March 14-17 2019 | Festival Videoformes | Clermont-Ferrand, France

I am extra pleased to be included in the 2019 edition of this long running festival, directed by Gabriel Soucheyre. It represents a truism of video art – that the fluidity of the medium is transformative. This year I have the pleasure to premiere Pensées Aléatoires du Futur, a work recorded in France with the support of Bandits Mages and the participation of artist Pascal Lièvre. Videoformes has been supportive of my work for a LONG time – and I find the artists and audience inspiring.

This 18 minute linear work does not attempt to predict the future but argues that what ever happens is a series of trifling decisions that have monumental consequences.

https://youtu.be/LVYGo7YrtQY

March 14-17 2019 | Festival Videoformes | Clermont-Ferrand, France

Videoformes will present this 2-channel work in a manner that makes me smile – an unused storefront in the middle of town. Of course I love the blank white space of a gallery or museum, but there is something special about mounting a piece like this where anyone and everyone can experience it – even at night!

SORRY is a song sung by everyday people, as a plaintive cry for understanding. It started when I realized that I was sorry for being who I am (old, white and male – the patriarchy) but expanded when it struck me that we are ALL being forced to be sorry for who we are. In a pop manner, this work supplies the viewer with every reason to say “no” to being bullied and abandoned, while being dusted with some sly wit.

https://youtu.be/lAqZhFdQVSg

March 27, 2019 | National Museum of Qatar 

In 2016, Bangkok's BACC held John Sanborn's largest one person show to date, Shifting Horizons. The exhibition explored autobiography through music, myth and memory. It also demonstrated the artist's ability to produce epic installations. Celebrated for his groundbreaking single channel works, Sanborn has demonstrated over the last four years  a consistently innovative approach to installations. 'Alchemy', commissioned as a permanent installation by the National Museum of Qatar, is yet another achievement, comprised of thirty monitors and eight channels. In the company of such artists as Ai Wei Wei, Doug Aitken, filmmaker Mira Nair, John Sanborn continues to challenge his ability to expand the medium, so that it might make the world feel at ease within it.