Adam H. Weinert

JACOB’S GARDEN

Founded in 2020 Jacob’s Garden is a working farm, living archive and participatory piece of choreography set on the campus of the Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival.  When Ted Shawn purchased the Jacob’s Pillow Farm in 1931 and founded the dance festival, agriculture held center stage.  He wanted his dancers and students in training to be outdoors, live away from the city, and eat a carefully considered, simple and nutritious diet.  It’s no coincidence that this seed-to-stage approach lay the foundation for what would become the most enduring dance festival this country has ever seen. Jacob’s Garden builds upon this legacy with performance activations, community involvement and updated growing techniques. More information at www.jacobsgarden.org.

Photo by Christopher Duggan courtesy of Jacob’s Pillow

THE UNSEEN

A DIGITAL PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION CREATED BY ADAM H WEINERT AND PHILIPPE TREMBLAY-BERBERI

THE UNSEEN, an original creation for the (UN)SCENE ART FAIR, March 4-8 (Armory Arts Week) at 549 W 52nd Street, is a site-specific augmented reality installation which reveals the space as it existed in its raw form before being built out for exhibition.  With the creation of a new mobile app which uses image-recognition, and geo-locational technology to load different kinds of media directly to people’s smartphones, we open up spatiotemporal possibilities for dance and place it in the hands of the spectator.

The Reaccession of Ted Shawn

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With The Reaccesion of Ted Shawn, Weinert returns the choreography of Ted Shawn to the museum entrusted with preserving it. Shawn, a seminal force in American modern dance, made a gift of his works to MoMA in the 1940’s, but the museum later gave away these materials. This move contradicted MoMA's policy not to sell or give away works by living artists. Weinert subversively returns Shawn's works to the museum through the use of augmented reality, a technology that enables audiences to access location-specific triggers throughout the museum to experience Weinert's filmed performances of Shawn's works on their mobile devices.

Performances of Shawn's works are by Weinert and were filmed by Philippe Tremblay-Berberri, and are accessible with the dance-tech AR mobile app. 

Inside Lives

Inside Lives exists as both art object and video installation. Using Augmented Reality technology, the blueprint of a brownstone on Manhattan's Upper West Side becomes an interactive display of original footage created by transitory inhabitants of this building in a city where artists are continuously priced out to the margins. Coinciding with the beginnings of Occupy Wall Street, we invited nine artists to respond, inhabit and document these transitional spaces and use them as a platform for artistic expression. 9 spaces, 9 artists, 3 minute works in 3 weeks time.

Participating artists include Itziar Barrio, Charlotte Bydwell, Phyllis Chen, Alexander Ekman, David Finch, Michael Hart, Marine Penvern, R.B. Schlather, Ryan Tracy, Riley Watts, and Zack Winokur. 

ANTECHAMBER

ANTECHAMBER is a live art installation interposing the private, public and personal. Sound, shadow, projection and dance art are used to construct a bricolage that investigates observation and reaction through gesture and space.

Premiered at Boltax Gallery Shelter Island, NY August 2011

Video by Philippe Tremblay-Berberi