Artist Bio
Rae Lavande Pellerin (b.1993) lives and works in Queens, NY.
Image from 4 Maps, All Wrong, RLP 2019
4 Maps, All Wrong was a series of attempts to locate my name, which I had written in the sidewalk a year previously in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, 4 Maps, All Wrong traces out different possible but ultimately incorrect routes along which the inscription could have been found, and collects charcoal rubbings of all the sidewalk inscriptions along those routes. The project also incorporated archival images from the night in question and charcoal rubbings of all the inscriptions found in the sidewalk along those routes.
Archival image from 4 Maps, All Wrong, RLP 2019
Page taken from the zine I’m Not Sure About the Air, It Seems Heavy, RLP 2019
I’m Not Sure About the Air, It Seems Heavy is a collection of poems, short stories and ASCII art revolving around ideas of time, terminality and the end of the world.
Page taken from the zine I’m Not Sure About the Air, It Seems Heavy, RLP 2019
Production stills from There Are Two Skeletons I See Around All The Time, RLP 2020
There Are Two Skeletons I See Around All The Time is a score for two performers on piano based on the mouvements of a tiger in his cage, as filmed by a CCTV camera. The gridding of the tiger’s cage was used as a means to codify and transform his mouvements into music. The final video piece is presented on two screens, one documenting the original footage of the tiger and the other incorporating details of the performers mouvements, animated complications of the data and writings on the tiger’s both devastating and magnetic image. The score and poem was also distributed as a zine.
Link to the video: https://vimeo.com/420759755
Scan of production notebook, There Are Two Skeletons I See Around All The Time, RLP 2020
Video still, There Are Two Skeletons I See Around All The Time, RLP 2020
Video still, There Are Two Skeletons I See Around All The Time, RLP 2020
Page taken from the zine A Field Guide to Western Birds, RLP 2020
A Field Guide To Western Birds is a small book of helpful hints for how to secretly live in your studio at the New School, as well as other tips on how to take back some of the money spent there. Its contents are available via mail-order only by contacting the artist.
Scan of bike routes and notes for a zine, RLP 2019
Artist StatementRae Lavande Pellerin creates absurd organisational gestures aimed into the chaos of a larger public world. Often drawing from personal, ambulatory observations of physical and digital spaces, her works take the shape of operational systems executed within constraints that are arbitrarily constructed but rigorously followed. She works with text, maps, performance and video, mainly utilizing disregarded technological proto-systems, such as the FM radio airwaves, analog photocopiers, and early CCTV surveillance systems. Her works analyse, translate, and conduct ultimately-always-unresolved searches for pattern and meaning.