created by John Sanborn
Commissioned by
The National Museum of Qatar
Opened March 27, 2019
Permanent Installation
Alchemy celebrates the remarkable daring and enormous benefits of Qatar’s development of Liquid Natural Gas as a resource for the world. The work conveys the beauty and majesty of this achievement, in ingenious and poetic form; beginning with a mysterious unknown, continuing through three choreographic stages, and ending with a smile of recognition.
Produced by the Doha Film Institute
Edited by John Sanborn, Heloise Roueau and Roger Jones
Technical Direction by Dean Winkler and Roger Jones
CGI by Nice Shoes, New York
(the straight line and a circle)
March 9th – March 25th 2017
Galerie de l'Angle
45 rue des Tournelles
75003 Paris
Science and art were once complimentary philosophies of existence – each with their particular definition of truth. One understands that facts will lead to conclusions; the other asserts the journey is more interesting than the destination.
To combat this, we grope for ways to describe our emotions, in order to weaponize them. Calculations affecting time and memory indicate that neural pathways are not direct, but circuitous and without logic.
Une Exposition des Oeuvres de
John Sanborn
Curated by Stephen Sarrazin
Musee des Arts Decoratifs
Palais Jacques Coeur
Bourges, France
11.24.16 to 12.22.16
A collection of eight installations curated by Stephen Sarrazin, and presented with Bandits Mages, Isabelle Carlier, Director.
Palais Jacques Coeur:
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The Temptation of St. Anthony
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If I Might Suggest
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Rock | Paper | Scissors
Musee des Arts Decoratifs_Hotel Lallemant
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Rhyme or Reason
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RED Book series
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Mythic Status
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Encryption
the Media Art of John Sanborn
Bangkok Art and Cutlure Center
03.25.16 to 07.10.16
Curated by my friend, writer and teacher, Stephen Sarrazin, this show is the biggest, richest and most intense exhibition I’ve ever done.
For this show I created two new works, showcased four recent installations, added to a series of new gods, and remade a classic installation work from 1982. The assembly of the works felt like one giant statement.
Dowsing for Divinity
a one-person show of media art works
Curated by Stephen Sarrazin
Cartel Collective
October 8 to 1. November 2015
Sanborn combines questions of biography and memory, how we remember (and the betrayals of memory), conflicts of identity and who we want to be, of doubt and triumph, all in a form that combine high tech virtuosity, considerations on the use of narrative in the art environment, and a playful sense of irreverence.
V+M | 2015
9 channel video and sound installation
Music by Theresa Wong
Co-Produced by Videoformes
March 2015
V+M examines the nature and value of Venus and Mars by retelling their story rendered in the language of love, delivered by portraits of three couples (male + female, female + female, male + male) whose attraction and love cross traditional boundaries. The work presents a cross-gender interpretation of the mythic pairing of Eros and Chaos to get to the root of what makes Mars, Mars; and Venus, Venus.
RHYME or REASON
3 channel video and sound installation
music by Theresa Wong
Rhyme or Reason is an expression of humanity as positioned somewhere between inarticulate intimacy and a vast social machine. The work is commentary on our inability (but continual struggle) to define ourselves - powerless against the forces of nature and the initiatives of civilization.
Rhyme or Reason premiered at the TRACE(S) festival des arts numeriques in the Chartreuse de Valbonne on May 5th 2015.