Mobius Artrages 2010:  Surrealestate

Visual and Installation Artists and
Performance Artists with Installation/Performative Elements in Cubicles:

ROOM 5
Margaret Bellafiore
Nail Designs by Margaret Bellafiore
Nail Art!
Walk-ins Welcome!
Men and Women have choice of hand drawn image
of their choice!
Personal counselling offered with nail transformation!
http://www.mobius.org/artist/margaret-bellafiore

MAIN SPACE
Nicole Ann Colella
Pods
A species called Pods were made with chicken wire, and then covered with pieces of circled burlap coated in resin. Hanging jute is the source of movement for the Pods, in the wind or by a forceful creature. History: Pods were originally created for an outdoor tree installation called "Nature and Balance" at the Arsenal Center for the Arts. The species was then moved to Mobius for a show with the "Creatures."
http://www.nicolecolella.com/
http://www.mindyourowncreate.blogspot.com

ROOM D
James Ellis Coleman
Shower / single channel video installation
The everyday act of showering  I believe most preform without  a thought to how intimate the act of washing yourself can be, when made public (dressed or not) there's a de facto betrayal of that intimacy and the actions becomes farcical.
http://mobius.org/user/33

ROOMS 2 + 3
Empire S.N.A.F.U Restoration Project
The wonderful persons who assisted the Empire SNAFU Restoration Project with that production were:
Dei Xhrist of Birdorgan
Juliet Schneider of Iridium Productions
Garabed Setrakian of Setravision
and Katrina Galore
http://www.empiresnafu.org/

MAIN X
Samantha Fields
The Circus Project: stitching event 7

The Circus Project is an ongoing, communal project that will include many stages and ways of participating. This project explores our connection to the space and objects we grew up in and with, and our connections to one another. It is my hope to bring people and their stories together through the acts of remembering and making.
The first phase of The Circus Project centers on The Meeting House --a place where a community gathers to share and become informed. The role of The Meeting House will begin to take shape even as the tent structure of The Meeting House as a physical space is incomplete.

I am currently holding a series of stitching events where people are invited to stitch the ceiling of this structure and share their stories and memories with me. The ceiling is made up of a large cross-stitch based on traditional afghans. These stitching events are held in various types of communities: elderly centers, galleries, schools, community centers, etc. Each event includes cross-stitching, a cake made by one of the participants in the event, and the sharing of stories. Participants’ stories are audio-recorded in order that they may later be woven into the "sound fabric" of the Meeting House.

Once The Meeting House is installed, viewers will be invited to interact with what has been made, and further contribute to the piece, through several ongoing activities. Each day knitters will be invited to knit scarves, mittens, and hats from the knitting tree house, to be donated to the community when the show closes. Each week bakers will bake “the birthday cake they never had,” to share with the public. And throughout the installation there will be spaces in which visitors may make their own artworks.

For my part in The Meeting House, I will play the role of the matriarch of a vast, extended family, blurring the lines between artist and curator, community organizer and circus master. I intend to bring many facets of society together through the acts of making, remembering, and eating together.

http://www.samanthafields.com (click on circus project)

ROOM 6
Barry Freedland
Office Collaboration
series of robots working as assistants to the artist, creating drawings
http://www.sundaramtagore.com/artists/barry-freedland/

ENTRANCE, MAIN X, STAIRWELL
Charles Garcia, Megan Kehew Baroni, Billie Madge Scott
Nomadic Canopies
The fabric structures exhibited here were fabricated by students in the Spring 2009 UdB workshop “Nomadic Canopies.” These playful installations are designed to be nimble and agile, easily assembled on site and affixed with simple fabric knots. Taking advantage of existing site conditions, the aim of the canopies is to provide maximum impact with a minimum footprint, an appealing play of sunlight and wind elements, providing a creative signature borne of our semester’s tensile studies.

