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Overview - Witness Lab at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
Photography: Mark Gjukich
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Overview - Witness Lab at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (Community High School Mock Trial)
Photography: Mark Gjukich
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Overview - Witness Lab at the University of Michigan Museum of Art
Photography: Mark Gjukich
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Overview - Legal Simulation and Non-Linear Time
Burnaway Mood Ring https://burnaway.org/magazine/legal-simulation-and-non-linear-time/
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Overview - Legal Simulation and Non-Linear Time
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Overview - Simulations (University of Alabama)
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Overview - Featured Art in America First Look, written by Logan Lockner
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Overview - The Advancement of Learning
Curated by Corey Oberlander and Lindsey Stapleton Margaret Mitchell Square (140 Peachtree St NW) https://aeatlanta.com/program/local-stories-2022
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Overview - Simulations (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
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Overview - Legal Simulation and Non-Linear Time
A Digital Work https://burnaway.org/magazine/legal-simulation-and-non-linear-time/
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Overview - Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress
McClellan has been named the 2021 Innovator in Residence at the Library of Congress. Read more about her LC Labs Experiment Speculative Annotation: https://labs.loc.gov/work/experiments/annotation/
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Overview - Simulations Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia Jan 30 2021-March 27 2021
For more than six years, artist Courtney McClellan has studied the relationship between performance and the law. Her inquiry centers on the legal simulations and professional practices used to educate future attorneys. During trial simulation, students may play the role of lawyer, witness, or judge in the courtroom. Their actions are often theatrical and their assertions are often speculative. Curator Robert Blackson said, “Simulation is practice in service to theory.” Simulations is a photo installation that includes images of practice courtrooms at law schools across the American South. The series depicts spaces that simultaneously function as courtroom, classroom, and theater. These sites occasionally host the actual adjudication of law, for example a state appellate case, and thus blur the boundaries between real and staged experience. McClellan's images address this interwoven architecture of training, performance, and power.
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Overview - Review of Simulations in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Overview - Artist Talk at MOCA GA for Simulations March 2 at 7 PM
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Overview - Legal Simulation and Non-Linear Time
A Digital Work https://burnaway.org/magazine/legal-simulation-and-non-linear-time/
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Overview - https://mocaga.org/2019-2020-working-artist-project-fellows/
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Overview - Legal Simulation and Non-Linear Time
A Digital Project for Burnaway’s Mood Ring https://burnaway.org/magazine/legal-simulation-and-non-linear-time/
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Midlands Lamar Dodd School of Art, Athens, GA Artist Talk Oct 30 12 PM Opening Oct. 13, on view until Nov. 8, 2018 Image by Stephanie Sutton
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Overview - 2019 Atlanta Artaidia Finalist
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Studio in Judge's Robe, 2016. Image by Stephanie Sutton.
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Association for Arts of the Present (ASAP) Conference October 11, 2019 University of Maryland, College Park
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Dueling Court Reporters, 2016. Image by Ashley L. Wood.
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Midlands, 2017.
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Midlands, 2017.
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Acceptance Speech, 2017. Photo taken by Lucy Bone. At ATHICA: I Swear I Saw This: the line as witness Curated by Mike Calway-Fagan Including works from Christina Tsui, Courtney McClellan, George Belcher, Jacbo Sunderlin, Jon Swindler Opening Sat Feb 11, 6-9 PM Exhibition Feb 11- March 5
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Overview - Here, Say
Here, Say is an ongoing sculptural installation by artist Courtney McClellan. The installation, comprised of made and found objects, recreates a courtroom. With absurdity and poetry, the judicial system and its players are recast. Witness, defendant, plaintiff, judge, and jury conflate seeing and speaking, hearing and being seen. In this space theories are performed, arguments are made. Located at an entrance of the Lamar Dodd School of Art, the work invites practice, play and judgment.
