Joseph Mougel: Rolling Hills

June 21, 2017 - 5:15am - 8:30pm

Joseph Mougel: Rolling Hills
Wednesday, June 21, 2017 – 5:12 am-8:34 pm (15h32m)
Free to members or with admission to the sculpture garden.

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Rolling Hills, the first of two site-specific performances, employs manual labor as the vehicle for artistic creation, acknowledging both the fundamental role of physical work in shaping spaces with intentionality, as well as the real limits to human efforts in the face of nature. The environments transformed through labor become stages for video performances that further expose the unique characteristics of place, with narratives that consider aesthetics and methodology, and are at once completely rational and absurd. Visitors are welcome to stop by to observe; we will be open from 10 am until the end of the performance.

Mougel’s second performance, Still River, takes place on December 21, 2017, from 7:19 am to 4:20 pm.

About the Artist

Joseph Mougel’s practice bridges photography, video, and performance, and forms connections among historical processes, digital photography, and computer-constructed environments. His research grows out of his experience serving in the US Marine Corps, from the consequences of joining the military, to surveys of systems and resources, to labor and landscape interventions that describe a human effort to exert control, albeit in a transitory or futile manner. A field-based methodology informs Mougel’s artistic practice, and in many ways, his experience in the military functioned as a precursor to the artist residencies and land-based projects that define his work today. A 2016 recipient of a Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Mary L. Nohl Fund Fellowship for Individual Artists, he has created site-responsive work at Elsewhere Artists Collaborative in North Carolina, The Eden Project in New South Wales and South Australia, Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, and Iowa Lakeside Laboratory. Mougel has exhibited his work at the Lannan Foundation Gallery in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Cressman Center for Visual Arts in Louisville, Kentucky, San Diego Art Institute, Minneapolis Photo Center, Midwest Center for Photography in Wichita, Kansas, Museum of Contemporary Art in Atlanta, The Red House in Sofia, Bulgaria, Municipal Heritage Museum in Malaga, Spain, Bega Valley Regional Gallery in NSW Australia, and PH21 Gallery in Budapest, Hungary, among others. Mougel completed a BFA in studio art at the University of Georgia and an MFA in photography at the University of New Mexico, where he also studied video, performance, and interactive media, and participated in the field-based studio program Land Arts of the American West. He currently teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Peck School of the Arts where he is head of the Photography & Imaging area.


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