Jordan Chris

Jordan Chris è un artista, fotografo statunitense di fama mondiale e un attivista ambientale. Diventa conosciuto per le fotografie a colori di grandi dimensioni composte da detriti della cultura consumistica americana.

Chris Jordan

Running the Numbers

Plastic Cups

Running the Numbers

Cognome Nome / Pseudonimo / Denominazione:

Jordan Chris

Biografia:

Jordan Chris nasce nel 1963 e cresce nel Connecticut, suo padre è un uomo d'affari con la passione per la fotografia. Frequenta l'università del Texas ad Austin e successivamente si iscrive agli studi di legge che lo introducono nel mondo del lavoro come avvocato aziendale.

Allo stesso tempo spende tutto il suo tempo libero e il suo denaro nella passione per la fotografia. Si trasferisce a Seattle spinto dall'interesse verso questa città e per la vicinanza alle montagne. Dopo dieci anni di lavoro come legale si dimette per diventare un fotografo a tempo pieno. Le prime esposizioni a New York e a Los Angeles lo hanno reso subito noto dando un notevole slancio alla sua carriera fotografica.

Quando l'opera "Running the Numbers" viene pubblicata all'inizio del 2007, ottiene un successo virale su Internet. Da allora il sito web di Jordan è stato visitato in media da 75,000-100,000 utenti al mese. Le sue immagini sono state presentate in centinaia di riviste, giornali, programmi televisivi, documentari, libri, programmi scolastici e blog di tutto il mondo, ed è stato invitato ad esporre il suo lavoro in musei d'arte, festival e locali pubblici negli Stati Uniti e nel resto del mondo.

Jordan è stato scelto dal National Geographic Channels International per la nomina di Eco-ambasciatore per Earth Day 2008. Ad aprile intraprende un tour di un mese tra Asia e Europa, dove espone le sue stampe e sostiene pubbliche conferenze, workshop e interviste. Nel maggio 2008 si reca a Caracas, in Venezuela, su invito del sindaco, per esporre il suo lavoro e trascorrere una settimana visitando le scuole e organizzando conferenze pubbliche e workshop.

Nel novembre dello stesso anno Jordan è invitato a Dubai, per partecipare al vertice del Forum economico mondiale. E' membro del Consiglio di Amministrazione della Dream Foundation New American. Il suo lavoro vince il prestigioso Green Leaf Award del Programma ambientale delle Nazioni Unite, presentato al Nobel Peace Center di Oslo, in Norvegia. Nel 2008, la collezione "Running Numbers" si colloca nei tre finalisti per il Premio internazionale fotografico di Darmstadt in Germania e arriva in finale per il new Green Prix Award degli Stati Uniti.

Nel 2013 registra il film-documentario intitolato MIDWAY, girato nel cuore dell'Oceano Pacifico. Il video porta gli spettatori in un ricco viaggio visivo di bellezza, dolore, orrore e gioia, per porli infine di fronte alla scioccante tragedia ambientale causata dall'uomo.

Sito web:

chrisjordan.com

Poetica:

Molte delle opere di Jordan sono fotografie che rappresentano lo spreco e il consumo di massa. Tutto il lavoro mira a far riflettere sui comportamenti inconsci e abituali della vita quotidiana lasciando infine allo spettatore trarre conclusioni sulle inevitabili conseguenze derivanti dalle cattive abitudini.

Il lavoro di Jordan si può dividere in gruppi:

• Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (2003–2006), la serie consiste in fotografie di grande formato che ritrae l'entità dei rifiuti e dei consumi negli Stati Uniti.

• In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster (2005), la raccolta di foto rappresenta il disastro provocato dall'uragano Katrina.

• Running The Numbers I: An American Self Portrait (2006–2009) e subito a seguire Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture (2009–2010), due collezioni di immagini che analizzano la cultura americana contemporanea attraverso i numeri delle statistiche e ritraendo una specifica quantità di oggetti. Per esempio si possono osservare immagini di quindici milioni di fogli di carta da ufficio che rappresentano il consumo corrispondente a cinque minuti di utilizzo, oppure 106.000 lattine di alluminio che corrispondono a trenta secondi di consumo. La speranza di Jordan è che l'impatto visivo sortisca un effetto maggiore rispetto ai semplici numeri prodotti negli schemi delle statistiche. Difficile infatti rendersi conto o visualizzare mentalmente quantità enormi di oggetti. Proprio per questo il progetto prende in esame visivamente queste misurazioni o statistiche per rappresentarle in stampe di grandi dimensioni ricche di dettagli.

