Guided By Voices
(video shorts)
"rock & roll isn't even music really. It's a mistreating of instruments to get feelings over." ~Mark E. Smith
Gators 2025
BSR Newsroom
N.W.P..S.O.C.
Break in Case of Emergency 2010
Josh’s Garage 2009
BSR Omaha 2013
CIT 2009-2017
BSR Toffia 2013
Doris 2024
Inventory
Going To Hell 2012
Pickle Rick AM 2022
Speed Trials JH 2019
Supply Chain Issues 2023
Taosburg 2023
Cardboard City 2023
Table Top Disco Balls 2024
Bomb Shelter Radio Memphis 2013
Holding It Down 2013
BSR Mach 2 2011
These Are My Friends 2014
BSR Tenderlion 2012
BSR Monster Truck 2017
Touchdown Jesus 2012
Lucille Valentine Tour 2016, 2017
Wildone 66 USA 2018N.W.P.S.O.C.LLC
Field audio recordings Short gathered during his recent travels across the country provide the basis for this body of work. For the artist, sounds that permeate our surroundings such as the sound of semitrucks and automobiles on the highway and industrial sounds of production are sonic evidence of a country in the process of becoming ruins. Through his exploration of these sounds, Short seeks to reveal a collection of American mythologies in the making.Ephemeral by design, Short’s constructions are composed of materials such as discarded cardboard, scraps of lumber, cast-off furniture, empty cans, recycled electronic components, and his audio recordings. Their material life is intentionally fleeting and inconsequential. The artist’s aim is to create the conditions for a spectacle in which the viewer becomes a participant, much like in pro wrestling and Roller Derby. Ultimately, meaning resides in the memories and stories of these encounters and experiences, which persist long after the objects are gone.
One Piece At A Time from joshua Short on Vimeo.
StandardOilVideo from joshua Short on Vimeo.