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. ”
–
Jimmy Roche
Video Specialist
Digital Media Center
Johns Hopkins University

this discusses my work

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

–
Jimmy Roche
Multimedia Specialist
Digital Media Center
Johns Hopkins University

Hello Friends,
I’ve started my first Kickstarter, I’ve only got two weeks left and
I’m still below my goal. If you like my work please consider
supporting me by purchasing my new video through Kickstarter. Check it
out:

http://kck.st/mwl2ah

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

dudes,
I’m getting ready for a solo show in Colorado at the Rocky Mountain
College of Art + Design called America Ectoplasm.
I’m getting for a residency in the Netherlands. I’m getting ready for
teaching at Hopkins. I’m getting ready for my next solo show at RARE
Gallery.
working on the first video for that show called Homelands. Basically
I’m not really going to be making art on youtube for a while.

       //∆ \\

Gnawing, clenching peeling pain. Skull mayonnaise. The drippers. He
sits Indian style, licking his chops. The forest drunk on his luscious
vibrations. Had to climb a long way to reach this place. Had to dig
deep, he though once. The centipedes are attentive, the worms, coming
long out of the ground. The king worms working out from so deep,
they’ll come out for this. Perfect simulacrums of the universe eating
and shitting out of the same tube, tiny zen masters. The pressure
created on the temple is great. The skull itself becomes a flimsy disk
as the flesh bends inward turning, micro bubbles of dark energy,
phasing in and out of existence. Hellish smoke pixels ripping the
fabric of reality in 8 bit  chunks. They seem to be slipping in from
all sides. Leather clad, treading the astral realities one plane above
our own. They’re more visible now after the collision. Ectoplasmic
flesh manifestation, digital tendons extending out of his solar
plexus, organs metamorphosis, abstract blood capillaries pulling
translucent essence out of the tree bark and stripping the oxygen
molecules with red flame. His trunk tendril launches his abdominal
spore and through the clouds a glitch appears. History smeared across
the fourth dimension, as dense as gold. Coming down, green shift in.
the body like too many pain killers too much morphine.

                                                     //π \\

Grey clouds pour over the mountain top. great conduits of the
electrical scent. His breathing. Slow now, almost imperceptible, an
elemental homunculus of a sundered world. Swallowed by rolling fog,
Om. Deep snow a chill from electromagnetic lay lines threatens to
penetrate. The cave mouth. Small markings scratched into muddied
surface,  a last message from one wordless voice. Below a rotting hand
stitched bear, stuffed with leaves and damp cloth. Inside the child
shriveled so small as if you could scoop him into the palms of your
hands. Deeper in the collapsed portal burrowed from the abominations
retreated network. Sealed themselves up, when the cities were burning,
and discovered dark things awakened in the granite beneath Americas
paved foundation. Over the centuries they had clawed mazes under most
of the east. The shadow of the valley of death cast obsidian. Black
Monolith. He sparks his kindle, a few feet from the craggy cave mouth.
Resting in (yoga position) his prayers tangle atoms, sewing dark
matter seeds to sprout in yet formed dimensions, trans-psychic blood
letting. Drifting off by the warmth and hiss of wet twigs. namaste

                                                    // ≥≤ \\

Slow, bending the trees feverish. Sun light prays down as if through a
shard of crystal. Silently they pass each other contorting in the
heavy gravity. Electrical wiring draping down from solar packs,
intertwined with internal root systems. Psychotropic technology,
circuit dealt with green forces. Knobs jutting out from the slim
wooden back satchels. Underneath the oiled leather ring a pyramid
mounts the top of each device. Where they walk the forest drones, deep
vibrations lasting years, beetles, brown recluses, spiders wood ticks,
mites on the wings of sleeping moths, all release subsonic

  // ∞ \\

Perhaps the white man was destine to Plague the land he stole. There
are stretches, outside of the forests. That run endless the big boxes
empty, empty strip malls, plague lands now, the movement has ceased
the fires extinguished. Now all that remains are the rotting big
boxes.

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/

So this is a place where soon you will often find new ideas and things
about me. Also weird rants will be posted here at odd hours of the
night. If you like write me an email.

best
jjr