Cached Curses infects testsite with a psychic bubbling of worry, trash, cash and (so last century) hexes.
Originally inspired by an ad on Craigslist offering a free, haunted wolverine with the caveat that the new owner accept it "no questions asked", I started thinking, maybe there was some thing I could get rid of—some bitter toy stewing with bad vibes in the attic. Maybe this thing was the problem, and maybe I could pass on that thing to someone stronger.
So, buyer beware. I've scoured the closets, hard drives, pre-teen poetry, firefox history, and my best guess is 1993.
The entire year of 1993.
Coincidentally or not, 2010 was a recycled, identical calendar to 1993, and the opening of Cached Curses at testsite in January 2011 (also 1994) will mark the end of a year-long exorcism.
This project was made possible with generous support from the Mondriaan Fund.
Eileen Maxson (b. 1980, Rockville, NY) works between video, performance and installation. Her works have been exhibited at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Los Angeles, CA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK; FotoFest, Houston, TX; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany; Art in General, New York, NY; Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY; Museum of Moving Image, Queens, NY; and Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY among others.
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Maxson has been awarded the following residencies: International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY (2013-2014), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York (2013), Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany (2012-2013), and De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2008-2010) and grants: Mondriaan Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Artadia: The Fund for Art & Dialogue, New York; The Dallas Museum of Art; and Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Maxson was also the first recipient of the Arthouse Texas Prize.
