Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Kirk Lynn and Peter Stopschinski 147 Devices for Integrated Principles January 16 – February 27, 2021
Rooted in our society’s ever-growing desire to exercise control over our lives through various devices, 147 Devices for Integrated Principles is informed by the artists’ experiences during Hurricane Harvey. Prior to the storm, the artists were confronted with a need to prepare a “hurricane box” with devices such as batteries, canned food, toilet paper, and bottled water. As the hurricane passed, the water receded, and their lives started to return to normal, they realized that it was actually not returning to ‘normal’ – that the feeling of being overwhelmed by many external forces still existed. Not only was it the stress of a natural disaster, but also, divisive politics, economic pressures, and concerns with the aging of elderly parents, that brought Hillerbrand+ Magsamen the idea to invent new devices for more intimate and personal problems. They turned to the concept of homo faber, or the notion that human beings can control their fate and their environment through tools. This turn of the century idea, a response to the Industrial Revolution, is as applicable today as it was then. Once again, our culture is faced with a new wave of technology that can either help us with our problems or exacerbate them.
a. Excerpt from 147 Devices for Integrated Principles performance, written by Kirk Lynn, 2019, Lazer cut paper b. 147 Devices, photos and sculptures. See following pages for more information. c. Tin Can player, 2020, music by Peter Stopschinski, NFS
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d. Devices Videos, 2019-2020, HD Video, $1200 edition of 3 e. A Device for Middle-Age Regret, 2020, Mixed Media, $9,000 f. A Device for Moving Images, 2020, Mixed media, $5,000 g. A Device for Defense, 2020, Mixed media on fabric, $5,000
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1. A Device for Emotional Intelligence, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, thread, Edition 3 of 10
7. A Device for Swallowing the Apocalypse, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
2. A Device for Being Funny, Not Frivolous, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, thread, Edition 1 of 10
8. A Device for Picking Up Wet Towels Off the Floor, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
3. A Device for Engaging Separation, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, rhinestones, Edition 2 of 10
9. A Device for Reflecting the Mental Journey, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
4. A Device for Gracious Discipline, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
10. A Device for Time Expansion, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
5. A Device for Balancing a Budget, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
11. A Device to Forgive All Those Who Have Wronged You, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 2 of 10
6. A Device for Integrated Principles, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 2 of 10
12. A Device to Heal, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
13. A Device for Anxiety, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, rhinestones, Edition 1 of 10 14. A Device for Awakening Creativity, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, thread, rhinestones, Edition 3 of 10 15. A Device to Love Openly, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, thread, Edition 2 of 10 16. A Device for Relating to Grandeur, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10 17. A Device to Grow Old Without Fear, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, pins, Edition 1 of 10 18. A Device for Temporal Disintegration, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
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19. A Device to Heal All Mothers, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10 20. A Device to Heal All Fathers, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10 21. A Device for Bribing Your Subconscious, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, rhinestones, Edition 1 of 10 22. A Device to Be Heard, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 2 of 10
29. A Device for Excessive Baggage, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, rhinestones, paint, thread, paperclips, Edition 2 of 10 30. A Device for Multiplying Privacy, 2020, Mixed media on fabric 31. A Device to Get People to Like You, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, thread, pin 33. A Device to Forget, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, thread
23. A Device for Saying Goodbye, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, thread, Edition 4 of 10
34. A Device for Three Dimensional Time Expansion, 2019, 3D printed plastic
24. A Device to Die Peacefully, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, pin, tape, Edition 1 of 10
35. A Device for Good Hair, 2019, Archival Inket Print, Edition 1 of 10
25. A Device for Transportation, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 2 of 10
36. A Device for No Take Backs, 2020, Mixed media
26. A Device for Hearing Empathy, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 2 of 10
37. A Device to Accept Your Imperfections, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
27. A Device for Moving Clouds, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
38. A Device for Democratic Renewal, 2020, Mixed media
28. A Device for Forgiveness, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, thread, Edition 2 of 10
39. A Device for High School Regret, 2020, Mixed media
