Keep Adding

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Artist Statement

A widespread belief concerning ghosts is that they were composed of a misty, airy, or subtle material. Anthropologists speculate that this may also stem from early beliefs that ghosts were the person within the person, most noticeable in ancient cultures as a person's breath, which upon exhaling in colder climates appears visibly as a white mist. In the Bible, God is depicted as animating Adam with a breath. Our project space was located at El Museo Cultural, an old warehouse that locals say is haunted and has a history of unexplained sightings. During the first night of installation we had the entire building to ourselves and were working well past midnight. All of a sudden we heard metal clanking and breaking glass, then we saw shadows of two figures in a hallway across from us. We thought the place was being robbed and called the police. The police showed up quickly and did a complete walk-thru, they found broken glass but nothing conclusive.

Bio

Presently based in Marfa, Texas and Santa Fe, New Mexico, the artist group Keep Adding works in the field of
multimedia and installation art.

Keep Adding, a collaboration between Brian Bixby and Noah MacDonald, explores the precarious balance
between physical and conceptual space. Their multi-media installations combine the technology of largescale
abstract digital illustrations, with site-specific, hand built structures and painting to create immersive
sites. “These spaces are not simply the cube of a gallery or an abandoned house – they are the sites of
complete sensory experiences.”

The two members of Keep Adding practice many artforms and mediums, from drawing and painting to
sound design and film making. Keep Adding’s music video for the German band Funkstörung, Chopping
Heads, was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2005, and the same video was also shown at the 52nd
International Short Film Festival in Germany, and at the SonicActs Anthology of computer art in the
Netherlands. Keep Adding have also worked closely with several musicians including Richard Devine, Michael
Fakesch, Marsen Jules, Speedy J and Puzzleweasel.