Guardian story / interview about the Ukraine car cemetery photo mural

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Irpin Ukraine: Please Don’t Forget Us

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A 60-foot-long photograph of a civilian car cemetery in Ukraine

I recently visited Ukraine and I would love you to see the installation of one of several works I will be making from my visit. Please come on this Saturday to see the 60-foot-long photograph of the car cemetery in Irpin, full of the bullet and shrapnel-ridden cars destroyed as residences fled the city.

This is the first of two public art installations I’ve planned. The second will be a large walk-in cyclorama of a bombed apartment block in Borodyanka.

On March 6th 2022, Russians shelled the road that hundreds of civilians were using to escape the fighting in Irpin. Men, women and children were killed while fleeing in an attack that was called a likely war crime by the Human Rights Watch. Parts of the city were occupied by Russian forces until they were forced out at the end of that March. They left behind over 250 civilians dead, a quarter of the 62,000 residents homeless, and 70% of infrastructure damaged. 

This is a vulnerable moment for Ukraine, with the stopgap spending bill set to expire on November 17th, and support for aid waning among Republicans in Congress.

This installation is up-close and visceral. It serves a witness to just some of the horror and destruction Ukraine has experienced, a memorial in life-sized detail.  It was stitched together from over 30 high-resolution images and can be viewed in high resolution at: pwbuehler.prodibi.com/a/jvlqx2okwlexyzv

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“Wall of Liars and Deniers” in the Guardian

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The more than 300 Republican politicians, right-wing pundits and others like Rudy Guiliani and Mike “My Pillow” Lindell who spread the “Big Lie” that Trump won the 2020 Presidential election.

You can see it at 12 Grattan Street, Bushwick Brooklyn, next to Pine Box Rock Shop.

Story here.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/08/the-wall-of-liars-and-deniers-trump-fake-election-rhetoric

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“Malls of America” gallery in the Guardian

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A gallery of photos of the abandoned Wayne Hills Mall accompanied by my stories about growing up in New jersey surrounded by malls and photographing this one after it closed.

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“Malls of America,” with Karen Mainenti, at Footnote

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Opening October 8 and running through November 18
Footnote, 543 Union St, #1F, Brooklyn, NY 11215
Opening reception Oct 8, 1-4PM
More info here.

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“Wild Wander” participants get back into the spirit inside the installation

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Featured on artnet: “Wild Wander,” Cyclorama, a collaboration with Spencer Tunick

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Spring/Break Art Show, Sept 7-12, New York

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Spencer Tunick and I brought together our art practices as well as 125 intrepid spirits to create a series of panoramic photographs for Spring/Break Art Show. The settings were a field, an orchard, a forest and the middle of a river. One of the panoramas was turned into a cyclorama, or walk in photograph that is 8 feet tall and 25 feet long, wrapping around you inside an 8′ diameter cylindrical frame covered with mirrors.

You can see a short, 7-minute video created by Rusty Tagliarini / Antiquity Echoes documenting the day at https://youtu.be/ELspnucxvRI.

More information about Spring/Break Art Show at SpringBreakArtShow.com.

Installation at Spring/Break Art Show
Behind the scenes – drone footage creating the first panorama

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“Book of Ours” featured in artnet

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https://news.artnet.com/market/spring-break-art-show-2021-2006968

“Medievalists have been comparing the smart phone to the Medieval book of hours for years,” curator Sarah Celentano, a medievalist and former staffer at New York’s City Reliquary told Artnet News. “They are about the same size, people use them in public, and they are luxury items.”

Phil Buehler has run with that comparison, surreptitiously snapping photographs of New Yorkers engrossed in their phones and turning the images into stained glass-style images displayed on a smart TV mounted in a wooden frame shaped like an arched church window. Right now, only the video files are for sale, for $1,500 each, but the right offer could potentially buy you the whole installation.

The meditative display, beneath a vaulted “ceiling” of blue lights, is paired with dispatches from QAnon printed in Gothic script that Celentano selected for their biblical cadence. “Smart phones give us access to limitless information, not just prayers,” she said, “but we are still prone to radicalization.”

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“Book of Ours” at Spring/Break Art Show

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If you’re in New York City this week taking in the art fairs, please strop by my installation at Spring/Break Art Show The theme of this year’s show is Heresy/Hearsay, with a medieval spin.

Book of Ours

An immersive multimedia art installation
highlighting the unsettling correlation between
technology, medieval status symbols & conspiracy theories.

September 10–September 13
SPRING/BREAK ART SHOW
625 Madison Ave (bet 58th & 59th Streets)
Booth 1044

Curator Sarah Celentano’s description:

“This project explores the overlaps of the medieval and the modern with a focus on smartphone technology and online-bred conspiracy groups.

In this chapel of the medieval-modern, photos of smartphone users are transformed into sacred imagery through the medieval medium of stained glass. Accompanying these images are selected communications, or “QDrops,” from the online conspiracy group QAnon. The biblical cadence and heroic language of the QDrops recall passages from the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and show how present-day pocket devices have aided in the radicalization of virtual communities who see themselves as modern crusaders.

Upon its debut in 2007, the iPhone intrigued the medievalist community with its parallels to the book of hours. These prayer books, often illuminated with gold leaf and pigments created from crushed gems, were popular among secular elites between the 13th and 15th centuries. They were often small and portable, and thus acted as both devotional object and personal accessory. The book of hours compares closely to the 21st-century smartphone in terms of scale, costliness, and status symbol. Yet, the purpose of each object could not seem more different, one a means of guiding devotion, the other an invitation to limitless inquiry. But the rise of online conspiracy groups suggests that technology is not a guarantor of social progress.”

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