Scott Kiernan
Since 2006
Works in Brooklyn, New York United States of America

BIO
Scott Kiernan is an artist and curator who lives and works in New York City. He was a founder and director of Louis V E.S.P., a not-for-profit gallery and performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn (2010-2012) and co-founder/director of E.S.P. TV, a nomadic curatorial platform for performance/video which takes the form of a live television show.

He has exhibited work internationally in venues such as New Museum, Museum of Arts and Design, Storefront for Art and Architecture, NurtureArt, PS122 , Mixed Greens (NYC), Southern Exposure and Baer Ridgway Projects (San Francisco) Centro Internazionale Per L’Arte Contemporanea (Rome), KT&G Sangsangmadang (Seoul) and the Third Guangzhou Tiennial (China) amongst others. Scott received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007.

www.scottkiernan.com
www.esptvnyc.com
www.louisvesp.com
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EVENT

Raw Stock: No Wave Films from Downtown NYC, 1976-1984


Dates:
Fri Oct 01, 2010 00:00 - Sat Sep 18, 2010

Location:
United States of America

Raw Stock: No Wave Films from Downtown NYC, 1976-1984
Oct 1st, 7-11PM

Curated by: Vanessa Roworth, Sabine Rogers & Celine Danhier, director of the documentary “Blank City”

Selected screenings from New York’s own explosive yet fleeting era of filmmaking known as “No Wave” Cinema. Rising from the ashes of a bankrupt and destitute 1970’s Manhattan, and reacting to the modernist aesthetic of 1960’s avant-garde film, No Wave filmmakers threw out the rules and embraced their own brand of vanguard moviemaking. Inspired by the films of Warhol, Jack Smith, John Waters and The French New Wave many of the films combined elements of documentary and loose narrative structure with stark, at times confrontational imagery. Much like the No Wave music of the period from which the movement garnered its label, these filmmakers freed themselves of the constraints of formal training and pillaged the nascent East Village arts scene for co-conspirators in the likes of Lydia Lunch, James Chance, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Debbie Harry, Richard Hell, Vincent Gallo, Steve Buscemi, Nan Goldin, Cookie Mueller and many others. With wildly varying styles, they shared the common mindset of fast and cheap, and catalyzed by collaboration. Equipment could be begged, borrowed or stolen, your friends could be your actors and the city, abandoned and free to roam, could be your set.

OCT 1st

Minus Zero (1979)
Directed by Michael Oblowitz, 45 mins

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A psycho noir shot in high contrast black & white where stalkers, terrorists and government agents collide. “It promised pleasure and delivered death… nothing ever happened to her class… there was no reason to feel nervous even in the heart of New York… you push the fourth button and arrive at the fourth floor… she was one more person in personville was one more person too many…” Starring Rosemary Hochschild, Ron Vawter, Will Patton & Eric Mitchell.

Barbie (1977)
Directed by Tina L’Hotsky, 10 mins

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Witty commentary on female objectification. It’s a doll eat doll world.

Plus more selected shorts, and Celine Danhier DJing New York Punk and No Wave…

OCT 8th Program Coming Soon…

Please visit www.louisvesp.com for more info on this and other exhibitions.

LOUIS V E.S.P.
140 Jackson St. #4D
Brooklyn NY 11211


OPPORTUNITY

Call For Curatorial Proposals: Call for Curatorial Proposals for Williamsburg, BK Gallery, LOUIS V. E.S.P.


Deadline:
Wed Jul 14, 2010 00:00

Location:
United States of America

LOUIS V. E.S.P. a new not-for-profit gallery/project space in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY seeks curatorial proposals for shows to take place in fall/winter of 2010. Please visit www.louisvesp.com for a history of shows and to get a sense of the space. Shows typically run for a duration of one to two weeks, though we are open to one-night shows and screenings as well and can be flexible for the right project. Also note that we are currently giving preference to group exhibitions or unclassifiable projects. Solo shows are not completely out of the question, but they should revolve a specific, unique project and not around an artist's body of work as a whole.

Front gallery is approximately 450 ft. and entire space is approx. 1400 sq. ft with 18 ft. high ceilings. We have one video projector, one flatscreen and many monitors/DVD players on hand.

Proposals should be as complete as possible with theme, artists involved and work samples. There are no limit on themes but know that we pay specific attention to proposals with a strong conceptual basis which strive to push the boundaries of what is commonly expected when one thinks of an "art exhibition". Again, a visit to the website will likely answer most questions. Floor plan available upon request.

