BUBBLES @ Rochester Art Center coming this Summer 2021.
Artist of record: Preston Drum
Title: Bubbles
Media: Multimedia (Painting, Sculpture, Video and Sound)
Exhibition Dates: June 4, 2021 – October 17, 2021
Project Description: Bubbles is a site-specific installation in the Davies Gallery at Rochester Art Center that combines painting, sculpture, sound and video to create an immersive facsimile of an American domicile. Drawing dual inspiration from his son’s first word and the pervasive social condition the pandemic has brought upon us, Drum explores notions of domestic life inside a bubble. Through non-linear storytelling, the events of a never-ending day are stitched together to create a portrait of family.
This is a video recording of the BUBBLES artist talk delivered by Preston Drum on June 20, 2021 (Father's Day) at the Rochester Art Center in Rochester, Minnesota. This talk is an accompaniment to the site specific art installation that Drum created in 2021 for the Rochester Art Center in the Davies Gallery.
Land Acknowledgement:
In making artworks about the concept of “home,” it is my reverent duty to acknowledge that the Dakota, Sioux, Ojibway, Wahpekute, Wahpeton and Winnebago have for generations stewarded the lands and waterways of what are now the cities of Burnsville and Rochester, Minnesota. Prior to a forced removal and genocide committed by the US government, the Catawba Sugree people inhabited Charlotte, North Carolina. While my work does not directly address the struggles of native peoples and first nations, I honor and respect the relationship between these peoples and this land.
Some music in the video was performed by Elvis Drum, Preston Drum, Andrew Smith and Eric Bailey .
This video was written, filmed and edited by Preston Drum
https://rochesterartcenter.org/exhibition/preston-drum/