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Josh Holbrook 3D Design, Miniature of a familiar room Fall 2020
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Josh Holbrook 3D Design, Miniature of a familiar room Fall 2020
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Evan 3D Design, Miniature of a familiar room Fall 2020
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Courtney McClellan Student Portfolio
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John Gaann 2016 metal, digital prints 5’’x7’’x60’’ Daylight
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Rachel Parker 2016 Performance 10 min
Folk Boy
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Matt Taylor
2016 Performance/Costumes Ongoing in exhibition
Wedding
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Kaleena Stasiak 2016
Video Installation and found footage 22 min Staircases from Gone with the Wind
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Tyler Henderson 2016
Performance 5 min Ladder
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Hyun Son 2015
Performance and Performance relics 4 min I Can’t Bring It Back
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Madeline Pericak 2014 Two channel video 6 min Nautilus
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Silu Lee 2015 Digital Project n
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Jessica Ruptik 2016 Trap jello, bananas, wood
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Stephen-Bernard Callendar
2014
12‘x10‘x10’
Found wood, sawdust 12‘x10‘x10’ Pedestal
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Silu Lee 2014 Steel, clay, plaster, plastic bag, audio of plastic bag blowing in the wind 7’x4’x5’ Wind in Grocery Bag
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Meagan Fuller 2016 Performance Weaving Performance
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Harrison Stewart
2014
Durational Performance Rock Dracula For To Much Fun, a site-specific class exhibition held at Skateland in Richmond, VA, Harrison created and played live music as the DJ/organist for the night.
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Ginna Shea and Teresa Ramirez 2014 Ongoing performance Red Wagon Carpool Ginna and Teresa established the all-night Red Wagon Carpool service, which transported students to and from the Exhibition.
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Noelle Choy 2014 Papermache, roller skates, country music 5 min Lonely Dance Noelle created two life-sized paper mache sculptures. She and a fellow performer slowly danced to a classic country song, never touching.
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Brian Gene 2016 Event Mascot Fight
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Booth
Booth, 2016. Southern yellow pine, mic clip, light bulb, shower curtain hooks, vinyl-coated mesh, steel, extension cord. Booth, a hybrid of a phone booth, a sound booth, and a voting booth, is a work that articulates concern about the power and influence of one person speaking to many. The microphone illuminates the viewer rather than projecting his/her/their voice. The ineffectual lectern faces the wall, while the perforated privacy curtain exposes the viewer inside. The gallery audience becomes both the voter/vocalist entering the booth and the observer peaking though the curtain. This work was created prior to the 2016 election.
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Booth
Booth, 2016. Southern yellow pine, mic clip, light bulb, shower curtain hooks, vinyl-coated mesh, steel, extension cord. Booth, a hybrid of a phone booth, a sound booth, and a voting booth, is a work that articulates concern about the power and influence of one person speaking to many. The microphone illuminates the viewer rather than projecting his/her/their voice. The ineffectual lectern faces the wall, while the perforated privacy curtain exposes the viewer inside. The gallery audience becomes both the voter/vocalist entering the booth and the observer peaking though the curtain. This work was created prior to the 2016 election.
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Booth
Booth, 2016. Southern yellow pine, mic clip, light bulb, shower curtain hooks, vinyl-coated mesh, steel, extension cord.
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Booth
Booth, 2016. Southern yellow pine, mic clip, light bulb, shower curtain hooks, vinyl-coated mesh, steel, extension cord.
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Booth
Booth, 2016. Southern yellow pine, mic clip, light bulb, shower curtain hooks, vinyl-coated mesh, steel, extension cord.
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Dueling Court Reporters
Dueling Court Reporters, 2016. Image by Ashley L. Wood. Banquet chairs, mic stands, light bulbs, stenographs, steno paper, wood, plexiglass, vinyl. Dueling Court Reporters was created for Obstacle Course, an exhibition at the New Arts Center in Newton, M.A. This sculptural work, a play on dueling banjos, highlights the theatrical nature of the courtroom. By replacing the court reporter with an outdated stenograph, the work questions the role of the reporter as a gatekeeper of language and truth in the courtroom.
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Dueling Court Reporters
Dueling Court Reporters, 2016. Image by Ashley L. Wood. Banquet chairs, mic stands, light bulbs, stenographs, steno paper, wood, plexiglass, vinyl. Dueling Court Reporters was created for Obstacle Course, an exhibition at the New Arts Center in Newton, M.A. This sculptural work, a play on dueling banjos, highlights the theatrical nature of the courtroom. By replacing the court reporter with an outdated stenograph, the work questions the role of the reporter as a gatekeeper of language and truth in the courtroom.
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Dueling Court Reporters, 2016. Image by Ashley L. Wood. Banquet chairs, mic stands, light bulbs, stenographs, steno paper, wood, plexiglass, vinyl.
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Dueling Court Reporters, 2016. Image by Ashley L. Wood. Banquet chairs, mic stands, light bulbs, stenographs, steno paper, wood, plexiglass, vinyl.
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Dueling Court Reporters
Dueling Court Reporters, 2016. Image by Ashley L. Wood. Banquet chairs, mic stands, light bulbs, stenographs, steno paper, wood, plexiglass, vinyl.
