LA screening of Black Thorns in the Black Box is confirmed: Wednesday, August 1st, Hammer Museum

The Art Formerly Known as Prints
Lesser Gonzalez Alvarez, Chris Day, Terrence Hannum, Adriane Herman,
Josh Mannis, William J. O’Brien, Hermonie Only, Jimmy Joe Roche, Stan
Shellabarger, Paul Nudd

April 28 – May 19
Nudashank teams up with Chicago’s Western Exhibitions to present two
cross-program exhibitions in conjunction with the Baltimore Museum of
Art’s biennial print fair weekend.

Chicago-based painter Geoffrey Todd Smith presents his intricate works
for the first time in Baltimore in a front-room solo show, FEEL
HARDER. In the larger space, five artists from Western Exhibitions and
four from Nudashank make up “The Art Formerly Known as Prints”, a
group show of print-based works.

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 28th
7 – 10 pm

YOUNGPROJECTS
Would like to congratulate the following artists for participating in AIVA:
Kenneth Tin-Kin Hung, Adam Frelin, Cal Crawford, Federico Solmi, Lewis
Klahr, William Lamson, Hironaka & Suib, Jimmy Joe Roche, Adam Leech,
Jillian McDonald, Brian Butler, Jesse McLean and Jon Rafman

The festival in Ängelholm, Sweden opens next week

http://aivafestival.com/

Black Thorns in the Black Box

Spectacle Theater

Friday – May 6 – 7:30

April 6th — CHICAGO <3's BALTIMORE – at the Nightingale, also I
recently just screening films in Black Thorns in a Black Box also at
the Nightingale .

for Black Thorns :
Based throughout Northern America and Europe, the participating
artists include Annie Feldmeier Adams for Locrian (Chicago), Gast
Bouschet & Nadine Hilbert (Brussels, Belgium), Una Hamilton Helle
(London, England), Devin Horan (Brooklyn), Hunter Hunt-Hendrix
(Brooklyn), Ruth Jarman & Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor (Brighton,
England), Chris Kennedy (Toronto, Canada), Marianna Milhorat
(Chicago), Jimmy Joe Roche (Baltimore), Shazzula for Cultus Sabbati
(Brussels, Belgium), and Michael Sellam (Paris, France). This
screening of Black Thorns in the Black Box is organized into three
parts-the underground, the earth, and the heavens-according to the
three branches of Medieval concepts of music—musica mundana, musica
humana, and musical instrumentalis-to explore how Black Metal has
permeated all known spheres of creation.

this blog is a new collaberation between artist Allen Cordell and myself.

http://knifeslime.tumblr.com/

new video work

I’m screening in the :
The Santa Fe International New Media Festival / June 22 – July 8, 2012.

Currents 2012, the 3rd annual Santa Fe International New Media Festival will be held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA – June 22 – July 8, 2012. The Festival explores the role of technology and the diverse applications of New Media in the arts.

This year submission categories include single channel video, video and sound installation, interactive new media, animation, computer/software modulated sculpture, multimedia performance, experimental and interactive documentary video, Digital Dome projection, art gaming and web art.

The Festival will be held in several venues throughout the city: El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, the Center for Contemporary Arts, the Santa Fe Complex and the Digital Dome facility at the Institute for American Indian Arts. In addition to exhibitions Currents 2012 will offer panel discussions and workshops, and two nights of multimedia performance.

I’ll be showing work in the ÄNGELHOLM INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART FESTIVAL AIVA 2012.

The first AIVA 2012, Ängelholm International Video Art Festival launches April 26 and the main purpose of the festival is the free presentation, promotion and development of international video art and to create a new, alternative, peripheral meeting point for emerging and established video and media artists from all over the world. The festival will run for three days, from April 26th – 28th.

In addition to screenings & installations of video art and performances, the festival invites international guest curators to curate programs of video art from North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.

These programs will be exhibited as projections in containers placed in the main square. High Def projections available. (The picture is a sketch. May be a different placement at the festival).

you can buy and listen here:

http://ehserecords.com/suspicious.html

High Zero is the premier festival of Improvised, Experimental music on the East Coast, being fully devoted to new collaborations between the most inspired improvisors from around the world.

