PROJECT OVERVIEW
ADOPTED OBSTRUCTIONS investigates the shifting boundary between utility and futility. Within these works, I inhabit a character confronted with obstacles or tasks whose logic gradually collapses into the absurd. Through long form performances distilled into short video works, these actions become fictional yet familiar evocations of Sisyphean labor.

Wardrobe, color, set design, and repetitive tasks of labor comprise a nameless figure devoted to pursuits destined to fail. In assuming this role, I have developed a kinship with failure itself, treating futility not as a space for resignation, but as a generative environment. The character’s persistence becomes persistence in spite of failure becomes a site for expansion rather than contraction.

The videos are presented alongside objects that function as relics of these actions. Their material presence grounds each iteration of the Sisyphean myth within a tenuous space between fact and fabrication. Together, the objects and video works blur the distinctions between documentary and performance, framing these works as both earnest endeavors and fabricated fictions carried out for the camera.

EXHIBITIONS/SCREENINGS
Wassaic Summer Festival, Maxon Mills, Wassaic, NY
Live Amateurs: All-Media Juried Exhibition, MINT Gallery, Atlanta, GA
THE 01 Video Art Review, Art Gallery Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
Videholica International Video Art Festival, Graffit Gallery, Varna, Bulgaria
SUBRISE - das FilmFestival, Naxos-Union Factory Floor, Frankfurt, Germany
southXeast, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
AIVA International Video Art Festival, Public Art Installation, Finspång, Sweden
Echoes of Eco, 6th International Winter Festival of Arts, Sochi Theater, Sochi, Russia
Video Art Festival Miden, Historic Center of Kalamata, Kalamata, Greece
Encoding Identities: Spectatorship and the Subject, DC3, Edmonton, Canada
Adopted Obstructions, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia

FORMAT
COLOR / HD / 1.78
VARIOUS MIN / USA

PRESS
Jonathan D. Marcus, FAU Exhibit Spotlights Contemporary Art, Sun Sentinel, February 7, 2014
Cynthia Adams, A PHENIX RISING: The Beautiful Polarity of Adam Forrester's Works,
     The Graduate School Magazine, Summer 2013, pp. 10-15