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2019-07-08
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The National Stage - The National Stage
In process A disembodied eye scans a blueprint following a seemingly invisible being/ghost. He moves through the Backstage, the Coat Check and the Orchestral Pit. Footsteps, bangs, crashes, and music can be heard. Spooky pink text appears, speaking only in onomatopoeias: uh huhs, hahas, and sighs. The ghost decides to perform a play. After writing the play, creating the costume, and establishing the set, he performs, faking his death on stage for the absent audience (absent except for my video viewers, of course). Victorious, he walks off stage. The video loops. This project and the associated travel to Budapest, Hungary, is funded the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Traveling Fellowship.
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The National Stage - The National Stage
In process A disembodied eye scans a blueprint following a seemingly invisible being/ghost. He moves through the Backstage, the Coat Check and the Orchestral Pit. Footsteps, bangs, crashes, and music can be heard. Spooky pink text appears, speaking only in onomatopoeias: uh huhs, hahas, and sighs. The ghost decides to perform a play. After writing the play, creating the costume, and establishing the set, he performs, faking his death on stage for the absent audience (absent except for my video viewers, of course). Victorious, he walks off stage. The video loops. This project and the associated travel to Budapest, Hungary, is funded the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Traveling Fellowship.
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The National Stage - The National Stage (excerpt) In process
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The National Stage
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The National Stage
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The National Stage
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2023-01-03
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Midlands - Midlands 3
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Midlands - Midlands
installation view at SculptureCenter, New York, 2018 Photo: Kyle Knodell Midlands is the fictional land within which the collegiate American Mock Trial Association sets its fabricated cases. Midlands the project juxtaposes the theoretical space of the fictional Midlands, with the concrete, physical space of the courtroom.
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Midlands - Midlands (Setting)
Midlands: Setting Video still Midlands: Setting begins with a closely framed image of a judge’s bench. The camera pulls back, revealing the chair is in a grand, well-lit space. The panning camera raises further, revealing itself to be a drone moving through a two-story space, recording the red velvet chairs. From this aerial viewpoint, one can see vaulted ceilings, and wooden seats. Hovering over the witness chair, the drone looks back the familiar but empty courthouse.
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Midlands - Midlands (Setting)
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Midlands - Midlands (Setting)
Text is typed across the screen. Slowly accumulating, the rules of engagement in Midlands are revealed.
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Midlands - Midlands (Character)
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Midlands - Midlands (Character)
Video still Midlands (Character) begins with a close up shot of a computer document with the words “Midlands Courthouse” typed in simple font. The camera pans back to reveal the setting is a Google doc and a scrolling legal screenplay. “Prosecutor” and “Defense Attorney” characters actively comment on the Google doc, offering their internal thoughts about the movements and gestures of the courtroom drama.
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Midlands - Midlands (Prop)
Video still Midlands: Prop opens on a computer program with the blinking text “Begin to scan”. A green then blue digital material grows in the central frame. As the camera pans the blue material develops, a men’s blazer is formed. When the scan is complete, the blazer disappears and then returns as a shiny blue coat.
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Midlands - Midlands (Prop)
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Midlands - Midlands (Prop)
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Midlands - Midlands
installation view at the University of Georgia, Dodd Galleries, Athens, G.A., 2018
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Midlands - Midlands
installation view at the University of Georgia, Dodd Galleries, Athens, G.A., 2018
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Midlands - Midlands (Part 1)
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Midlands - Midlands 2
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Midlands - Midlands 3
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2020-12-13
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Laughing Manaically - Laughing Maniacally (installation view)
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Laughing Manaically - Laughing Maniacally (installation view)
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Laughing Manaically - Laughing Maniacally (installation view)
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Laughing Manaically - Teleprompter 2887
Teleprompters are electronic displays that prompt speech. They are used in news casts and political speeches. Teleprompters come in many forms, but they all include a few elements: reflective surfaces, mirrored text, and a camera aperture. I reimagine teleprompters using familiar objects like picture frames, old suitcases, and music stands. The materials employed include grommets, lime green felt, baby blue velvet, and office supplies. The text they display are commands, but also Conversation Heart phrases, like “I’m yours”, or “Call me,” as well as emotional, performance delivery cues. The images included here are from “Laughing Maniacally,” a solo exhibition at THE END gallery in Atlanta, G.A.
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2019-07-04
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Writing
http://www.courtneymcclellan.com/witness-lab
daily
0.75
2021-03-18
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Witness Lab
Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab, 2020, mixed media. © Courtney McClellan. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Christopher Ankney Note: Witness Lab closed early due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however we had a wonderful month of events. I continue to benefit from the generous and generative experience. From the Exhibition: An installation, performance site, and workspace, Witness Lab is a museum-based courtroom created by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan. This space serves as a venue for mock trials, staged readings, and other performances. Through creative interventions, Witness Lab seeks to understand the emotional acceptance of eyewitness testimony as fact—even though evidence shows that shared experiences are teaming with multiple, diverse, and sometimes contradictory perspectives. At its core, the installation is a performance project that unfolds over time, offering the public a complex truth: the relationship between performance and law is itself a living, evolving, interpretive act. Audiences are invited to attend performances and mock trials. Passersby can also observe the activity through the glass walls of the gallery. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will document the events of the space through drawing, text, photography, and video—honing their observational skills by creating artistic records of the procedures.
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Witness Lab
Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab, 2020, mixed media. © Courtney McClellan. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Christopher Ankney Note: Witness Lab closed early due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however we had a wonderful month of events. I continue to benefit from the generous and generative experience. From the Exhibition: An installation, performance site, and workspace, Witness Lab is a museum-based courtroom created by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan. This space serves as a venue for mock trials, staged readings, and other performances. Through creative interventions, Witness Lab seeks to understand the emotional acceptance of eyewitness testimony as fact—even though evidence shows that shared experiences are teaming with multiple, diverse, and sometimes contradictory perspectives. At its core, the installation is a performance project that unfolds over time, offering the public a complex truth: the relationship between performance and law is itself a living, evolving, interpretive act. Audiences are invited to attend performances and mock trials. Passersby can also observe the activity through the glass walls of the gallery. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will document the events of the space through drawing, text, photography, and video—honing their observational skills by creating artistic records of the procedures.
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Witness Lab - Witness Lab, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, M.I.
February 15, 2020-May 17, 2020 https://umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/2020/witness-lab Please check the website for simulations and events
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Witness Lab
Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab, 2020, mixed media. © Courtney McClellan. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Kathryn Beaton
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Witness Lab
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Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab, 2020, mixed media. © Courtney McClellan. Malcolm Tulip’s Directing class working on Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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Witness Lab
Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab, Gillian Eaton’s class, performing Shakespeare in the Courtroom, Winter’s Tale, 2020, mixed media. © Courtney McClellan.
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Witness Lab
Courtney McClellan, Witness LabChloe Root’s Community High School Mock Trial Practice , 2020, mixed media. © Courtney McClellan.
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Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab, 2020, mixed media. © Courtney McClellan. Malcolm Tulip’s Directing class working on Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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Witness Lab
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2022-07-27
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Simulations - Simulations
For more than six years, artist Courtney McClellan has studied the relationship between performance and the law. Her inquiry centers on the legal simulations and professional practices used to educate future attorneys. During trial simulation, students may play the role of lawyer, witness, or judge in the courtroom. Their actions are often theatrical and their assertions are often speculative. Curator Robert Blackson said, “Simulation is practice in service to theory.” Simulations is a photo installation that includes images of practice courtrooms at law schools across the American South. The series depicts spaces that simultaneously function as courtroom, classroom, and theater. These sites occasionally host the actual adjudication of law, for example a state appellate case, and thus blur the boundaries between real and staged experience. McClellan’s images address this interwoven architecture of training, performance, and power. https://mocaga.org/calendar/courtneymclellan/
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Simulations - Simulations
For more than six years, artist Courtney McClellan has studied the relationship between performance and the law. Her inquiry centers on the legal simulations and professional practices used to educate future attorneys. During trial simulation, students may play the role of lawyer, witness, or judge in the courtroom. Their actions are often theatrical and their assertions are often speculative. Curator Robert Blackson said, “Simulation is practice in service to theory.” Simulations is a photo installation that includes images of practice courtrooms at law schools across the American South. The series depicts spaces that simultaneously function as courtroom, classroom, and theater. These sites occasionally host the actual adjudication of law, for example a state appellate case, and thus blur the boundaries between real and staged experience. McClellan’s images address this interwoven architecture of training, performance, and power. https://mocaga.org/calendar/courtneymclellan/
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Simulations
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Jan 30-March 28) For more than six years, artist Courtney McClellan has studied the relationship between performance and the law. Her inquiry centers on the legal simulations and professional practices used to educate future attorneys. During trial simulation, students may play the role of lawyer, witness, or judge in the courtroom. Their actions are often theatrical and their assertions are often speculative. Curator Robert Blackson said, “Simulation is practice in service to theory.” Simulations is a photo installation that includes images of practice courtrooms at law schools across the American South. The series depicts spaces that simultaneously function as courtroom, classroom, and theater. These sites occasionally host the actual adjudication of law, for example a state appellate case, and thus blur the boundaries between real and staged experience. McClellan’s images address this interwoven architecture of training, performance, and power. A Working Artist Project Exhibition Selection by Wassan Al-Khudhairi, Chief Curator at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis Forthcoming catalog essay written by Kyle Dancewicz, Interim Director at SculptureCenter, Long Island City NY Recorded Artist Talk and 360 tour of the Exhibition: https://mocaga.org/calendar/courtneymclellan/ Exhibition Documentation by Fredrik Brauer
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Simulations
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Speculative Annotation - Speculative Annotation
Speculative Annotation is an open-source dynamic web application and public art project intended for students and teachers. It was created during McClellan’s tenure as the 2021 the Innovator in Residence for the Library of Congress.
