Nervous      Media

Beginning with Viscera, a multimedia rumination on Evolution produced while a graduate student at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Ebon Fisher produced a series of experiments involving the immersion of audiences into a bath of performance, live music and media. Most of these productions involved biological themes. Fisher prepared the following diagrams for an exhibit at the New School for Social Research in 1992. These productions informed Fisher's media rituals in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which lead to his Bionic Codes and Zoacodes. 

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VISCERA

Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, 1986

EXISTENCE

MIT Dupont Gym, 1987

AN OFFERING TO THE HEART

Eventworks Performance Festival, Boston, MA, 1987

EVOLUTION OF THE GRID

Boston Institute of Contemporary Art 

The Channel Nightclub

Nerve Circle Studio

Boston, MA 1988                                                      

Karen Ellzey in 

Evolution of the Grid

“What is impressive about  “Viscera” is the central 

large-mindedness of the work....  It is one thing in a time of perceived cultural drifting and personal alienation for art to bemoan the conditions of trouble. It is quite another, and substantially more difficult, to imagine what could be better, to evoke that which might help us. Mr. Fisher’s 

is such an evocative art.”

– Gregory Volk 

Writer, New York

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