Title: hope ur well
Year: 2021
Materials: Playstation 4, Farming Simulator video game, projector, scaffolding, speakers
Dimensions: Variable
Year: 2021
Materials: Playstation 4, Farming Simulator video game, projector, scaffolding, speakers
Dimensions: Variable
Images: Ash Arder, Tamara Rosenblum
hope ur well
Live performance in the urban garden attached to the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in the meatpacking district of Omaha, Nebraska. The artist sits on scafolding playing a video game that allows players to cultivate digital crops with realistic farm machinery. Ash operates a digital harvester to carve a message into a plot of digital land while an audience watches to try to figure out what the message is. An image shows a screen capture of the final message: “I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL IN THESE VERY DIFFICULT TIMES.” Ash merges concrete poetry with land art, all in the virtual realm through this performance.
Live performance in the urban garden attached to the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in the meatpacking district of Omaha, Nebraska. The artist sits on scafolding playing a video game that allows players to cultivate digital crops with realistic farm machinery. Ash operates a digital harvester to carve a message into a plot of digital land while an audience watches to try to figure out what the message is. An image shows a screen capture of the final message: “I HOPE THIS FINDS YOU WELL IN THESE VERY DIFFICULT TIMES.” Ash merges concrete poetry with land art, all in the virtual realm through this performance.
