Sloss,Kerr, Rosenberg & Moore
The performance video SLOSS, KERR, ROSENBERG & MOORE is based on the a live performance work choreographed by Ann Carlson in 1986. This work was made with and performed by four NYC practicing attorneys John Sloss, Chet Kerr, Scott Rosenberg and Thomas Moore. The gestures and vocal score that occur as a finely tuned rhythmic sequence, are borrowed from the motions of day to day litigating as well as the pressures experienced while laboring inside the juridical system: the contest, the service and ultimately these lawyer’s individual humanity. Sloss, Kerr, Rosenberg & Moore began a decades long series of works for Carlson/Strom, working with people from all walks of life, creating dances that reflect upon subjectivity, the inscription of labor, and the multiplicity of experiences of embodiment. These four attorneys performed this work over a period of 25 years, rendering it as a kind of twenty-first century folk dance. As one of the early “collected” choreographic video works, Strom created this performance video with a highly formal spatial design and patterning.
Exhibited at:
2017 Dominant Form, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR, curator Yaelle S. Amir
2015 ILLUMINUS Festival, Boston, MA, curator Camilo Alverez
2014 Human Images, Nagoya Museum of Fine Arts, Nagoya, Japan, curator Natsuko Hido
2014 Framed Movements, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Australia
curator Hannah Matthews
2012 Boys or girls? Who cares?, Context Gallery, Miami, FL
Curators, Julia Draganović and Claudia Löffelholz , LaRete Art Projects
2012 Body and Screen, The Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
Curator Nandini Makrandi
2011 The Permanent Collection Exhibition, The Linde Family Wing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Curator, Jen Mergel
2011 Dance With Camera, curator, Jenelle Porter
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
2009 Mary Ellen Strom and Ann Carlson, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2009 Back and Forth and All Over Again, James Taylor Gallery, London, Great Britain
Curator Marialaura Ghidini
2008 Work/Place, Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Curator, Natasha Egan
2008 Sameness, Difference, Desire, video show, Pulse, NY, curator, Bill Arning
2008 Working Title, Momenta Art, Williamsburg, NY, curator, Eric Heist
2008 Artadia Awards Boston Exhibition, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA, curator, Laura Donaldson
2007 Work, Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom, Alexander Gray Associates, NYC
2007 Work, St. Gauden’s Fellowship Prize Exhibition, Cornish, New Hampshire
2007 At Work, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA, curated by Kristen Dodge
Permanent Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston