DOCUMENTED DIALOGUES

ARTISTS INTERVIEWING ARTISTS.



#2 Keeley Haftner & Mark Booth

Documented Dialogue #2 is a conversation between artists Keeley Haftner & Mark Booth. The conversation takes place at Paris London Hong Kong gallery during Haftner's solo exhibition, "limitless future, limited reflection," and draws upon the complexities of material ecologies, socio-political affectations, and planned obsolescence.

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Keeley Haftner (b. 1985) is a Chicago-based Canadian artist who explores her own intense yearning toward non-living matter through a sculptural practice of transformation. Haftner obtained her BFA in fine arts in 2011 from Mount Allison University (MTA) and completed her MFA in 2016 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in Fiber and Material Studies. Haftner is the founder and previous director of Street Meet Festival (Saskatoon) for street and graffiti art, now in its fifth year of programming. She is currently one of the four curators and founders of Public Access gallery (Chicago), and one of three producers for the Bad at Sports THINKS to Think blog.

Mark Booth is an interdisciplinary artist, sound artist, writer, and musician. His work in text, image, and sound explores the material qualities of language, as well as the ways that language functions (and does not function) to describe human experience. Having learned to read and navigate the world as a dyslexic, Booth uses his work to make sense of his own disjointed experience with words and meaning. His art is simultaneously grandiose in scope (attempting (and failing, of course) to describe the entire spectrum of human existence) and comically quotidian. Booth is on the faculty of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has exhibited and performed his work in Chicago, nationally, and internationally in a variety of known and obscure venues.

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DOCUMENTED DIALOGUES is an alternative and auxiliary form of the artist interview. 
We initiate conversation between two parties with an active concern in the arts - 
and documents their dialogue as a fly on the wall, screen, or page. How might the 
documentation of the interview serve its content rather than abstracting it into 
an editorial form?

Here we provide the platform for discussion, conversation, dialogue, or sharing 
that might enlighten and expose current issues, ideas, and topics among contemporary 
artists, curators, makers, and thinkers - via the technologies and platforms we are 
already using to communicate with each other.

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DOCUMENTED DIALOGUES IS A PROJECT BY MATT MEHLAN & DAVID HALL.
PRODUCED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ARTIST POOL.

Matt Mehlan is an artist, musician, and producer living in Chicagoland.

David Hall writes in sentences and often works with materials already charged with significance.