JAIMES MAYHEW

Opening at Hoffmansgallerí on Friday May 11th at 4pm

jaimes — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:59:22 +0000

I will be celebrating the opening of a solo show featuring some of the work I have completed while in Iceland. The show will be up until late July 2012. Hoffmansgallerí address: Hringbraut 121, 4th Floor, Reykjavík.

Report From Iceland, Part 2 on saint-lucy.com

jaimes — Tue, 08 May 2012 10:27:56 +0000

My ongoing series of short essays about my time in Iceland on artist/writer Mark Alice Durant’s website Saint Lucy has been updated. Check out the latest text and photos here: http://saint-lucy.com/essays/report-from-iceland-part-1/

Artist Talk at Reykjavik Downtown Hostel

jaimes — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:58:36 +0000

I will be giving a brief presentation of my work in Iceland as the Autonomous Energy Research Lab tonight at Reykjavik Downtown Hostel, followed by a screening of the documentary Dreamland.

Event at Menningarverkefnið Hlaðan in Vogar, Iceland

jaimes — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 16:59:23 +0000

I will be bringing my mobile research lab to Menningarverkefnið Hlaðan in Vogar tonight as a part of the weekend festival Elinan Olohuone / Stofan hennar Elinu (Elina’s Living Room) starting at 8pm.

Artist talk at Tufts University

jaimes — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 11:29:50 +0000

I will be giving an artist talk at Tufts University via Skype tonight, April 4th at 6:30pm, talking about The Failure Support Group and other projects with kanarinka and the Institute for Infinitely Small Things.

SIM Residency show in Reykjavik

jaimes — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:17:02 +0000

On March 29th 2012, I participated in a group show at the Association of Icelandic Visual Artists as a part of the residency program. See photos here: http://tinyurl.com/cwl2aaj

Queer Is Where The Heart Is

jaimes — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 22:21:24 +0000

I am organizing a show with Kristen Anchor and Andrea Shearer that will feature queer artists from Iceland and the US, with exhibitions in Reykjavik in late January through February, and another in summer 2012 in Baltimore. The deadline for entries is December 1st. Check out the project site at www.queeriswheretheheartis.wordpress.com.

Fresh Vue on Fresh Art International

jaimes — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:03:21 +0000

I wrote a short recollection about viewing the lighting of Yoko Ono’s Peace Tower for Cathy Byrd’s new website, Fresh Art International. Check out her site here.

The Autonomous Energy Research Lab

jaimes — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 13:16:46 +0000

I am currently in Iceland on a grant from the Fulbright Commission working on an art research project called The Autonomous Energy Research Lab, which is a long-term, open-ended art research project that investigates the relationships between people, land and energy production. I am interested in exploring conceptions of autonomy as a departure point for investigating and documenting these relationships.

I am keeping a blog while I am in Iceland, which is part travel, part project updates here.

Residency in Eskifjörður, Iceland

jaimes — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:41:24 +0000

I will be spending the month of November 2011 at an artist residency at Jensenhus in Eskifjörður developing part of my project The Autonomous Energy Research Lab. Learn more about my project on my blog.

Transgender Bathroom Dedication

jaimes — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 00:09:44 +0000

Part of “Boston’s Best 40-ennial”, a 19-minute historical and totally unauthorized exhibition in the bathroom of the MFA Boston organized by Greg Cook on June 20th, 2011.

Transgender Bathroom Dedication is a project that dedicates the men’s room at the MFA Boston to Dean Spade who was arrested in 2002 for using the men’s room in Grand Central Station and dedicates the women’s room at the MFA Boston to Chrissy Pollis who was the victim of a transgender hate crime in a Maryland bathroom in May 2011.

These two new works are gifts to the MFA Boston on behalf of the Institute for Infinitely Small Things, and have been archived by the MFA Boston.

New dedication plaques will begin traveling on temporary loan to various museums beginning in January 2012.

Hang In There at The Co-Prosperity Sphere in Chicago

jaimes — Sat, 14 May 2011 03:06:33 +0000

The Failure Support Group, a collaborative project with Marian Glebes and The Institute for Infinitely Small Things will be included in a group exhibition. Opening June 17, 2011

Camp Camp at Transmodern Festival

jaimes — Fri, 06 May 2011 03:16:50 +0000

I will be providing bicycle a powered light up marquee at the group show Camp Camp in Baltimore. I will be live- tweeting using the marquee sign on Friday and Saturday night from sunset to 11pm.

Eat Our Words at Porch Projects, Washington DC

jaimes — Mon, 02 May 2011 03:13:49 +0000

Shannon Young and I will be presenting our collaborative performance “Dinner Conversation” on May 21st from 6-8pm.

Failure Support Group at Transmodern

jaimes — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:21:32 +0000

In collaboration with the Institute for Infinitely Small Things and Marian April Glebes, I will be running a Failure Support Group for failed art projects on Saturday April 30th at 6pm at The Wind-Up Space in Baltimore.

The Failure Support Group

jaimes — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 21:54:42 +0000

Art projects fail a lot, particularly those that are participatory, public and/or social. They fail for different reasons and cause myriad revelations. Nevertheless, the structures that we use to talk about these works and contexts where they are presented often don’t leave room for discussing the failures plainly and objectively.

We’re interested in failure– in its relationship to creative production, artistic rhetoric and public presentation. We’re also interested in making work that does not fail as often by sharing our failures, and hearing yours through our Failure Archive and our Support Groups.

The Failure Support Group project is run by members of The Institute For Infinitely Small Things. This project is inspired by a Failure Support Group event produced by Platform2 in Boston in 2008.

To get more information, browse/contribute to the archive of failure, inquire about hosting a Failure Support Group and more, visit www.thefailuresupportgroup.com OR www.thefailuresupportgoup.com

Between Here and There- Washington Project for the Arts

jaimes — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 16:47:03 +0000

I will be performing a reading with my collaborator Shannon Young at Washington Project for the Arts in Washington, DC this Saturday for the opening reception of Catalyst. For more information, visit the WPA website: http://www.wpadc.org/exhibitions/exhbt_upcoming.html And for more information about Between Here And There, visit our Facebook page.

Cut Piece With Transgender Body

jaimes — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 19:40:02 +0000

This piece was performed on April 30, 2010 as a part of Hell, No!, curated by David Louis Fierman and RJ Supa at the Convent of St. Cecilia in Brooklyn, NY. Visitors to the convent were greeted at the entryway to the chapel by a docent who gave them a card with the following text: Cut Piece With Transgender Body (dedicated to Yoko Ono): Please use the scissors at the altar to cut his clothes away.

Artist video available for purchase.

Video and stills courtesy of Angie Young.

Accumulation/Temporary Occupations

jaimes — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 00:42:06 +0000

Accumulation/Temporary Occupations is a gallery installation and an organized series of events taking place from April 8-24, 2010 at University of Maryland, Baltimore County for my MFA Thesis Exhibition. In the gallery, stationary bikes were used to produce electrical power in the gallery that both illuminates a marquee sign and charges a battery. The battery, as an accumulation of power, was used to provide energy for a series of public, outdoor events that took place in the immediate area of the CADVC, and were organized by artists that I invited to be a part of the show.

(T)here: A Park

jaimes — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:17:08 +0000

For this oproject, Services United was: Jaimes Mayhew, Marian April Glebes, Kathryn Williamson, Shannon Young and Jill Fannon.

Video shot by Kathryn Williamson
Video editing by Jaimes Mayhew