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Speculative Annotation - Speculative Annotation
Speculative Annotation is an open-source dynamic web application and public art project intended for students and teachers. It was created during McClellan’s tenure as the 2021 the Innovator in Residence for the Library of Congress.
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Speculative Annotation
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Speculative Annotation
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Speculative Annotation
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Speculative Annotation
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Speculative Annotation
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Speculative Annotation
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Witness Lab (install)
2019
Installation 22’’x30’’ Witness Lab is an architectural courtroom installation and performance series, which hosts mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops. The visible courtroom on campus will host legal simulations from participating groups including The Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Art students will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video. https://umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/2020/witness-lab
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Witness Lab (install)
2019
Installation 22’’x30’’ Witness Lab is an architectural courtroom installation and performance series, which hosts mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops. The visible courtroom on campus will host legal simulations from participating groups including The Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Art students will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video. https://umma.umich.edu/exhibitions/2020/witness-lab
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Witness Lab (Community High School)
2020 Installation and Performance 25’x30’x9’
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Witness Lab (Shakespeare’s Courtroom scenes, Gillian Eaton’s class)
2020 Installation and Performance 25’x30’x9’
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Witness Lab (University of Michigan Museum of Art install)
2020 Installation and Performance 25’x30’x9’
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Midlands: Setting
2018
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7:34 Midlands: Setting begins with a closely framed image of a judge’s bench. The camera pulls back, revealing the chair is in a grand, well-lit space. The panning camera raises further, revealing itself to be a drone moving through a two-story space, recording the red velvet chairs. From this aerial viewpoint, one can see vaulted ceilings, and wooden seats within a courtroom. Hovering over the witness chair, the drone looks back the familiar but empty courthouse. https://vimeo.com/335936186/601d2d97f7
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Midlands: Character
2018
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7:34 Midlands: Character begins with a close up shot of a Google doc with the words “Midlands Courthouse” typed in simple font. The camera pans back to reveal the setting is a Google doc, with scrolling legal screenplay. “Prosecutor” and “Defense Attorney” characters actively comment on the Google doc, offering their internal thoughts about the movements and gestures of the courtroom drama described. https://vimeo.com/335940447/bede48bbd6
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Witness Lab (install)
2019 installation 25’x32’
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Midlands: Prop
2018
Video still
7:34 Midlands: Prop opens on a computer program with the blinking text “Begin to scan”. A green then blue digital material grows in the central frame. As the camera pans the blue material develops, a men’s blazer is formed. When the scan is complete, the blazer disappears and then returns as a shiny yellow coat. https://vimeo.com/335942164/ab5481f28a
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Midlands (installation view at SculptureCenter, New York, 2018)
2018
Video installation 7:34 https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/3430/in-practice-another-echo
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Legal Simulation and Non-linear Time (Double Jeopardy GIF)
2019
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7 sec A performative lecture about time in Midlands, the fictional state in which all Mock Trial Cases are set. Three illustrative GIFs included. https://burnaway.org/magazine/legal-simulation-and-non-linear-time/
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Clue (overhead view)
2019
360 degree digital image (Matterport) A 360 degree image taken with University of Michigan Mock Trial students performing their respective roles.
