Posts Tagged: Performance
Laure Drogoul
Laure Drogoul is an interdisciplinary artist, olfactory spelunker and cobbler of situations who lives in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. She works in a wide range of media including large-scale public projects. Her artworks are a combination of video, sculpture and performance that incorporate audience participation. Drogoul has exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington Project for the Arts, Baltimore Museum of Art and The Chelsea Museum in New York among others. She has received Maryland State Artist Awards and a Franklin Furnace Award for performance art and has been a recipient of a US/Japan Creative Artist Fellowship. In 2006 Ms. Drogoul was honored with The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize. Laure Drogoul directs The 14Karat Cabaret, a performance program of Maryland Art Place in Baltimore that she founded in 1989 and is a co-organizer and curator of the Transmodern Festival, which is a festival of provocative works by cultural experimenters from Baltimore and beyond. More info at lauredrogoul.com
Fluid Movement
Fluid Movement is a Baltimore-based performance art group that juxtaposes complex subject matter with delightful and unexpected mediums. We create art that is accessible, and often educational, for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. Our performances are created for urban spaces, in Baltimore and beyond. We encourage a sincere understanding and appreciation for city life and city dwellers through our work. more info at www.fluidmovement.org
Dan Deacon
Deacon recorded the track “Drinking out of Cups”. In 2006, Liam Lynch created a video to accompany the piece. The compilation has been viewed more than 17 million times on YouTube. As the video spread, rumors of what the video was and how it was made quickly began forming. One popular rumor is that it is a recording of someone on LSD locked in a closet. Deacon has stated numerous times that this is not true.
ala: wikipedia
Martha Colburn
Martha Colburn is a filmmaker and multimedia artist. Born in Pennsylvania, she now lives and works between Holland and New York City. Although Ms. Colburn’s style is unmistakably her own, the scope of her work is broad and difficult to encapsulate; her expertise (especially in stop-motion animation) have led to teaching, speaking, and lectures at film forums and universities worldwide. more information at www.marthacolburn.com
Catherine Pancake: Film Program
- Frederic Moffet
PostFace 7m
Postface examines the filmography of Montgomery Clift in an attempt to interrogate our celebrity-obsessed culture that exploits the personal downfall of stars for profit and entertainment. Clift’s personal life spiraled downward (alongside his career) after a 1956 car crash that left his face scarred and partially paralyzed. - Jesse McLean
Magic for Beginners, 2010, 21m
Magic for Beginners examines the mythologies found in fan culture, from longing to obsession to psychic connections. The need for such connections (whether real or imaginary) as well as the need for an emotional release that only fantasy can deliver are explored. It interpolates the production, proliferation, and consumption of televisual experience, investigating how this transfer of information creates a bind of complex relationships between maker and viewer. Interested both in the power and the failure of the mediated experience to bring us together, my work asks the viewer to walk the line between voyeur and participant . - Kent Lambert
Fantasy Suite 7m and Security Anthem 4m - Fantasy Suite is a meditation on mainstream American heterosexual romance featuring scenes of modern day “romance” from numerous movies, magazine advertisements and TV shows, most notably the hit ABC network TV show The Bachelor. The second film screened by Lambert, Security Anthem is an “ode to flowers, fear, potatoes, and paranoia, with a special appearance by U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft.”
- Ivan Lozano
Book of the Tumbler on Fire 7m
Invited to participate in an evening of artists’ lectures on the subject of “magic” organized for the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art by the blog Bad at Sports, but unable to attend the event in person, John Neff and Ivan Lozano instead produced the collaborative “video lecture” BOOK OF THE TUMBLR ON FIRE. Improvised within a tripartate structure over three short editing sessions, BOOK… was assembled from a collection texts and video clips gathered from the web. Its montage technique and “look” were inspired by the wildly heterogeneous visual style of image-and-text based Tumblr microblogs. Using this approach, BOOK… presents a materialist interpretation of “magic,” concentrating less on concepts of magical cause and effect and more on the fantastic pleasures that can erupt in the embrace of impurity, polysemy and randomness. - Sade Benning
Me and Rubyfruit 5m
Based on a novel by Rita Mae Brown, Me and Rubyfruit chronicles the enchantment of teenage lesbian love against a backdrop of pornographic images and phone sex ads. Benning portrays the innocence of female romance and the taboo prospect of female marriage. This hard-to-find video work from the hugely influential interdisciplinary musician/artist Sadie Benning is shot on a Fischer-Price Pixelvision camera when the artist was a teenager. - Dani Levanthal
17 New Dam Road 8m
Leventhal presents an oddly humanizing house visit with a rough crowd. Within the film we witness trash littering the garden, weapons in the living room, and martial arts in the shared spaces of the home. Despite the aura of violence, Leventhal explores the groups comraderie and interpersonal connections in their alternative lifestyle. —- - Catherine Pancake
Kayuga (Excerpts) 10m
Rooms Fall Apart: A Serious Play
Come to Rooms Fall Apart and be ready to embark upon this journey! – Parental supervision required
RFA is not a play.
RFA is a game.
RFA is not a ride.
RFA is a trap.
RFA is not a massage.
RFA is a work out.
RFA is not a spa.
RFA is boot camp.
RFA is Serious Play
Dan Deacon with OCDJ, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Snails, Moss of Aura, and Alle Alle
Dan Deacon performs in the Current backlot Saturday night with OCDJ, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Snails, Moss of Aura and Alle Alle
Doors open at 6pm!
The Live Writing Group
Lauren Bender’s Live Writing Group is partially an homage to the writing group games of Blaster Al Ackerman and partially a real-time experiment in live collaboration amongst a group of Baltimore’s writers/artists/performers.There may be failure, terrible writing, and resentment between writers or from the audience when they are asked to participate. It is usually hilarious when we do this “in private” and over the years many gems have made their way into larger published works.
Featuring: Chris Mason, John Eaton, Rupert Wondolowsky, Adam Robinson, Linda Franklin and Lauren Bender(of course!).
Pedicab Project
This work records, preserves, and shares oral histories from communities throughout Baltimore City. The Pedicab Project utilizes a driver-passenger tricycle inspired by Filipino mass-transit to engage communities in dialogue about individual and collective identity.
In exchange for pedicab rides, conversations with my Baltimore passengers are digitally recorded, edited and shared with others – audio recordings are broadcasted from the pedicab in community and archived on a website accessible to the general public.
Michelle Nugent
Michelle Nugent is an interdisciplinary/mixed media artist and community art facilitator. She
is currently pursuing a Masters of Fine Arts in Community Arts from the Maryland Institute
College of Art. In 2009, she received her BFA in Fine Arts with a minor in Art History from
The College of New Jersey.
During her undergraduate career, Nugent acquired a grant from the National Conference of
Undergraduate Research and the Lancy Foundation (2008) to create a public mural in
collaboration with youth from Trenton, NJ’s West Ward community. She is also a recipient
of the Pamela Joseph Art Scholarship (2009) and the Thomas George Artists Fund Grant
Award (2009).
In addition to her community work in Trenton, NJ, Michelle has also worked with
communities in Philadelphia, PA, creating large-scale murals and facilitating after school
youth art workshops through the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and The Asian Arts
Initiative.
A recent recipient of MICA’s Community Service Fund grant, Michelle is investigating
community cross-cultural exchanges within community in her artwork. Through her own
experiences as a half-White, half-Filipino American artist, she is interested in using art as a
catalyst for dialogue, and exploring new ways of understanding and linking different cultures.