For Cathy and Joe Joe (and everyone)

http://www.ppowgallery.com/selected_work.php?artist=8

For Hayley

This artist working with performance and a giant cake (well a giant marshmallow...):

http://membrana.us/marshmallowsuicide.html
http://membrana.us/marshmallowcrash.html

For Nash and Keith

This is the artist who has worked with the furby:
http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~kelly/Furby/anatomy.htm
http://www.feldmangallery.com/pages/artistsrffa/arthea01.html

This is Boston artist working with the robotic Pleo dinosaur, Sara June, formerly known as Ellen Godena: http://www.uminobodi.com/

http://www.grace-exhibition-space.com

new-york performance space. they also organize workshop sometime.

http://www.mobius.org/

based in Boston.

about performance event

http://www.performanceart.ca/

you cant get on there news-letter e-mail

and will get application / info about workshop/festivals all around the world for performance

workshop in Germany every summer

Dear Performance Artists, -teachers, -travellers and -Lovers,

Again, this year we are proud to announce another fantastic & unique

IPAH Summercamp 2011
&
Platform Young Performance Artists!

Make sure to be there. We have fantastic teachers, fantastic food, a fantastic Festival.
You will spend a fantastic time!
DON´T MISS IT!

Important: The Summercamp this year will not happen at Schloss Bröllin! One class will take place at the wonderful location Glogau Air and two classes at the Flutgraben e.V. The teachers this year will be He Chengyao from Beijing, Ray Langenbachfrom Kuala Lumpur and Jürgen Fritz.

Dates:

• 17. July 2011: Arrival of participants in Berlin, first dinner and talk about the organization.
• 18. - 24.: workshops
• 25. - 27.: days off, preparing the Plaform
• 28. - 30.: Platform Young Performance Artists at the Flutgraben e.V.
• 31. July: Departure

Money:

Like in the years before, we hope, that we can offer the Camp for 200, - €. This would include:

• Fee for the teachers
• Simple accommodation on mattresses in a big room together with other participants or private accommodation during the workshop!
• One dinner per day together with all participants from all groups.
• We are not sure about our funding in the moment, so we don´t know exactly, whether the 200,- are sufficient. We will know soon about that.

Registration

• Like in the last year, we have limited places up to 40 participants. So if you would like to participate, please register as soon as possible!
• Please register via email to summercamp@i-pah.de . You will receive a confirmation email with the information, to which account you should transfer the participation fee.
• Registration is compulsory if the fee is credited to the account of the IPAH e.V..

Please be aware, that the Platform Festival is not part of the IPAH Summercamp!

• Within the 200,- fee there is no accommodation and no food included after July 24th! Of course we will help you to find cheap sleeping places & maybe we can use some of the places from the week before, but we don´t know about that now!
• Not everybody from the workshop will have the possibility to perform at the Platform Festival! We have to decide about that during the first week! But we are lucky, that we may use 2 floors in the Flutgraben e.V. this year, so the situation will be easier than last year!

Symposium

This year we will have a small symposium about "Teaching Performance Art" organized by Jörn Burmester from the Performer Stammtisch.
Partners

Our Partners for the events this summer are:

Performer Stammtisch, Berlin
Flutgraben e.V., Berlin
GlogauAir, Berlin

IMPORTANT: We started a new webpage (www.i-pah.de), you can find all information there, they will be updated regularly.
Please register to the page, than you may post to the IPAH Forum. All your problems - now or in future - will be solved there!

Hope to see you everybody soon!

Yours all times

Jürgen

Mia van Leeuwen

Bread and Thursday night performances

Hey All. I had to leave a little early from class Monday and hope someone can tell me any more info that was discussed for Thursday night 3-hour performances with objects. Also Nash: just a reminder that if you can get more bread from the dumpster, I would love to have it for my performance in North Carolina that is happening on Friday night!

Thank you.

Head pieces from Sawry, England

In the Lakes District in England, Joe Joe, Sarah, and I had the opportunity to make performance actions in nature. Here are some images, shot by Joe Joe. Thank you for your comments.
Cathy

Cathy artist statement

Hello Everybody. Julie asked us to post our statements from last semester:

Cathy McLaurin Artist Statement

My process involves observing and thinking about what is happening in the world around me, and creating a response to it. I take something that is difficult or complicated and find a way to own it and convey that to the viewer. The viewer is left to organize their own story in response to what they have experienced.

I am interested in the uses and meanings connoted by materials and objects. I use common materials and objects - furniture/carpets, articles of clothing, sleeping or duffle bags - in unusual ways, engaging the viewer's senses of sight, smell, and touch. These situations work in a lingering way rather than an instant way, allowing for a philosophical pondering of meaning. Absurdity is employed to allow for contradictions in meaning. Common themes in my work are: temporality, memory, cultural displacement, and impermanence. Global events, everyday encounters, the work of Francis Bacon, and animal movement breed images and ideas that I incorporate into my work.

My practice is research-based, interdisciplinary, employing whatever process is most appropriate for the concept - painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, video. I am especially interested in the performance form as transformation. My studio is wherever I am at a given moment.

Jungle Pictures

Since Jamsie showed the video he shot in our 90's pot jungle I thought that I'd share what I did in the space.  I'd love to know what you guys think!

Artist Statement...to read about

Artist Statement...to read about

some reference and exemple

from Ali and Wathiq

YouTube - تحشيش حشاشه عراقيين ضحك عراق شباب كوميدي

artist statement...to read about

John G. Boehme

Artist Statement:

What interests me as an artist is the ongoing reformulation of a set of key interests. These interests are drawn from my observations of some of Western society’s less considered compulsions. Looking into the performance of gender, specifically masculinity, the valorization of labour, the pursuit of leisure, and the marshalling of amity, I explore language and paralanguage, that is, both the spoken and gestural aspects of human communication.

