California-born, Massachusetts-based artist Cecelia Chapman’s works in video and on paper emerge from a deep curiosity regarding the fluid connection between inner and outer knowledge, consciousness, and perception.
Her videos are contemporary fables that examine the power struggles, personal fantasies and social problems of characters in an uncertain world and complex media landscape through their relationship to environment, myth, legend, and storytelling. The videos merge documentary and experimental, and engage the poetics of image and text. She sources music from friends and sound artists that she meets online. Chapman’s essay driven works on paper are rooted in her graphic design training, and the examination of power propaganda in media communications.
Video has been shown in Stockholm Studio44 Film Festival 2019, Magmart film festival 10 & 11, Berlin Mitte Media Festival 2018, Hamburg Primal Uproar III 2018, London’s DotsWaves TV 2016-2017. Several online sites consistently show her works, Compostxt, UnlikelyStories, Utsanga, Otoliths, Houston Literary Review, Moving Poems, Interalia Magazine, PulpMetal, New Post Literate. Parsons School of Design NY, graphic design.
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UPCOMING 2020
Cotuit Center for the Arts, Massachusetts, selected video, May 9 – June 14
IX Biennale Internazionale Mail Art, Italy, http://www.guzzardi.it/arte/pagine/chapmanMAL.html
Asemic Arts Expo, June 6 – 21, Mogliano Veneto, Italy
2020
Bleeding Between the Lines: capitalism, news, propaganda 2020 at Otoliths, drawing, https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2020/02/cecelia-chapman.html
Club Paradise: don’t be a tourist 2017-2019 at Interalia Magazine, https://www.interaliamag.org/articles/cecelia-chapman/
Nippe, Nippe: a report 2020 at Otoliths, drawing, https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2020/01/cecelia-chapman.html in print http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-fifty-six-part-two/paperback/product-24420658.html
WatchFiends 2020 at Arteidolia, 3 videos, http://www.arteidolia.com/watchfiends-cecelia-chapman-jeff-crouch/
Record From The Skull 2020 at Arteidolia, drawing, essay, video, http://www.arteidolia.com/record-from-the-skull-night-order-of-things-cecelia-chapman-jeff-crouch/
Night Order of Things 2020 at Swifts&Slows, 6 drawings, poetry, http://www.arteidolia.com/night-order-of-things-cecelia-chapman-jeff-crouch/
2019
Nippe, nippe: a report from the land of the peoples of the first light whose language and lands were stolen 2020, drawing, https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-nippe-nippe-a-report-from-the-land-of-the-peoples-of-the-first-light-whose-language-and-lands-were-stolen-from-asemic-open-call/
Trouble in Club Paradise 2019, polaroids, https://www.unlikelystories.org/content/trouble-in-club-paradise
Asemic drawings 2019 with Jeff Crouch, https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-crouch-asemic-writing/
Tears in the Night 2019, video, https://tipoftheknife.blogspot.com/2019/09/tip-of-knife-issue-33.html
On Buckskin Path: What the Cyborg Found 2019, drawing, https://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2019/09/cecilia-chapman-and-jeff-crouch-on.html
Semiotic-Pareidoliapophenia 2019, drawing, https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/08/cecelia-chapman.html and in print http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-fifty-five-part-two/paperback/product-24316200.html
Dear Robot 2018, An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Studio44, Stockholm, August 13 – 18 2019, http://www.anordinarydayfilmfestival.com/
Space Station Poems 2019 with Jeff Crouch 2019, https://exp–net.blogspot.com/2019/08/six-space-station-poems-cecelia-chapman.html
Space Station prints 2019 with Jeff Crouch https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/07/cecelia-chapman-jeff-crouch.html
Heaven of Zero 2019 with Jeff Crouch 2019, video, https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-crouch-heaven-of-zero/
Magic Alibi 2019, 4 drawings, https://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2019/06/magic-alibi-by-cecelia-chapman.html
Drawings: Wampum &Memory, Vacation &Consciousness 2018, https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-wampum-memory-vacation-consciousness/
