Brian Wallace 
The Upstate New York Olympics [PDF ebook] 

This exhibition catalog documents the series of video and installation works by Tim Davis entitled The Upstate New York Olympics. Combining the artist’s ongoing interests in performance, photography, sculpture, and poetry, and by turns uncanny, bold, ridiculous, illegal, and downright dangerous, Davis’s ‘events’ (including ‘Flag Pole Grapple, ‘ ‘Lawn Jockey Leapfrog, ‘ and ‘Stream Luge’) both document and at the same time powerfully comment on the artist’s concerns with the fundamentals of performance art, personal expression, regionalism, and the risks and rewards of the creative life.

Table of Content

Foreword


Sara Pasti



Olympic Art


Austin Kelley



See the Unseen


Thomas Bartscherer



“From the Sublime to the Ridiculous”


Brian Wallace



Portfolio


Tim Davis



Biographies for Artist and Contributors

About the author

Malawi-born
Tim Davis, a graduate of Bard College and Yale University, is an artist and poet whose exhibition/publication projects include
Permanent Collection and
My Life In Politics. He teaches at Bard College, and his work is in the collection of many institutions, including the Dorsky Museum.