Tobias Madison

Tobias Madison (born 1985) is a Swiss artist, known for his multidisciplinary conceptual art, moving image work, and performance art. His work frequently uses video, photography, text and installation to probe the economy of interpersonal relations in mediated realities. Madison lives and works in New York City.[1][2]

Tobias Madison
Born1985 (age 35–36)
Basel, Switzerland
NationalitySwiss
Alma materZurich University of the Arts
Known forMultidisciplinary Conceptual Art, Performance Art

Biography

Tobias Madison was born in 1985 in Basel, Switzerland.[2] In 2011 he received a B.F.A. degree from Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK).[3]

Since 2015, he has taught in the graduate program (work.master) of the Geneva University of Art and Design (Haute école d'art et de design or HEAD).[4][5]

Career

Madison's work has had solo exhibitions at the Swiss Institute (2010) in New York City,[6] Haus Konstruktiv (2010) in Zurich,[7] Kunstverein Munich (2010), Kunsthalle Zürich (2013), the Power Station in Dallas (with Emanuel Rossetti and Stefan Tcherepnin, 2013), Kestnergesellschaft (2016) in Hanover, Germany,[8][2] and MoMA PS1 in New York (with Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, 2016).[9]

His work is in many museum collections including the Kunsthaus Zurich, the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh,[10] and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.[11]

New Jerseyy

Madison co-founded the exhibition space New Jerseyy in Basel in 2008, together with curator Daniel Baumann, artist Emanuel Rossetti, and graphic designer Dan Solbach.[12] New Jerseyy's program was focused both on a local and an international audience and presented solo exhibitions of Carissa Rodriguez, DAS INSTITUT (Kerstin Brätsch and Adele Roder), Ei Arakawa, Anne Imhof, Ida Ekblad, and Stefan Tcherepnin.

Experimental exhibition formats for New Jerseyy included a 2008 temporary boxing gym with John Armleder and his student collective Team 404[12] and a 2009 MFA degree thesis show of students of the Graphic Design Department of the Yale University School of Art.

Collaborations

In 2012, Madison co-curated an exhibition with Emanuel Rossetti at the Kunsthalle Bern that focused on collaborative practices and artistic networks that are spun between Tbilisi, New York City, Tokyo, and Berlin. The French art-historian Mélanie Mermod curated the section APN Research あぷん with images by the media collective Jikken Kōbō (experimental workshop) that were published weekly between 1953 and 1954 in the Asahi Graph (Japanese: アサヒグラフ Asahi Gurafu).[13]

In 2013, Madison collaborated with artist Emanuel Rossetti and artist and composer Stefan Tcherepnin on the exhibition Drip Event at the Power Station in Dallas. The project is documented in the Solar Lice LP, which was recorded at ISSUE Project Room.[8]

In 2015, Madison developed an adaptation of Shuji Terayama's 1967 play La Marie-Vison together with artist Matthew Lutz-Kinoy and theater director Barbara Weber for the Kunsthalle Zurich.[14] In 2016 the play was further developed by Madison and Lutz-Kinoy for a commission by MoMA PS1, titled Rotten Wood, the Dripping Word: Shuji Terayama's Kengawa No Mari.[15][16]

Film

In 2016, Madison produced a remake of Shuji Terayama's 1971 film Emperor Tomato Ketchup, with a group of kindergarteners from Hannover, Germany.[17] The resulting film, Das Blut, Im Fruchtfleisch Gerinnend Beim Birnenbiss (2016), is an exploration of the child's mind and the projections that it is exposed to.[17]

In 2018, Madison shot O Vermelho do Meio-Dia in Sao Paulo, Brazil with members of the Queer activist group MEXA in the months leading up to the election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro.[18] The film premiered in November 2018 at the Biennale d'Image en Mouvement in Geneva.[19] After its premiere Madison pulled the film from other festivals to continue to work on it.[20]

