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Laine Rettmer

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@lowtheband COVER SERIES - JOHN PRINE performed by NEW band @buried_or_burned only on @bandcamp Friday

The latest track in the Aqualamb series of covers of the band Low:

A devastating interpretation of the song John Prine from the 2002 record, Trust presented by Providence, Rhode Island's, Buried or Burned

Brian Ulrich says: "Dan and Mike picked that one. We all listened to the original track for a while, and it seemed like it was all about feeling like a failure. Trying to be an artist and a parent and getting disappointment from all sides. Such a bleak and beautiful song. "

"I was always taken by how dynamic Low was live, like listening to amplified electrical wires, all buzzing but played softly. So, we tried to approach the song like that, with everything very amplified but played gently, very HiFi: the scrapes on the bass strings, or plucking the snare rattles. We also thought that if we could completely reinterpret the song as something darker, epic, and cinematic, maybe Alan would be our audience. We threw in all our tricks, noises, and samples from little kids, etc., and then Laine came in with a haunting, soaring vocal. "
 
Brian Ulrich (Guitar, Vocals)
Dan Goff (Drums, Sounds)
Laine Rettmer (Vocals)
Mike Lemek (Bass, Vocals)

Recorded, engineered by Buried or Burned and Jeff Ottenbacher @jeffotogo in Livingston Manor, NY, Mixed by Buried or Burned, 2026 Mastered by @carlsaff

The Aqualamb LOW Cover Series honors Mimi Parker and the band Low’s positive influence on the world, featuring a new artist every couple of weeks.

Proceeds from this project will go to benefit the Ovarian Cancer Alliance. taken in Livingston Manor, New York by @lainerettmer

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From now until September 27th, we’re hosting another residency and exhibition project: West of the Sun, which presents the work of Laine Rettmer.

West of the Sun is an exhibition developed from Sinclair, an ongoing moving image and installation project examining Sinclair, Wyoming, a company town built around one of the nation’s oldest continuously operating oil refineries, and the ways industry shapes memory, movement, and daily life. Shot on 16mm film, the project draws on interviews, archival materials, landscape footage, and staged actions with local participants. Rather than following a traditional documentary structure, it uses choreography, repetition, and cinematic staging to explore how identity is performed within a shared industrial environment.

The residency will experiment with various presentations of Rettmer’s multi-channel video installation Sinclair as well as support the development of single-channel works and a libretto based on the video installation.

The gallery will be open to the public during regular hours (Saturdays and Sundays from 12-4pm) for the duration of the residency, so that viewers can engage with the work/exhibition as it develops.

📍There will be a final event on Thursday, September 24th at 6pm!

🔗 Visit the link in our bio for a full project description and save the date for the 24th!

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Laine Rettmer is an artist and director working across photography, moving image, installation, opera, and live performance. Their work examines how images shape identity, memory, and collective imagination through staging, repetition, and performance.

Rettmer’s visual and time-based work has been presented at the Brooklyn Museum, the MIT Museum, and the RISD Museum. Their feature film Oblivion received Best Musical Film at the Cannes World Film Festival and Best Experimental Feature at the Touchstone Independent Film Festival. A solo exhibition of their work will open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in November 2027.

Rettmer is Associate Professor of Photography and Expanded Media and Graduate Program Director of the MFA Photography program at the Rhode Island School of Design. by @lainerettmer

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Thanks so much to all who came out to the premiere of “Magic Thinking” at Hauser & Wirth Thrilled to be part of Ridykeulous’s “Escape from Gay Pride”. “Magic Thinking” is a multi-platform project about a meditation group’s utopian aspirations as they collide with our current disturbing reality, mirroring the extremism seen on the far right.

Many thanks to Jill Casid and Laine Rettmer for the post screening conversation, and thanks to @nicoleeisenman A.L. Steiner @russelllsalllmon from @hauserwirth for all the support. I am so grateful to my incredible, dedicated cast and crew#magicthinkingproject
#BeccaBlackwell #LaineRettmer #LauraParnes
Photos by @sachynmital
Photo 2 by @cd_clifford by @lainerettmer

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I’m excited to announce the premiere of “Magic Thinking” at Hauser & Wirth (443 W 18th Street) on June 6th at 630. Reserve tickets at link in bio. It’s part of a film series “Escape from Gay Pride” organized by Ridykeulous! The screening will be followed by a conversation with Jill Casid and Laine Rettmer. Many thanks to @nicoleeisenman A.L. Steiner @russelllsalllmon @hauserwirth @jillhcasid @lainerettmer and all the cast and crew. Hope to see you there! Music by @musex1 💙💙💙 #lauraparnes by @lainerettmer

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Fugue: roads, (excerpt), 10:40, 2024
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Fugue is an experimental photo-roman shown on slide projector, made using Kodak Ektachrome film shot across Utah, Colorado, New York, and Rhode Island.

The images and voiceover reference and remake films from the 90s New Queer Cinema movement —My Own Private Idaho, Happy Together, High Art — that were formative in outlining and visualizing queer safety and love, often defining the borders of the possible. Fugue is an attempt to formulate narratives through the cracks and slippages around these reproductions.

#fugue #photoroman #kodak #35mm #ektachrome by @lainerettmer

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Without vigilance, a story’s origins are forgotten. Rather than mechanically allowing other people’s stories to guide our lives, it is possible to get involved and narrate from a state of passionate participation.

Fugue: roads (74 of 80), 2024

#kodak #35mm #ektachrome by @lainerettmer

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It is natural to adopt other people’s stories to help create our identities, to fill in gaps in our own experience or intelligence. Stories become easily cemented and rendered inflexible, developing into assumptions upon which a life is lived

Fugue: roads (62 of 80), 2024

#kodak #35mm #ektachrome by @lainerettmer

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I stood twinned in her dark wells. With hair so pale and strange. Windowed away in another world. While the red sun sank eternally.

Fugue: roads (4 of 80), 2024

#kodak #35mm #ektachrome by @lainerettmer

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2 years ago

I didn’t know you could see. Yourself in other’s eyes. Or see the sun in someone else.

Fugue: roads (2 of 80), 2024

#kodak #35mm #ektachrome by @lainerettmer

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I looked into her eyes. So dark they seemed all pupil. Eyes in which the sun was setting. In which, I stood beside the sun

Fugue: roads (80 of 80), 2024

#kodak #35mm #ektachrome by @lainerettmer

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Fugue: roads (76 of 80), 2024

#kodakektachrome #35mm #fugue by @lainerettmer

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Fugue: roads (34 of 80), 2024

#kodakektachrome #35mm #fugue by @lainerettmer

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