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Bill Shannon "spatiotemporality" Douz and Mille @ DNA NYC thru June 18th
spatiotemporality is a solo exhibit by Bill Shannon at DNA galleries featuring two video installation works, 
(clik thru for vids ) "Bench" a three channel six camera composited in the round street capture and "The Evolution of William Foster Shannon" a 20 Screen video wall documenting and mixing the diversity of performance and video projects over the past 20 years. The works are on display thru June 18th daily from 10am to 8pm 53 Chambers st. NYC http://www.dnadance.org/site/performances/dna-presents-spring-2010-season/bill-shannon
BELOW: "Bench" from Shannon Public Works : Window Bench Traffic on Exhibit at DNA Galleries, Manhattan NYC 53 Chambers St. through June 18th 2010
"Bench 2010" is being presented in conjunction with 2nd The Motion / 1st The Idea a three month performance and media residency at Dance New Amsterdam in New York City. Other elements of this residency include a live theatrical lecture presentation on The Shannon Technique and a presentation of Traffic courtesy of LMCC and Dance New Amsterdam. Bench 2010 Douz and Mille @ DNA. for more information.
BELOW: "The Evolution of William Foster Shannon" 20 Screen Video Wall on Exhibit Manhattan NYC 53 Chambers St. through June 18th 2010. wall dimensions 14' x 10', screens 17 - 40 inch diagonal. 16 include individualized audio feeds via headphone.
I called this work "The Evolution of William Foster Shannon" because I have always joked that while my common name was "Bill" that my real birth name "William Foster Shannon" sounded like a name written in gold encrusted script on the spine of a dusty novel from the turn of the previous century. This project is in effect my media based authorship of a video journal of my past projects as short looped videos. The idea beind this work is to show the various chapters and directions of my work individually while also sharing their relationships to one another visually in real time. I am updating it with more clips as it is installed to include more and more content and remain in keeping with the "evolution element" within the title. Due to the nature of this project some of the works on the wall include my choreographic projects where I choreographed other dancers as well as my own performance in the video projects of others. The wall also includes clips from my video installation projects, spoken word projects and other new video art material. I am slowly building a comprehensive list of all the credits for every screen with an accompanying description of the project and relevant facts and stories.
"The Evolution of William Foster Shannon" is being presented in conjunction with 2nd The Motion / 1st The Idea a three month performance and media residency at Dance New Amsterdam in New York City. Other elements of this residency include a live theatrical lecture presentation on The Shannon Technique and a presentation of Traffic courtesy of LMCC and Douz and Mille @ DNA.