Domestic violence

Madison was arrested in March 2019 after his then-partner filed a criminal complaint against him for an incident occurring in December 2018.[21] Tobias was arrested on five counts of domestic violence and assault charges.[21]

Since his arrest in 2019, Madison became the focus of a letter writing campaign to the Swiss Institute Contemporary Art New York, at which he was to be showing his work.[22][23] As a result of the pending criminal charges against Madison, poet C.A. Conrad cancelled their 2019 planned appearance at the Swiss Institute.[23]

As of January 2020, Madison pleaded guilty in a New York court to the charges of assault in the third degree and harassment in the second degree.[24]

Bibliography
  • Madison, Tobias (2015). NO; NO; H E P. Zurich: JRP Ringier. ISBN 978-3037643907
  • Madison, Tobias; Rossetti, Emanuel; Tcherepnin, Stefan (2014). Solar Lice. Dallas: The Power Station. ISBN 978-0984023059
  • Madison, Tobias (2011). Drawings. Zurich: 978-3-906011.ch. ISBN 978-3906011042

References
  1. "Tobias Madison". 2013 Carnegie International. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  2. Casavecchia, Barbara (2015). "Portrait Tobias Madison, No as in Yes". www.spikeartmagazine.com. Spike Art Quarterly, No 46 (published Winter 2015). Check date values in: |publication-date= (help)
  3. "Das Blut, im Fruchtfleisch gerinnend beim Birnenbiss: Screening and Conversation with Tobias Madison". Asia Art Archive in America. 2017-02-22. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  4. "Current faculty members and regular lecturers". work.master. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  5. Teets, Jennifer. "CCC, TRANS, and WORK.Master at Geneva's HEAD: Intergenerational MFAs of Non-Formatted Curricula". Art & Education. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  6. "Tobias Madison at Swiss Institute". Contemporary Art Daily. 2010-04-24. Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  7. "Tobias Madison EP". Kunsthalle Zürich. 2013. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  8. "Tobias Madison, Emanuel Rossetti & Stefan Tcherepnin". Power Station Dallas. 2013. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  9. MoMA PS1
  10. "Tobias Madison". Carnegie Museum of Art. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  11. "Tobias Madison, Emanuel Rossetti. Shek O Beach Fishbook. 2012". The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA). Retrieved 2019-10-10.
  12. Walleston, Aimee (Jun 15, 2010). "In Basel New Jerseyy State of Mind". Art in America Magazine. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  13. "Group Show at Kunsthalle Bern". Contemporary Art Daily. 2012. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  14. "Theater der Überforderung". Kunsthalle Zürich. 2015. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  15. "Sunday Sessions Commission: Tobias Madison and Matthew Lutz-Kinoy, Rotting Wood, the Dripping Word: Shūji Terayama's Kegawa no Marii". MoMA. April 24, 2016. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  16. Murg, Stephanie (May 2, 2016). "Tobias Madison & Matthew Lutz-Kinoy MoMA PS1 / New York". Flash Art. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  17. "Das Blut, im Fruchtfleisch gerinnend beim Birnenbiss: Screening and Conversation with Tobias Madison". Asian Art Archive in America (in German). Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  18. Grupo MEXA
  19. "The best of BIM2018, the Biennale of Moving Image". Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  20. "Tobias Madison". Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  21. Durón, Maximilíano (2019-10-08). "Domestic Violence Accusations Against Artist Stir Group to Send 'Letter of Concern' to Swiss Institute [Updated]". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  22. "Cultural Figures Call for Swiss Institute to Address Assault Allegations Against Tobias Madison". Artforum.com. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  23. "Poet CA Conrad Cancels Appearance at the Swiss Institute in Solidarity With Alleged Victim of Domestic Abuse". Hyperallergic. 2019-10-10. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
  24. "Artist Tobias Madison Pleaded Guilty to Assault and Harassment of His Former Girlfriend". Hyperallergic. 2020-01-22. Retrieved 2020-01-22.
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