JANKS ARCHIVE (ongoing)
Janks Archive is an ongoing investigation and collection of insult humor from cultures around the world by artists Jerstin Crosby, Ben Kinsley, and Jessica Langley. Insults are an ancient oral ...
POINTS OF DEPARTURE (2012)
A site-specific project for which we asked local residents of the small town of Askeaton (Co. Limerick, Ireland) to point us to their favorite locations by way of hand-drawn maps. We then ...
THE END IS NIGH / A NEW BEGINNING IS IMMINENT (2012)
Excerpt from "8501 to 11400 (On Moving)" show card from exhibition at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Cleveland: For one hour every Sunday afternoon during the exhibition, two actors ... ...
MAKE CATOPIA REAL (2011-2012)
Make CATopia Real is a campaign aimed at the realization of a physical utopian cat park (location TBD). Over the course of a 3 month exhibition at SPACES, viewers were asked to consider their ...
DANISH ROYAL PROTESTERS (2011)
STOP THE RAIN / TODAY IS BORING Every day from May 17-June 5 two actors dressed in formal Royal attire who were look-alikes of the Danish Queen Margrethe and Prince Consort Henrik walked along ...
THE SPOT (2011)
A site-specific installation created for La Galería de Comercio. LGdC is a public exhibition space located at the North East corner of Comercio and Martí streets, in Escandón district, in ...
CALLING OCCUPANTS (2011)
A Paranormal Concert Series Between January 27 and March 12th, 2011 a series of events took place at the Canzani Center in Columbus, Ohio in which a blown glass bowl of water was used as a ...
OMAHA ANTICKS (2010)
On March 7th 2010, a boisterous crew of costumed performers spent the day invading private homes around Omaha, Nebraska in the tradition and spirit of mumming. They brought "diversion to the ...
STREET WITH A VIEW (2008)
Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View. On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google ...
MOTHERS OF MT ESJA (2008)
A video by Jessica Langley and Ben Kinsley shot in Iceland in October 2008 in which a choir of new mothers sing the old and very well-known Icelandic lullaby Sofðu Unga Ástin Mín to their ...
COLOSSUS MEETS ANGARON (2008)
A two-part project by Ben Kinsley and Jon Rubin that brought together a medieval battle society (Angaron) with a fantasy metal band (Colossus). Part one of this project consisted of a live ...
A SEA-SOME MEDLEY (2006)
A play in 3 acts performed by the 2006 participants of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, in Skowhegan, Maine. It was a medley of 4 classic maritime tales (Moby Dick, Titanic, The ...
THE POKE ORCHESTRA (2006)
A ten-piece human musical instrument and performance system. Prompted by visual cues displayed by 35mm slide projectors, five musical duos POKE, PINCH, FLICK, SLAP, NOOGIE, SHOVE, and WEDGY each ...
PEOPLE’S MUSIC (2005)
An interactive video and sound installation consisting of a series of musical portraits of people. Portraits were interactive based on proximity, and viewers could choose which sounds were heard ...
GESICHTSMUSIK (2004)
Gesichtsmusik (Face Music) is a musical self-portrait. All the sounds were produced with my voice and body, and through meticulous editing and layering, an audio-visual composition was ...
MUSIK INTERAKTIV (2004)
An interactive music performance and sound installation which took place in Schwäbisch Hall, Germany. Musicians were prompted to play musical tones in accordance with the positions passers-by ...