What happened...

What happened, by the way, at the Great and Terrible show, was this:

Kerdieekrdaad put the drawings in the previous post on (cardboard painted yellow) pedestals.  Then tacked up these instructions:

If you want something on these pedestals, just replace it with something of yours (from your pocket or bag, for example), and you are free to take it.

All the drawings went...we put up more throughout the night as people left stuff we wanted.  Which includes:  a tape cassette, 69 cents, a plastic egg of change, a scratched up visa card that hasn't yet expired, instant coffee, skittles, a weird rubbery toy, a spraycan cap, a clock-in receipt from Charles Field (3:58 PM, job: PM busser), a tampon, and a Wild Sweet Orange Tazo tea sachet that I used to buy Bri back her favorite drawing.  (hurrah for gift-economies!)


AND Libby Rosof and Roberta Fallon were kind enough to mention us in their survey of art events last week!  http://theartblog.org/2011/04/lotsa-breaking-news/

Showing tonight only at the Great and Terrible Collective! Another Man's Treasure

Tonight from 6:30-9pm The Great and Terrible Artist's Collective is hosting a farewell show to their Kensington space (172 W. Montgomery St.), and they've invited Kerdieekrdaad to get involved!  So, on the side of our thesis installation (we are currently in day 3 of 6 in the galleries, building our space), we've come up with Another Man's Treasure, a performance/participatory piece/game that's going to be a lot of fun!

We don't want to give too much away, but allow us to try and lure you to Northeast Philadelphia with some artworks you might find there...

Come play with us!

The New Myth of the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

When we committed to a collaborative thesis last fall (September of 2010 if our memories serve us), we talked a lot about how to make the content as universally relevant as possible.  Jackie thought of Joseph Campbell and the universality of myths, and Bri pointed out how all of our artwork finds its way back to a landscape--the basic elements of water and earth.  Jackie had just read Zeitoun, by Dave Eggers, a beautiful and tragic story which exposes the story of post-Katrina New Orleans for what really went down.  Pretty soon, Kerdieekrdaad was generating imagery around the idea of reinventing history, defining one's own heroes, and finding personal meaning in the impersonal chaos of what exists and occurs.  Here is How Gertrude Stein, Kwon Yin, Megan Perry, and Eleanor Roosevelt Helped New Orleans Recover from Hurricane Katrina:

Fill In Later community coloring book (Shown December 2010 at Society Hill Synagogue)

 Fill in Later, Kerdieekrdaad and participants, December 2010

Bri and I made this drawing, limiting ourselves to black and white and predominantly line drawing.  When we installed it at the Society Hill Synagogue in Philadelphia, we left a giant box of crayons in front of it.  Photograph of resulting collaboration coming soon!

The infrastructure of Kerdieekrdaad

collage          pens          free association          recycling          play/fun          color          layers
landscapes (we see them in everything: scraps of paper, ink stains, the ketchup you left on your plate)
matte medium          gouache          mythology          writing          poetry          questions         
Swoon          David Horvitz          street art          Francis Alÿs          Allan Kaprow          Sarah Sze
Wee Sing in Sillyville          Little Nemo's Adventures in Slumberland          Once Upon a Forest
Peter Pan        Fantasia       Rainbow Brite       Nausica       Legend of Zelda        The Hobbit               
treasures       frustration      the present       the future        the past        traveling      altered states     habits 
grids and interstates          stories          dreams          skin          fish          mammals          fur
clouds          trees         water         birds       mountains        insects          fauna          rocks          dwellings
The Fuhrl          music          love          hair          home-cooked meals          walks          books
collaboration participation interaction intervention guerilla-actions situations happenings dialogue 

Our first series. May 2010.

 The first time Bri and Jackie collaborated in the studio, they did not know that they'd continue to grow as an artistic unit over the course of their thesis year at Moore.  But they did know that their processes, concepts, and intention merged easily.  They fed off one another's energy which yielded a momentum like nothing they'd experienced individually.  They pushed one another's sense of color, composition, and intuition, encouraged by a strong mutual trust.  They let go of attachment to old work and began tearing up, gluing, painting and drawing over almost everything they'd created and "finished" in the past year.  They recycled old work to make new work, and realized that they found more meaning in change than in stasis.  A series was born, which they proudly showed, collectively, at their final critique of their junior year.  One night in the studio, they were playing one of their favorite games...oral exquisite corpse (free association generated poetry) and an interesting word came out of a collaged sounds.  Jackie, who really enjoys silly things like phoenetics, spelled it.  Kerdiekrdaad.  Which has since gained a mysterious e...Kerdieekrdaad.  And art for Bri and Jackie has not been the same since.