Mise en Scène

Raymond Pettibon, Dodie Bellamy, Dan Graham, John Miller, Nayland Blake, Lynne Tillman, Jorge Pardo, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, George Porcari, Chris Kraus, Servane Mary, Sylvère Lotringer, Michel Auder, Joanne Greenbaum, Leigh Ledare, Suzanne McClelland, Liam Gillick, Alix Pearlstein, Aura Rosenberg

Shoot the Lobster and Rockypoint Press are proud to present Mise en Scène, a series of artist/writer collaborative prints, projects and Affiches Uniques curated by novelist/filmmaker Veronica Gonzalez Peña.

In her collaborations, Gonzalez Peña foregrounds the British Psychoanalyst DW Winnicott's theories on the transitional object and creativity through play. Inspired by the cross-pollination of Modernist artists and writers - Gertrude Stein structuring her writing like painting or film, for instance, or Virigina Woolf's psychological and painterly concerns - Gonzalez Peña enacts her play by bringing people together to create something completely new.

As in many process oriented projects, she often works with a repeating cast of like-minded artists; a feedback loop of the socially generative and generatively social which is foundational to Rockypoint's activities. In the in between space of play there is no final Meaning, there is no final Thing, no absolute Beauty - only a coming together which is ever shifting and moving.

Gonzalez Peña is currently at work on a documentary about Lawrence Weiner.