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Simulations (University of North Carolina School of Law)
2020
Digital print
12’’x16’’
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Simulations (University of Alabama School of Law)
2020 Digital Print 18’’x24’’
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Simulations (Florida State University College of Law)
2022 Digital Print 18’’x22’’
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - North Carolina Central School of Law
2020 Digital Print 18’’x24’’
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Simulations (Lincoln Memorial University- Duncan School of Law)
2022 Digital Print 18’’x22’’
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Courtney McClellan Portfolio - Simulations (Liberty University, Supreme Court Replica)
Digital print 32x40 2022 Simulations is a photo installation that includes images of practice courtrooms at law schools across the American South. The series depicts spaces that simultaneously function as courtroom, classroom, and theater. These sites occasionally host the actual adjudication of law, for example a state appellate case, and thus blur the boundaries between real and staged experience. The images address this interwoven architecture of training, performance, and power. The first exhibition of this work was at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia as part of the Working Artist Project Fellowship: https://mocaga.org/calendar/courtneymclellan/
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Included in Local Stories: 2022, Atlanta Art Week
Curated by Corey Oberlander and Lindsey Stapleton Margaret Mitchell Square (140 Peachtree St NW) https://aeatlanta.com/program/local-stories-2022
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Included in Local Stories: 2022, Atlanta Art Week (Copy)
The Advancement of Learning Public Art Project 4K video 1:35 2022 I am often drawn to institutional spaces and visual archives in order to consider how architecture indicates power. My response to A&E Local Stories began when I found archival photographs and a hand-drawn blueprint of the Carnegie Library in the digital collection at the Library of Congress. I was immediately curious about the blueprint because it reminded me of the board game Clue. In contrast, the 1930s archival photographs of the building’s columns were stately and imposing. To tell the story of a structure that was built, torn down and then rebuilt, I knew I needed to depict transformation but through a contemporary lens. I documented the blueprint like a mechanical eye scanning over an image, or a video game player moving through a virtual space. I repeated and layered the photographs of the columns on top of the moving blueprint. The columns then fall away, seeming to tumble over the edge into the real columned sculptures beneath the Breen Smith billboard. Finally, all that is left are the words taken from the old Carnegie Library facade: “Dedicated to the Advancement of Learning.” https://aeatlanta.com/view/the-advancement-of-learning
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Witness Lab (Community High School) (Copy)
2020 Installation and Performance 25’x30’x9’ Courtney McClellan, Witness Lab, 2020, mixed media. © Courtney McClellan. Courtesy the artist. Photography: Christopher Ankney From the Exhibition: An installation, performance site, and workspace, Witness Lab is a museum-based courtroom created by Roman J. Witt Artist in Residence Courtney McClellan. This space serves as a venue for mock trials, staged readings, and other performances. Through creative interventions, Witness Lab seeks to understand the emotional acceptance of eyewitness testimony as fact—even though evidence shows that shared experiences are teaming with multiple, diverse, and sometimes contradictory perspectives. At its core, the installation is a performance project that unfolds over time, offering the public a complex truth: the relationship between performance and law is itself a living, evolving, interpretive act. Audiences are invited to attend performances and mock trials. Passersby can also observe the activity through the glass walls of the gallery. Taking the role of courtroom sketch artists, or court reporters, students from the U-M Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design will document the events of the space through drawing, text, photography, and video—honing their observational skills by creating artistic records of the procedures.
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Witness Lab (Shakespeare’s Courtroom scenes, Gillian Eaton’s class) (Copy)
2020 Installation and Performance 25’x30’x9’
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Witness Lab (install) (Copy)
2019 installation 25’x32’
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Witness Lab (University of Michigan Museum of Art install) (Copy)
2020 Installation and Performance 25’x30’x9’
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Clue (overhead view)
(Copy)
2019
360 degree digital image (Matterport) A 360 degree image taken with University of Michigan Mock Trial students performing their respective roles.
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Legal Simulation and Non-linear Time (Double Jeopardy GIF) (Copy)
2019
GIF still
7 sec A performative lecture about time in Midlands, the fictional state in which all Mock Trial Cases are set. Three illustrative GIFs included. https://burnaway.org/magazine/legal-simulation-and-non-linear-time/
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McClellan Portfolio UTK
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McClellan Portfolio UTK
Speculative Annotation (screen shot), Maya Lin Vietnam Veteran Memorial Sketch 2021 Public Art, Web-based Application Speculative Annotation is an open-source dynamic web application and public art project intended for students and teachers. It was created during McClellan’s tenure as the 2021 the Innovator in Residence for the Library of Congress. Speculative Annotation
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McClellan Portfolio UTK
Speculative Annotation (screen shot), Ars memorandi per figuras Evangelistarum, Annotated by Curator Stephanie Stillo 2021 Public Art, Web-based Application Speculative Annotation is an open-source dynamic web application and public art project intended for students and teachers. It was created during McClellan’s tenure as the 2021 the Innovator in Residence for the Library of Congress.
