EIDIA

Paul Lamarre and Melissa P. Wolf

EIDIA has been a working collaborative since 1986

Paul Lamarre 1979 BFA Magna Cum Laude, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Melissa P. Wolf 1980 BFA Boston Museum School / Tufts University 1981-1983 MFA program Pratt Institute Brooklyn, New York

Wolf and Lamarre live and work in New York City

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GRANT and AWARDS

2006 Santa Fe Art Institute, residency and scholarship
2000 The Nathan Cummings Foundation
1999 Open Society Institute, Soros Documentary Fund Fellowship
1997 Open Society Institute, Soros Documentary Fund Fellowship
1998 The Kitchen, Media Bureau Grant
1994 Citizens Exchange Council / International ArtsLink Fellowship for Collaborative Projects
1989 Artists Space, Individual Artists' Grant
1987 New York Foundation for the Arts, Video Fellowship
1986 Best Non-Narrative Video, San Francisco International Film Festival
1985 The Kitchen, Media Bureau Grant and artist residency Experimental Television Center, Owego, New York
1984 The Kitchen, Media Bureau Grant and artist residency Experimental Television Center, Owego, New York
1983 Robert Rauschenberg "Change" Foundation Grant, Lamarre.
1982 New York City CAPS Fellowship, Multi-Media / Video/Performance, Lamarre

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2010
"The Starving Artists' Cookbook / Video" screening at Rooftop Films Summer Series. "The Starving Artists' Cookbook / Video" screening at Umami Food and Art Festival, New York, March, and an article in SLEEK magazine, winter 2009/2010. Plato's Cave at the EIDIA House Studio-collaborative in situ installations and editions by artists with Eidia: Elaine Angelopoulos, Anthony McCarty, Marni Kotak, Lisa Bateman and Beate Schlingelhoff-others to be announced monthly. EIDIA published (text and video) in Invisible Culture, An Electronic Journal for Visual Culture, University of Rochester, Issue no.14: Aesthetes and Eaters - Food and the Arts, winter 2010.

2009
DECONSUMPTIONISTS begins. The "The Chelsea Tapes" screened at CINEPOLIS, Hamburg Germany, September. The EIDIA House Studio launches Plato's Cave-collaborative in situ installations and editions by artists with Eidia: Beate Schlingelhoff (October) and Lisa Bateman (November).

2008
Eidia presentation of The Starving Artists' Cookbook video with lecture at the "Umami: Food and Art Festival" at Roulette, April 7-18. Eidia paper and lecture "Collaboration In Art, Option Or Elemental?" at the College Art Association's 96th Annual Conference in Dallas, Texas, February 20-23 2008 for the panel "The Contemporary Collaboration in an Interdisciplinary World".?

2007
DECONSUMPTION Insitu installation at the Eidia House studio Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Continuing production on new documentary video about art censorship entitled "1-2-3".

2006
January 19: Human Rights Film Festival screening of "the nea tapes" Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida. March 24; a screening of "the nea tapes" at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. April 21; WHAT YOUR GOVERNMENT DOES NOT CONSIDER ART: THE INFAMOUS HISTORY OF THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS (NEA). This forum screened "the nea tapes" with Michelle Acuff, Assistant Professor of Art, and Sandra Murchison, Associate Professor of Art at Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi. October: SECAC/MACAA Southeastern College Art Conference and the Mid-America College Art Association conference in Nashville Tennessee at Vanderbilt University - Wolf and Lamarre present papers on "answering back" to censorship. November: Santa Fe Art Institute, DECONSUMPTION Insitu installation, Artist Residency.

2005
October 27; Artist's lecture and screening "the nea tapes" at University of Arkansas, Little Rock, as part of the Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC). August; "the nea tapes" documentary 200 universities and colleges have acquired the video in the US and Canada. DECONSUMPTION Insitu installation at the Eidia House studio. July; Trigger Magazine, "Profile: Wide Open" by Liberation Iannillo for new film; "WIDE OPEN: Eyes That Will Not See" work in progress.