Lasting two weeks in total, the festival brings together 28 core musicians each year, but also involves a much larger subculture of musicians in Baltimore and on the East Coast. Unlike many related festivals, High Zero is not narrow in terms of sensibility or subculture, but rather widely inclusive of all the different types of experimental music-making in the moment. The fact that half of the festival’s core participants are from Baltimore speaks to the depth of Baltimore’s experimental music subculture, which in recent years has grown to be one of the richest cities in the country for experimental art.

Audio tape coming out on ehse records

I’m going to be expanding my noise harness this summer at harvestworks in NYC. They have invited me to come create a commissioned work.

Jimmy Joe Roche will complete an expansion of his wearable performance instrument called the  Noise Harness.  We will expand the auditory capacity of the instrument through physical additions such as knobs, buttons and pressure sensitive strips to control audio. Roche’s videos have screened internationally in venues including the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Boston Institute of Contemporary Art, J. Paul Getty Museum, Incubate Arts Festival in the Netherlands, Rojo@Nova 2010 in Brazil, and Baltimore Museum of Art. Roche works as the Video Specialist at the Johns Hopkins Digital Media Center andd a visiting lecturer in the JHU film and Media Department.

I’m real excited to announce that Nathaniel Mellors and I will be
doing a two-person exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art during
the summer of 2013.
“From Bruce Nauman’s and Paul McCarthy’s aggressive video
investigations of the pre-verbal and abject aspects of human
personality to John Waters’s darkly quirky cinematic
characterizations, artists and film-makers have been intrigued by the
manifestations of human behavior when social norms are stripped away.
These artists also recognize the important role of performance in the
field of contemporary art. ”

Icon magazine discusses my work:

http://www.iconeye.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4602

Interview with me:

http://mdmorn.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/42911/

great video document of MU show

interview with me

trailer for of Incubate Film

Glocal Doc

I’ve been putting sound work here:

http://soundcloud.com/jimmy-joe-roche

@ the Kitchen – group Show – March 17–April 30, 2011

http://www.thekitchen.org/event/248/0/1/

The genre of comedy, in all its various manifestations in stand-up,
theater, literature, television, and movies has long provided rich and
valuable inspiration for artists seeking to critique contemporary
society using parody, satire and dark humor. Inspired by the parallel
ability of both the stand-up comedian and the artist to play the role
of cultural observer and provacateur, this exhibition presents new
sculpture, video, installations, and photography by artists, who
strategically examine, with their frank observations and dry wit, the
socio-political dimensions of power associated with cultural, racial,
and economic issues. Titled after the longer idiom “tell the truth and
shame the devil,” which means to speak honestly and without censor,
these artists, following the long traditions of political caricature,
offer up wry send-ups of political commentary on such critical issues
as global poverty, racial profiling, anti-terrorist paranoia, and
right-wing extremism. Artists include: Jabari Anderson, Elizabeth
Axtman, Michael Britto, Wayne Hodge, My Barbarian, Huong Ngo, Jessica
Ann Peavy, Sara Greenberger Rafferty, Jimmy Joe Roche, and Kenya
(Robinson).

http://www.mu.nl/exhibitions/future/?cl=uk

The internet is the most influential experience and interface to have
emerged over the past decade, having an unprecedented effect on
society. The impact on our minds, modes of communication, creativity
and even physiology is undeniable. A new wave of artists is emerging
that is trying to make sense of our relationship to technology and the
internet. The New Psychedelica, curated by Francesca Gavin, is the
first exhibition that demonstrates how this work can be seen as a 21st
century redefinition of psychedelic art.

Getting ready for my solo show at RARE gallery opening Jan. 6th.
Dan and I are going to finishing mixing the film we shot in the
Netherlands in March – then start sending it to festivals.
Excited that the book 100 that I’m in is coming out soon.
this months issue BELIO magazine should have me in it.
May be in a sick art show about the future of Psychedelic art in the
Netherlands – more about that soon.
Thinking of starting to do live performances again in 2011 -
electronics – slowly building my synth up -
Want to make a feature film soon – it has to happen.
MINDLANDS.

