Oliver Herring: Legacy

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Art21 first featured artist Oliver Herring in 2005
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Watch the original & uncut 13 minute film online! (via Hulu)

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Own Season 3 Today: DVD or iTunes
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Oliver Herring is featured in the Art21 episode "Play" along with fellow artists Ellen Gallagher, Arturo Herrera, and Jessica Stockholder. The Season 3 DVD features 4 episodes, 18 artists, and is available from PBS and Amazon.

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Stop-Motion Animation
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Learn how to make your own stop-motion animation films and videos.

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Phosphorescence
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In this video, artist Oliver Herring covered participants with a phosphorescent body paint and edited together only the moments of the lights turned off. See Wikipedia for the science behind phosphorescence:

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"TASK" Events & Blog
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Oliver Herring's videos and performances are often created by improvising with friends and strangers. The project "TASK" is an ongoing series of performances comprised of:

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The AIDS Memorial Quilt
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Founded in 1987, The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a poignant memorial, a powerful tool for use in preventing new HIV infections, and the largest ongoing community arts project in the world. Each "block" (or section) of The AIDS Memorial Quilt measures approximately twelve feet square, and a typical block consists of eight individual three foot by six foot panels sewn together. Virtually every one of the more than 40,000 colorful panels that make up the Quilt memorializes the life of a person lost to AIDS.

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September 11, 2001
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Oliver Herring created this video soon after the September 11th terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, evidenced by the melancholy tone of the music, the stoic and still nature of the performers, and the choice of props and simulated movements such as two ladders and falling bodies.

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Channels: American ArtAnimationContemporary ArtVideo Art
Artists: Oliver Herring
Themes: CommunityPeoplePerception

Exclusive Episode #051: Artist Oliver Herring discusses what he perceives as generational shifts in our relationship to the camera, mortality, and legacy, accompanied by scenes from his five channel video installation Little Dances of Misfortunes (2001) — created after 9/11 — which depicts amateur dancers illuminated by phosphorescent body paint.

Among Oliver Herring’s earliest works were his woven sculptures and performance pieces in which he knitted Mylar, a transparent and reflective material, into human figures, clothing and furniture. Since 1998, Herring has created stop-motion videos, photo-collaged sculptures, and impromtu participatory performances with ‘off-the-street’ strangers, embracing chance and chance-encounters in his work.

Learn more about Oliver Herring: http://www.art21.org/artists/oliver-herring

VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Oliver Herring.

That's a wonderful body painting. Oliver Herring is surely a great artist. Thanks for sharing.
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00:00:33 I find people really interesting. I find every person I have ever met had at least for an hour an interesting story to tell.

00:00:42 And it’s just a question of finding the right questions or tapping into that little hidden something that unlocks somebody.

00:01:00 I am quite addicted right now to other peoples lives and most of the people I work with, and I have worked with a lot of people over the last three-four years,

00:01:10 they have become very much part of my life. They have become friends and they always want to come back. They always want to do more, which is really interesting

00:01:20 because it suggests that there is this vacuum in most peoples lives to express themselves to the fullest.

00:01:34 I am always aware that art can be very self indulgent and I think one of the reasons why so many people want to do this, subject themselves to my torture, is not just to play

00:01:49 but also to present themselves in a format that is unusual from their ordinary lives to create a legacy of sorts.

00:02:06 My relationship to the camera is a very different one from a lot of the people that I worked with who seem to be younger than me. I think a lot of these kids grew up in the 90s

00:02:18 with AIDs in the back of their mind. They thought about mortality I think a lot and I think the times we are living in, terrorist attacks, war,

00:02:26 just makes you feel much more vulnerable. I think then you would otherwise if you are 18 that combined with reality TV and the possibility of actually putting your life on film

00:02:38 or imagining your life on film. It’s ultimately up to them to express what they want to express and there is very little I need to do.

00:02:45 All I need to do is facilitate that experience really and they do the rest.