A Hiddur Mitzvah: My Own Saviour, I Do is a 24 hour media installation by Kello Goeller. It is her personal impressionist meditation on the 24 hour (x 7 x 365 x hope it ends soon!) media culture.
Seminal cultural theorist Bill McKibben, with a career spanning the New Yorker and 350.org, undertook a similar labor with his 1992 Age of Missing Information project. Since, the media has greatly perfected its hooks, daggers, triggers and assault on privacy as well as assault on identity.
Goeller's project is more Joycean, filtered through the lens of a working media art maker in today's culture. The source material is primarily a long accumulation of artist-made source footage, not commercial footage.
Goeller brings the Jewish spiritual philosophy practice of hiddur mitzvah to the making and viewing the video. It is a sharpening and deepening exercise. The 25 hour event is contextualized within the tradition of Sabbath and the ritual of Shabbat.
Friday at 8:45PM ritual candles will be enflamed and blessings over bread and wine entoned. Then there will be a short performance by Goeller. The 24 hour video begins at 9PM. Ending the cycle Saturday at 9PM there will be a one hour discussion with the artist.
Goeller is a great experimental artist. We are always excited when they make larger projects with funding and collaborators. Sight unseen, this might be an example.
The exhibit space requests you contact them by private message ahiddurmitzvah@gmail.com to experience the installation late night or morning. The venue has stairs. Please contact as soon as you can for ADA accessibility.
It is in a private residence.
At My Apartment Wall http://www.megangraceharned.com/my-apartment-wall/ 6804 SE Pardee 8:45PM Friday to 10PM Saturday