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McClellan Portfolio UTK
Patsy T. Mink papers, Annotation by Curator Elizabeth A. Novara 2021 Public Art, Web-based Application Speculative Annotation is an open-source dynamic web application and public art project intended for students and teachers. It was created during McClellan’s tenure as the 2021 the Innovator in Residence for the Library of Congress. https://labs.loc.gov/work/experiments/annotation/
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Simulations (Liberty University, Supreme Court Replica)
(Copy)
Digital print 32x40 2022 Simulations is a photo installation that includes images of practice courtrooms at law schools across the American South. The series depicts spaces that simultaneously function as courtroom, classroom, and theater. These sites occasionally host the actual adjudication of law, for example a state appellate case, and thus blur the boundaries between real and staged experience. The images address this interwoven architecture of training, performance, and power. The first exhibition of this work was at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia as part of the Working Artist Project Fellowship: https://mocaga.org/calendar/courtneymclellan/
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Simulations (University of North Carolina School of Law) (Copy)
2020
Digital print
12’’x16’’
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Simulations (University of Alabama School of Law) (Copy)
2020 Digital Print 18’’x24’’
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Simulations (Lincoln Memorial University- Duncan School of Law) (Copy)
2022 Digital Print 18’’x22’’
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - North Carolina Central School of Law (Copy)
2020 Digital Print 18’’x24’’
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Midlands: Setting (Copy)
2018
Video still
7:34 Midlands: Setting begins with a closely framed image of a judge’s bench. The camera pulls back, revealing the chair is in a grand, well-lit space. The panning camera raises further, revealing itself to be a drone moving through a two-story space, recording the red velvet chairs. From this aerial viewpoint, one can see vaulted ceilings, and wooden seats within a courtroom. Hovering over the witness chair, the drone looks back the familiar but empty courthouse.
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Midlands: Character (Copy)
2018
Video still
7:34 Midlands: Character begins with a close up shot of a Google doc with the words “Midlands Courthouse” typed in simple font. The camera pans back to reveal the setting is a Google doc, with scrolling legal screenplay. “Prosecutor” and “Defense Attorney” characters actively comment on the Google doc, offering their internal thoughts about the movements and gestures of the courtroom drama described.
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Midlands: Prop (Copy)
2018
Video still
7:34 Midlands: Prop opens on a computer program with the blinking text “Begin to scan”. A green then blue digital material grows in the central frame. As the camera pans the blue material develops, a men’s blazer is formed. When the scan is complete, the blazer disappears and then returns as a shiny yellow coat.
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McClellan Portfolio UTK - Midlands (installation view at SculptureCenter, New York, 2018) (Copy)
2018
Video installation 7:34 https://www.sculpture-center.org/exhibitions/3430/in-practice-another-echo
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Josh Holbrook 3D Design, Miniature of a familiar room Fall 2020
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Josh Holbrook 3D Design, Miniature of a familiar room Fall 2020
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Evan 3D Design, Miniature of a familiar room Fall 2020
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Student Images MassArt
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John Gaann 2016 metal, digital prints 5’’x7’’x60’’ Daylight
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Rachel Parker 2016 Performance 10 min
Folk Boy
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Matt Taylor
2016 Performance/Costumes Ongoing in exhibition
Wedding
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Silu Lee 2015 Digital Project n
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Kaleena Stasiak 2016
Video Installation and found footage 22 min Staircases from Gone with the Wind
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Tyler Henderson 2016
Performance 5 min Ladder
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Brian Gene 2016 Event Mascot Fight
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Stephen-Bernard Callendar
2014
12‘x10‘x10’
Found wood, sawdust 12‘x10‘x10’ Pedestal
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Harrison Stewart
2014
Durational Performance Rock Dracula For To Much Fun, a site-specific class exhibition held at Skateland in Richmond, VA, Harrison created and played live music as the DJ/organist for the night.
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Ginna Shea and Teresa Ramirez 2014 Ongoing performance Red Wagon Carpool Ginna and Teresa established the all-night Red Wagon Carpool service, which transported students to and from the Exhibition.
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Noelle Choy 2014 Papermache, roller skates, country music 5 min Lonely Dance Noelle created two life-sized paper mache sculptures. She and a fellow performer slowly danced to a classic country song, never touching.
