Strategies of Survival: Notes by Jonn Herschend, Ernest Jolly, Christine Wong Yap, Favianna Rodriguez, Stephanie Syjuco
Online from October 4, 2014
As part of Open City/Art City, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
(Meant to be) Lost and Found
"(Meant to be) Lost and Found"
Displaced-correspondence-as-public-art by Anthony Discenza, Charles Gute, Jonn Herschend, and Jamie Hilder
October 22 - 26, 2009
All sorts of places
New York, New York
Project Description: For this collaboration with Invisible Venue (IV) Anthony Discenza, Charles Gute, Jonn Herschend, and Jamie Hilder have each created artworks that resemble correspondence. Each artist was invited to create work inspired by the accidental intimacy and curiosity of discovering someone's lost communication, such as the discovery of a handwritten letter blowing in the wind. In turn, 100 reproductions of these pieces of 'correspondence' will be left in random public spaces* throughout the city to mediate chance encounters with an unquantifiable public audience.
Jonn Herschend
"The Man Who Disappeared Into His Own Clothes Pile"
A site-specific fiction by Jonn Herschend
View by appointment through January 5, 2008
Email [email protected] to make arrangements
In this site-specific collaboration with Invisible Venue, Jonn Herschend investigates the disappearance of the man through interviews and reenactments with local residents and acquaintances. A video documentary by Herschend provides key insights, though few answers, about the man’s disappearance. The scene of his disappearance is open for public examination. The man's personal effects, his journal and intimate correspondence are accessible to visitors. Everything is exactly as it was when he disappeared.