• Midway: Message from the Gyre (2009–2013)è un video-documentario sui corpi di piccoli albatro di Laysan in decomposizione pieni di plastica. L'inquinamento del mare contaminato da rifiuti di ogni tipo, inganna gli albatro adulti che scambiano la plastica trovata sulla superficie per cibo, portando i piccoli a una morte prematura.

Il filo conduttore dell'opera d Jordan si basa quindi su una profonda critica della società consumistica e l'impatto che ne consegue sull'ambiente. I suoi fotomosaici rendono cosciente lo spettatore della devastazione prodotta da consumi eccessivi a cui si è normalmente abituati e invitano a una profonda riflessione. Jordan analizza in maniera accurata i comportamenti umani che operano al di sotto della consapevolezza quotidiana. Quando milioni di persone adottano comportamenti inconsapevoli le conseguenze si sommano raggiungendo livelli catastrofici che nessuno assolutamente immagina e vuole.

Opere:

• In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster, 2005
• Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption, 2003 - 2005
• Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait, 2006 - Current
• Running the Numbers II: Portraits of global mass culture, 2009 - Current
• Midway: Message from the Gyre, 2009 - Current
• E Pluribus Unum, 2010
• Ushirikiano, 2011

Elenco esposizioni (anno, titolo, curatela, luogo, città):

Mostre personali 2014

• Julian Scott Memorial Gallery, Johnson State College, Johnson, VT, “Midway: Message from the Gyre” (September 25 -October 25, 2014)

2012

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
• Science Museum of Virginia, Richmond, VA, “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
• Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, FL, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
• University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”

2011

• Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN, “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
• International Museum of Art and Science, McAllen, TX “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
• Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes University, Wilkes-Barre, PA “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
• Diemar/Noble Photography, London, UK, “Ushirikiano”, Photographs from the Prix Pictet Commission trip to Kenya
• Other Gallery, Shanghai, China “E Pluribus Unum”
• Southern Methodist University, Hunt Institute for Engineering and Humanity, Dallas, TX “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
• Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
• Other Gallery, Beijing, China “E Pluribus Unum”
• University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Boulder, CO “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
• Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”

2010

• David Brower Center, Berkeley, CA “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
• Simon Fraser University Gallery, Burnaby, BC, Canada “Running the Numbers”
• Halsey Institute, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
• Seymour Marine Discovery Center, UC Santa Cruz, CA “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
• Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
• Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, Haverford, PA “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”

2009

• Museum of Science, Boston, MA “Running the Numbers: Portraits of Mass Consumption”
• Pacific Science Center, Seattle, WA “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
• Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, “Running the Numbers II”
• Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Santa Barbara, CA “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”
• Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• Alcatel Lucent Headquarters, Paris, France
• APEX: Chris Jordan, Portland Art Museum
• Washington State University Art Museum, Pullman, WA, “Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers”

2008

• San Antonio Public Library and Southwest School of Art and Craft, San Antonio, TX
• Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
• Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
• Winsor Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

2007

• Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, “Running the Numbers”
• Von Lintel Gallery, New York
• Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA

2006

• Lannan Foundation Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, “In Katrina’s Wake”
• Museo Circulo de Bellas Artes, Photo España Festival, Madrid, Spain

2005 & earlier

• Foto&Photo Festival, Cesano Maderno, Italy
• Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles, “Intolerable Beauty”
• Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
• Photographic Center Northwest, Seattle WA
• Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim, Ireland

Selected Group Exhibits

2014

• El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX, “Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2012” (Denali Denial, 2006)
• The Projective Eye Gallery, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC “Sustain Me Baby” (selections from Midway: Message from the Gyre)
• IABR, Kuntsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, “Urban by Nature” (selections from Midway: Message from the Gyre)
• University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Iowa, “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention” (selections from Midway: Message from the Gyre)

2013

• DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL, “Climate of Uncertainty” (selections from Midway: Message from the Gyre)
• Museo Nacional de la Fotografia, Bogota, Columbia, “Fotografica Bogota 2013 - International Photography Biennial” (selections from Intolerable Beauty)
• Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge, WA, “First Light” (Oil Barrels, 2008)
• Begovich Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA, “ego | eco: * Environmental Art for Collective Consciousness” (selections from Running the Numbers)
• Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, “Vanishing Ice: Alpine and Polar Landscapes in Art, 1775-2012” (Denali Denial, 2006)
• Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (Cigarette Butts, 2013)
• George Adams Gallery, New York, NY “Seescape” (Gyre, 2009)
• The Leonardo, Salt Lake City, UT, “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention” (selections from Midway: Message from the Gyre)
• Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention” (selections from Midway: Message from the Gyre)

