Over 4000 hand carved books. Concealed within the cases are low frequency speakers. The looping audio track vibrates the cases and the books. From the 2008 Pittsburgh Biennial.

Interpretations of the ‘Personal Aeneid’ collection of poetic works by William Handshake

Video = Adam Welch
Audio = A&B Projects/apiano/BAA

Filmed in Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, PA.

The terminal moraine is the last point of glacial progress: the debris left once the ice has receded; the geographic mass that remains with its various sources and origins. For Welch, the mass is a composite of histories and edited forms, arranged in a context with many possible readings. An expansion of Welch’s established sensibility, the exhibition applies themes of scale, time, perception, form and intimacy to modes of reflection and understanding. Terminal Moraine further serves as a meditation on the complex co-dependency between the artist’s solitary experimentation and his role as a presenter.

The pieces in this exhibit are not to be taken as a retrospective, but offer choices of proximity and placement in a space – they do not dwell on each work’s original conceptual foundation or design. Each “formation” has a relationship with its neighbor within the environment, exerting itself in a present whose past is an echo. Relationships form. Each grouping maintains its rudimentary constituent characteristics, but due to a separation of time assumes a new identity and energy. Welch’s choices in the remaking are also mediated. The introduction of new media, objects, and ways of working have been subjected to innumerable external forces and reconsiderations. The communication with the viewer remains open-ended insofar as there is no expectation of her/his relationship to the works’ origins, except for what might already be understood: that our shared framework is the result of actual and metaphorical individual histories. Each work channels the speck of sand, the cluster of rocks, the beach, the island, or the person, which in the face of inertia are deposited on a landscape of inevitable permutation.

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Interpretations of the ‘Personal Aeneid’ collection of poetic works by William Handshake

Video = Adam Welch
Audio = A&B Projects/apiano/BAA


Additional Still Photography: A/T. Nash

Filmed at Pittsburgh, PA with JM

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Interpretations of the ‘Personal Aeneid’ collection of poetic works by William Handshake

Video = Adam Welch
Audio = A&B Projects/apiano

Additional Video Contributions by: Traveling Schmook
Additional Still Photography: A/T. Nash

Interpretations of the ‘Personal Aeneid’ collection of poetic works by William Handshake

Video = Adam Welch
Audio = A&B Projects

Filmed in Mexican war streets/North Side, Pittsburgh, PA

Collaboration with T. Nash

Interpretations of the ‘Personal Aeneid’ collection of poetic works by William Handshake

Video = Adam Welch
Audio = A&B Projects/apiano/BAA


Additional Still Photography: A/T. Nash

Filmed in ADK National Park, NY

Collaboration with T. Nash

Collaboration with Juliana Morris

Interpretations of the ‘Personal Aeneid’ collection of poetic works by William Handshake

Video = Adam Welch
Audio = A&B Projects


Additional Still Photography: A/T. Nash

Filmed in ADK National park NY - NoonMark peak-3556', with AW

View of three works from the Miscellaneous Debris exhibit

Collaboration with T. Nash

Interpretations of the ‘Personal Aeneid’ collection of poetic works by William Handshake

Video = Adam Welch
Audio = A&B Projects/BAA


Additional Still Photography: A/T. Nash

Interpretations of the ‘Personal Aeneid’ collection of poetic works by William Handshake

Video = Adam Welch
Audio = apiano


Additional Still Photography: A/T. Nash

Filmed at Abbi-anywhere

Collaboration with T. Nash

Collaboration with T. Nash

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Collaboration with T. Nash

From the Miscellaneous Debris exhibit

Interpretations of the ‘Personal Aeneid’ collection of poetic works by William Handshake

Video = Adam Welch
Audio = A&B Projects/BAA/JM

Additional Video Contributions by: Sean Fredrick
Additional Still Photography: A/T. Nash

Filmed in Tuscon, AZ

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

From the Miscellaneous Debris exhibit

Interpretations of the ‘Personal Aeneid’ collection of poetic works by William Handshake

Video = Adam Welch
Audio = A&B Projects/apiano/BAA


Additional Still Photography: A/T. Nash

Filmed in North Side, Pittsburgh, PA

Collaboration with T. Nash

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

From the Miscellaneous Debris exhibit.

Collaboration with T. Nash

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Collaboration with Christopher Kardambikis. From the Best of Pittsburgh exhibit.

Collaboration with T. Nash

Collaboration with T. Nash

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Installation view of 9 works on vibrating floor. From the In System/Out exhibit.

The inside of the stone has been hollowed to fit a powerful electromagnet, which turns upon a motor driven armature – the steel ball rolls erratically on the top surface from the electromagnetic pull from within the stone. Installation view from the Life is Splendid exhibit.

Collaboration with T. Nash

Collaboration with T. Nash

The suspended TV components receive random frequencies producing intermittent sounds and flashes of white noise while the fans create a low drone, blowing air outward from the piece. From the A General theory of Induction exhibit.

Collaboration with T. Nash

So On

Over the course of a fortnight and a half, I’ve seen people shot--some dead—through a pane of flickering glass; read a few stories about ice shelves melting beyond expectations and antecedents, and of poisonous water’s shadowy bureaucratic origins; studied the mortality rates beneath earthquake data; given away the garden’s first strawberry; heard spun intimate tales of green fields and free ranging horses; listened to bilious speech, shit speech, who-the-fuck knows speech as it issued from the rotten body of tics and polls; seen folks don heavy make-up and save a country; read a critical book with solipsism at its unknowing core; lingered on a friend’s friend’s suicidal end; participated in symbiotic orgasm (I hope she did too); sat through a pitch for someone else’s god/passed on it; watched a lady a-giggle sell guns via the home-shopping channel; been pleased to learn the bankers, after so much suffering, are finally doing fine; watched a woman overcome the overwhelming odds of an angry mob to reach a public restroom; considered my neighbor’s medical history; drunk and eaten to Dionysian excess at the expense of sleep and prayer; regretted negative spaces I’ve nurtured, such as blood donation and child welfare; failed horribly; listened and ignored…

And So On is as such. Here are some new pieces and some old—hopefully seen here in a new light. They are drafts of thoughts and insecurities, of fear, pride, violence and envy. Athleticism and torpor.

The past and the present are always a paint-flecked “now” to the artist. Nothing here feeds the hungry, or changes political will, or puts an end to art, or halts the terrible human urges to kill, win, amass, or flee. These are humble disparate works—made and displayed in a short burst of planning and action—and which equal an approximation. For you, for me, for us.

And for that fucking asshole who stabbed me in the back.

Adam Welch
2016

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Collaboration with T. Nash

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Concealed within the cases are low frequency speakers. The looping audio track vibrates the cases and the books. From the Miscellaneous Debris exhibit.

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

15 works on paper hung among poster and advertisements throughout Zagreb, Croatia

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison
With T. Nash

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Collaboration w/ Andrew Allison

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison

Collaboration w/ Andrew W. Allison