Carrie Dashow
Artist in Residence - Farm Session 2 - 2009
Carrie Dashow is a New York City based interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of video, performance and new media. Through combining and reading space, interaction and energy with an anthropological, formalist and geomantic slant, she creates content. Her work reveals the subliminal as a counterpoint to everyday existence by employing concepts that contest fact-based reality. Using available public tools – a greeting, an island, building, friend, forest, map, history, camera – Carrie examines the undercurrent of visible space, which result in tactile, experiential and more real than real performance and video. Much of her work takes place in social and collective situations, either on the street, in communities, relationships and even classes. Her participatory-style performances amongst diverse audiences in turn reveal a momentary sense of community and possibility. Her work plays with our psychological understanding of reality, replacing what we see inside out.
Her work has been exhibited at venues internationally from St. Petersburg, Seoul, Paris and Berlin to New York, LA and Pittsburgh. Venues include P.S. 1/MOMA, the UCLA Hammer Museum, ExitArt, ntic ArtSpace, Printed Matter, Eyebeam, the Andy Warhol Museum, in mines, public parks, campgrounds, camper-vans, and her living room. Upcoming exhibitions include Sukkot Synchronicity -- a commission by The Jewish Museum -- and an on-site Archive of Lost Thought for Matt Bua's b-Home project at Mass MOCA
Some projects are: hello, a personal quest to greet a million people, Negotiable Camera Ensemble, and the Subliminal History of New York State (SHNYS) including Under Island, and the 13th screen.
Artist Residencies include; the TANK, Experimental Television Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Contemporary Artist's Center (North Adams, MA), Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Woman's Studio Workshop and Eyebeam.
An Artist in Residence in NYC public schools from 1998 - 2006, Carrie taught video and media literacy to staff and students through a variety of Arts in Education organizations including Henry Street Settlement, Young Audiences NY, Artsgenesis, The Kitchen, Electronic Arts Intermix, the Drawing Center, The Dia, Eyebeam and Magic Box.
Carrie has taught Video and New Media classes at Rutgers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and The International Center of Photography. She is currently Part-Time faculty of New Media at Purchase College, SUNY.
She holds an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY and a BFA in Video and Performance from The San Francisco Art Institute.
Carrie was nominated for the Art in the Public Realm commission for 2009.