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Hey All,

We just finished up an interview with Jeff Huckleberry who I know a lot of you studied with. You can see it on the Present Tense's Archive.

-Present Tense

NYC THIS WEEKEND!

If you are in Brooklyn this weekend, you need to come and see the Maximum Perception Performance Festival.

ENGLISH KILLS ART GALLERY
114 FORREST ST.
BROOKLYN, NY 11206

INFO@ENGLISHKILLSARTGALLERY.COM
WWW.ENGLISHKILLSARTGALLERY.COM

English Kills Art Gallery is pleased to present the inaugural Maximum Perception Performance Festival, December 11-12, 2009 at English Kills Art Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Over 2 nights, the Maximum Perception Performance Festival will be a showcase for over 20 national and international performance artists, focusing on presenting a dynamic range of contemporary performance practice from the best emerging artists in performance.

Curators Peter Dobill and Phoenix Lights seek to present a counterpoint to the fiscally bloated, dilettante-based spectacle that has consumed the image of performance art in New York City. The Maximum Perception Performance Festival will feature newly commissioned performance works in addition to site-specific actions and ongoing projects from all participating artists.

Established as a critically acclaimed exhibition in 2008 to survey the Brooklyn performance art scene, the Maximum Perception Performance Festival has evolved to become a yearly showcase for the forefront of performance art practice in New York City and beyond.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

ROB ANDREWS, LEAH ARON + TYMON MATTOSZKO, MATTHEW BLAIR, RYAN BROWN, HOLLY FAUROT + SARAH H. PAULSON, DANIELLE FREAKLY/THE QUOTE GENERATOR, PHILIP FRYER, NATE HILL, ERIK HOKENSON, ANDREW HURST, NAOKI IWAKAWA, AMERY KESSLER, MARNI KOTAK, JODIE LYN KEE CHOW + ZACHARY FABRI, JILL MCDERMID, SANDRINE SCHAEFER, ROSABELLE SELAVY, MARK STAFFORD, LECH SZPORER, MATT WHITE, JEN ZAK

ESTONIA KULTURE

http://www.kultuuritehas.ee/residency/artists.html

ME & FRIENDS IN ESTONIA

Present Tense's "Thus Far" @ MEME

BOSTON HEADS, COME BY MEME AND SEE A SCREENING OF PERFORMANCE DOCUMENTATION TOMORROW NIGHT. INFO:

MEME Website
Present Tense Website

There will also be a performance art event next Friday, the 23rd, featuring the work of:

Daniel DeLuca (Boston)
Coco Segaller (Boston)
Philip Fryer (Boston)
Sarah Schoemann (NYC)

See you there!
-The Present Tense

Performa Event Listing

http://performa-arts.org/blog/performa-09/calendar/

Santiago Sierra

Santiago Sierra. His latest performance piece at Tate Modern. Any reactions?

A Call To Contributors

Performerie is a space where you can share pieces that you find to be interesting, artists that you want other people to know, events you think people should attend, lectures that ..... you get the point.
If you want to be a contributor please email performerie@gmail.com .

A call to artists

The blurring between life and art is a widely-discussed topic among performance artists (and other artists as well), in and outside the SMFA community, but what does this phrase actually mean? I believe it's up to everyone to decide for themselves and provide their own definition. In my own eyes, the notion that art and life need to become inseparable means the complete abandonment of the autonomous mode of art-making and art-viewing. For those interested in a more historical avant-garde style of artistic concepts, production, and dissemination, I feel this means that the new avant garde are not what we identify as artists, but political activists. 

Right now there is an organization within an alternative space in Harvard Square that needs help.  The Papercut Zine Library [ website | myspace ] is essentially an archive of 12,000 underground publications from the last three decades or so. The space it's occupied since it's 2004 opening is known as The Democracy Center. Due to the economic crisis, it appears that the Democracy Center is most likely not going to last at it's current location through the end of the year. This means that Papercut is looking to find a new home, and although the small collective of organizers have been pushing to create a solution, they can always use additional help.

I was really shocked when I attended their meeting last week when I realized that there were only two individuals at the meeting who self-identify as artists: one of whom was myself. I feel that activism is an art form; as it requires clear intentionality, utilizes creative processes to actualize intentions, and requires the rigorous use of creativity in doing so. It's a shame that social action isn't offered as a course (or several kinds of courses) at SMFA, but this does not mean that it is not/has not been/cannot be regarded as a legitimate art form. 

 If you are interested in pooling your creativity and intellect with Papercut, e-mail me or contact Papercut via its website/Myspace. 

http://www.zachfeuer.com/

530 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
t. 212 989 7700

LET: BLEED @ Samson Projects

Performance and installation by Xray Aims. April 30 7 - 10 pm. Check it out

Performance Night Tonight at 6:30

School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
room b209 at 6:30

Performance festivals and websites

Interesting links:
Performa 09
E-misférica
interakcje
Live Action
Live Art Development Agency

Quebecois Performances

Please join us as we host the students from Quebec completing the exchange project that occurred over the spring break.

Helge Meyer - Performance Art @Mobius

Helege Meyer, Derek Hoffend & Asher, Jeff Huckleberry (MAG)

Check Mobius Website here.

When: April 4th, 2009 - 7pm

Where: Mobius
725 Harrison Ave
Boston, MA

Defining Performativity: Four Perspectives

Speaking in this colloquium are:

Amelia Jones, professor and Pilkington Chair in the History of Art and Visual Studies, University of Manchester

Jose Luis Blondet, curator, Boston Center for the Arts

AA Bronson, artist

Matthew Nash, publisher Big, Red and Shiny

This event is free and open to the public. Enter the Museum via the Fenway entrance and proceed to the ticket counter to request your free pass to the colloquium on the day of the event.