2012

• MOTI, Stichting Museum of the Image, The Netherlands, “The Image in the 21st Century” (selections from Midway: Message from the Gyre)
• The Field Museum, Chicago, IL, “Nature’s Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art and Invention”
• Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, “True North”
• Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Hong Kong, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• University of Technology, Eindhoven, Netherlands, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• Nesrin Esirtgen Collection, Istanbul, Turkey, “No. 1”
• Ayyam Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• The Empty Quarter Gallery, Dubai, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• Dublin Museum of Photography, Ireland, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition

2011

• Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, “Infinite Balance: Artists & the Environment”
• St. Louis Artist’s Guild, Clayton, MO “Running the Numbers: Photographs by Chris Jordan”
• Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• Real Jardin Botanico, Madrid, Spain, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• Roundhouse Mews, Vancouver, Canada, “The Ocean in Us”, Safe Planet Exhibit
• Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, “The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment”
• Arteversum, Dusseldorf, Germany, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA, “The Digital Eye: Photographic Art in the Electronic Age”
• Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan, Italy, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, “Landscape Sublime”
• Museum of Monterey, Monterey, CA, “Flows to Bay: Consumerism, Plastics & the Ocean”
• Galerie Christophe Guye, Zurich, Switzerland, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, Greece, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, “Plastic Pollution”, Safe Planet Exhibit
• Electric Works, San Francisco “In the Eye of the Whale” Bryant Austin
• Passage de Retz, Paris, France, Prix Pictet Growth Shortlist Exhibition
• Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA “Forecast: Communicating Weather and Climate”

2010

• Boise Art Museum, Idaho “Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment”
• San Jose Museum of Art, “Degrees of Separation: Contemporary Photography from the Permanent Collection”
• Universidad Technologico de Cancun, Cancun, Mexico, “What Will Be”, Safe Planet * Exhibit at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• Galerie Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France, Prix Pictet 2010 Shortlist Preview Exhibition
• BREDAPHOTO, International Photo Festival, Netherlands
• Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, ArtPrize Event
• Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, “Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environment”
• ARS Electronica Center, Linz, Austria, “Raise Your Voice”
• Exit Art, New York, “ECOAESTHETIC: The Tragedy of Beauty”
• PRAE, Valladolid, Spain, “Rummaging in the Rubbish: Waste and Recycling in Contemporary Art”
• Bohemian National Hall, New York City, “Substantialis Corporis Mixti”, Safe Planet Exhibit
• Western Gallery, Western Washington University, “Critical Messages: Contemporary Northwest Artists on the Environmental”
• CDAN (Center of Art and Nature), Huesca, “Rummaging in the Rubbish: Waste and Recycling in Contemporary Art”

2009

• California State University Fullerton Main Art Gallery, “What’s the Rush? Topics on Convenience”
• Koldo Mitxelena Cultural Centre, San Sebastian, “Rummaging in the Rubbish: Waste and Recycling in Contemporary Art”
• Brussels, “It is Our Earth”
• The Mariners Museum, Newport News, VA, “Message in a Bottle”
• Gualala Arts Center, Gualala, CA, “Paper nOr Plastic”
• Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition - Selection, Sustainability-Congress, Bonn
• Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven
• Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition - Selection, Kempinski Hotel, Dresden
• Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition - Selection, The Rotunda, Exchange Square, Central, Hong Kong
• Pasadena Museum of California Art, “Data + Art: Science and Art in the Age of Information”
• Prix Pictet 2008 Shortlisted Artists Exhibition - Selection, The Intelligence Squared Green Festival, Royal Geographical Society, London

