JOEL TAUBER http://joeltauber.com [email protected] Tauber can be as poignantly eccentric as German performance jester John Bock, and as profound as Joseph Beuys. -- Emma Gray, ArtReview Magazine ARTIST, FILMMAKER, AND TEACHER • Born in Boston, MA (USA) in 1972 • Lives and works in Winston-Salem, NC EDUCATION • ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA, Masters in Fine Arts. 2002. • Lesley University, Cambridge, MA. Masters in Education. 1997. • Yale University, New Haven, CT. Bachelor of Arts: Art History, Sculpture, & Pre-med. 1995. • Maimonides School, Brookline, MA. 1990. TEACHING POSITIONS • Associate Professor of Art, Wake Forest University, July 2016 - Present • Assistant Professor of Art, Wake Forest University, Fall 2011 – June 2016 • Adjunct Faculty, University of Southern California, Spring 2005 – Spring 2010 • Adjunct Faculty, Art Institute of California, Orange County, September 2003 – December 2004 • Adjunct Faculty, Brooks College, Long Beach, California, August 2003 – September 2003 • Art and Art History Department Head and Teacher, Gann Academy, Waltham, MA, 1997-2000 AWARDS (SELECTED) • 2016 Research and Publication Grant, Wake Forest University • 2015 Andy Warhol Foundation For The Visual Arts grant (via the Grand Central Art Center) towards post- production costs of “The Sharing Project” movie • 2015 Faculty Development Grant, Wake Forest University • 2013 Creative and Research Activities Development and Enrichment Initiative Fellowship, Wake Forest University • 2013 award from the Dingledine Faculty Fund for the Support of International Activities, Wake Forest University • 2012, 2013, and 2016 awards from the Archie Fund for the Arts & Humanities, Wake Forest University • Project, “Sick-Amour”, shortlisted for a 2011 “International Green Award” • Movie, “Sick-Amour”, won a Sir Edmond Hilary Award at the 2011 Mountain Film Festival, Mammoth, CA • Movie, “Sick-Amour”, awarded Best Green Film in the 2010 Downtown Film Festival – Los Angeles, CA • Nominated for the 2009 USC Parents Association Outstanding Teaching and Mentoring Award • 2007-2008 Alpert Ucross Residency Prize for Visual Arts • 2007 Contemporary Collectors Orange County Fellowship • 1995 Norfolk Fellowship; first undergraduate to install a sculpture at the Yale Summer School of Music and Art • 1995 Sudler Fellowship to create an art exhibition at Davenport College, Yale University • 1994 Dorot Fellowship from Yale University to study mosaic floors and bird iconography in Israel • 1991 Academy Honor Student, American Academy of Achievement • 1990 Valedictorian, Maimonides School RESIDENCIES • Grand Central Art Center, Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana, CA, May 15 – July 31, 2015 • Alpert Ucross Artist Residency Program, Clearmont, Wyoming, May 4 - May 15, 2009 • Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands, July 1 – July 31, 2008 ART GALLERY REPRESENTATION • Adamski Gallery, Berlin, Germany (http://adamskigallery.com) PROJECTS (SELECTED) Joel Tauber’s practice is made up of large-scale research projects that yield multi-faceted and wide ranging art objects including installations, films, sculptures, photographs, and public art. Tauber’s projects have been presented in a variety of forms, including: solo and group art exhibitions; film festivals (and other film screenings); public art installations; as well as through various media outlets (television, radio, print, and the web). • The Sharing Project (2011 - in progress) poses questions about whether we share enough in our capitalist world. It focuses on the seemingly simple task of Tauber teaching his young son Zeke to share. As Tauber and Zeke struggle to understand what sharing means and how much we should share, experts in different fields offer their thoughts, creating more complexity and questions. In pursuit of answers, Tauber and his son turn to the forgotten Socialist Jewish commune of Happyville (1905-1908) in South Carolina, hoping that some of the mysteries of sharing are buried in the traces of the utopian community. The Sharing Project is an installation featuring 15 short films, 21 interviews, and a communal toy sculpture. It will also become a feature film. • Pumping (2009-2011) ponders the fragility and temporality of LA’s foundation, while it imagines a future when water is scarce and oil no longer exists. As an installation, Pumping is comprised (in its most complete form) of three video projections, train tracks, a giant metal “filmstrip”, a series of photographs, and a handcar sculpture. Pumping also exists as a 6-minute movie. • Sick-Amour (2005-ongoing) celebrates a forlorn sycamore tree that is stuck in the middle of a giant parking lot, as it describes Tauber’s crusade to improve the tree’s life. The full art installation consists of a 12-channel video sculpture in the shape of a tree, a series of photographs, two giant earring sculptures for the tree, as well as golden leaf necklaces and