The emphasis of this workshop was not the canopies as an end-product; the emphasis was collaboratively creating a body of research upon which to draw as we move forward.
http://bacdesignbuild.blogspot.com

ROOM 4
Jessica Gath
For You ([W]rapper)
is a homophonic exploration.  Please come bearing gifts ready to be wrapped or buy some 4x6 Surrealestate Postcards or other auctioned items at the E.O.N.A.
They will leave with you.
http://www.jessicagath.org/
http://www.jessicagath.com/

ROOMS M + L
Mika Gilmore, Ben Gathright
architectural experimentation
"Active experiments in the spatial qualities of materials and form."

MAIN X
Khalid Kodi
DESIRE MAPS
ON RED.
http://www.bc.edu/schools/cas/finearts/faculty/studioarts/kodi.html
http://interviews.amagazine.org/?attachment_id=38

MAIN Y
Wenxiong Lin
Drawing (on the wall)
This is a public art installation that involves the public's participation.  It will be a travelling project to different parts of
the world:  there is no specified location type (modern urban center or remote village, indoors or outdoors) and no wall specifications (dimensions, surface quality).  The project invites people of all age and cultural background to participate.  Buckets with prepared water-based paint will be available for participants to select the color of choice and, with a sponge/brush, to throw or splatter the wall according to their own style and personality.  This project, as a wall "drawing", is recording the simple actions, movements, whims or natural flow of an individual's and the collective's actions, creating
a diversity of color and form.
http://www.myartspace.com/artistInfo.do?subscriberid=lcsa7dfy4a4emj81&po...
http://www.studiosoto.org/
http://www.somervilleartscouncil.org/index.html
http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/show/25192-wenxiong-lin

ROOM 5
Samantha Marder aka Natasha Savoy
Transformations
Samantha Marder aka Natasha Savoy will be doing professional makeovers (even gender makeover!) around 10 PM in the Nail Shop.
http://www.MyChangingRoom.com

ENTRANCE, LOBBY (BANK TELLER WINDOW), MAIN X (MAIL CHUTES), ROOM T (CLOSET)
Liz Nofziger
new site specific work
http://www.nofzilla.com

ROOM G
Mari Novotny-Jones and Cathy Nolan Vincevic
Grandma's House
http://www.mobius.org/artist/mari-novotny-jones
http://www.mobius.org/content/full-bio-cathy-nolan

ROOM E
Bo Petran
Sirens
Tentacle-like light sculptures lit from within
http://www.atlanticworks.org/Petran_Bo.html

ROOM N
Michael Pope
CINEMATIKA: ImagiNation
An on-site experiential film production that invites and challenges all comers to enter into the divine physical landscape of human imagination.
http://michael-pope.com

ROOM H
El Putnam
a participatory performance and installation
a mini psychologist's office - psychological testing will be performed
http://www.elputnam.com/

OUTSIDE, ROOM Q (if it rains), MAIN SPACE
Seano
emotodrome,
electroblob,
the shape of being and wildebeat
The emotodrome is about interaction and sensitization.
When visitors enter the project space, currently under development and funded by the (Neukom Institute, Dartmouth College), they will also be charted, their movements, rhythms, velocities, shapes and directions re-processed into a continuous stream of unique colors, patterns, shapes and sounds.
the project is still in development, this will be it's first outing.
contact: seano@seano.me

ROOMS B + C
Zenovia Toloudi and Dimitris Papanikolaou
Talking rooms
This project maps out the spatial dialogue happening between two rooms while being activated by the exhibition visitors. The language of the talk is a hybrid of lights, colors, images and sounds and is tranceived through their partition wall.
http://www.bee-zee.blogspot.com/
http://web.media.mit.edu/~dimp/

ROOM A
Brigid Watson
Arabesque
mediums: canvas, sharpie, acrylic, potato print, sand, wire, lemons, carpet
http://www.brigidwatson.com

ROOM I
Anna Wexler
The SPECTACLE OF THE SOCIETY at THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE by Guy Debord : a retro-futurist
showing dedicated to Stuart Sherman.
video projection of The Society of the Spectacle with tabletop audience installation, mirrors and performance by Anna Wexler
http://www.mobius.org/user/24