2004
January; lectured with " the nea tapes " presentation at Olivet College, Olivet Michigan. May 15-June 15; "GGE" stools are exhibited at "Sustainable Living" Williamsburg, Brooklyn along with "Deconsumption" milk glass grouping, for show concurrent with the ICFF, International Furniture Fair, New York City. March - October; "Deconsumption" an Eidia House performance installation on various weekends. Based on the principal of R4-reduce, recycle, reuse, renew-"Deconsumption" constitutes a post 911 political and artistic discourse through the exchange of "junk" as performed in the basement (underground bunker) of Eidia House, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. March - September; examples of the art work of the 'incarcerated' Cincinnati artist Thomas Condon are displayed in the Eidia House. Work continues on the film about Condon, entitled, "Wide Open." September; "We Apologize" book launch at Printed Matter, New York City. Eidia collaborates with artist / designer Charwei Tsai on "We Apologize" to produce a hand bound limited edition book.. November; " the nea tapes " documentary screened at the Detroit Doc Film Festival, review, MetroTimes Detroit.

2003
June 13; "the nea tapes" screened with panel discussion at Cambridge Multicultural Art Center with Elizabeth Bacon, Tony Toledo, and James H. Smith; Cambridge MA. June 15; "the nea tapes"screened with panel discussion at Xavier University, Cincinnati Ohio, presented by William Messer, Campaign Against Censorship in the Arts, with Cincinnati International Film Festival, International Art Critics Association-usa, and National Coalition Against Censorship. September 24; "the nea tapes" screened with visiting artists presentation at the invitation of Concordia and McGill Universities in Montreal, Canada. September 28-29; Eidia House participated in "Firstop" the second annual Williamsburg Design Weekend. October 29; "the nea tapes" screened at Vanderbilt University and a six person panel discussion with: former chair of National Endowment for the Arts, Bill Ivey; artists; Marilyn Murphy, Carlton Wilkinson, and Art and Public Policy professor, Constance Gee. December 3; "the nea tapes" screened with visiting artists presentation at the New School University, for class entitled; "Taboos, Censorship and the Subversive Image." December 16; Paul Lamarre (Eidia) performance of "My Eye" at Bowery Poetry Club, New York.

2002
February 16; event at Eidia House to commemorate the work of the late Pierre Bourdieu; a 12 hour reading of his writings. 24 individuals from around the world participated and are videotaped, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. September 28-29; "GGE" stools are created and Eidia House participated in "Firstop" the first annual Williamsburg Design Weekend. October 22; "the nea tapes" is screened at Lowe Mill Art Center sponsored by the Huntsville AIVF Salon, Alabama. October 24; "the nea tapes" is screened at Space One Eleven in Birmingham, Alabama. October 25; "the nea tapes" is screened by Professor C. Liegh McInnis at Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi. October 27; "the nea tapes" is screened at Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans, Louisiana. November 4; "the nea tapes" screened at Hallwalls with a five person panel discussion: Celeste Lawson, Executive Director of the Arts Council in Buffalo and Erie County, Ed Taylor, of the Board of Directors of NAAO, and Ed Cardoni, Executive Director of Hallwalls in Buffalo, New York. November 17-19; "the nea tapes" is screened at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism as part of "The New Gatekeepers: A Conference on Free Expression in the Arts." December 3; "the nea tapes" screened with visiting artist presentation at the Boulder Public Library sponsored by Free Speech TV, Boulder, Colorado.

2001
February 16-25; "The Starving Artists' Cookbook Video Series" (5 part series 1986-1989), screening at Anthology Film Archive. April; "the nea tapes" website is built. May; "Deconsumption" begins. A work in progress installation / performance at Eidia House in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. June; "The Starving Artists' Cookbook Video-Highlights Tape" screening at Galerie Rachel Haferkamp, Köln, Germany. September 11; New York City. October 16; "the nea tapes" screening at Anthology Film Archive, New York City. November; "the nea tapes" in the Docs For Sale- Selection at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam.

2000
Eidia House-a meeting place for ideas-formally launched, Williamsburg Brooklyn. February 26; "the nea tapes" (work in progress) screened at the College Art Association (CAA) Conference New York City introduced by Susan Ball with panel including: Maxwell Anderson, Ronald Feldman, Alan J. Friedman, Valerie Jaudon, and Mary Miss. March 11; "the nea tapes" (work in progress) screened at ASU - Arizona State University, Performance Studies International (PSi 2000) with panel discussion organized by Tanya Augsburg including David Olsen, Tim Miller, and Sheree Rose. September; "We Apologize" photographic portfolio and text created, (not published.) December; Eidia participates in "The last exhibition in the world" a group show coordinated by Julian Dashper, Blue Oyster Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand.

