Jonn Herschend
Friday, June 5, 2009 
Linden Tree presentation: June 10th (at) 7pm
SLAPSTICK AND THE SUBLIME – A case for the sight gag as conceptual beauty
Raised in a midwestern amusement park, Jonn Herschend is an interdisciplinary artist, curator and experimental publisher preoccupied with how emotional confusion, absurdity and veracity play out in the realm of the everyday. For his presentation at Linden tree, he will be screening a series of short clips ranging from 1930’s slapstick films to works by contemporary artists. He is interested in the ways that the sight gag and deadpan humor have been used historically and how they might be further pushed as a means to bridge the gap between conceptual art and aesthetic beauty. The screening and talk represent issues that he is currently exploring in his own work.
Herschend’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally including the Stuttgarter Filmwinter Film festival, Germany; Koh-i-noor, Denmark; LKV Gallery, Norway; the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art; the Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; Southern Exposure and The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. He is the co-founder and co-editor, along with Will Rogan, of the experimental publication THE THING, and is a recent recipient of a Danish Arts Council grant for his work as co-curator, along with Heidi Hove, of the Deadpan Exchange international exhibition series, He has been a visiting lecturer at the University of California Berkeley, San Francisco State University and Stanford University.
To learn more about Jonn Herschend please go to www.jonnherschend.com and www.TheThingQuarterly.com
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