Kirsten Mosher
Kicking & Kicking: Gumhead Housing Around, Kirsten Mosher, video projection A is for Zebra, LACMA On-Site Projects,curated by Jose Blondet, 2011
Two Heads: Gumhead Housing Around
Two Heads is one in the series of short stop-motion videos Gumhead Housing Around by Kirsten Mosher with sound by Curran Davis. The videos feature a team of characters called Gumheads, vigorously chewed pieces of brightly colored gum, with legs drawn in black pen. Housing Around is an exploration of the details, architecture and idiosyncrasies of a series of interior spaces. At once graffiti and intervention the gumheads are a collision of the flat and three dimensional, creating characters with sticky heads and stick legs. Gumheads wiggle, press into and scamper on door frames, corners, moldings, and into the desk drawers of my house with humorous parkour style acrobatics and sneaky encounters. Their activities are of a repetitive and minimal nature synced with experimental music creating a level of abstraction that amplifies the character of the places they find themselves in, leveling the relationship between character and architectural space.
Cornersault: Gumhead Housing Around, Kirsten Mosher - video projection, Kirsten Mosher, A is for Zebra, curated by Jose Blondet, LACMA On-Site Projects, 2012
Two Heads, Bulletin Board at CCS, Bard, sign with gumheads, Kirsten Mosher, detail from installation created for the Bulletin Board at CCS, Bard, Red Hook, New York, curated by Nova Benway, 2011
lmno Gumhead, wall mural, Kirsten Mosher, 2012, LACMA, Charles White Gallery, A is for Zebra, LACMA On-Site Projects, curated by Jose Blondet, 2011, http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/zebra
Gumhead, Gumhead, ready or not, and Gumhead’s Sister by Kirsten Mosher, with a Spanish text by Jose Luis Blondet, published by the MUSAC, Leon, Spain with the exhibition I was a Male Yvonne De Carlo curated by Marie de Brugerolle and Dora Garcia, 2011, in an edition of 250 each, 8 x 8 inch cardboard books. Gumhead booksare available at the MUSAC http://musac.es/index_en.php?ref=32800 and at the Dia:Beacon bookshop.
Gumhead by Kirsten Mosher
Spit it out! Yucky intestines or gum, hard to tell, and didn’t your mother tell you not to stick that wad on the wall! A look at the abstract qualities of brightly colored chewing gum while examining one of the most basic life questions, How come I’m Gumhead?
