MEDITATION/MEDIATION PROJECT
For years now Daniel Rothbart has carried twenty metal vessels of varying dimensions to different countries around the world. When he identifies an interesting environment, Rothbart arranges the vessels within it and documents the scene with photographs. The objects, thanks to the intervention of unpredictable outside factors, are filled with transient meanings that open them to new interpretations and effectively shift their meaning as signifiers. The transitory nature of meaning, uncertainty, nomadism, and geographic and semantic uprooting are central elements to Daniel Rothbart's project.
View Video: Daniel Rothbart Artist's Talk, Exit Art, NYC, 6.17.06
Since the 1990s, Rothbart's work has focused on how meaning is attributed to situations and how that meaning inevitably shifts. Meditation/Mediation investigates the rapport between object and context and different identities (artist, work, public), which leave his overall project in an unpredictable state of flux that is constantly redefined.
-Carla Subrizi
PERFORMANCE COLLABORATION
For the performance, three large metal vessels are installed in a site. Participants and members of the public are invited to sound one of the vessels and then improvise in a manner of their own choosing. The performance is complete after each participant has sounded the vessel a second time.
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To date
participants have included:
| ARTIST | DATE | VENUE | LOCATION |
| Ala of Tel Aviv | 12/29/03 | Dizengoff Square | Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Algerian Entertainer | 12/30/03 | Dan Panorama Hotel | Eilat, Israel |
| Alligator Tears | 07/06/06 | Everglades | Everglades, Florida |
| Kathleen Anderson | 09/23/06 | Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art | Peekskill, New York |
| Diana Barnes-Brown | 09/23/06 | Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art | Peekskill, New York |
| Wayne Bartlett | 02/15/04 | The Borowsky Gallery - Gersman Y | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Offer Ben Amos | 12/29/03 | The Herzliya Artist's Residence Gallery | Herzliya, Israel |
| Bambi Ben Gur | 12/29/03 | The Herzliya Artist's Residence Gallery | Herzliya, Israel |
| Max Blagg | 04/24/05 | Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery | New York, New York |
| Achille Bonito Oliva | 07/08/03 | Private Residence | Rome, Italy |
| Soledad Cabrera | 12/31/06 | Playa de Huatulco | Huatulco, Mexico |
| Alessandro Castiglioni | 05/23/08 | Galleria Il Ponte | Florence, Italy |
| Camel Farmers | 01/02/04 | Camel Ranch | Wadi Shlomo, Israel |
| Catherine Cattaneo | 03/02/06 | Galerie Depardieu | Nice, France |
| Eva Coen | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Beni Cori | 12/29/03 | The Herzliya Artist's Residence Gallery | Herzliya, Israel |
| Adrian Dannatt | 03/28/05 | Jungle Red Studios | New York, New York |
| Dawn Dedeaux | 11/05/08 | KK Projects | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Christian Depardieu | 07/09/04 | Galerie Depardieu | Nice, France |
| Columbia Fiero | 09/23/06 | Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art | Peekskill, New York |
| Gabbi Ford | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Francis Ford | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Gilbert Gay-Parme | 07/08/04 | Galerie Depardieu | Nice, France |
| Varda Genossar | 12/29/03 | The Herzliya Artist's Residence Gallery | Herzliya, Israel |
| Marco Di Giovanni | 05/23/08 | Galleria Il Ponte | Florence, Italy |
| Zoè Gruni | 05/23/08 | Galleria Il Ponte | Florence, Italy |
| Ian Gunn | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Anthony Haden Guest | 04/24/05 | Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery | New York, New York |
| Heide Hatry | 09/23/06 | Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art | Peekskill, New York |
| Alan Jones | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Hélène Jourdan-Gassin | 07/09/04 | Galerie Depardieu | Nice, France |
| Michael Kennedy | 11/05/03 | Westward Ho! Hotel and Casino | Las Vegas, Nevada |
| L. Brandon Krall | 04/24/05 | Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery | New York, New York |
| Elïs Künzli | 07/08/04 | Galerie Depardieu | Nice, France |
| Rachel Laibson | 02/15/04 | The Borowsky Gallery - Gersman Y | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Alison Levy | 09/23/06 | Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art | Peekskill, New York |
| Abraham Lubelski | 04/24/05 | Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery | New York, New York |
| Francesco Lucrezi | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Francine Hunter McGivern | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Larry Miller | 04/24/05 | Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery | New York, New York |
| Mississippi River | 05/11/04 | Woldenberg Park | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Sukran Moral | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Bernardino Nardi | 05/23/08 | Galleria Il Ponte | Florence, Italy |
| Valery Oisteanu | 04/24/05 | Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery | New York, New York |
| YOKO ONO | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Dana Parnas | 12/29/03 | The Herzliya Artist's Residence Gallery | Herzliya, Israel |
| Enrico Pedrini | 11/15/03 | Subway Train Yard | Queens, New York |
| John Perreault | 04/24/05 | Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery | New York, New York |
| Giordano Pozzi | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Lucio Pozzi | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Maria Roccasalva | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Mimmo Roselli | 05/23/08 | Galleria Il Ponte | Florence, Italy |
| Douglas Rosenberg | 08/17/04 | Cornfield | Oregon, Wisconsin |
| Rubin of New Orleans | 05/09/04 | Jackson Square | New Orleans, Louisiana |
| Frank Schroder | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Bettina Sellmann | 04/24/05 | Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery | New York, New York |
| Farid Abu Shakra | 12/29/03 | The Herzliya Artist's Residence Gallery | Herzliya, Israel |
| Bernardo Skolnik | 12/29/03 | The Herzliya Artist's Residence Gallery | Herzliya, Israel |
| Nadine Spinoza | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Lili Spizzichino | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Livia Straus | 09/23/06 | Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art | Peekskill, New York |
| Lisa Paul Streitfeld | 04/24/05 | Rogersmitharts The Lab Gallery | New York, New York |
| Carla Subrizi | 06/28/03 | Fondazione Baruchello | Rome, Italy |
| Martha Wilson | 03/24/05 | Jungle Red Studios | New York, New York |
| Junko Yamasaki | 07/09/04 | Galerie Depardieu | Nice, France |
| Ana Zaballata | 12/27/04 | San Lorenzo Albarrados | Mexico |