Please send all materials to info@louisvesp.com

We always welcome proposals, but the deadline for second half of 2010 shows is July 14, 2010.


OPPORTUNITY

Call for Curatorial Proposals for Williamsburg, BK Gallery, LOUIS V. E.S.P.


Deadline:
Sat Jul 03, 2010 00:00

Location:
United States of America

LOUIS V. E.S.P. a new gallery/project space in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY seeks curatorial proposals for shows to take place in fall/winter of 2010.
Please visit www.louisvesp.com for a history of shows and to get a sense of the space.
Front gallery is approximately 450 ft. and entire space is approx. 1400 sq. ft with 18 ft. high ceilings.

Proposals should be as complete as possible with theme, artists involved and work samples. Please send all materials to info@louisvesp.com


OPPORTUNITY

LOUIS V. E.S.P. Accepting Curatorial/Exhibition Proposals for Second Half of 2010


Deadline:
Thu Jul 01, 2010 00:00

Location:
United States of America

LOUIS V. E.S.P., a not for profit gallery located in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, NY, is currently accepting proposals for exhibitions for the second half of 2010.

Please visit www.louisvesp.com to view our exhibition history before submitting.

We are open to a wide range of proposals, but submissions should include a list of potential artists, clear description of show concept and accompanying images (no larger than web-size/72 DPI please).

Please send all proposals to: info@louisvesp.com


EVENT

Warren Neidich:


Dates:
Fri Jun 18, 2010 00:00 - Thu Jun 10, 2010

Location:
United States of America

Warren Neidich: "Cindy Unveiled

June 18 - 25, 2010
Opening Reception: June 18, 7-10 PM

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Warren Neidich: Getting back to past work, Could you talk about how performance art affected you?

Cindy Sherman: Performance art was one of the big influences on my art, especially in my earlier school years. I was very influenced by seeing Vito Acconci. You know, He did a performance up in Buffalo where I was going to school, and there were a lot of people like Chris Burden whose performance art I found much more interesting then their static work. When I am working, I think I get more out of my art by making the work than I do by see it…. I used to not think that I was really an actress, because that would be sort of like admitting that I didn’t think I could be a real actress so I have to make excuses to act. But in a way, I am starting to think that its really what I would like to do mostly in my art.

Warren Neidich, 51 Walker Street, An Interview with Cindy Sherman, Cliché Magazine #31, November, 1986, pages 48-51

In 1986 the artist Warren Neidich, then acting as American Editor of the Belgian photography magazine Cliché visited Cindy Sherman in her studio at 51 Walker Street. The banal photographs exhibited at Louis V E.S.P were the result of this meeting. Cindy Sherman is seen without the equipment of her trade. She is without make up and with out costume. She is unmasked. She is in between acts and as such the seven photographs shot from this encounter are more about her state of readiness then her state of being. They capture her desire to be invisible in front of the camera of the other, to be something else besides that which we have become familiar with. What we know of her. What her self- portraits depict; the female impersonator of the feminized persona of the filmic still. These portraits are then contradictions to the self-portraits. They are in the Lacanian sense of the Object a, the image of lack.

Warren Neidich is an artist and writer living between Berlin and Los Angeles whose work has been exhibited internationally. He is the recipient of the Vilem Flusser Theory Award, 2010. Selected future exhibitions 2010 include Bringing Up Knowledge, MUSAC, Leon, Spain, Kunsthalle Athens, Athens, Greece, Book Exchange, Glenn Horowitz, East Hampton,New York, Circuit, Center For Contemporary Art Lausanne, Switzerland, Hidden Publics, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland, Love Letter for a Surrogate, Torrence Art MuseumTorrence, CA., UKS-Unge Kunstneres Samfund/Young Artist Society, Oslo, Norway and Gallery Moriarty, Madrid, Spain. His recent monograph of drawings entitled Lost Between the Extensivity/Intensivity Exchange was recently published by Onomatopee, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Cognitive Architecture: From Biopower to Noo-power is forthcoming and will launch at this years Venice Biennial for Architecture at the Dutch Pavilion. He is currently Visiting Scholar and Artist in Residence at the TU Delft School of Architecture, Delft, The Netherlands.

Please visit www.louisvesp.com for more information on this, and exhibitions both past and present.

LOUIS V. E.S.P.
140 Jackson St. #4D
Brooklyn NY 11211