ROJO®nova just invited me to Rio de Janeiro 2011.
Been getting ready to start my final push making work for my solo show
at RARE Gallery in January. Been slowly building up my modular synth – next up a super VCA then a
blacet clock module.Making a film about dead rats in Baltimore shooting super 8 film -
going to send it off to the lab and see if the camera is working. I hope it comes out -
I’ve already been shooting with this super 8 for 2 months.

cut/PASTE: Collage as Methodology in Video Art

Description

Artists:
Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir: Reykjavík
Brian Bress: LA
Tyler Calkin: LA
Spencer Douglass/Gustavo Herrrera: LA
Samara Golden: LA
David Jones: LA
Morrisa Maltz: LA
Shana Moulton: NY
Jimmy Joe Roche: Baltimore
Kelly Lynn Sears: TX

Ranging in scope from the industrious video installation by Samara
Golden, to the stop-motion imagery of Ingibjörg Birgisdóttir, Spencer
Douglass/Gustavo Herrrera, David Jones, and Kelly Lynn Sears, to the
lo-fi meets techno-geek confluences by Tyler Calkin, Morrisa Maltz and
Jimmy Joe Roche. Rubbing the post-structuralist work of Shana Moulton
against Brian Bress’ fractured narratives, the pieces of cut/PASTE are
collected from 11 young contemporary artists who employ collage as
their practice in video art.

cut/PASTE is curated by Annie Wharton, an artist, writer, curator, and
co-director of The Company, a gallery in Los Angeles.

I am happy to announce the date for my second solo show at RARE
gallery in NYC. Jan 6 thru Feb 3 of 2011. Not sure the title yet. Here
some I’m kicking around in my head:

Lose the Arm keep the Hand

See you in Hell

Bad Vibes

Tenure Track Marks

Homelands

which do you think fits ?
best wishes
jjr

Dan Deacon and I are making a film together in the Netherlands as part
of Incubate. the working title is Beavis and Butt-Head do the
Netherlands

http://pitchfork.com/news/38904-dan-deacon-to-shoot-crazy-art-film/

–
Jimmy Roche
Multimedia Specialist
Digital Media Center
Johns Hopkins University
www.jimmyjoeroche.com

Awesome Group Show – I’m in. Curated by Alex Ebstein at SPACE 1026 in Philly.

http://space1026.com/gallery/baltimore-painting-exhibition-curated-by-nudashank-gallery/

A cool show I’m in with lots of rad artists.

http://www.rojo-nova.com/category/artists/

http://www.rmcad.edu/gallery-exhibitions/philip-j-steele-gallery/jimmy-joe-roche-exhibition-2010-06-18-2010-08-13

This is the link for my show at RMCAD
Colorado June 18th
BE THERE

IF ANY OF YOU LIVING CREATURES OUT THERE WANT TO TALK TO ME
JUST WRITE ME AN EMAIL. OR YOU CAN SEND ME WEIRD MAIL AT
JJR
701 East 33rd St
Baltimore, MD
21218

David Castillo Gallery is pleased to present Chained to a Creature of
a Different Kingdom, curated by Annie Wharton. Includes video works by
Skip Arnold, Susan Lee-Chun, Angela Dufresne, aaron GM, Kate Gilmore,
Ann Hamilton, Micol Hebron, Dawn Kasper, Marilyn Minter, Shana
Moulton, Ali Prosch, Yvonne Rainer, Pipilotti Rist, Jimmy Joe Roche,
and Mark Verabioff.

The body is a precarious vehicle that propels us around the earth,
sometimes at speeds defying logic. Artists in all genres have utilized
the body as a subject matter since the beginning of art-making. In
Chained to a Creature of a Different Kingdom, the works of 15 video
artists who use their bodies and actions as their main subject are
assembled. The show’s title is derived from a quote by Marcel Proust,
“It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that
we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom,
whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is
impossible to make ourselves understood: our body” — and many of the
body-based, time-based works within the exhibition beautifully
straddle the creative line between madness/”illness” and brilliance.

March 13- April 3, 2010

Here is a Vice piece on WHAMCITY that I’m featured in

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/bg-4025663/vice_versus_wham_city/

Check out this post on Beautiful Decay featuring the Labyrinth Video Section.

http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/02/26/jimmy-joe-roches-new-site/