Robots Don’t Need Stories 2019, poetry @https://gumroad.com/l/ZR17, final issue #17
Club Paradise: desire, vacation, redemption, 2 films, 40 years 2019, graphic essay, https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/04/cecelia-chapman.htmland in print http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-fifty-three-part-two/paperback/product-24089468.html
Race the Sun, Club Paradise 2019, with two Drone Drama chapters 2016, video, https://compostxt.blogspot.com/2019/03/new-videos-from-cecelia-chapman.html
Moon On Fire Meditation, Club Paradise 2019, video, https://www.redfez.net/video/night-moon-on-fire-meditation-131
Moving Poems, five videos 2009-2019, http://movingpoems.com/poet/cecelia-chapman/
Blue Souvenir: memory and wampum, vacation and consciousness, Club Paradise 2019, prints, https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2019/02/cecelia-chapman.htmland in print http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-fifty-three-part-two/paperback/product-24089468.html
Sent 2019, with Jeff Crouch, mail collaboration postcards, http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/sent
2018
Drone Drama: Music for the Dead Chapter 10 2016, video, Loophole, Berlin, Germany 17/10
Drone Drama: Music for the Dead Chapter 10 2016, video, Primal Uproar III, MS Stubnitz, Hamburg, Germany 29/06
3asemiscapes 2018, drawing, https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-works-4/
Jeju from Conflict at Heritage Sites 2014, digital print, PoliticoPopUp3, Artspace3116, New Orleans, June 9-10 https://www.artspace3116.com/ www.politicopopup.com
Asemic chops and prints 1980-2018 collected by Italian curator Giuseppe Garrera for SCRIVERE LIBERI. Scritture sperimentali. museum http://www.muspac.com / review https://slowforward.net/2018/12/02/laquila-scrivere-liberi/ https://slowforward.net/2018/12/28/foto-scrivere-liberi-1-garrera/and here: https://slowforward.net/2018/12/29/foto-scrivere-liberi-2-m-sconci/
My Pad Is Your Pad: Landing Pad Communiques 2017, drawing, in print http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-forty-eight-part-two/paperback/product-23577987.html and the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/cecelia-chapman.html
Post-postcard: wish you were here 2018, drawing, in print http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-forty-nine-part-two/paperback/product-23634761.html and https://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2018/03/cecelia-chapman.html
Posted, with Rafael Gonzalez 2018, mail collaboration and book from Club Paradise, https://www.utsanga.it/cahpman-gonzalez-works/
Lucha Libre 2018, digital print, essay, http://www.niederngasse.it/rubriche/recensioni/cecelia-chapman-dichiarazione
Dear Robot 2018, video, http://movingpoems.com/2018/08/dear-robot-2018-by-cecelia-chapman-and-jeff-crouch/Âand http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2018/07/cecelia-chapman-dear-robot.html
Ultima Thule: border, horizon, limits 2018, drawing, https://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2018/08/cecelia-chapman.htmlandhttps://www.utsanga.it/chapman-ultima-thule-horizon-border-and-limits-2018/
Send Love: time flows backwards here 2018, video, http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2018/07/send-love-time-flows-backwards-here.html and https://compostxt.blogspot.com/2018/08/cecelia-chapman-send-love-time-flows.html and https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-gonzalez-send-love-time-flows-backwards-here/
VideoBook 2017 with Rafael Gonzalez https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-gonzalez-asemic-videobook/
Drawing 2018 https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-works-3/
PushDown$Turn 2018, drawing, http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/pushdownturn
@semi@, @lph@ w@ves, medit@tion 2018, drawing, https://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2018/05/cecelia-chapman.htmland in print http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-fifty-part-two/paperback/product-23772836.html
