RYAN TRECARTIN

Ryan Trecartin 31 years old Rhode Island School of Design Discovered on Friendster, 2005 Video art, sculpture, installation art, new media art “Hysterical Realism”

I-Be Area (2007) I-BE AREA (Craig-Ricky I-Be the Original I-Be2) I-BE AREA (I-Be2 becomes Oliver becomes Amerisha) u I-BE AREA (Pasta and Wendy M-PEGgy)

I-Be Area Pickle Suprise The Real World, Jersey Shores, Reality TV “…hyperactively interconnected ideas about family, belonging, identity, gender, the Internet and the entertainment industry. But they are much more fascinating than allegorical characters generally have a right to be, with names like Pasta and Jammie, yakking endlessly, arrogantly, pleadingly, in phantasmagoric makeup and crazy clothes. The title character, I-Be, is less a person than an idea of a person waiting to hijack or be hijacked by a personality…”

Any Ever (2011) Any Ever, 2011, PS1 “…the new work, as yet unfinished and untitled, was using the dire state of the economy to describe a world in a state of epic, maybe never-ending transition. It is a place where the idea of credit becomes so abstract that “credit cards start to have conceptual agendas” and where people create and use their own currencies. The Web becomes a catalyst for a “postgender world,” said Mr. Trecartin, who is gay. Transvestites would not be the usual kind but instead “astrological trannies” or “personality trannies,” choosing to exist in a state of not quite being one person.”

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Related Artists: Kalup Linzy “…a serial soap opera around a dysfunctional African-American family.” All My Churen (2003)

Related Artists: Nathalie Djurberg “…sculptures clay figures and sets them in sadistic encounters.” The Parade: Nathalie Djurberg with Music by Hans Berg ZGjhxYVhmo

“These artists, using video that is cheaper and more accessible than ever thanks to digital technology, are creating a new kind of 21st- century art that is narrative in form and potentially epic in scale. At present it is shaped by a combination of pop fantasy, ingrained cybersmarts, neo-tribalism and an angst-free take on contemporary life that marks an attention-deficient Internet culture.”