1999
The "Line" series of galvanized steel prototypes for: bench, chairs and shelves are fabricated. August 20; "Eidia House West" a transdisciplinary installation launched in Los Angeles with readings by Chris Kraus and Sylvere Lotringer. "the nea tapes" (work in progress) screened; September 18; at the Santa Monica Film Festival, September 22 in the Capitol Building, Halls of Congress, Washington DC, October 15; at Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, Texas. December 9; Society for Ethical Culture; Opening remarks by Norman Siegel, director New York Civil Liberties Union; with panelists: Arthur Eisenberg, legal director NYCLU; Katha Pollitt, columnist Nation Magazine; Christopher Durang, playwright; and Ted Berger, director New York Foundation for the Arts. December, 19; "the nea tapes" (work in progress) at: Judson Church, New York City.

1998
"the nea tapes" (work in progress) broadcast as part of John Pierson’s "Split Screen" show shown on Bravo (September 4) and the Independent Film Channel (August 31.) Eidia artist in residency for "the nea tapes" for post production at The Building Productions, San Antonio, Texas.

1997
June 8-July 19; "Reduce Reuse Recycle" instillation, shown at VELAN Gallery, group show; "VELAN III", Turino Italy. June; screening "the nea tapes" (work in progress) at The Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art; Snug Harbor. July 30-31; screening "the nea tapes" (work in progress) at The Clocktower, P.S.1 Contemporary Arts, New York City. November 7-30; "Eidia House" - a transdisciplinary instillation at Peripherie Gallery at Sudhaus, Tübingen, Germany. "the nea tapes" (work in progress) screened November 12; lecture and screening "the nea tapes" (work in progress) at Oberwelt e.v. Gallery, Stuttgart.

1996
March 30-June 24; Installation: "Kunsthalle in Stu, Eidia View" in group show "Peep Show" at New York Kunsthalle. August; Installation: "Private Dealer", a two year multi-medium performance project ends. September; The "Eidia Wall / zig-zag", a free standing magnetic steel walls is designed and fabricated, (see Eidia House studio.)

1995
March 18-April 19; One person Exhibition, Installation: "In the Spirit of Pollock," Gina Fiore Salon. May 24; benefit event and screening for "the nea tapes" at Lombard / Freid Fine Arts. October 15-November 2; The Starving Artists’ Cookbook/Video & Performance; "Great Artists of Russia" sponsored by ArtsLink grant, performed at Marat Guelman Gallery, October 28, in Moscow; Gallery 21, October 22, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Installation: "Private Dealer", a continuation of two year performance project, at 80 East 11 Street Room 223, NYC.

1994
January 17-March 15; Installation: "Loft Living", one person show, Zand Projects, NYC. Installation: "Art Hotel", group exhibition curated by Muranushi/Lederman, Amsterdam. Video: "Starving Artists' Cookbook" screening, Center for Performance Research, Cardiff, Wales. "Starving Artists' Cookbook" screening, Neighborhood Film/Video Project, Philadelphia, PA. September; "Private Dealer", a two year multi-medium performance project, (with Friday evening Salons) at 80 East 11 Street Room 223, NYC.

1993
January 13 and February 26; "The Dinners" performances at Gallery LOK, NYC. February 12; Performance: "Hot Dogs", performance and installation, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. March 24-April 17; "Domestic Bliss", Instillation and bread performances with Dayton Wright, Gallery LOK, NYC. May 12-26; "Transient Décor, Room 311", curated by Saul Ostrow at the Roger Smith Hotel, NYC. June; September 17-October 30; "Rag Trade/Right off the Rack", group show curated by Saul Ostrow, NYC. "Friends of Thomas", summer group show, Gallery LOK, NYC. Photography: "Montage 93", group show, Rochester and Buffalo, NY, organized by CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY. September 17-October 9; "The Concrete Signal", video installation group show, curated by Robert Costa, NYC. September 18 - October 22; "Photo Discarded; Art as Experience", one person show, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY. April 15-May 15, "Urban Analysis", curated by Maynard Monrow, group show at Barbara Braathen Gallery, NYC. "Monumental Propaganda", traveling group show, New York World Financial Center, Smithsonian Institution, Bass Museum of Art and I.C.A. in Moscow, organized by Komar and Melamid. Eidia House proposal as work of art submission rejected by the National Endowment for the Arts. The first design plans are created for the Eidia House building.

