Rene Gabri
Born in Tehran, moved to Athens, then Los Angeles, now based in New
York. His solo projects, are largely based around the mediums of film,
video, audio and text. He has been exploring a broad range of topics
including cities, memory, confession, popular culture, television, music
and issues related to in-between-ness and drifting in general. At the
conclusion of the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in
1999, he was involved in setting up and maintaining 16 Beaver, an ongoing platform and space for independent critical, cultural, political inquiry and friendship. His projects with Ayreen Anastas have evolved a great deal through their work at 16Beaver. Their Radioactive Discussion series was a physical counterpart to their fictional Home land Security Cultural Bureau (hscb.org) project. Together with Erin Mcgonigle and Heimo Laner, he also works under the name e-Xplo, creating projects which involve mapping and exploring, and developing a vocabulary for particular sites. Most recently he has taught at the University of Architecture in Venice and the City University of New York in Staten Island. www.16beavergroup.org | www.e-xplo.org