joel tauber / the sharing project

JOEL TAUBER / THE SHARING PROJECT
Joel Tauber /
The Sharing Project
3. April – 6. Mai 2015
We are happy to present ”The Sharing Project“, the 6th solo show of Joel Tauber at our gallery.
Why and under which circumstances should we share? To what extent should we share? Should we share similarly in every situation with everyone in the same way? What rules (moral, ethical, political, social) should guide our sharing? What impulses impact
how much we share? Are we acting consistently? To what extent are we teaching our kids to share? If we believe in the value of
sharing, why do we allow so much inequity to occur?
These questions haunt Joel Tauber at the beginning of ”The Sharing Project“. More questions emerge, as he tries to uncover its
meaning and teach it to his young son, Zeke. Tauber`s search leads them to the remains of Happyville, a former Socialist Jewish
commune founded at the beginning of the 20th century in South Carolina, that faded away after just 3 years.
Through his rigorous - and oftentimes humorous - experiments and escapades, Tauber embodies the researcher, thinker, and
adventurer. He battles our assumptions and furthers the proud literary traditions of the fool and jester. In his recent project, it is as
a father who encounters the challenge of teaching his first son to share, leading him to a deep and rigorous exploration of sharing.
Tauber interviewed numerous scholars in evolutionary biology, psychology, anthropology, history, philosophy, education, economics, and political science. Their answers lead to new questions and different interpretations. The show exposes the complexities
and contradictions of sharing. The installation - like the fool - does not demolish boundaries but offers possibilities of escaping
them.
Joel Tauber received his MFA from Art Center College of Design and his BA from Yale University. ”The Sharing Project” will be
in the center of an upcoming solo show at the University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach. His work has been featured in the
2004 and 2008 California Biennials; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany;
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada; W139, Amsterdam; De Appel Centre For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam; and the Torrance
Art Museum, Torrance, CA. Film Festivals include the San Francisco Documentary Festival, the Hot Springs Documentary Film
Festival, the Sedona International Film Festival, and the Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles, where his movie, “Sick-Amour”,
was awarded “Best Green Film.” Tauber won the 2007 Contemporary Collectors of Orange County Fellowship, the 2007 - 2008
CalArts / Alpert Ucross Residency Prize for Visual Arts, and a 2015 grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation in conjunction with a
residency from the Grand Central Art Center.
Joel Tauber /
“The Sharing Project“, 2015
Multi-channel video installation
Variable dimensions
Featuring /
Zeke River Tauber
Ozzie Ray Tauber
Joel Tauber
Alison Joy Goldberg
Interviews /
Adrian Bardon, Associate professor of philosophy, Wake Forest University
Alex Rosenberg, R. Taylor Cole professor of philosophy, Duke University
Brenda Herman, Principal, Whitaker Elementary School
Christian Miller, Professor of philosophy, Wake Forest University
Colleen Lerner, Director and teacher, Temple Emanuel Preschool
Daisy Rodriguez, Director of childhood hunger programs, Second Harvest Food Bank Of
Northwest North Carolina
David Coates, Worrell Chair in Anglo-American studies, Wake Forest University
David Graeber, Professor of anthropology, The London School of Economics
Derwin L. Montgomery, Executive director, Bethesda Center For The Homeless
Gene R. Nichol, Director of the Center of Poverty, Work & Opportunity, University of North
Carolina School of Law
Geoffrey Sayre McCord, Morehead-Cain alumni distinguished professor philosophy, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Hayes McNeill, Former Chair, Forsyth County Democratic Party
James Otteson, Executive director, BB&T Center for the Study of Capitalism, Wake Forest
University School of Business
Jeffrey Faullin, Principal, Brunson Elementary School
Jennifer Knudson, Teacher (1 and 2 year olds), Temple Emanuel Preschool
Jessica Sommerville, Principal investigator, The Early Childhood Cognition Lab, University of
Washington
Joseph Milner, Professor of education, Wake Forest University
Lynn Pritchard, Teacher (1 and 2 year olds), Temple Emanuel Preschool
Marcia Savin, Happyville descendent
Michele Gillespie, Presidential endowed professor of southern history, Wake Forest University
Win-chiat Lee, Professor of philosophy, Wake Forest University
Produced with support of The Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts, The Grand Central Art Center, The University Art
Museum at Cal State Long Beach, and Wake Forest University.
