JAMES LEONARD

Socially Engaged Performance

2018

The public is invited to complete the following two sentences

"If I could keep one thing in the world, I would sustain ______________"

"If I could change one thing in the world, I would transform __________"

while I and artist Hector Canonge apply gold leaf to non-biodegradable trash.

Performance Installation & Social Engagement

2015, 9' diameter footprint

Portable ritual space.

Climate change related Tarot readings inside.

Image credits include Melissa Blackall & Wendy Whitesell.

2011 to present, Ongoing Body of Drawings & Objects

Speculative research into the last rocket.

2014 to present, ongoing series of

iron-on transfers on shirts.

Book, 2015, 5" x 8", 82 pages with inserts

Images and text documenting a year spent exploring divination

at the dawn of the Anthropocene.

Includes photographs by Nina Mouritzen, Molly Gallentine,

Michael Duva, and James Leonard

2008 Remaster, Video Monologue

Portrait sitter Lazzarus riffs on the 80-year Captain America narrative.

2011, Paint & Ink on Cardboard

Open edition of approximately 200.     Installed en masse.

2013, Live Performance & Installation

project tumblr       #akissforluck      July 24 - August 11

2014, typewritten text on 3" x 5" card

Methods of divination as catalogued on Wikipedia

2007, Video portrait

Jax details her ten years work as a horse whisperer in this 34 minute monologue

2013 to present, mixed media

Materials gathered from an ongoing series of process based performance works.

2010 to present, ballpoint on 3" x 5" card

Hypercubes and other transdimensional shapes drawn daily as mandala

2005 to present, Live Performance & Editioned Security Prints

Certificates available from Fuse Works

2013, Serigraph on Tissue Paper

Open edition used to wrap and pack purchased artworks

2004, Offset on Paper & Movie Poster Display with Chaser Lights

2011, Pen on Paper

Each copy transcribed from the prior, edition of 500.

1994, Body Work

5 hours mute in London in public spaces.     No verbal thought.

2010 to present, Steel Wire & Found Wood

Ongoing series of site specific fences installed in domestic spaces.

1995 - 1996, street performance

Sold subscriptions to Sky and membership plans to Culture

2005, Flocked Posters, Nylon Rope & Binding Tackle

2002, Rubber, Wood, Metal