Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
2016
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Retreatery Butte
2016
Unique sculptural theater exhibiting Mark Trade (single-channel HD Video, runtime 1:13:30)
Components: bar tables, bar stools, custom rock seats, park grills, fire rings, carpet, paint, lighting, ambient sound
Original installation dimensions:
157 x 331 1/2 x 233 1/2 inches
(398.8 x 842 x 593.1 cm)
ARG# FLTR2016-003
Installation view:
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
March 19 - April 20, 2016
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Lake Anticipation
2016
Unique sculptural theater, showing a looped exhibition copy of the movie Temple Time, and ambient sound tracks.
Components: trees, tree stands, temple chairs, bench, hot coal bins, X-Scream bean bags, message boards, dock, carpet, paint, drop ceiling, movie player, sound systems, lighting system.
Original installation dimensions:
144 x 300 x 332 1/4 inches
(365.8 x 762 x 843.9 cm)
ARG# FLTR2016-001
Installation view:
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
March 19 - April 20, 2016
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin with Rhett LaRue
Stunt Tank
2016
Unique sculptural theater with single-channel HD Video, 44:13 loop
Components: pontoon chairs, custom railing, carpet, paint, drop ceiling, lighting, ambient sound
Dimensions:
144 x 262 1/2 x 168 inches
(365.8 x 666.8 x 426.7 cm)
ARG# FLTR2016-002
Installation view:
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
March 19 - April 20, 2016
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Safety Pass
2016
Unique sculptural theater exhibiting Permission Streak (single-channel HD Video, 21:17 without credits)
Components: gym mats, custom diving bunk, wooden platforms, message boards, carpet, paint, drop ceiling, lighting, ambient sound
Original installation dimensions:
144 x 149 x 228 inches
(365.8 x 378.5 x 579.1 cm)
ARG# FLTR2016-004
Installation view:
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
March 19 - April 20, 2016
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Priority Innfield (Fence)
2013
One of five freestanding pavilions, exhibiting Ryan Trecartin, CENTER JENNY (HD video, installation version, duration 50:07)
136 1/2 x 192 x 192 inches (346.7 x 487.7 x 487.7 cm)
ARG# FLTR2013-003
Installation view:
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace
55th Venice Biennale
curated by Massimiliano Gioni
June 1 - November 24, 2013
Photographer: Fulvio Orsenigo
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Priority Innfield (Pole)
2013
One of five freestanding pavilions, exhibiting Ryan Trecartin, Item Falls (HD video, installation version, duration 21:05)
135 3/4 x 253 3/8 x 193 3/4 inches (344.8 x 643.6 x 492.1 cm)
ARG# FLTR2013-004
Installation view:
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace
55th Venice Biennale
curated by Massimiliano Gioni
June 1 - November 24, 2013
Photographer: Fulvio Orsenigo
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Priority Innfield (Villa)
2013
One of five freestanding pavilions, exhibiting Ryan Trecartin, Junior War (HD video, installation version, duration 24:17)
124 1/2 x 228 x 172 1/2 inches (316.2 x 579.1 x 438.2 cm)
ARG# FLTR2013-005
Installation view:
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace
55th Venice Biennale
curated by Massimiliano Gioni
June 1 - November 24, 2013
Photographer: Fulvio Orsenigo
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Priority Innfield (Way)
2013
One of five freestanding pavilions, exhibiting Ryan Trecartin, Comma Boat (HD video, installation version, duration 31:23)
128 x 216 x 192 inches (325.1 x 548.6 x 487.7 cm)
ARG# FLTR2013-001
Installation view:
Il Palazzo Enciclopedico / The Encyclopedic Palace
55th Venice Biennale
curated by Massimiliano Gioni
June 1 - November 24, 2013
Photographer: Fulvio Orsenigo
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Priority Innfield
2013
Sculptural theater comprising five freestanding pavilions, exhibiting Ryan Trecartin: Comma Boat, CENTER JENNY, Item Falls, Junior War (all movies HD video), and Wake (ambient soundtrack)
Dimensions variable
Installation view:
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Zabludowicz Collection, London
October 2 - December 21, 2014
Photographer: Stuart Whipps
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Site Visit
2014
Sculptural theater with 6-channel movie, 5.1 soundtrack, and multi-channel sound installation (total duration 49 minutes 24 seconds). 3D Animations with Rhett LaRue.
Dimensions variable
Installation view:
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Site Visit
Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V.
