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.

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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