Existential Vacuum, Chapter 1, I Collected All The Writings Of The Empire And Burnt Those Which Were Of No Use 2017, video, http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/existential-vacuum and http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2018/04/cecelia-chapman-chapter-1-existential.htm and https://slowforward.net/2018/06/20/i-have-collected-all-the-writings-of-the-empire-and-burnt-those-which-were-of-no-use-chapter-1-existential-vacuum-cecelia-chapman-2017/
Knuckleshop 2008, video, Berlin, April 20, Mitte Media Festival
Drawing 2017, Italy, March 24 – June 10 L’Archimuseo Accattino with Utsanga Magazine
2017
Drone Drama Chapter 9 2017, video, https://www.interaliamag.org/emerging-ideas/cecelia-chapman-strange-love-2017/
Orchid Farm 2008, video, https://www.interaliamag.org/emerging-ideas/cecelia-chapman-strange-love-2017/
Strange Love 2017, drawing, https://www.interaliamag.org/emerging-ideas/cecelia-chapman-strange-love-2017/
Savage Chances 2017, drawing, https://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2017/11/cecelia-chapman.html In print here http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-forty-eight-part-two/paperback/product-23577987.html
Confidential 0P 2017, video, https://www.redfez.net/video/mystery-confidential-0p-121
Drawing at Utsanga, https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-works-2/
Wampum and Noepe 2017, drawing, http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/wampum-and-noepe
Dangerville, first light on Buck Island: anthroposemic passage 2017, drawing,… in print here http://www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-forty-seven-part-two/paperback/product-23516175.htmlandonline here https://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2017/09/cecelia-chapman.html
Deadmans 2010, graphic story, www.redfez.net/graphic/noir-deadmans-201
Two with Rafael Gonzalez 2017, photography, drawing, http://www.utsanga.it/chapman-gonzalez-two-works/
Strange Love 2017, drawing,http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/strange-love
Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2017, video, Traumathek, Cologne, Germany
Chapter 8 Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2017, video, http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/drone-drama-chapter-8
Endgame2 2017, drawing, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2017/05/cecelia-chapman.html
Asemic Tech, April, drawing 2017 Michael Jacobson
Club Assassin 2017, drawing, the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2017/04/cecelia-chapman.html
Knuckleshop 2008, video, movingpoems.com/2017/02/knuckleshop-by-cecelia-chapman/
Janus Edition Berlin 2017, digital print, Art Crime Bulletin, ‘Again But Not The Same’ http://mailartdossier.blogspot.com/2017/02/janus-edition-again-but-not-same.html
Endgame: 100 Worries 2017, drawing, www.utsanga.it/chapman-endgame-100-worries-with-four-drawings-wushu-pono-zugswang-and-indo/ and http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/cecelia-chapman.html
Shadow Pages: Night 2017, drawing, http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2017/01/shadow-pages-night-2017-by-cecelia.html
Haiku Blue 2014, instagram staged photograph, haiku, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com/2017/02/cecelia-chapman-jeff-crouch.html and in print www.lulu.com/shop/mark-young-editor/otoliths-issue-forty-five-part-two/paperback/product-23236818.html
2016
Works, drawing, https://www.utsanga.it/chapman-works-2/
Chapter 6 Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016, video, http://www.unlikelystories.org/content/drone-drama-music-for-the-dead-chapter-6
Chapter 3 Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016, video, https://dotswaves.wistia.com/medias/ip6ktsa7a6
Chapter 1 Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016, video, https://www.redfez.net/video/drones-drone-drama-music-for-dead-chapter-1-109-109-109
Chapter 10 Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016, video, https://slowforward.net/2016/12/07/cecelia-chapman-drone-drama-music-for-the-dead-chapter-10/
Confusion Arising, Surreal Suspicion series 2011, video. http://www.utsanga.it/chapman-crouch-confusion-arising/
Shadow Pages: Day 2016, drawing, http://www.utsanga.it/chapman-six-works/
RBeast 2016, photography, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2016/12/cecelia-chapman.html
Jim Leftwich text-collaboration, Floats N0.1 2016, drawing, photography, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/jim-leftwich_22.html
Utsanga Asemic Exhibition, Italy https://www.facebook.com/utsanga.it/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1780155308912815
Shadow Pages: Day 2016, drawing, photography, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2016/11/cecelia-chapman.html
The Perfect Clue 2016, video, https://pulpmetalmagazine.com/2016/10/23/the-perfect-clue-by-cecelia-chapman/
Floats N0.1, 2016, drawing, photography http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2016/08/cecelia-chapman.html
Drawing 2016 http://www.utsanga.it/index.php/chapman-works/
Fear Don’t Knock, video, http://www.dotswaves.com/
BoomBoom Room 2015, folded book, digital print, collage, mail collaboration, http://mailartdossier.blogspot.com/2016/02/edition-janus-sonic-views-mail-art.html
Drawing 2016 http://compostxt.blogspot.it/2016/05/ten-asemic-drawings-by-cecelia-chapman.html
Crossover 2012, video, http://www.dotswaves.com/
Bandit Queen, 2016, folded book, graphic non-fiction, http://unlikelystories.org/content/bandit-queen
Recuerdo 2011, video, https://www.redfez.net/video/memory-recuerdo-84
Message4u 2016, video, http://www.dotswaves.com/ and http://movingpoems.com/2016/02/message4u-by-cecelia-chapman-and-jeff-crouch/
Asemic Cartoons 2016, drawing, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/cecelia-chapman.html
Danger Signs 2011-2016, photography, internet appropriated graphic signs, http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring16/page34.html
Asemic Camouflage 2016, drawing, http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2016/03/asemic-writing-camouflage-from-cecelia.html
Perihelion, State of Emergency, The Nature of Images 2016, drawing, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2016/03/cecelia-chapman.html
Asemic works 2016, drawing, http://issuu.com/zoomoozophone_review/docs/zr8
Asemic works 2016, drawing, http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2016/01/asemic-poems-by-cecelia-chapman.html
2015
Jeju, Conflict at Heritage Sites digital print. American Friends Service Committee touring exhibit ‘All Of Us Or None: Responses and Resistance to Militarism.’ http://allofus.afsc.org/poster/jejuand Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar 2016 http://www.certaindays.org
Captain Komodo folded book. ‘Sexism: A Touchy Subject,’ Catherine Clark curator, Arc Gallery, San Francisco. Captain Komodo 2015, photograph, prints, http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer15/page39.html
The Image Vanishes, folded book, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2015/09/cecelia-chapman.html
Mapache: He Who Watches, and Why the Lone Ranger Stole Tonto’s Mask photography, text, http://unlikelystories.org/art/chapman0515.html
Graffiti and Guns on the NorCal Coast, photography, text, https://www.redfez.net/graphic/-176
BoomBoom Room, folded book, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/cecelia-chapman-and-jeff-crouch.html
The Conservator speculative fiction, http://www.bigpulp.comBill Olver Editor.
Apprehension, folded book, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2015/05/cecelia-chapman.html
WhisperWish and Once Upon A Sign video, stills. http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring15/contents.html
Electric Landscape, digital print, http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/summer15/page44.html
Sunset Noir, video, http://sfmoma.tumblr.com/post/123769615850/sunset-noir-jeff-crouch-track-these-short
Asemic6, mixed-media, http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2015/07/asemic-collaboration-from-cecelia.html
Field Notes, mixed-media, http://compostxt.blogspot.com/2015/06/cecelia-chapman-fields-notes.html
Dreamdance, video, http://sfmoma.tumblr.com/post/117879854754/portrait-edition-submissionfriday-self
Asemic works, drawing, http://thenewpostliterate.blogspot.com/2015/06/gogo-and-untitled68-by-jeff-crouch.html
how2disappear, 5gifs http://compostxt.blogspot.it/2015/03/cecelia-chapman-five-gifs.html
Dragon Seed 2014, folded book, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/cecelia-chapman-and-jeff-crouch.html
Target Practice 2014, folded book http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2015/03/cecelia-chapman.html
Metamorphozs, photography, http://the-otolith.blogspot.com.au/2015/01/cecelia-chapman-and-jeff-crouch.html
