Renee Green, Endless Dreams and Water Between

Still from Renee Green's Endless Dreams and Water Between, 2008.

LORRAINE CWELICH: One of the framed prints outlines a proposition for the September Institute. What is the September Institute?

GREEN: The September Institute is a non-utopian vortex of thinkers and artists that gather each September in the island of Majorca. There’s a lot more supposed connectivity online but there also seems to be a dwindling of actual content and emotional engagement in terms of people being able to be with each other and spend time together.

CWELICH: One of the three short films which comprise Endless Dreams and Water Between is titled Excess. It depicts stacks of books, maps and pages from notebooks, which contain outlines. How were the authors of the books—for instance, D.H. Lawrence, Langston Hughes, George Sands selected?

GREEN: They were source material for the fictional correspondence I wrote in the film. The script and some of the notebook pages that appear in the film are printed in the exhibition’s book and the show’s iPad in the animation activation room, which is located at the front of the gallery and which is the index to the show. There are a lot of translations of things from formats that were present in different times and translated into other formats for the show.

—Renee Green interviewed by Lorraine Cwelich in Art in America.

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