40. A Device for Catching Worried Stars, 2020, Mixed media 41. A Device for Course Infractions, 2020, Mixed media 42. A Device for Ending An Awkward Dinner Conversation, 2020, Mixed media 48. A Device for Interpolating Confidence, 2020, Archival Inket Print, tape, Edition 1 of 10 49. A Device to Talk to God, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10 50. A Device for Extra Time With Someone You Love, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10 51. A Device to Restrain Contempt, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10 52. A Device for Negotiation With a Teenager, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10 53. A Device to be Santa Claus, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10 54. Devices Video: Cones, 2019, Video on small monitor, $1200 edition of 3
Photographs, all edition of 10, additional $100 framed with plate glass—museum glass is an extra charge. Sizes and related prices: 9x9” $500, 12x12” $900, 20x20” $1200 Sculptures, $1200 each
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55. A Device for Touching Nourishment, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
57. A Device for Thermoconception, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 2 of 10
56. A Device to Get You to Leave Me Alone, 2019, Archival Inkjet Print, Edition 1 of 10
58. A Device to Accept Your Imperfections, 2020, Mixed media
59. A Device to Ask For Help, 2019, Archival Inkjeft Print, Edition 1 of 10 60. A Device for Border Evaporation, 2020, Archival Inkjet Print, thread, Edition 1 of 10
Photographs, all edition of 10, additional $100 framed with plate glass—museum glass is an extra charge. Sizes and related prices: 9x9” $500, 12x12” $900, 20x20” $1200 Sculptures, $1200 each
Hillerbrand+Magsamen is the collaboration of Stephan Hillerbrand and Mary Magsamen. Together they create sculpture, installation, performance, video, and photographic works they call “Suburban Fluxus”. Often including their two children in their work, Madeleine and Emmett, the family critiques and playfully scrutinizes contemporary suburban life. Hillerbrand+Magsamen have presented their videos in international film and media festivals including Houston Cinema Arts Festival, London SciFi Film Festival, WAND V Stuttgarter Filmwinter, New York Underground Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Boston Underground Film Festival, and MonkeyTown. Their cinematic based installations have been exhibited at the Everson Museum (Syracuse, NY), Center for Photography Woodstock (Woodstock, NY), Diffusion Photography Festival (Wales, UK), and Houston Center for Photography (Houston, TX). They have received grants from Sustainable Arts Foundation, Austin Film Society, Experimental Television Center, Ohio Arts Council, Houston Arts Alliance, and Houston Center for Photography. Their project HIGHER GROUND was a commission from the Houston Airport System and received 1st prize from juror Richard Linklater in the CineSpace program at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival. Hillerbrand+Magsamen has participated in residency programs including Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York, NY), Experimental Television Center (Owego, NY), Elsewhere (Greensboro, NC), Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM). Stephan Hillerbrand is a recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships (Germany) and MacDowell Colony (Peterborough, NH) residency. Mary and Stephan live and work in Houston with their two children, Madeleine and Emmett. hillerbrandmagsamen.com
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Kirk Lynn is a novelist and playwright living in Austin, TX with his wife, the poet Carrie Fountain, and their children, Olive and Judah. Kirk is one of five artistic directors of the Rude Mechs theatre collective. With the Rudes Kirk has written and adapted a bunch of plays, including Lipstick Traces, Method Gun, and Not Every Mountain, which will premiere in 2018 at the Guthrie in Minneapolis. Kirk has also written work for the Foundry Theatre and Playwrights Horizons, who produced Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra in 2014 and who commissioned a new piece, My Heart is a Library, Yours is a Museum, which is in development now. Kirk is working on a new commission for Seattle Children’s Theatre entitled, The Lamp is the Moon, about a girl who hates naps and wants to be an astronaut. Kirk is also working on a commission from UT Austin and Texas Performing Arts about Leonard Bernstein for his centenary in 2018. Kirk is developing a TV series for the Weinstein Co. And in 2015, Kirk’s debut novel, Rules for Werewolves was published by Melville House which is currently being adapted for the screen for Temple Hill Entertainment.
Peter Stopschinski has composed music/lyrics for New York Musicals Festival’s 2015 Winner Best in Show: The Calico Buffalo, string arrangements for Grupo Fantasma’s 2011 Grammy Award winning album El Existential, music for Madeleine George’s Off-Broadway play which was a finalist for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Drama: The Curious Case of the Watson Intelligence, and the 2016 film score for two-time Academy Award winning director Al Reinert’s film for PBS Rara Avis: The Life of John Audubon. His operas and musicals have been performed across the country from Arena Stage (DC) to Playwrights Horizons (NYC) to Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theater (LA) to Gertrude Opera in Melbourne, AUS to La Mama (NYC). Peter is currently working on a new opera based on Terry Galloway’s one woman show Lardo Weeping that was commissioned by LOLA Opera and will be premiered in Austin, TX in Fall 2020. Peter has just finished a new experimental rock version of Verdi’s MacBeth for Gertrude Opera in Melbourne Australia which premiered in Ngambie Lakes Fall 2016 and will tour in the U.S. in 2019. In 2018 he produced and co-wrote several tracks on Basura, the album by the revolutionary transgender artist CHRISTEENE. In 2017 he released 50 albums (totaling 496 songs or more than 1.2 days) of his own music for free on his website. peterstopschinski.com
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