Regarding Next, 2007-08

Lynn Book’s “RE:garding Next '' ( 2007-08) was a ‘collaborative culture project’ exploring utopian desire as a platform for radically imagining collective ‘nexts’. A host of collaborators, student participants and communities were involved through exhibitions, classes, workshops and performances in the U.S. and in Europe. The Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Winston-Salem, NC was the producing institution hosting the multilayered project with an evolving exhibition in the Balcony Gallery from January - April, followed by a large-scale multimedia performance in the McChesney Scott Dunn Auditorium there. Book, Klement and Carrasco performed a concert version at Roulette in New York City, and then Book and Klement created a duo version continuing the utopia work at a granular scale in Pittsburgh at SPACE Gallery and in 2008 at Amman Studios in Vienna, Austria. Also, in 2008, further iterations occurred through residency with Transart Institute that included a workshop and performance, and an exhibition in Linz, Austria.

SECCA is where the foundational project took place and encapsulated all three of these areas, with subsequent performances, a workshop and a satellite exhibition occurring in modular form later. Included here is a documentary short about the SECCA project, video elements used in performances, photo documentation, project development notes and materials, performance structures, workshop documents and printed matter such as venue brochures, programs and press releases. More detailed descriptions can be found in each of the subcollections.

SECCA, NC
Lynn Book: director, writer, co-composer, artist, exhibition designer, performer
Katharina Klement: co-composer, musician, concept collaborator
Jacqui Carrasco: musician, performer
Johannes Knesl: exhibition architecture
Jennifer Gentry: graphic design
Jack Lucido: project videographer
Dean Wilcox: lighting designer for performance
Chris Kennedy and Jeff Irving: sound engineering for performance

16 student performers:
Mitchell Anderson Andrew Kishman
Molly Andersen Jason Nguyen
Kellie Cavagnaro Nate Reister
Lily Cottrell Adrian Singerman
Amit Dorf Cailey Sweatt
Pete Dunlap Alden Speake
Matt Gutschick Ben Whiting
Carolyn Jones

Roulette, NYC
Lynn Book: director, writer, co-composer, artist, performer
Katharina Klement: co-composer, musician, concept collaborator
Jacqui Carrasco: musician, performer
Jack Lucido: video projection

SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Lynn Book: writer, co-composer, vocalist
Katharina Klement: co-composer, musician

Amman Studios, Vienna, AT
Lynn Book: writer, co-composer, vocalist
Katharina Klement: co-composer, musician

B.V. Gallery, Linz, AT
Lynn Book: artist, writer, installation staging
Other contributors: Jennifer Gentry, graphic design and Jack Lucido, video projection

OK Zentrum, Linz, AT
Lynn Book: artist in residence, workshop and performance director
12 MFA candidates, Transart Institute

Funding and support for “RE:garding Next” was provided in part by The Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, the Archie Fund for Faculty Excellence and the Pro Humanitate Creativity and Innovation Fund of Wake Forest University, and the Forsyth County Public School System for an artist residency at Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, NC.

Other producing and supporting organizations included Roulette, New York City and SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA in the US, and Amman Studios, Vienna, Austria. A Transart Institute residency provided support for the Making New workshop and performance at OK Zentrum and the RE:garding Next 2 exhibition at B.V. Gallery, Linz, Austria.