'Moving in Place: Conversations in location and physical geography
'Moving in Place: Conversations in location and physical geography: Two evenings of off-site works-in-progress by two artist teams:
'Reflections is a sound and video installation by Maggie Nowinski and Burns Maxey. The project maps the city of Easthampton, MA, through a series of constructed conversations between selected community members created from interviews taken by the artists. The work also tracks the interviewees daily lives through photographs, and includes correspondence between the two artists via postcards. The Mobius exhibit is a preliminary showing of Reflections. A complete site-specific exhibition will be held in the Fall of 2010 in Easthampton, MA, and will also incorporate photographs, objects, and text. The final exhibition is supported in part by a grant from the Easthampton Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.
''Tidal,' a site-specific piece by Sara June and Nathan Andary for the 2010 Bumpkin Island Art Encampment, is a series of shifting body-land sculptures that mimic the tidal movements of water over a specific area of the island during the five-day period of their residency. June and Andary use the length of their bodies, hands, arms and legs to transfer pebbles, stones and boulders from the shoreline area known as the ‘sand spit’ during the times in which it is progressively exposed and re-covered by the tides. Stone will replace body will replace stone, etc. Piles of rock will accumulate and dissipate (resulting in shallows) and appear as rolling ‘waves’ following the direction of their movements. On the island, they will map their movement across the spit and towards Hull, Massachusetts during the low tide (moving out and away from Bumpkin) and back towards Bumpkin Island during the incoming high tide. The piece will occur over a period of five days. 'Tidal,' presented at mobius, will result from the movement research conducted on the island. The stage version of Tidal includes a live sound-score by Max Lord.
'Tidal' will be performed on Friday evening only. The rest of the exhibition will occur on both Friday and Saturday evenings.
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Fri Aug 13, 2010 - Sat Aug 14, 2010
8pm both evenings. $10/$8 FOM
'Tidal' will be performed on Friday only!!
@ Mobius
55 Norfolk Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
For MAGs Burns Maxey and Ellen Godena, please see our Mobius Artist Pages.
Maggie Nowinski is a multi-media artist based in Western Massachusetts. Her installation based work derives from a personal inquiry into the internal nuances of participating in external world we live in, physically and psychologically. In 2010 her large-scale exhibition Swallowed at Hampden Gallery at the University of Massachusetts included thousands of plastic water bottles, hundreds of photographs, drawings, two sound and video installations and performance-based video narratives. Currently, she is working on numerous projects including Reflections, a collaborative project with Burns Maxey supported in part by a grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council through the Easthampton Cultural Council exploring the site of Easthampton, MA.
Nowinski received an MFA in Visual Art from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BFA in painting from the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is an adjunct instructor of art and art history at Manchester Community College and Westfield State College. For more information visit www.maggienowinski.com
Nathan Andary; CMA is a Teaching Fellow pursuing his MFA in Dance at the University of Maryland. He received his BFA in Dance from Ohio University and his certification as a movement analyst of Laban in New York City. He is an experimental artist and a two-time recipient of the prestigious Merit Award for Choreography from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA). Nathan just finished touring with NYC based company; Pearson + Widrig and danced professionally for Katsura Kan, the Salt Creek Ballet Company, Fusionworks Repertory Dance Co., and Kitsunebutoh of Boston. Other performance credits include work by David Parsons, David Dorfman, Gladys Bailin (Alwin Nikolais), Michelle Geller (Merce Cunningham), and Sara June. Nathan’s choreography has been seen throughout NYC and in festivals and universities along the East Coast. His work is a symbiotic fusion of Laban, body-mind-centering, yoga, theater and release techniques riding the support of breath and the spiral of the spine, exploring the spatial connections to movement in/through/with the body and its environment. Nathan’s work received funding from Toyota, Massachusetts Cultural Council, NG Systems and other sponsors for his collaborations and community outreach. Nathan has taught for the Univ. of Maryland, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence College, Rhode Island College, University of Rhode Island and Ohio University. www.andarydance.org
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