ANYTHING BUT US IS WHO WE ARE
BURNED BASKETBALL JERSEY, VIDEO GAME CONSOLE, LIVE VIDEO GAME FEED, 2012
Anything But Us Is Who We Are "consists of a burned LeBron James Cavaliers jersey and a TV screen displaying the video game NBA 2K10. The game is locked in perpetual practice mode, with James shuffling in place... awaiting commands from a game controller. Kashmere addresses the immersive environments that allow and encourage fans to feel that players are surrogates of themselves, while also addressing the speed with which virtual representations of players become outdated as they relocate to new teams based primarily on monetary and personal criteria, rather than loyalty to a given city or fan base." (Allison Grant)
EXHIBITIONS
Spectator Sports, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
Game Changer, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
SPORTSNATION, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
Cross-Listed, Baron Gallery at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
THIS IS PRO FOOTBALL
APPLIQUED NYLON BANNERS, 2015
This Is Pro Football appropriates hyperbolic catchprhases and poetic slogans summarizing the sport from the "voice-of-god" narrations of NFL Films for a series of amateur gymnasium banners.
EXHIBITIONS
SPORTSNATION, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
GOALS
BRETT KASHMERE AND ASTRIA SUPARAK, VINYL FLOOR TAPE, DIMENSIONS VARIABLE, 2015
Vinyl floor installation Goals superimposes the goals of the major North American team sports into an actual scale color "field" abstraction of hollow "winning."
EXHIBITIONS
SPORTSNATION, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
TRUST THE PROCESS
SILKSCREENED FELT PENNANT, 2015
Edition of 15, hand-cut and printed pennants (6" x 12") in multiple colors. Featuring the slogan "Trust the Process," recently made famous by the Philadelphia 76ers and embraced by their fans as a justification for their long-term, anti-competitive rebuilding strategy.