Joseph Imhauser

is an artist and musician living in New York whose recent awards include the YoYoYo Initiative travel grant for Lyeberry (Rema Hort Mann Foundation, 2014) and Franco-American Cultural Exchange Fellowship (Carla Bruni-Sarkozy Fondation, 2013). Exhibitions, screenings and performances include: Editions Antoine Lefevbre, Paris, (Un Cabinet de Curiosités); Agroa, Berlin (Consensus Fetish II, 2015); Teatro Munganga, Amsterdam (A various asundry of itemized gifts, 2015); MASIN, Culiacán, MX (EXIT: Cartographia de la Creatividad, 2015); Husk Gallery, London (Roulade: The Hubris Issue, 2015); Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (Lyeberry #13: Luckyday, 2014); Cratér Invertido, Mexico City (Lyeberry #14: Díasuerte, 2014); Anthology Film Archives, New York (Utopias and Realities, 2014); Parmer, New York (If We Carry On Speaking the Same Language…, 2014) 321 Gallery, New York (Joy Syringe, 2014); Nowhere Kitchen, Berlin (144 Gross, 2014); EMBROS Theatre, Athens (Body Politics, 2014); ForYourArt, Los Angeles (Lyeberry #12: Americana Ruppersberg Dinner Theater, 2013), KCHUNG, Los Angeles (Commencement Speech, 2013), Tribeca Grand Theater, New York (Warm House, 2012).

Artist Statement

I highlight the structure of choice as a medium to procure objects in material form. My practice embodies art objects, communal events, film, invention and pedagogy. Between the presence of a virtual double and reality, psychical adhesion and affect manage to crack form and content – exposing the bilocation of time. Through employing choice as a primary formatting structure, lexicons develop that are interchangeable with the act of defining.