For more information please visit
joeltauber.com / thesharingproject.net or contact the gallery [email protected] / +49 151 15773221
The Sharing Project (Film stills)
The Sharing Project (Film stills)
The Sharing Project (Film stills)
The Sharing Project (Film stills)
The Sharing Project (Film stills)
The Sharing Project (Film stills)
The Sharing Project (Film stills)
Joel Tauber /
The Sharing Project
Ausstellung: 3. April – 6. Mai 2015
Wir freuen uns, mit „The Sharing Project“ die sechste Einzelausstellung von Joel Tauber in der Galerie Adamski zu präsentieren.
Warum und in welchen Situationen sollten wir etwas mit jemandem teilen? Bis zu welchem Grad ist Teilen gerecht oder notwendig? Wenn wir etwas teilen, teilen wir in jeder Situation, mit jedem in gleicher Weise? Welchen Regeln (moralischen, ethischen,
politischen, sozialen) folgen wir, wenn wir unseren Besitz teilen? Gibt es eine Art verhaltensbiologischen Impuls, der uns zum
Teilen animiert? Gibt es überhaupt gute Gründe dafür, etwas teilen zu wollen?
Solche Fragen beschäftigten Joel Tauber am Anfang von „The Sharing Project“. Das Konzept des Teilens geriet dabei umso mehr
ins Wanken, je verständlicher Tauber es seinem Sohn Zeke vermitteln wollte. Der Film begleitet den Versuch beider, dem Sinn und
den Gesetzen des Teilens auf die Spur zu kommen. Auf der Suche nach der richtigen Praxis des Teilens stößt Tauber mit seinem
Sohn auf den Überrest von Happyville, einer ehemaligen sozialistischen Gemeinschaft von jüdischen Immigranten aus Russland,
die in South Carolina Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts gegründet und schon nach drei Jahren wieder aufgegeben wurde.
In seinen Projekten verkörpert Tauber mit seinen teils komischen - und doch alle explizit komischen Sprachformen meidenden
- Experimenten und Eskapaden den Typus des unerschütterlich gegen alle Widerstände ankämpfenden Forschers, Denkers und
Abenteurers, der sich hin und wieder aus der Literatur heraus ins „wahre Leben“ verirrt, wo er nicht selten belächelt wird. In
seiner neusten Arbeit ist es der Familienvater, der seine Kinder bei der Unmöglichkeit beobachtet ihre Spielsachen miteinander
zu teilen. Dieses Phänomen führte ihn zu einer mehrjährigen, grundsätzlichen Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema des Teilens.
Im Verlauf des Projekts befragte Tauber Evolutionsbiologen, Psychologen, Anthropologen, Historiker, Philosophen, Ökonomen
und Politikwissenschaftler. Deren Antworten führten zu immer neuen Fragen und verschiedenen Interpretationen. Die Ausstellung
versucht die Komplexität und Widersprüchlichkeit des Konzepts des Teilens mit einer mehrteiligen Videoinstallation als eine Art
Versuchsanordnung erfahrbar zu machen.
Joel Tauber studierte Kunst am Art Center in Pasadena und in Yale. Seine Arbeiten waren in zahlreichen institutionellen Gruppenausstellungen in den USA und Europa zu sehen, u.a.bei der Californian Biennial im Orange County Museum of Art (2004 und
2008), im De Appel, Amsterdam und bei der Werkleitz Biennale in Halle. „Sick Amour“ und „Pumping“, von denen es jeweils
auch eine Kinoversion gibt, wurden auf verschiedenen Dokumentarfilmfestivals in den USA gezeigt. „Sick Amour“ wurde beim
Downtown Film Festival, Los Angeles 2007 als „Best Green Film” ausgezeichet. 2007 und 2008 gewann Tauber den renommierten CalArts/Alpert Ucross Residency Prize for Visual Arts.
„The Sharing Project“ ist Teil Taubers erster institutioneller Einzelausstellung, die im Juni diesen Jahres im University Art Museum in Cal State Long Beach eröffnen wird.
JOEL TAUBER
• Born in Boston, MA (USA) in 1972
• Lives and works in Winston-Salem, NC
EDUCATION /
• Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Masters in Fine Arts. 2002.
• Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. Masters in Education
• Yale University, New Haven, CT. Bachelor of Arts: Art History, Sculpture
AWARDS /
• 2015 Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts grant
• 2013 Creative and Research Activities Development and Enrichment Initiative Fellowship, Wake Forest University
• 2013 award from the Dingledine Faculty Fund for the Support of International Activities, Wake Forest University
• 2012 and 2013 award from the Archie Fund for the Arts & Humanities, Wake Forest University
• Project, “Sick-Amour”, shortlisted for a 2011 “International Green Award”
• Movie, “Sick-Amour”, won a Sir Edmond Hilary Award at the 2011 Mountain Film Festival, Mammoth, CA
• Movie, “Sick-Amour”, won Best Green Film in the 2010 Downtown Film Festival – Los Angeles, CA
• Nominated for the 2009 USC Parents Association Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award
• 2007-2008 Alpert Ucross Residency Prize for Visual Arts
• 2007 Contemporary Collectors Orange County Fellowship
• 1995 Norfolk Fellowship; first undergraduate to install a sculpture at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art
• 1995 Sudler Fellowship to create an art exhibition at Davenport College, Yale University
• 1994 Dorot Fellowship from Yale University to study mosaic floors and bird iconography in Israel
• 1991 Academy Honor Student, American Academy of Achievement
• 1990 Valedictorian, Maimonides School
RESIDENCIES /
• Grand Central Art Center, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA, May 15 – July 31, 2015
• Alpert Ucross Artist Residency Program, Clearmont, Wyoming, May 4 - May 15, 2009
• Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 1 – July 31, 2008
SOLO EXHIBITIONS /
2015
“The Sharing Project”, The University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.
“The Sharing Project”, Adamski Gallery Berlin, Germany.
2013
“Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project”, The Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University’s
Scales Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC.
2012
“Pumping”, Adamski Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2011
“Pumping”, The Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University’s Scales Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem,
North Carolina.
• “Pumping”, Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
2008
“Joel Tauber: Digging, Diving, Flying, & Loving”, Adamski Gallery Berlin, Germany.
“Sick-Amour”, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, Whittier College, Whittier, CA.
2007
“Sick-Amour”, Susanne Vielmettter LA Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
“Sick-Amour”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.
2006
“Searching For The Impossible: Digging, Flying, and Diving”, Gallery Saintonge, Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Missoula, Montana.
2005
"The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music", Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.
“The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music”, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, CA.
“Seven Attempts to Make a Ritual”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
2004
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA, CA.
2003
“Searching For The Impossible”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS /
• “Educational Complex Edit: Video from the students of Mike Kelley”, The Art Gallery of the University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida (January 24 - March 8, 2013) and then Zeigeist Interdisciplinary Art Center in New Orleans, LA (March 2013).
Curated by Joseph Herring.
• “Planter Show”, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Matthias Merkel Hess and Lisa Sitko. September 6-9, 2012.
• „My LA”, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, Germany, 2012.
• “Nurturing Nature”, Albright College, Reading, PA. Curated by Amy Lipton and Patricia Miranda. March 20 – April 15, 2012.
• “Prime Time”, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina. Curated by Lorraine Walsh, Steven Matijco, and Nancy Sokolove. March 23 – September 9, 2012.
• “Strictly Academic, Part 2: Works By Faculty At Wake Forest University”, Milton Rhodes Center For The Arts, Winston-Salem,
NC. Curated by David Brown. February 2- March 31, 2012.
• “10 Years L.A. @ Kaus Australis”, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA. Curated by Carl Berg. January 26 – March 2,
2012.
• “In the Presence of Trees”, Ucross Foundation Art Gallery, Clearmont, WY. Curated by Sharon Dynak. (C), 2011.
• “Nurturing Nature: Artists Engage the Environment”, OSilas Gallery, Concordia College, Bronxville, NY. Curated by Amy
Lipton and Patricia Miranda, 2011.
• “Plains of Id”, California State University Long Beach University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA. (C), 2011.
• „Cluster Balloons: From Lawn Chairs to Cosmic Rays“, Anderson-Abruzzo Albuquerque International Balloon Museum, Albuquerque NM. Curated by Marilee Schmit Nason. September 24, 2010 – September 2011.
• “Ucross: Twenty-Seven Years of Visual Arts Residencies”, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY. Curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian. (C), 2010.
• “No Matter. Failure and Art”, Kunstverein Hildesheim, Germany. Curated by Florina Limberg and Jens Papenkort. (C), 2010.
• “ecoLOGIC”, Cypress College Art Gallery, Cypress, CA. Curated by Patrica Watts. 2009.
• “LA 2019: Cults, Collectives, & Cocooning”, 18th Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA. Curated by Ciara Ennis, 2009.
• “The 2008 California Biennial”, Orange County Museum of Art and other institutions in California. Curated by Lauri Firstenberg. (C), 2008.
• “Systems Theory”, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA. Curated by Kristina Newhouse, 2008.
• “Gravity Art”, Telic Arts Exchange”, LA, CA. Curated by Rene Daalder, 2008.
• “Tree Service”, Jeanne Patterson’s Domestic Setting, LA, CA. Curated by Michael Gold and Jeanne Patterson, 2008.
