BRYAN MCGOVERN WILSON
(bmw)
CV
Shot on a Bolex.
Combined with 3 publicly vailable “audio” tracks of processed plasma data from the Cassini pobe as it approached Saturn.
Analog waves synthesized and fixed into binary particles, transmitted to you.
Watch out for your kids in Saturn’s Rose garden.
They have a way of being eaten.
3 minutes 3 seconds
Available to watch here.
Who watches him and when?
In collaboration with VIROSA
10 minutes 52 seconds
Available to watch here.
Starring Austin Kase & Megan Zerga
Special thanks to The Los Angeles County Natural History Museum and the staff of the LaBrea Tar Pits Museum.
Some of these forms were captured at Deception Pass State Park in the spring of 02022.
Special thanks to Wilbur Mead II.
At the end of that year, an imagined mummy bearing all these tattoos was made.
In 02014, the fellows at the Mildred’s Lane art residency immolated this body within a traditional Roman funerral pyre, sending it to the underworld.
Photo documentation.
Special thanks to Pofessor Robert Williams, Dr. Hilmar Schäfer, and the “Alchemist Shack: Underworld” artist fellows at Mildred’s Lane.
Maybe it is the persuit of perfection that allows us access to the G-D Head?
Are the angels meant to help us or challenge us along the way?
The proposed peformance at the Chrysler Museum of Art Glass Studio seeks to answer the above an more.
Taking inspiration in equal measure from the fabled Emerald Tablet, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, and “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”, a foolish king on a crusade of perfection tries to make the Holy Grail himself.
Assisted/frustrated by The Angels in the athanor of the glass studio, he guesses at the potential form the Grail may take.
Perfection obscures transcendence.
We laugh along the way.
Photo documentation.
Special thanks to The Chrysler Museum staff, Charlotte Potter, and Robin Rogers.
Mixed results.
Photo documentation.
Special thanks to Garret Miller
In 02010, dressed as Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, I drove from Stevensville, MT to New Mexico with my mother.
I was hunting for “trinitite”: the glass residue left behind on the desert floor from the first detonation of an atomic weapon.
Polaroid transfers on watercolor paper and trinitite.
Approx. 7in x 5in
Special thanks to Ann McGovern