fruitball earrings for Tauber and other tree lovers. As a public art project, 200 tree babies (offspring of the adopted tree) have been planted throughout Southern California; many are adorned with a series of plaques and even – at a number of schools – sculptural necklaces. Sick-Amour is also a 33-minute hybrid documentary film / love story. • The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music (2003-2004) is a 3-channel video installation that chronicles Tauber’s investigations underwater and translates his movements during 40 scuba dives into music. The exhibition space is turned into an underwater disco. • Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project (2001-2003) contemplates the relationships between flight and metaphysics, as it chronicles Tauber’s numerous failed attempts to fly before he achieves success: Tauber flies 150 feet over the desert for an hour and a half in a musical flying machine that he constructs. The art installation consists (in its most complete form) of a 32-minute film, a series of photographs, and the musical flying machine / sculpture. • Seven Attempts to Make a Ritual (2000-2001) is a 7-channel video installation that chronicles Tauber’s attempts to place himself inside the Earth in particular ways in order to achieve a mystical experience. The project can also be seen (in a more condensed form) as a 24-minute film. SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED): • “The Sharing Project”, Aiken County Historical Museum, Aiken, SC (in progress) • “The Sharing Project”, The University Art Museum at Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA. June 13 – July 19, 2015. • “The Sharing Project”, Adamski Gallery Berlin, Germany. April 2 – May 6, 2015. • “Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project”, The Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University’s Scales Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, NC. January 17 - February 21, 2013. • “Pumping”, Adamski Gallery, Berlin, Germany. March 3 - April 28, 2012. • “Pumping”, The Charlotte and Philip Hanes Art Gallery at Wake Forest University’s Scales Fine Arts Center, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. 2011. • “Pumping”, Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects, Los Angeles, CA. December 18, 2010 – January 29, 2011. • “Joel Tauber: Digging, Diving, Flying, & Loving”, Adamski Gallery Berlin, Germany . 2008. • “Sick-Amour”, Ruth B. Shannon Center for the Performing Arts, Whittier College, Whittier, CA. 2008. • “Sick-Amour”, Susanne Vielmettter LA Projects, Los Angeles, CA. 2007. • “Sick-Amour”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany. 2007. • “Searching For The Impossible: Digging, Flying, and Diving”, Gallery Saintonge, Rocky Mountain School of Photography, Missoula, Montana. 2006. • "The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music", Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany. 2005. • “The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music”, Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. 2005. • “Seven Attempts to Make a Ritual”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA . 2005. • "The Underwater Project: Turning Myself Into Music", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA, CA. 2004. • “Searching For The Impossible: The Flying Project”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, LA, CA. 2004. • “Searching For The Impossible”, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany. 2003. GROUP ART EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED) • “Dirty Talk: Art / Environment / Action”, Gayle and Ed Roski MFA Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, October 27 – November 20, 2016 (in progress). • The movie, Pumping in: “Prime Time: Third Annual New Media Juried Exhibition”, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, North Carolina, March 31 – August 2, 2015. • The film from Searching For the Impossible: The Flying Project in: “Educational Complex Edit: Video from the students of Mike Kelley”, The Art Gallery of the University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida (January 24 - March 8, 2013) and then Zeigeist Interdisciplinary Art Center in New Orleans, LA (March 2013). Curated by Joseph Herring. • One of the videos from the Sick-Amour installation in: “Planter Show”, For Your Art, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Matthias Merkel Hess and Lisa Sitko. September 6-9, 2012. • Two photographs from the Sick-Amour installation as well as the movie in: “My LA”, Haubrok Foundation, Berlin, Germany. Other artists in the show: Eleanor Antin, Edgar Arceneaux, Morgan Fisher, Brian Kennon, Ruben Ochoa, Stephen Prina, and Christopher Williams. Curated by Axel Haubrok. March 29 – June 16, 2012. • Photographs and a video from the Sick-Amour installation in: “Nurturing Nature”, Albright College, Reading, PA. Curated by Amy Lipton and Patricia Miranda. March 20 –