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Jay One Ramier and Joshua and Zachary Sandler are now friends3 Jul

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Website: http://www.joshandzach.com

College / University: Josh --> Pratt MFA Photography / Zach --> UCD MA Modern Drama and Performance Studies

Member type: Artist, Curator

If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Performance, Photography, Video

About my artwork: Joshua and Zachary Sandler are Brooklyn based artists who come from distinct creative backgrounds – Zachary is trained in modern drama and performance while Joshua studied photography and video. As teenagers the two brothers began collaborating on photography projects as a means to subvert a reality marked by alienating social constructs and a dysfunctional family. These early works, steeped in adolescent psychosexual energy, documented the fantasy, inhibition and intimacy shared between family and close friends.

They now work predominantly in performance-based video. The photographic sensibilities that permeate their video work, employing techniques fashioned for stretching out and locking in to highly emotional/visceral moments, were developed in large part during their adolescent collaborations.

As adults Joshua and Zachary are interested in examining the line that is drawn between adolescent and adult behavior and the dysfunction that often ensues as adults try to hold on to feelings of idealistic hope and youthful indiscretion. They employ post-dramatic performance style and highly confrontational documentary/interview techniques with sometimes-volatile subjects with an aim at crafting scenarios that attack and upset the sense of comfort that so often leads to the dishonesty and denial prevalent in modern life.

The Brothers aim to capture a general state of alienation, and the protective worlds people create in the mists of oppressive or tumultuous circumstances.

Artists I like: Romeo Castellucci

Interests: Finding the place where rules aren't the first priority of a family member in crisis.

What exhibitions are good at the moment?: Moma new york

Centre of the artworld:: Berlin, Beijing, nowhere and everywhere

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excerpt from 'family conversation 1' Added by Joshua and Zachary Sandler
excerpt from 'Circle of Muscles' Added by Joshua and Zachary Sandler
excerpt from 'You're Gonna Go Bald' Added by Joshua and Zachary Sandler

excerpts from Untitled (edited performances 1-3) Added by Joshua and Zachary Sandler

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At 12:31am on 11th June 2009, Juan David Gonzalez Monroy said…: Hey guys, good to see you're around here too. I'm finishing up a video. Do you still need something for the Toronto thing. Let me know

At 3:13pm on 21st April 2009, Florian Aschka said…: thank you for the add...and i can give back the compliment...your work is quite impressing

At 10:25pm on 13th April 2009, Michael Bowdidge said…: Dear Joshua and Zachary - thanks for the add, I will come back and have a proper look at your work when I get a minute - I'm up against a writing deadline tonight :(

At 9:40am on 12th April 2009, mike hinc said…: Better late than never................

At 4:47am on 28th March 2009, Monica Belni said…: Josh, your pictures are lovelyyy, (for lack of a better word!)_ I specially loved the "six" gallery, the pictures are subtle but violent & sexy!. And i also feel for your statement!. Wicked stuff!

At 4:13am on 28th March 2009, Monica Belni said…: nice!, i'll check it out now!.
nice choice of songs!!.
later!

At 2:30am on 20th March 2009, Monica Belni said…: 'been to NY once, it's like Mexico city, only cleaner and in english!.
Where do you have your pics posted?, on your site?.

At 12:13am on 19th March 2009, mike hinc said…: I know what you mean about the landscape - it gets into you. In Burnt Offering it's the view from my balcony south of Carcassonne - so I'm glad you said southern France rather than The South of France - it's less commodified down here. I don't know Montpelier, I've been through it and I think I was there once with New Order for a show at the Zenith (circa '91) but the closest town I have any acquaintance with is Lodeve. Very pleasant.

At 11:44pm on 18th March 2009, mike hinc said…: Absolutely Aude...how did you know? Oh and thanks for the compliment - I like your stuff too - it leaves me nervous.