2008

• Prix Pictet 2008, Shortlisted Artists Exhibition, Thessaloniki Museum of Photograph, Thessaloniki
• Prix Pictet 2008, Shortlisted Artists Exhibition - Selection, DIFC, Dubai
• Prix Pictet 2008, Shortlisted Artists Exhibition, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• Austin Museum of Art, Austin TX; “Modern Art. Modern Lives. Then + Now”
• Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, OK, “3-logy Triennial 2008: Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things”
• Affirmation Arts, New York, NY, “Garbage Picker”
• Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, “Mass Consumption”
• Mountainfilm, Telluride, CO
• Deutsche Bank Gallery, New York, NY, “Feeling the Heat: Art, Science and Climate Change”
• Field Museum, Chicago, “Melting Ice/A Hot Topic,” curator Randy Rosenberg
• FotoGraphia Festival Internazionale di Roma, Rome, Italy
• Sharon Arts Center, Peterborough, NH “WASTE: Artists Speak Out on our Disposable Culture”
• Ministry of Culture, Monaco, “Melting Ice/A Hot Topic”
• Montpelier Arts Center, Laurel, MD “Digital Sequences”

2007

• Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA “Cornucopia: Documenting the Land of Plenty"
• BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium, “Melting Ice/A Hot Topic"
• Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado, “Weather Report”
• Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT “Nature Remains: The Artist as Environmentalist”
• Bates College Museum of Art, “Green Horizons”
• Nobel Peace Center, Oslo, Norway. “Envisioning Change”
• Natural World Museum, San Francisco, “Environmental Renaissance”
• North Carolina Museum of Art, “The Big Picture”
• Tufts University Art Gallery, Massachusets, “Altered States, Views of Transition in Recent Photography”
• Texas State University Art Gallery, “Loyal Opposition”
• TED Conference, Monterey, CA

2006

• International Photomedia Biennial, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas * City MO (Fellowship Award recipient)
• Wesleyan University, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Connecticut
• Lawrimore Project, Seattle
• Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle
• Houston Center for Photography, “Trace, Visions of Katrina”
• New Orleans Museum of Art
• Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
• “Art Not Oil,” London, traveling exhibition
• Museum of Cultural Arts Houston, Houston, TX, “Artists Responding to Violence Against the Earth” (Best of Show award)

2005

• College of Santa Fe Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
• 4th Annual Recycled Art Show, Seattle, WA
• Urban Jungle Environmental Expo, U.N. International Environment Day, San Francisco, CA

2004

• Allegany Arts Council Wills Creek Survey, juried by Elizabeth Thomas, Carnegie Museum of Art
• Agora Gallery SoHo/Chelsea International Fine Art Competition, juried by Susan Cross, Guggenheim Museum, New York
• International Fine Art Photography Exhibition, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft Collins, CO
• Photo España Descubrimientos 04, Madrid, Spain
• Artivist Film Festival, Los Angeles CA

Pre-2004

• “Intimate Landscapes,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
• Photographic Image Gallery, Portland, OR
• Earth Day, Eastshore Gallery, Bellevue, WA
• The Third Annual Earth Day Invitational Exhibit, Seattle, WA
• The Second Annual Earth Day Invitational Exhibit, Seattle, WA
• The First Annual Earth Day Invitational Exhibit, Seattle, WA
• “Visions of Grace” juried by Jock Sturges, Seattle, WA
• Northwest Annual, Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
• “The Search for Transcendence” juried by Joyce Tenneson, Seattle, WA
• “Worth A Thousand Words” juried by Duane Michals, Seattle, WA

File multimediali:

Video:

• Chris Jordan: plastiche inquinanti
• Chris Jordan: Turning powerful stats into art
• Midway trailer

Audio:

Altro:

Augmented reality:

Latitudine:

Longitudine:

Link verso portali di augmented reality

Bibliografia:

• Ushirikiano: Building a Sustainable Future in Kenya’s Northern Rangelands (teNeues Publishing Group, 2011)
• Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait (Prestel Publishing, 2009)
• In Katrina’s Wake: Portraits of Loss from An Unnatural Disaster (Princeton Architectural Press, 2006)
• Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption (self-published, February 2005)

Webliografia:

• Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait by Chris Jordan
• Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
• Midway film

Tipo di scheda:

InteractiveResource

Soggetto (categoria) da Thesaurus Pico Cultura Italia:

Artisti, Fotografi, Arte, Arti visive, Arte digitale, Fotografia, Secondo millennio, sec. XX, decennio 1980, decennio 1990, Terzo millennio, sec. XXI, decennio 2000-2009, Età contemporanea

Soggetto (categoria, tags) a testo libero:

spreco, consumo di massa, cattive abitudini, rifiuti, conseguenze ambientali, fotomosaici, consumo eccessivo, comportamenti inconsapevoli

Voci correlate:

Fotografia, Sostenibilita' dello sviluppo umano, Economia del dono, Decrescita