Fellow
Dean Erdmann
Fellow, 2018-2020
During their fellowship at the Vera List Center, and in collaboration with the New School community, Dean Erdmann will create a semi-autobiographical, environmental installation on the subject of American illiberalism. Weaving together film, sculpture, photography, and text, they will consider how our historical pasts have produced our current moment of social and political crisis. The fellowship project will draw global links between America, Germany, and Japan, as well as the comparatively cheap thrills of motorcycling and the high price of stimulant use, to tie together the working class and poor, legacies of war, and the subcultural thrill of speed.
Dean Erdmann’s work addresses the politics of place, class, and the body. Erdmann uses still and moving images from found and original footage, and often creates or uses archives as source material. They manipulate footage into new forms, rearranging, destabilizing, and building anew its form. Through the intensity of the visual experience, which may entail meditative, hypnotic, or hallucinatory experiences, the viewer becomes acutely aware of their perceptive capacities and how those link to their bodies, feelings, and knowledges.
Erdmann completed their MFA at University of California San Diego (2008). They received a CCI Completion Grant (2012) and the CCF Emerging Artist Fellowship (2013). Their work has been exhibited at ONE Archive (Los Angeles), 21stCentury Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; REDCAT (Los Angeles), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) and the Images Festival in Toronto. Fabrication is nearly complete for the 400-foot LA Metro artwork commissioned for Leimert Park Station opening in 2019. Upcoming, their work is included in the MexiCali Biennial
Related
Conversation
2018-2020 Fellows Dean Erdmann and Helene Kazan Artist Talk and Conversation
Oct 5, 2018
Exhibition
Dean Erdmann. And, Apollo: A Laboratory
Jan 16–Feb 11, 2020
Catalogue
Dean Erdmann. And, Apollo: A Laboratory
Conversation
Queer Archives: Between the Individual and the Institutional
Jan 27, 2020
Lecture
Parsons Fine Arts Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Dean Erdmann
Sep 11, 2019
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