Megan and Murray

Brand New Funky President

Country, do you know

just what I meant 

we just changed, we got 

A brand new funky President

Today's the day:

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Hirokazu Fukawa Lectures at Trinity College, Mon, Oct 13 at 4:30

Hirokazu Fukawa's artwork spans video, sculpture, installation, and interactive environments dealing with Post World War II Japanese Cultural Identity and the limits of communication within a culture based on collective understanding.

More info here.

Change is Coming

This past August, Murray and I passed the benchmark of our fourth consecutive year writing this blog. Over the course of those years, we've written close to a thousand posts; have reviewed hundreds of shows; and documented our projects and travels in Finland, Germany, Greece and Spain. This blog has covered our shift from performance installation art to photo, video and installation. In the process, we've moved from Los Angeles to St Louis to Providence, RI.

We were blogging here when Kerry was running for president, and now, four years later, we too, are in need of a new direction. This blog is due for some reinvention, some fresh air, a new vision. Murray and I are still figuring out what that will look like, but change: it's coming.

Preview Berlin, Video Art Program

We're excited to have been selected to have our video, The Listening Array, included in the Video Art Program of "the emerging art fair," Preview Berlin.

Fair Dates: Thursday October 30 - Sunday November 2, 2008
More info here.

Gone Fishin': Be Back Next Week

It's been quiet around here lately, in part because we moved to a live / work space mid-month. Also, both our laptops crashed this summer, and we've been slowly getting back up to speed with various back-ups and finding lots of small — forgivable, but regrettable — gaps in data along the way (goodbye iTunes playlists, we'll miss that great set from the Wrap Party we had back in 2004).

Between setting up the new studio, restoring our digital world, and getting ready for the upcoming semester, we've been swamped. We're excited about the fall, though, and have new projects and shows coming down the pike. Regular blogging will resume next week.

Painting; Moving; Setting Up Shop

From our recent road trip from Texas to Providence: the Oscar Mayer Weinermobile getting gas at the New Jersey Turnpike.

This week we're busy painting and readying the new live / work space before move-in day this weekend. Yesterday Murray installed a medicine cabinet in the bathroom that I picked up for a dollar at a yard sale, and we tie-wired a pole from the ceiling to serve as our closet. Although the space we're moving into is huge, it's quite affordable because it's missing a few of the amenities most dwellers take for granted: lights; a working bathtub; closet rods; shelving.

Our new place is totally DIY and we couldn't be more pleased.

A Slight Shift of Gravity: Online Opening

Megan and Murray McMillan, A Slight Shift of Gravity: Photograph 1, 2008

Megan and Murray McMillan, A Slight Shift of Gravity: Video, 2008, 1:34 min

Our exhibition A Slight Shift of Gravity is currently on view at Gallery Titanik in Turku, Finland. In conjunction with this exhibition, we are hosting an online opening here on our blog featuring the video that's currently on view at Titanik. In addition, we are including here the two photographs that are part of the same body of work. An alternate edit of the video is available here on our YouTube channel.

Megan and Murray McMillan, A Slight Shift of Gravity: Photograph 2, 2008

A Slight Shift of Gravity Opens July 10 at Galleria Titanik

Production image of the shoot, photo by Reino Koivula.

A Slight Shift of Gravity opens tonight at Galleria Titanik from 6-8pm.

Galleria Titanik
Itäinen Rantakatu 8
20700 Turku, Finland

A Slight Shift of Gravity at Galleria Titanik

A Slight Shift of Gravity, 2008, Megan and Murray McMillan, production still

A Slight Shift of Gravity, a new video installation by Megan and Murray McMillan, will open at Galleria Titanik on Thursday, July 10 from 6-8pm.

Megan and Murray McMillan are an artist-partnership collaborating in video, photography and installation. They are represented by Qbox Gallery in Athens, Greece and have exhibited nationally and internationally including the National Museum of Art in La Paz, Bolivia. They are beneficiaries of several awards including grants from the Dallas Museum of Art and Purdue University. They recently participated in the 10th International Istanbul Biennial (2007) in Turkey.

The McMillans have been married since 1997 and live and work in Providence, Rhode Island and are currently the Sumu Arte new media artists-in-residence.

Galleria Titanik
Itäinen Rantakatu 8
20700 Turku, Finland

The exhibition will open concurrently on the blog and on our YouTube channel.