September 14, 2014 - February 15, 2015
Photographer: Timo Ohler
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Yielders Path
2015
Unique sculptural theater with single-channel HD Video, 3D Animations with Rhett LaRue. Runtime 49:24
Components: large upholstered forms, support pillows, sleeping bags, theater chairs, imitation trees, logs, carpet, paint, low-frequency tactile transducers, drop ceiling with display screen, light program, sound, movie
Dimensions variable
ARG# FLTR2015-010
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Ledge
2014
Sculptural theater with 6-channel HD video and 5.1 soundtrack, 3D animations with Rhett
LaRue
Runtime 49:24
Dimensions variable
ARG# FLTR2014-008
Installation view:
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
October 22 - November 26, 2014
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Under Sided
2011
Sculptural theater exhibiting: Temp Stop (Re'Search Waits), 2009-2010, HD video
ARG# FLTR2011-006
Insteallation view:
Any Ever
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
October 18, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Containment Place
2011
Sculptural theater exhibiting: Roamie View: History Enhancement (Re'Search Wait'S), 2009-2010, HD video
ARG# FLTR2011-002
Installation view:
Any Ever
MoMA PS1
Long Island City, New York
curated by Klaus Biesenbach
June 19 - September 3, 2011
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Living Comp
2011
Built around:
Ready (Re'Search Waits)
2009-2010
HD video, Duration 26:49
Sculptural theater
ARG# FLTR2011-005
Installation view:
Any Ever
MoMA PS1
Long Island City, NY
curated by
Klaus Biesenbach
June 19 - September 3, 2011
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Available Sync
2011
Sculptural theater exhibiting: The Re'Search (Re'Search Waits), 2009-2010, HD video
ARG# FLTR2011-004
Installation view:
Any Ever
MoMA PS1
Long Island City, NY
curated by
Klaus Biesenbach
June 19 - September 3, 2011
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Equal Plaza
2011
Built around:
KCorealNC.K (section a)
2009, HD video
Sculptural theater
ARG# FLTR2011-003
Installation view:
Any Ever
MoMA PS1
Long Island City, NY
curated by
Klaus Biesenbach
June 19 - September 3, 2011
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Auto View
2011
Sculptural theater exhibiting: Sibling Topics, (section a), 2009, HD video
ARG# FLTR2011-007
Installation view:
Any Ever
MoMA PS1
Long Island City, NY
curated by
Klaus Biesenbach
June 19 - September 3, 2011
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Public Crop
2011
Built around:
P.opular S.ky (section ish)
2009, HD video
Sculptural theater
ARG# FLTR2011-008
Installation view:
Any Ever
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
October 18, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Local Dock
2011
Sculptural theater with two ambient soundtracks: Premise Fade, 2010 and Behind Wait, 2011
Dimensions variable
ARG# FLTR2011-001
Installation view:
Any Ever
MoMA PS1
Long Island City, NY
curated by Klaus Biesenbach
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Baby Gaits
2013
acrylic paint, belts, cardboard, castors, clip clamps, contact cement,
epoxy, fiberglass, hammer, ladder piece, leggings, MDF, metal rods,
pigment, plaster, plastic, screen print ink, screws, silicone,
staples, sweatshirt, traffic cones, underwear, washers, zip ties
50 x 60 x 75 inches (127 x 152.4 x 190.5 cm)
ARG# FLTR2013-009
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin
Split Threat
2013
acrylic paint, blinds, cardboard, contact cement, epoxy, exercise
equipment stand, fiberglass, foam, gel medium, hardware, hose, reel,
reusable bag, pigment, plastic, shoes, silicone, tights, shirt,
slippers, spray paint, threaded rod, washers, window screws
74 x 108 x 132 inches (188 x 274.3 x 335.3 cm)
ARG# FLTR2013-008
Biography
Lizzie Fitch (b. 1981 Bloomington, IN) lives and works in Los Angeles.
Ryan Trecartin (b. 1981 Webster, TX) lives and works in Los Angeles.
For full Artist Bio please download PDF below:
Exhibitions
Past
Publications
Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin: Priority Innfield
Contributions by Christopher Glazek, Bridget Crone, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Ossian Ward. Edited by Paul Luckraft, Maitreyi Maheshwari, and Isabel Venero
The only book devoted to Priority Innfield, the multi-room installation first exhibited at the 2013 Venice Biennale, this volume offers a number of entry-points into an in-depth consideration of Fitch and Trecartin’s practice. Ossian Ward interviews Lizzie Fitch to draw out the finer points of the artists’ collaborative process and discuss the crucial role of materials and objects in the creation of atmospheres and narratives. Bridget Crone considers the bodies that populate the movies, and how they might symbolize the desire to reach for an allusive freedom from ‘swampy’ structures of control. New York–based poet and teacher Kenneth Goldsmith’s draws attention to the connections between Modernist language experiments and Ryan Trecartin as a writer for the digital age. Christopher Glazek’s close knowledge of the Fitch and Trecartin process allows a reflection on the complex way the contents of their art intersects with real world locations and histories, both personal and political.
Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin: Site Visit
Edited by Ellen Blumenstein; essays by Ellen Blumenstein and Thomas Miessgang
On the occasion of the debut of Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin’s sound and video installation Site Visit (2014) at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, this volume features essays by curator Ellen Blumenstein and critic Thomas Miessgang expanding on the work’s themes, structure, and complex sonic composition, as well as an image-based presentation of the exhibition and video.
The six-channel video component of the work was shot in a former Masonic temple in Los Angeles. Inspired by its unusual organization and structure—a five-story warren of large, cavernous rooms akin to a convention center—the movie’s protagonist is the building itself. Echoing the game-like narratives from the movies comprising Priority Innfield (2013), it is the premise-driven context that locates agency and meaning in Site Visit.
Starting as a spatial soundscape, Site Visit unfolded over a number of anterior rooms and evolved into a complex installation in the exhibition hall. In this part of the exhibition space, the artists presented a six-channel video on projection screens situated in a way that mirrors the video’s own 5.1 surround sound, engaging the visual, sonic, and physical fields as a combined object.
Hardcover, 10¼ x 13¾ inches, 160 pages
Published by Walther Koenig, Cologne (2015)
Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Lauren Cornell and Ed Halter
Since the turn of the millennium, the Internet has evolved from what was merely a new medium to a true mass medium-with a deeper and wider cultural reach, greater opportunities for distribution and collaboration, and more complex corporate and political realities. Mapping a loosely chronological series of formative arguments, developments, and happenings, Mass Effect provides an essential guide to understanding the dynamic and ongoing relationship between art and new technologies.
Mass Effect brings together nearly forty contributions, including newly commissioned essays and reprints, image portfolios, and transcribed discussion panels and lectures that offer insights and reflections from a wide range of artists, curators, art historians, and bloggers. Among the topics examined are the use of commercial platforms for art practice, what art means in an age of increasing surveillance, and questions surrounding such recent concepts as "postinternet." Other contributions analyze and document particular works by the artists of And/Or Gallery, Cory Arcangel, DIS, Cao Fei, the Radical Software Group, among others, including an essay by Michael Wang on Ryan Trecartin.
Mass Effect relaunches a publication series initiated by the MIT Press and the New Museum in 1984, which produced six defining volumes for the field of contemporary art. These new volumes will build on this historic partnership and reinvigorate the conversation around contemporary culture once again.
MIT Press and the New Museum of Contemporary Art; 2015; Hardcover; 6.75" x 9.5"; 528 pp; 32 color and 99 b&w illustrations; ISBN 9780262029261
Press
Artforum
Art in America
New Yorker
Art Observed
Artsy
Bomb Magazine
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin Press Kit
News
Ryan Trecartin at the Park Avenue Armory
November 14, 2016
The Park Avenue Armory presents Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch performing new sonic compositions live for the first time as part of the Artists Studio series, curated by Jason Moran. The artists will be joined by musicians and collaborators, including producer and DJ Ashland Mines (aka Total Freedom) and composer/producer Aaron David Ross (who will be conducting and doing the music direction).
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin for W Magazine
October 20, 2016
Lizzie Fitch / Ryan Trecartin's project titled placebo pets for W features Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid. The 10th anniversary issue will be out on newstands this week. A video of the project can be viewed here.
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin at the Astrup Fearnley Museet
September 22, 2016
The Astrup Fearnley Museet is featuring work by Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin in the exhibition Los Angeles: A Fiction on view from September 22, 2016 through January 22, 2017.
Astrup Fearnley Museet
Strandpromenaden 2,
0252 Oslo, Norway
Fitch/Trecartin at Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
June 8, 2016
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin's Priority Innfield will be on view at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal from June 22 - September 5, 2016.
Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal
85 Sainte Catherine Street West
Montreal, Quebec H2X 3X5
Canada
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin and Simon Fujiwara in the 9th Berlin Biennale
May 25, 2016
Lizzie Fitch/Ryan Trecartin and Simon Fujiwara are participants in the 9th Berlin Biennale curated by DIS. The exhibition will be on view from June 4 - September 18, 2016.
Ryan Trecartin featured in BOMB Magazine
March 16, 2016
Ryan Trecartin is interviewed by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer in the Spring 2016 issue of BOMB magazine.