Derrick Adams’ Feed Them With A Long Spoon
photo credit: Whitney Browne
photo credit: Whitney Browne
photo credit: Whitney Browne
photo credit: Whitney Browne
photo credit: Whitney Browne
photo credit: Whitney Browne
photo credit: Whitney Browne
photo credit: Whitney Browne
photo credit: Whitney Browne
photo credit: Whitney Browne
photo credit: Whitney Browne
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Doors open at 7 pm
Performance starts at 8 pm sharp
Third Streaming is pleased to announce a new performance by Derrick Adams, titled Feed Them with a Long Spoon. The performance pays homage to the ritualistic American pastime of watching TV while breaking bread. Using visuals and sound, Adams incorporates his work Everything I Kill I Eat (2010) on display at Third Streaming, which uses spears where spoons, forks, and knives replace the arrowed heads. The artist will spin an arrangement of hip-hop, bmore beats, pop, and alternative tunes after the performance.
Derrick Adams is a New York-based artist who works in a wide range of media, including performance, installation, sculpture, and photography. He is preoccupied with consumer objects and American iconography, all influenced by pop culture, television, education, and his black male experience in the US. The artist scripts performative identities by using environments, costumes, as well as daily objects he collects and reconfigures. He disrupts their functions and therefore exposes their presupposed meanings.
Adams obtained his MFA from Columbia University and holds a BFA from Pratt Institute. He is also an alumnus of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, as well as the Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program. Recent solo exhibitions and performances include Welcome to Monument City, Collette Blanchard Gallery, New York, NY (2010); Go Stand Next to the Mountain, The Kitchen, New York, NY (2010); Sometimes I Just Don’t Feel Like Myself, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY (2009); and Anew, Performa Visual Art Performance Biennial (2005). Selected group exhibitions are 1968: Then and Now, Department of Photography and Imaging, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY (2008); The Pulse of New Brooklyn, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, Brooklyn, NY (2006), and Greater New York, MoMA/P.S.1, Queens, NY (2005).
This event is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Bite: Street Inspired Art and Fashion
artists: Derrick Adams