TRANSMISSION ART ARCHIVE
George Quasha
George Quasha is an artist, poet, and musician working across mediums to explore principles in common within language, sculpture, drawing, video, sound, installation, and performance. His project art is (Speaking Portraits) records over 800 artists, poets, and composers (in 11 countries and 21 languages) saying what in their view art is. This ongoing work (art is/music is/poetry is) has been exhibited at the Snite Museum of Art (University of Notre Dame), at White Box in Chelsea, at the Samuel Dorsky Museum (SUNY New Paltz), and in several other countries (including France and India), and has been featured in several biennials (Wroclaw, Poland; Geneva, Switzerland; Kingston, New York). Further extensions of this work in speaking portraiture include myth is and peace is. In August 2012, Quasha presented a special live radio edition of art is on free103point9's WGXC 90.7-FM.
Quasha's work in axial video (including “Pulp Friction,” “Axial Objects,” “Verbal Objects,” “Axial Landscapes”) has appeared internationally in museums, galleries, schools, and biennials, and his 30-year performance collaboration (video/language/sound) continues with Gary Hill and Charles Stein.