JED SPEARE

" Here are a few images from the two videos: 'Container of Glass' and 'Sa Valovi Ma'.

'Container of Glass' was first presented in 2003 at Navinki Festival, Belarus and in February 2004 as a part of Mobius's presentation, at Charlestown Working Theater. In each case a different performance was designed with the video. For this evening I will screen only the video.The video depicts three figures in three different sequences performinga actions inside an abandoned truck container. The container is full of bottles of green glass, many of them broken. The initial impetus for the work came from discovering the site. Then I asked artist Boris Kajmak to visit it himself and design an action for it that I would videotape. His response is recorded here, and it determined the tone and pace of the work.

'Sa Valovi Ma' was first shown in Zadar, Croatia in 2000 and later at Mobius in Boston in 2001. It is a meditation on and transformation of work and actions along the waters of the Adriatic "

Jed Speare is an artist from Boston who has been working in time-based arts and intermedia for 25 years. Initially trained in music composition, his performance, video, and sound art has been presented internationally at many festivals and venues in locales such as Poland, Belarus, Croatia, Bulgaria, Taiwan, France, Italy, Netherlands, and Belgium. In the US he has been active in San Francisco, New York, and Boston. He is a member of the Mobius Artists Group in Boston and served as Mobius' Director from 1996 through 2004.

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