1992
January 11- February 8 Photography "war" group show, Trenkmann Gallery, NY. September 15-20; "Starving Artists' Cookbook/Video" video screening, Videonale, Bonner Kunstverein, Germany. "The Starving Artists' Cookbook/Video", screening at New York University. Presented by CityLore. April 25- May 23; "Starving Artists' Banquet", Installation One person show, Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, NYC. "The Starving Artists’ Cookbook/Video & Performance in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, Russia and Paris, France. Sculpture Center group exhibition, NYC. Photo: "Ecstasy Show", Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, NYC. December 11; "The Russian Dinner" performance and video screening at Gallery LOK, NYC.

1991
Book: "The Starving Artists' Cookbook", EIDIA ARTS, editor and publisher. Sculpture: April 6-May 25 "Store Show", Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, California. May 18; Video screening / Book publication event "The Starving Artists' Cookbook" at New York Kunsthalle. June 8-July 13; Photography "Inherent Vice", curated by Robert Mahoney with Catalogue at Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY. "New York City", group photography exhibition Max Fish, NYC. New York Sculpture: "Somewhere", Lintas: Worldwide at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York. June 8-July 21"New Fabricants", Richard Green Gallery, Los Angeles, California. November 8-30; Installation "Leviathan" in "Value", a group show curated by Robert Mahoney, Dooley Le Cappellaine Gallery, NYC.

1990
February 3-March 14; Installation "Paris" in "Selections 49", group Show at the Drawing Center, NYC.

1989
April 11-March 6; One person show with E.I.D.I.A. Catalogue at Barbara Braathen Gallery, NYC. Installation: One Person show, five window installations in windows at One Bond Street, NYC, New York. Video: "Starving Artists' Cookbook", Series Premiere at Anthology Film Archives, New York City.

1988
Paintings, curated by Al Hansen, The Ultimate Akademie, Köln, West Germany.

1987
Painting, group show at Emily Sorkin Gallery, NYC. April 3; "The Starving Artists' Cookbook", (work in progress) screened at: The Palladium (Michael Todd Room), Gracie Mansion Gallery, Cityarts workshop, Japanese Nippon TV, Manhattan Cable TV. PepsiCo Summerfare. "The Chelsea Tapes", Brighton Film & Video Festival, Brighton, England. October 22-November 15; Eidia Installation "Group U.F.O." curated by Sur Rodney (Sur), Object, Photo Show, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York.

1986
Sculpture, at Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York. Video screening "The Chelsea Tapes", Anthology Film Archives, New York. "The Chelsea Tapes" and "The Wedding Tape", Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York. Department of Cultural Affairs, Arts Apprenticeship Program, City Gallery, New York. San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, California and broadcasted on Manhattan Cable Television via Ira Schneider's "Night Lights", New York.

1985
Performance/Lecture: International Center for Advanced Studies in Art, New York University, New York. Video broadcast "The Chelsea Tapes", Manhattan Cable Television via Ira Schneider's "Night Lights", New York. Timothy Greathouse Gallery, New York. 8 B.C., New York. Artist in Residence: Experimental Television Center, Owego, New York.

1984
Installations: Windows on White, The Shuttle Theatre, Westbeth Gallery, "Artist Call," One Stop Gallery, New York. Painting: Group Show, Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York. Artist in Residence: Experimental Television Center, Owego, New York.Video: "The Chelsea Tapes", Pan Arts "Arts and Ego" exhibition, New York. Cable Television via Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York. R.A.W., Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut. White Columns, New York. Avenue B Gallery, New York.

