Adam Herst
Adam Herst is a Toronto based artist
working in performance and electronic media. He is interested in the
tension between ideas, their ownership, and their
reproduction, and in exploring the implications of the proposition that
ideas which are designed for dissemination will be disseminated. Adam
is a member of the curatorial collective which produces the 7a*11d International
Festival of Performance Art. When Adam isn't creating art, he
provides information
technology services to arts organizations.
But for a long time, our static media, whether carvings in stone, ink on paper, or dye on celluloid, have strongly resisted the evolutionary impulse, exalting as a consequence the author's ability to determine the finished product. But, as in an oral tradition, digitized information has no "final cut."
Upcoming
The Nomadic Noise Residency brings together a core group of 25 collaborators
– artists, producers, designers, makers, urban innovators –
for a four month noise residency in Toronto.
The residency runs from March – July 2013,
culminating in an online and offline exhibition in various pockets of Toronto.
Selected Works
Does a standing chair think of sitting? 2012
Intersection, May 20 - June 10, 2012
(Video documentation)
Memories, 2011
Swansong, 2010
(Performance for video)
The Revolution Will Be Live, 2010
Jon Sasaki, Human Statue of the Spirit of Individualism, 2010
(Performance Participation)
It's Not Easy Being Green, 2009
Sunnyside Mourning, 2008
(Left to right: Laura Mendes, John Loechner, Adam Herst, Laura Smith.
Not shown: Annie Onyi Cheung, Gram Schmalz, Emma Barron)
Annie Onyi Cheung, On Consumption II, 2007
(Performance Participation)
