Youtube Video Clips from January 15th performances

Youtube Video Clips from January 16th performances

 ARTISTS' STATEMENTS

Friday, Jan. 15
Maria Molteni  ----My piece, Triple Threat, is part of a body of work that layers ritualistic, performative qualities found in traditions such as team sports and Catholic Mass.  Both relate to a physical vocabulary that has been ingrained in me since a child.  We will borrow from the conceptual structure of the Holy Trinity as a simultaneous and reciprocal three way relationship, the term triple threat (a basic "ready position" in basketball from which a player can pass, dribble, or shoot), and a rhythmic repetition of suicides (typically a performed punishment that tests the endurance of an athlete).  Reconfiguring the gallery with drawing techniques to create a hybrid art-practice space and exploring volume-altering procedures with both organic and man-made, sculptural media, we will create a situation that reflects a spiritual art making process during which one may achieve the state of mind and body to address such mysteries. Artists involved in this work:  Maria Molteni, Nathan Mondragon, and Ashley Capachione.

 Rachael Katz, Katie Nadworny,  Allison Vanouse  ----Taking their cue from a series of dreams, four women confront a dying (but seductive) romantic myth -- the rise and fall of the self-destructive artist as Icarus; through a dying (but seductive) romantic medium -- a piece of theater. Armed only with the messy and inexact logic of the passionate or the obsessive mind, they are trying to assemble scenes the way  Bob Rauschenberg assembled sculpture: out of pieces of text lifted irreverently from classical drama, bits of audio and video stolen from sticky corners of the internet, and friends covertly recorded as they monologue about their 9-to-5s.  Works In Progress marks the first workshop performance of a larger project,  intended to appear in various incarnations throughout 2010. For a glimpse of the scaffolding: icarusisalive.tumblr.com

Deb Mascara and lou suSi  ----We laugh for many reasons.  Laugh Foundation’s mixed-media score for laughter, ‘laughStream 2.0’, explores the psychology of laughter through live performance and pre-recorded media accompaniment.  Through the volume, timbre, texture and delivery of laughter, performers will emotionally lead the audience through 5 short 2-minute laugh movements.  Although we aim to take advantage of the contagious nature of laughter during certain passages, this first installment of ‘laughStream 2.0’ focuses mostly on the social dynamics of laughter and how the nature of laughter changes depending on laugh source and target.  Laugh Foundation seeks to ultimately free laughter from any harmful direct associations with ‘humor’ and treat the medium as an expressive independent musical-language system.

Joanna Spinks, Ethan Seeley, Jacob Kincheloe, Michael Nason, Annie Mayo, Billy Middlemiss and Timothy Fairley ----Time Zones Theatre, a young theatre & video collective, presents an adaptation of Antonin Artaud's THE CENCI. The play leads us into the darkest caverns of the human heart - the anarchy zone - where we stare into the weird faces of morality, incestuous rape and parricide. Live theatre, video and sound art combine for a rough, immediate, savage and undeniably seductive performance.

Saturday, Jan. 16

Jennifer Cornetta, ----Our bodies are temporary vessels.  I'm interested in the mystery of what lies beyond the form and function of these vessels.  Ephemeral is the skin that encases everything.  What hides behind this skin?

  Kirk Amaral Snow’s body of work has recently been focused on a search for things lost, both things we know from experience and that which we have never known but still desire. This piece continues that trajectory by asking the question, “How can I build a more intimate relationship with that which I already know?” focusing in specifically on bodily engagements with spaces and materials.  By situating this interaction in front of witnesses, Amaral Snow forefronts his role as “object”, both in relation to the space and those observing.
Kirk Amaral Snow is an artist and second year MFA candidate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University.  Originally a resident of Providence, he holds degrees in Art History and Printmaking from the University of Rhode Island.  Amaral Snow has curated and organized exhibitions for Hera Gallery and Educational Foundation, The Washington Street Art Center, and the University of Rhode Island.  

Andrea Evans is a Boston-based visual artist with a practice based in drawing, painting, performance, and sculpture.  She received her BFA in painting from Arizona State University in 2004, and MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston/Tufts University in 2009.  This performance continues Evans’ investigations into notions of memory, place, and nostalgia formed through her drawing series, There Is No Place.  As an Arizona native now living in New England, she has been exploring her distanced relationship to the Southwestern desert as a way to speak of a longing for and an idealization of place.  Her current actions live as simulations of that landscape, juxtaposing their visual language with that of other environments.

William Evertson presents a game based piece that invites participation from the audience. This performance is a continuation of the artist’s recent work involving choice and identity. Certain portions of our identities are given at birth; man, woman, our sexuality or skin color; others we chose forming a multi-layered grid that builds our identities. Simple tic tac toe grids on paper are provided as well as a selection of the artist’s hand-carved symbols. The audience completes the work by playing the game and taking the art home.

Friday, Jan. 29

Danielle Freiman  ----The “Missed Connections” section on Craigslist.org is a condensed, awkward, cyber version of forming relationships based on first impressions. I’ve decided to frequent the most common places for missed connections to happen in Boston, and document the process on an obsessive daily blog. I have modified my appearance in regards to my location, and I’ve been purposefully aware of who I make eye contact with, who I talk to, and where I am. My goal in this social experiment is to see if I can be acknowledged at least once on “Missed Connections” over the course of two months, and to discover if modifying myself in the process may or may not change the outcome.

Kelsey Jarboe's as yet untitled performances were initially conceived while practicing Voice Movement Therapy, an expressive arts therapy emphasizing the affective aspects of vocal sound over cognitive content and articulation. Kelsey's current work explores aspects of memory, identity, and myth as they relate to each other and contemporary notions and experiences of history, gender, and technology. More information can be found at www.toomanyfeelings.com."

Jessica Gath ----  For You ([W]rapper) is a homophonic exploration.  Please come bearing gifts ready to be wrapped.  They will leave with you.

Laura Fortune and Carla Stangenberg will be working with a few prescribed ideas, sounds and images
as they battle this piece into existence. their previous works has been
in the fields of painting, theater, dance, improvisation, clown,
sculpture. they have known each other for 20 years this is
their first collaboration together.

Saturday, Jan. 30

MAGs (Mobius Artists Group)  Ellen Godena and Liz Roncka workshop their recent explorations in vocalization/movement for improvisation. They utilize space as an acoustic feature, as an element of mass, and as a tool to inhibit both movement and sound in this untitled work.

Naomi Bennett   ---- "Searching for Molly Pye" a work in progress ---- Though childhood memories are often clouded and fantastical, N. Bennett searches back to learn more about of her mother, lost to cancer when she was four years old.  Miss Bennett uses dance, film, music, spoken word, and often unstable tape structures to explore and express her journey through this performance.  This is a section of a larger performance that will explore the greater theme of the loss of loved ones dues to cancer.

Crossed Striations is a performance piece by Caroline Parks, music by Bill Alletzhauser.  Echoing jellyfish patterns of movement wearing a dress from plastics, including washed up plastics from the ocean; the propulsion movements evoke a timeline of consumer trash traveling through the ocean.  

Eric Scott Nelson  ---Before arriving in Boston, ESN will be blindfolded and will remain blind for the duration of his 2 week stay; exploring new places, making and experiencing art.    Drawing voices performance capturing and interpreting what the audience and artists see at Mobius during Works in Progress.