{"id":4346,"date":"2016-07-19T19:50:55","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T23:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=4346"},"modified":"2018-05-20T23:20:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T03:20:45","slug":"dawn-dedeaux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/dawn-dedeaux\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn deDeaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6876\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4346-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/dawndedeaux.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/dawndedeaux.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/dawndedeaux.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a 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powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_4358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4358\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4358 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DeDeaux-takes-Flight-10-300-cu.jpg?resize=240%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"DeDeaux takes Flight 10 300 cu\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DeDeaux-takes-Flight-10-300-cu.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DeDeaux-takes-Flight-10-300-cu.jpg?resize=768%2C960&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DeDeaux-takes-Flight-10-300-cu.jpg?resize=819%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 819w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DeDeaux-takes-Flight-10-300-cu.jpg?resize=624%2C780&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DeDeaux-takes-Flight-10-300-cu.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/DeDeaux-takes-Flight-10-300-cu.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DeDeaux takes Flight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dawndedeaux.net\/\">DeDeaux<\/a> has merged art with new technologies for decades to broaden art and audience engagement. \u00a0Early works from the 1970s such as <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>CB Radio Booths<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0were works of mobility that travelled the communication systems and streets of underserved communities. \u00a0Mid-career works, including <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Soul Shadows,<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> were large-scale installations and pioneering immersive, synchronized media environments focused on social issues; while\u00a0works of the past decade<i>\u00a0<\/i>are inspired by environmental challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Works by DeDeaux have been exhibited nationwide including Whitney Museum of American Art, Armand Hammer Museum, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art of Connecticut, The Contemporary \/ Baltimore, Canadian Film Society of Toronto, and Ballroom Marfa, Marfa TX. \u00a0Recent exhibitions include her acclaimed Prospect 2 multimedia installation <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>The Goddess Fortuna and Her Dunces<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, and the touring <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>MotherShip Series<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> that adapts the theory that mankind has 100 years left &#8211; not to save Earth but to leave. \u00a0Current projects include \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>End of the Road<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> &#8211;\u00a0a large scale environmental happening\u00a0staged at the epicenter of the fastest eroding landmass in the world; an upcoming exhibition with artist Lonnie Holley at MassMOCA titled <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Thumbs Up for the MotherShip <\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">; and participation in the international exhibition <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Alrededores<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> on Chile\u2019s Island of Chiloe, inspired by the environment on a global scale, in the Fall of 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">DeDeaux is a 1997 Rome Prize recipient as Knight Foundation Visiting Southern Artist at the American Academy in Rome and selected among the eight most important southern U.S. artists by the 1996 Olympics that premiered her in-the-round media interpretation of Tennessee Williams play <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Suddenly Last Summer.<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 She is a 2013 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist in Residence, \u00a0the 2014 Prospect Alumni Artist of the Year and the 2015 Artist in Residence at Tulane University\u2019s Center for Bioenvironmental Research. \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">DeDeaux&#8217;s work is the in-depth subject of the concluding chapter of <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Discipline and Photograph<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0by art theorist James Huginin of Chicago Art Institute and, \u201cFive Video Artists\u201d by Larry Qualls, Associate Editor for <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Performing Arts Journal<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, MIT Press. \u00a0Her work has been reviewed in numerous publications including <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>New York Times, Art in America, USA Today<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\"> and <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>ArtForum<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, and the focus of televised features including CBS Sunday Morning and Canada Public Broadcasting\u2019s series <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>The Future.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">DeDeaux is also a writer and founder of the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center. \u00a0She produced and hosted Louisiana\u2019s first radio program on the arts, <\/span><span class=\"s2\"><i>Art Now<\/i><\/span><span class=\"s1\">, for National Public Radio affiliate WWNO. \u00a0As an educator DeDeaux established and directed a comprehensive arts program for a 6000 inmate facility in Orleans Parish, Louisiana and has been Visiting Artist at a number of institutions including Maryland Institute College of Art and the Texas A&amp;M Visualization Laboratory within the College of Architecture.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">DeDeaux is the winner of the 1976 Demolition Derby in the Louisiana SuperDome as the only female contestant in a field of 35 drivers.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4359\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4359 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ML-MOTHERSHIP-II-VIEW-HORSE-SHADOW-TO-FALLING-OAK-Dawn-DEDEAUX.jpg?resize=625%2C367&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"ML MOTHERSHIP II VIEW HORSE SHADOW TO FALLING OAK Dawn DEDEAUX\" width=\"625\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/ML-MOTHERSHIP-II-VIEW-HORSE-SHADOW-TO-FALLING-OAK-Dawn-DEDEAUX.jpg?resize=1024%2C601&amp;ssl=1 1024w, 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id=\"caption-attachment-4359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation \/ partial view: MotherShip II: Dreaming of a Future Past by Dawn DeDeaux, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4360\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4360\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4360 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MotherShip-III-The-STATION-Dawn-DeDeaux-day-entrance-view-10-300-copy.jpg?resize=625%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"MotherShip III The STATION Dawn DeDeaux day entrance view 10 300 copy\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MotherShip-III-The-STATION-Dawn-DeDeaux-day-entrance-view-10-300-copy.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MotherShip-III-The-STATION-Dawn-DeDeaux-day-entrance-view-10-300-copy.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MotherShip-III-The-STATION-Dawn-DeDeaux-day-entrance-view-10-300-copy.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MotherShip-III-The-STATION-Dawn-DeDeaux-day-entrance-view-10-300-copy.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MotherShip-III-The-STATION-Dawn-DeDeaux-day-entrance-view-10-300-copy.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MotherShip-III-The-STATION-Dawn-DeDeaux-day-entrance-view-10-300-copy.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4360\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MotherShip III: The Station \/ entrance partial view Installations by Dawn DeDeaux, 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/dawndedeaux.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listDeDeaux has merged art with new technologies for decades to broaden art and audience engagement. \u00a0Early works from the 1970s such as CB Radio Booths\u00a0were works of mobility that travelled the communication systems and streets of underserved communities. \u00a0Mid-career works, 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