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Hyun Son 2015
Performance and Performance relics 4 min I Can’t Bring It Back
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Madeline Pericak 2014 Two channel video 6 min Nautilus
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Meagan Fuller 2016 Performance Weaving Performance
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Jessica Ruptik 2016 Trap jello, bananas, wood
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Silu Lee 2014 Steel, clay, plaster, plastic bag, audio of plastic bag blowing in the wind 7’x4’x5’ Wind in Grocery Bag
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Smithsonian SARF - Midlands: Setting
2018
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7:34 Midlands: Setting begins with a closely framed image of a judge’s bench. The camera pulls back, revealing the chair is in a grand, well-lit space. The panning camera raises further, revealing itself to be a drone moving through a two-story space, recording the red velvet chairs. From this aerial viewpoint, one can see vaulted ceilings, and wooden seats within a courtroom. Hovering over the witness chair, the drone looks back the familiar but empty courthouse. https://vimeo.com/335936186/601d2d97f7
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Smithsonian SARF - Midlands: Setting
2018
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7:34 Midlands: Setting begins with a closely framed image of a judge’s bench. The camera pulls back, revealing the chair is in a grand, well-lit space. The panning camera raises further, revealing itself to be a drone moving through a two-story space, recording the red velvet chairs. From this aerial viewpoint, one can see vaulted ceilings, and wooden seats within a courtroom. Hovering over the witness chair, the drone looks back the familiar but empty courthouse. https://vimeo.com/335936186/601d2d97f7
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Smithsonian SARF - Midlands: Character
2018
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7:34 Midlands: Character begins with a close up shot of a Google doc with the words “Midlands Courthouse” typed in simple font. The camera pans back to reveal the setting is a Google doc, with scrolling legal screenplay. “Prosecutor” and “Defense Attorney” characters actively comment on the Google doc, offering their internal thoughts about the movements and gestures of the courtroom drama described. https://vimeo.com/335940447/bede48bbd6
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Smithsonian SARF - Midlands: Prop
2018
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7:34 Midlands: Prop opens on a computer program with the blinking text “Begin to scan”. A green then blue digital material grows in the central frame. As the camera pans the blue material develops, a men’s blazer is formed. When the scan is complete, the blazer disappears and then returns as a shiny yellow coat. https://vimeo.com/335942164/ab5481f28a
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Smithsonian SARF - Witness Lab (Community High School)
2020 Installation and Performance 25’x30’x9’ Witness Lab is an architectural courtroom installation and performance series, which hosts mock trials, court transcript readings, and trial advocacy workshops. The visible courtroom on campus will host legal simulations from participating groups including The Trial Advocacy Society and the Oral Argument Competition from the University of Michigan Law School, as well as the undergraduate team of the Collegiate American Mock Trial Association. Art students will observe and document the courtroom performances through drawing, text, photography, and video.
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Smithsonian SARF - Witness Lab (Shakespeare’s Courtroom scenes, Gillian Eaton’s class)
2020 Installation and Performance 25’x30’x9’
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Smithsonian SARF - Witness Lab (University of Michigan Museum of Art install)
2020 Installation and Performance 25’x30’x9’
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Smithsonian SARF - Legal Simulation and Non-linear Time (Double Jeopardy GIF)
2019
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7 sec A performative lecture about time in Midlands, the fictional state in which all Mock Trial Cases are set. Three illustrative GIFs included. https://burnaway.org/magazine/legal-simulation-and-non-linear-time/
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Smithsonian SARF - Simulations (University of Alabama School of Law)
2020 Digital Print 18’’x24’’
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Smithsonian SARF - Simulations (University of North Carolina School of Law)
2020
Digital print
12’’x16’’
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Smithsonian SARF - Simulations (Liberty University, Supreme Court Replica)
Digital print 32x40 2022 Simulations is a photo installation that includes images of practice courtrooms at law schools across the American South. The series depicts spaces that simultaneously function as courtroom, classroom, and theater. These sites occasionally host the actual adjudication of law, for example a state appellate case, and thus blur the boundaries between real and staged experience. The images address this interwoven architecture of training, performance, and power. The first exhibition of this work was at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia as part of the Working Artist Project Fellowship: https://mocaga.org/calendar/courtneymclellan/
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The Advancement of Learning - The Advancement of Learning
A billboard in downtown Atlanta as part of the Local Stories 2022 initiative, The Advancement of Learning uses archival images and blueprints of the Atlanta Public Library to address education, architecture, destruction and transformation. https://aeatlanta.com/view/the-advancement-of-learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idK_afoids4
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The Advancement of Learning - The Advancement of Learning
A billboard in downtown Atlanta as part of the Local Stories 2022 initiative, The Advancement of Learning uses archival images and blueprints of the Atlanta Public Library to address education, architecture, destruction and transformation. https://aeatlanta.com/view/the-advancement-of-learning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idK_afoids4
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Legal Simulation and Non-Linear TIme
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