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PAY ATTENTION : GM08
VITA.MN SEPTEMBER 22, 2008 BY GREGORY J. SCOTT PAY ATTENTION : GM08 A showcase of Twin Cities art. Capsule review: A showcase of Twin Cities art. This opening at the Soap Factory is going to be so laden with obscure art-world antecedents, you may need a crib sheet to keep up with all...
Wanted: Your thoughts on Jabba the Hutt
BY JAY GABLER TC DAILY PLANET August 10, 2008 A pair of St. Paul conceptual artists who go by the name tectonic industries (small t and small i, please) are preparing a new work, and they are looking for volunteers to sit in their studio this weekend and be filmed for up to an...
Featured Banner Artists: tectonic industries
access+ENGAGE Issue 32.1: Women Behind the Camera mnartists.org online e-mag August 2008 Banner artwork: Still from the sixteen-monitor video installation, The Desire to Stay Versus the Inevitability of Change, recently on exhibit at Franklin Art Works, produced by tectonic industries in conjunction with the cinematographer Evan Drolet Cook. Sixteen participants were allocated a role from Alfred Hitchcock’s...
Review: Tectonic Shiftlessness
Art Review & Preview, v1.4 Spring 2008 By Jay Gabler On a sunny Saturday afternoon in late February, the Danish-Minnesotan artist Lars Jerlach stood in a dark gallery surrounded by sixteen flickering televisions, holding his infant daughter and talking about the frustrating paradoxes of modern life. “Nobody has time anymore to invest anything in...
tectonic industries: the desire to stay versus the inevitability of change
The Rake Magazine March 2008 By Haily Gostas Image courtesy tectonic industries Typically, the word “tectonic” refers either to the construction or deformation of our planet’s foundational materials. For lars jerlach and helen stringfellow, it’s a little more specific: As tectonic industries, a collaborative partnership, their artistic goal is to build around collective mainstream memory—...
The Desire to Stay Versus the Inevitability to Change
Metro Magazine March 2008 By Gregory J. Scott Helen Stringfellow has a pretty strong opinion of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds. “Everyone remembers being scared by it as a kid,” she says. “But you watch it now, and you say, ‘This is crap.’ ” Stringfellow, who originally hails from England, and her husband, Lars Jerlach,...
Quick picks: tectonic industries
Minn Post February 29th, 2008 By Molly Priesmeyer Photo courtesy of tectonic industries “Tectonic Industries: The Desire to Stay Versus the Inevitability of Change.” Franklin Artworks, 1021 E. Franklin Ave., Minneapolis. Through March 29. Free. The uneasiness is palpable in a room where 16 people seem to talk to one another via flickering TV...
Art: Boredom is goal at Franklin Art Works show
vita.mn February 7, 2008 By Gregory J. Scott Photo courtesy of Tectonic Industries In eight years of programming at Franklin Art Works, “only three artists [have come] to my attention from blind submission,” said gallery director Tim Peterson, “and Tectonic Industries was the first.” Tectonic Industries — an uprooted...
Review of Faculty Art Exhibition at UW-Stout
Art Canary ”The Twin Cities-Area Student Arts Writing Initiative” November 2007 By Darren Tesar & Patrick Gantert The following dialogue between Darren Tesar and Patrick Gantert was recorded on October 3, 2007. At the beginning of each fall semester, the Department of Art and Design at UW-Stout has a faculty exhibition in the Furlong Gallery...
