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Robert Derr


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Robert Ladislas Derr is an American artist and educator born in the early 1970s. He attended the Rhode Island School of Design MFA, The Photography Institute National Graduate Seminar, and Art Academy of Cincinnati BFA.

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Select works

  • Falling Gretel Dung Miss Garland Hell Spaces, 2013, performance culminating in an installation of single-channel video and photography
  • In My Shoes, 2009–2013, performances, two-channel split screen video, and photography
  • Discovering Columbus, 2011, performances, four-channel video, two twenty-channel split screen videos, and photography
  • Derr explores the ten towns in the United States named after Christopher Columbus using experimental geography tactics. The ten towns include Columbia (Maryland), Columbia (Missouri), Columbia (South Carolina), Columbiana (Ohio), Columbus (Georgia), Columbus (Indiana), Columbus (Mississippi), Columbus (Ohio), Columbus (Wisconsin), and Washington (District of Columbia).
  • In Play, 2007-ongoing, performances, two-channel split screen videos, and photography
  • Derr plays ping-pong with artists and writers in front of the cameras. Participants include Vito Acconci, Vicki Goldberg, Erwin Wurm, Peter Garfield, Martha Buskirk, Gary Metz, Terry Barrett, Cal Kowal, William Anastasi, Patty Chang, Dennis Oppenheim, Dan Graham, Michael Snow, Marcy B Freedman, Kate Gilmore, Thomas Zummer, and Navjotika Kumar.
  • Chance, 2005-ongoing, performances, four-channel videos, and photography
  • An experiment in geography and psychogeography, these are walk performances with the cameras through cities and capitals worldwide. Viewers' die rolls determine the direction that Derr takes through the streets. Derr is completing the US capitals and has completed the following country capitals: Canberra (Australia), Copenhagen (Denmark), Dublin (Ireland), Helsinki (Finland), and Washington, District of Columbia (United States of America).

    • Books

  • Water, Water Everywhere: Paean to a Vanishing Resource, Baksun Books, ISBN 978-1887997300
  • Beneath a Petroliferous Moon, The Mendel Gallery, ISBN 978-1896359816
  • 100x100=900, Magmart Festival, ISBN 978-1291696080
  • Playing the City: Interviews, Sternberg Press, ISBN 978-1-934105-95-5

    • References

    Robert Ladislas Derr Wikipedia
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