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PUBLICATIONS / PRESS

"Profile: Wide Open" by Liberation Iannillo,Trigger Magazine, Issue 5: July 5th - September 4th, 2005 "; the nea tapes " at the Detroit Doc Film Festival, review, MetroTimes Detroit, November 7, 2004; "How Long Will the Morgue Photos Haunt Cincinnati?" BY Gregory Flannery CityBeat, Cincinnati, OH,, September 4, 2003; CityBeat, Cincinnati, OH, Pick of the Week, " the nea tapes " at Xavier University, June 15, 2003. Boston Globe, GO! " the nea tapes " at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, June 13, 2003. Rocky Mountain News, article by Mary Voelz Chandler; "For freedom of expression, there's always a war on", November 30, 2002 Alabama Public Broadcasting, APB, Interview with artists, "the nea tapes" documentary screening, Space One Eleven, Birmingham Alabama. WBFO, Public Radio Buffalo New York, Interview with artists, "the nea tapes" documentary screening, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York. The Independent Film & Video Monthly, article by Ken Miller, "Witness For The Defense: The nea tapes". ARTnews, ARTtalk; "Salad Days" by Elizabeth Helfgott, about the "The Starving Artists' Cookbook Video / Book", May 2001. Zingmagazine, "Framing Aesthetic Research" article by Tanya Augsburg, about the nea tapes, April 2000; "Playing to the Senses: Food as a Performance Medium" Performance Research 4, #1 article by Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1999; "The nea papers" by Paul Lamarre and Melissa Wolf; published in Zingmagazine, February 1997. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, The NEA Tapes, May 1997. The EXHIBITIONIST, art magazine, The NEA Tapes, Spring 1997. The Independent Film & Video Monthly, volume 19 number 7, article:"CREATING TOOLS FOR THE CULTURE WARS, the nea tapes and Artistic Freedom Under Attack", August 1996. Media Matters, NEA Tapes Initiative, July/August 1996. Flash Art, "News", April 1996, The NEA Tapes. Flash Art, "News", 1993, The Starving Artists’ Cookbook. Village Voice, "Scene & Heard", Robert Atkins, 1992. New York Times, "Starving Artists' Banquet", 1992. New York Times, "Meals on Reels Film Festival", 1992. Mirabella Magazine, Hal Rubenstein, 1991. Media Matters, Media Alliance, New York City, 1991."Store Show", catalogue, Richard/Bennett Gallery (Los Angeles, CA), 1991. "FOOD SEX ART / The Starving Artists' Cookbook", EIDIA BOOKS, editor and publisher, 1991."New Fabricants", Catalogue (Los Angeles, CA) 1990.Arts Magazine, "Quiet Desperation", 1989. Art Das Kunstmagazin, "Spaghetti Mit Mayo und Prawda aus der Pfanne." (Germany), 1989. Taxi, "Art Speak" 1989. The Independent, "In and Out of Production", 1989. Lei, Il Ricettario Dell'Artista. Affamato.", 1989. New York Post "The Artist's Palate", 1989. E.I.D.I.A. Catalogue, Essay Robert Mahoney, 1989. Appearances Magazine, Photos "Self Portrait", 1989. Lei, "L'Art in Bagno" (Italy), 1988. Appearances Magazine, Photos from "O.Y.T.L.", 1988. Arts Magazine, "Group U.F.O.", 1988. Per Lui, "Art in Cucina" (Italy), 1988. The Paper "Starving Artists' Cookbook", 1987. Details Magazine, "Starving Artists' Cookbook", 1987. Equator Magazine, "Starving Artists' Cookbook", 1987. Group U.F.O., Sur Rodney Sur, 1987. Choices, The New Museum, Marcia Tucker, 1986. Appearances Magazine, "Self-Portrait Photo Series", 1986. East Village Eye "Starving Artists' Cookbook", 1986. Village Voice, Centerfold: The Chelsea Tapes; Art and Ego" Exhibition, 1984. Vanity Fair Magazine, "Terminal New York" Exhibition, 1983. Radial Departures, CAPS Video/Multi-Media Festival. 1982.

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COLLECTIONS, NATIONAL and INTERNATIONAL

Bettina Bancroft and Andrew Klink, Thomas P. Basile, Peter Carlson, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Ronald Feldman, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Lea Freid, Lombard Fried Fine Arts, Peter Grass, Agnes Gund, Al Hansen, Craig Hatkoff, Paul Judelson, Gerome Kamrowski, Jeffery Lew, Vera List, Jane Lombard, Robert Mahoney, The Peter Michaelson Foundation, Peter and Eileen Norton, Ruth and Marvin Sackner, Satprakash, Willoughby Sharp, Rodney Sur, Marcia Tucker, Tom Warren, Bob Witz.

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