When:
Friday, April 3, 2009
10:30 am - 04:00 pm

Where:
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Remis Auditorium 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA

Visiting Artist Lecture: AA Bronson

AA Bronson is an artist and healer. Bronson has written and published extensively, from his pornographic novel Lena (Grove Press, 1970), to his book on the AIDS crisis in Africa, Tick Tock (2006). From 1972 through 1989 he co-published FILE Magazine, General Idea's idiosyncratic simulacrum of LIFE Magazine. His memoir, Negative Thoughts, was published by the MCA Chicago in 2001.
AA Bronson's many awards include a Lifetime Achievement Award from the City of Toronto (1991), and the Governor-General's Award in the Visual and Media Arts (2002), Canada's highest award for cultural achievement. In 2008 he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
He enjoys his role as a mentor for a younger generation of artists, and is currently the director of Printed Matter Inc., the artists' bookstore.

Thursday, April 2, 2009
12:30 pm Room B209

Visiting Artist Lecture: Helge Meyer

Helge Meyer
Born in Woltwiesche, Germany, in 1969.

Formed the Performance Art Group System HM2T (with Marco Teubner) in 1998.
Since 2000 Meyer is associated with the international association Black Market International. He performed in festivals like Exit in Finland, in Italy, at Aozora Art in Japan, Open Art festival in China, PiPaf in the Philippines and intensively in Canada and the USA. Helge Meyer works parallel with Black Market, System HM2T and solo.
Meyer owns a diploma in Cultural Studies (University of Hildesheim, Germany). He is a writer for art magazines like Inter (Canada) and teaches performance art workshops and theoretical classes. As a researcher he is interested in questions of pain, duo work, cooperation and the history of images. In 2007 he finished a doctoral thesis about the image of pain in Performance Art (Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, Germany).
Bio quoted from http://www.performance-art-research.de

Wednesday, April 1, 2009
12:15 pm Room B209

Neil Blender, et all, 1986

The first part is Neil Blender, a vert skater (and a legend). For some reason, he entered the street event at this contest and obviously did not give a crap. So awesome. Also: Christian Hosoi, Natas Kaupas (skating to the Peanuts cartoon theme), and a girl skating to Black Sabbath.

Performance art rules.

To be someone else - Identity and Performativity

Performance: Mathieu Briand and Prue Lang. Here is a performace in which the audience and the situation they create becomes the piece.
The content of this piece relates to the following online lecture at the Tate Modern- 'Identity and Performativity'. I really like the way Gill Perry is refering to work from different mediums to explain or justify her arguments. Enjoy.

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Video performance part 2

I ran into this video and there is something that i really like about it. It might be the simplicity, or the 'play' of magic or shamanism, but i think it is succesful in its simplicity. Körner Union has other media related pieces. I also enjoyed 'La ligne'; simple and fun.

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when the windex runs out...

In response to the post on Ann Hamilton and Marina Abramovic, who are both wonderful, it brought me back to a piece Abramovic had done in collaboration with Ulay called Imponderabilia that I was inspired by last semester. On Hamilton's work, it is very dense, which I enjoy. The desk and display of history in a somewhat confined space is interesting, as well as her approach to the given situation she was in. I want to look further into her work, as well as her tie with language.

AND here is the Abramovic piece. Hopefully it will spark some ideas! I feel it is simple and humorous, yet extremely effective. :)

Performing without an audience... for a while

Wanted to share this performance video, I found it pretty inspiring for the duration we have in class. I may fight for going first sometime.

Marina Abramovic is a performance artist from the 70's, shes still active and on wiki it said she describes herself as the "grandmother" of performance art, which I really love. Her work "explores the relationship between performer and audience, the limits of the body, and the possibilities of the mind."


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Matthew Barney

Maria Anna Tapeiner - The Body as a Matrix: Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle (2002)

Do you have any thoughts or comments about his work?

'Indigo Blue' & 'Cleaning the House'

Tuesday 24th

One Year Performance

I mentioned in class about the exhibit at the MOMA on Tehching Hsieh that included images, statements, and the jail cell from one of his many 'one year performances.' I really admire his dedication and method of work. What do you think? Could you imagine yourself holding performances of such physical and mental control? Not entering an indoor facility for a year? Being tied to another human for a year? To what extremities would you go to explain your passion?

I find the work inspiring. If there are any other artists similar, please let me know. Here is Hsieh's website and above is an image from his performance with Linda Montano.

http://www.one-year-performance.com/

Nicolas Bourriaud PostProducton

Nicolas Bourriaud
Post Production
great book to read!
Julie Andre T gave us this link
http://www.pdf-search-engine.com/nicolas-bourriaud-postproduction-pdf.html

Performing for the camera

How do you feel about performing for the camera? Would the final piece be considered video art? or film? or would it still be a performance?

Vito Acconci is one of the pioneers in performing for the camera; he questions the relationship between the observer and the piece, making use of that space between the artwork and the viewer, using the camera to create an intimacy that can produce different reactions in the viewer. This is one of my favorite pieces, 'Theme song' (1973) - Click on the image to see an excerpt of the piece-

Would you consider working like this? what do you think about this piece?

First Post

Let's use this space to share ideas, comments, works of other artists, articles or anything that you feel might relate to what we are doing.
Today, Janet Cardiff's name was mentioned, relating to the narrative quality of Gabrielle's performance. Here is an example of her 'Walks'. http://www.last.fm/music/Janet+Cardiff