Live artwork presents a direct relationship with material, with action and process, with human interaction. As I understand it, physical involvement is the most embodied way in which to create meaning. Through durational works both the artist and the audience gain access to the experience uniquely available through such commitment. This is of course the archetypal modality of ‘performance art’, an experience that unfolds through an extended period of time. Nothing can replace that learning, that specific duration of being. But although there is no alternative to the durational aspect of performance per se, I remain interested in the question of representation of performance, the very clear and obvious problem of making the ephemeral available to a larger audience at a different time. Using video to “reconstruct” an event makes publication and discourse possible. Despite its material concerns I believe that art is rendered ultimately in the social domain.

With regard to multi-disciplinary works, I prefer the alternative term “trans-disciplinary”, as it refers to integration between media, as opposed to, say, a sequential use of different forms. For instance, I employ performance, video, audio and objects simultaneously in a number of my pieces. I am not constrained to any particular mode; rather, I utilize integrated approaches within my practice.

BGL

Known for cheeky, critical and explosive works, bgl create self-referential in-situ installations that take over architecture and encompass a gallery’s context. The resulting artworks speak directly to contemporary culture and the nostalgia of memory. Viewers often observe a translation of local signage, foodstuff and countryside, each rendition, a continuation of bgl’s investigation of our unpredictable relationship with nature and consumer culture. We sense a Canadian landscape transformed into the actual, a wrestling of environment and the artificial. We become hyper aware of our boundless consumption and throwaway culture and this, in fact, is exactly what BGL are engaging with- a recycling and reusing of materials all restaged and recontextualized in the gallery. Massive exhibitions could present a staging of a seasonal ornamental tree factory, bonfire or ‘Marché aux puces’ (flea market) that position ephemera and unique sculpture in various potentials.

TO SEE MORE OF THERE WORK DO

BGL art contemporain ON YOU TUBE

short artist statment from artist

André Stitt

« Stitt is identified with a strain of performance relating more to visual art and art action [identified in Stitt's work as "akshun"]. His work focuses on difficult and traumatic themes; issues of oppression, freedom, coercion, subversion, experiences of alienation, appropriation of cultures, globalisation, and communal conflict. His work physically and emotionally embodies the divisive forces of capitalism and materialist addiction; processes of building and disintegration and the resulting journey toward redemption. »

About Shoplifter

For several years Shoplifter has worked exploring the use and symbolic nature of hair, and its visual and artistic potential. It started as a discovery in an antique shop, a lock of hair encased as a keepsake and shaped as a flower, and has since evolved as an exploration of hair’s meaning - from strength, self-image and beauty, to vanity, decoration and fashion.

Valerie Blass (sculpter)

Working in sculpture, Blass looks for tensions and relationships between form, figure, materials, and art historical tropes. She often uses everyday objects and industrial materials as an inspiring starting point to organically explore tension and absence in natural and art history such as fractured figures and broken remains or artifacts. Blass has a vision of a curious present, a place where seemingly stoic objects come to be on guard as cemented (literally) sentinels, spent warriors, princesses and other figures. Materials and history act as muses and points of comparison. Blass’ profound engagement addresses and respects the history of sculpture while introducing new versions of icons and figures. It is a lexicon of sorts that Valérie uses over and over again, the duality of matter- the sameness and differences of things and the repetition of colors, materials and scale-becomes the landscape of an actual world. Her work relies on responses and reactions of an inspired audience. What is left is her imaginings of the immediate present/future where new executions bring together wonderful iconic hybrids.

visiting artist

Amanda Coogan (Dublin/Ireland)

Visiting performance

Artist’s Talk - SMFA, Wed. March 9 , 12h30

PERFORMANCE

Friday March 11, 7h30

Performance Room

B209

www.amandacoogan.com

coreography by William Forsyth

dance that I like

Ryan Trecartin

Performance Amsterdam

Performance in Amsterdam's Waterlooplein Market by Joe Joe and Cathy. Having fun and missing all of you.

and alsooooo

this is an artist who works mostly out of Tel Aviv named Tobaron Waxman who is an interdisciplinary artist focusing in performative work. He is a transmale and queer and is a wonderful writer as well as performance artist. He also is an easy person to get in contact with if you are interested in his work.
http://www.tobaron.com/

Zackary Drucker

http://www.zackarydrucker.com/

Zackary is a transwoman based out of California who works mostly in video and performance. Her work has been a huge inspiration to me as a queer and a trans persyn. I have been finding common threads in her use of language to my writing as well as her views on the complexities of a transgendered performativity. Drucker released a new film last weekend in New York and she is very easy to get in touch with if any of you want to talk to her about your work. My boyfriend sent her dirty pictures and she loved it, so I think she's up for anything.

also, I have posted this earlier on the blog before but I'm going to link my blog here again in case any of you want to look over it. Excerpts from some of the writing used in my last performance is floating around on the blog as well as some of my other work and visual research.
check it out
creightonbaxter.tumblr.com
xoxoxoxoox

myriam leplante came here last year in the visiting performance artist workshop and was amazing

JULI WE MISS YOU

http://www.vimeo.com/7294013

happy japan by arai shin ichi

video and performance artist shana moulton

Just a note:

If you know anyone who wants to take my Survey of genre class

there is still places...the class is tuesday afternoon...

pass the word

Mon 31 Jan – Mon 7 Feb Guy Benfield : Australia/US

Wednesday : at lunch time artist talk (performance room)

Friday : performance of Guy Benfield 7 or 8 o'clock(performance room)

look for the poster

please remember to send me your goals for the semester

at

julie.andreeT@smfa.edu