• “The New Authentics: Contemporary Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation“, Spertus Museum, Chicago, travelling to Rose Art
Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Curated by Staci Boris. (C), 2007.
• “Love is Like Oxygen”, W139, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Curated by Theo Tegelaers. Small catalog, 2007.
• Group show at the Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California. Curated by Maggi Owens, 2007.
• “Eco-Lux: Art in Light of Ecology 1953-2006”, Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Kim Light and Emma Gray, 2006.
• “The Gravity in Art”, De Appel Centre For Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Curated by Rene Daalder and Theo
Tegelaers, 2005.
• “Still, Things Fall from the Sky”, UCR/ California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA. Curated by Ciara Ennis. (C), 2005.
• „The 2004 California Biennial“, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA. Curated by Liz Armstrong and Irene
Hoffman. (C), 2004.
• “Art Video Lounge”, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida. Curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez and Guillermo Santamarina.
2004.
• “Light and Spaced Out: 11 Artists From Los Angeles”, Herve Loevenbruck Gallery, Paris, France and the Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France, Curated by Carlos Cardenas, 2003.
• “On Paper”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany, 2003.
• “Enter Intercessor”, RAID Projects, Los Angeles, California. Curated by Carrie Patterson, 2003.
• “Stuff From L.A. and Other Places”, Christine Konig Gallery, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Skip Arnold, 2002.
FILM FESTIVALS AND OTHER FILM SCREENINGS
• “Pumping”, A Film Trust For Social Development, Mumbai, India (in progress).
• “Pumping”, Goa Short Film Festival, Kothrud Pune, Maharashtra, India, May-June 2015 (in progress)
• “Pumping”, Kanyakumari International Film Festival, Kanyakumari, Tamil Nadu, India, December 22, 2014
• “Pumping”, Pune Short Film Festival, Kothrud Pune, Maharashtra, India, December 13, 2014
• “Pumping”, IMA International Film Festival, Thrissur, Kerala, India, December 9, 2014
• “Pumping” and “Sick-Amour”, Transition Town Totnes Film Festival, Totnes, England, November 16, 2014
• “Pumping” and “Sick-Amour”, UK Man and Biosphere Committee Urban Forum’s “Spirituality, Culture, Myth, Art, and Nature”, Balaji Temple Conference Centre, Sandwell, England, October 25, 2014
• “Seven Attempts To Make A Ritual” screened at the World Congress of Soil Science in Jeju, Korea. Curated by Alex Toland.
June 12, 2014.
• “Pumping”, Atlanta Film Festival, March 28, 2012
• “Sick-Amour”, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, July 15, 2012
• “Sick-Amour”, Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival, October 21, 2011
• „Pumping“, Louisville’s International Festival of Film, October 7, 2011
• “Sick-Amour”, Sedona International Film Festival, February 24 & 26, 2011.
• “Sick-Amour”, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival, July 8, 2011.
• “Sick-Amour”, SURGE Film Festival (Portland, Oregon) May 19, 2011.
• “Sick-Amour”, IAO Gallery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, August 20, 2011.
• “Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project”, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas.
Curated by Aimee Chang. August 18, 2011.
• “Seven Attempts to Make A Ritual” screened in the video program, “Band of Outsiders” at ARTspace Media Lounge, College
Art Association Conference, NY, NY (Feb 10-12, 2011) and at The Center For Book Arts, NY, NY (Feb 1-April 2, 2011).
• “Sick-Amour”, Hartford International Film Festival. November 7, 2010.
• “Sick-Amour”, San Francisco Documentary Festival, October 17 & 20, 2010.
• “Sick-Amour”, Blue Planet Film Fest. Los Angeles, October 8, 9, & 10, 2010.
• “Sick-Amour”, Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles, September 11, 2010.
• “Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project” screened in the film event, “Finding A Home In The World While Moving
Across It”, Fresno Metropolitan Museum, Fresno, CA. An outdoor film screening event curated by Susanneh Bieber. Six page
brochure. 2007.
• “Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project” screened in the Mannheim Film Festival, Mannheim, Germany. 2007.
• Short films from the video installation “Sick-Amour”, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles. 2007.
• “Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project” screened in “Happy Believers”, 7th Werkleitz Biennial, Volkspark, Halle,
Germany. Curated by Anke Hoffmann, Solvej Ovesen, Angelika Richter and Jan Schuijren. Catalog. 2006.
• “Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project” screened in “Good Bye Festival”, CPH Kunsthal, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Catalog. 2006.
• “Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project” screened in “Artini Shorts 2006: roughly a 42 minute feast of moving pictures”, Missoula Art Museum. Curated by Toni Matlock. May 18, 2006.