Oliver Herring: Participant Davide Borella

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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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Food Dye Facts
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Everything you wanted to know about color additives in food, from the U. S. Food and Drug Administration.

For instance:

Did you know that are nine certified colors approved for use in food in the United States?

That in 1900 there were 80 man-made color additives available for use in foods, without any regulations regarding the purity and uses of these dyes?

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Plays Well with Others
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Oliver Herring regularly involves other people in his artwork.

Check out this video featuring Herring's Little Dances of Misfortune (2001) in which he uses phosphorescent body paint to create a glow-in-the-dark artwork.

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Collaborating with Strangers
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Oliver Herring says about working with strangers:

"In the end, these things are collaborations. I don’t think of the people I work with as models or actors. They are people who are willing to sacrifice their time for me. Of course there is something in it for them, too: the experience is intimate and unusual. But it’s the same for me. Although I know more what to expect since I usually work with strangers, there is still a whole new world that enters my studio with whoever comes in. It’s very adventurous."


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See Finished Work From this Series
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Chris After Hours of Spitting Food Dye Outdoors, 2004
C-print, 41 1/2 x 62 1/2 inches Framed
Edition of 5
(via Max Protetch Gallery)

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Another Work
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Shane After Hours of Spitting Food Dye Indoors, 2004
C-print, 41 1/2 x 62 1/2 inches Framed
Edition of 5
(via Max Protetch Gallery)

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Photographic Filters
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Learn more about camera filters and experiment when taking your own photos.

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Channels: American ArtContemporary ArtPerformance ArtPhotography
Artists: Oliver Herring
Themes: CommunityPerformance

Exclusive Episode #065: On the roof of his Brooklyn studio, artist Oliver Herring photographs Davide Borella during an exhausting performance as Borella spits various colors of water, tinted by food dye, up into the air and onto his face.

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: Gary Silver. Editor: Jenny Chiurco and Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Oliver Herring. Special Thanks: Davide Borella.

I like the concept of blurring the lines between artist, audience, and subject. The interactive nature is really conducive to understanding the process of identifying with the audience. In this case, I see the artist becoming the audience, through the guise of photo documentation. I like the principle, but justifying the practical neccesity of the process to anyone outside of art would be tough. I do like the idea of the artist as audience/artist placing demands on a subject/audience. Definitely an interesting art event.
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00:00:11 I'm very intrigued and I am very curious to see what's going to happen. It's dye and spray, so we'll see.

00:00:26 Try and get as much on your face as possible.

00:00:39 Good. Try and get even more on your face, your hair, whatever.

00:00:46 That’s good. That’s great. It’s amazing. Keep going.

00:00:59 Okay.

00:01:10 Yeah.

00:01:35 There you go.

00:01:47 So by the way what did it taste like?

00:01:50 Some chemicals.

00:01:51 Chemicals?

00:01:51 Yeah, like liquid plastic.

00:01:55 Actually, I want to get your teeth one second, just a normal smile. Ha.Ha.Ha.Ha.

00:02:07 So, what do you think?

00:02:11 Oh I am much more curious about what he thinks.

00:02:13 Well, the red felt a little you know bloody.

00:02:16 Well, you couldn't see yourself.

00:02:18 No, but I could just I could actually see the color that I have on.

00:02:22 Because its runs in your eyes?

00:02:23 Yes, it was right on my eyelashes, so I have like red eyelashes on my eyebrows,

00:02:28 so I see through the color, so.

00:02:30 Did it hurt? I mean I saw so you squinting a lot.

00:02:32 Sometimes just the wind and the sun, but it was basically like I was seeing filter color; you know yellow filters, red filters, green filters, and blue filters.

00:02:44 What do you think you'd look like?

00:02:45 I have no idea. I feel like I look like a mask or something.

00:02:48 You feel like yourself?

00:02:51 Well I feel like myself a little wet and. Ha. Ha. Ha.