll * http://www.artlies.org/issue.php?issue=68&s=0&p=staff * http://www.domusweb.it/en/news/prototype-180-by-mary-ellen-carroll/ * http://www.domusweb.it/en/art/open-outcry- * http://smartmuseum.uchicago.edu/exhibitions/feast/ * http://www.americanacademy.de/home/person/mary-ellen-carroll * https://www.civitella.org/fellow/mary-ellen-carroll/ * https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/default.aspx?id=21382References
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