HOME MADE - by Portland, OR. Artists tEEth
2 PERFORMANCES: FRI & SAT, FEB 17 & 18, 8pm -at WILLIAMS THEATER, PAC,
tEEth Voted Best Choreographer! Willamette Week
tEEth awarded Oregon Cultural Trust Grant for the premiere of our new work, Make/Believe
tEEth wins the $10,000 grand prize in The Joyce Theater'sThe A.W.A.R.D. Show! Seattle Times review
Short Synopsis:
Home Made mounts a daring exploration of the awkwardness of human beauty and the struggles of intimate negotiation. On stage, a male and female duo is accompanied by male and female live vocalists, interweaving music and movement. With sharp, aggressive choreography and an original score, Home Made explores the delicate balance between tenderness and hostility, where playfulness becomes manipulation and exploration shades into aggression.
Program:
Title: Home Made
Created by: tEEth
Concept/Direction/Set Design/Live Video Design: Angelle Hebert and Phillip Kraft
Choreography: Angelle Hebert
Original Music: Phillip Kraft
Dancers: Keely McIntyre and Noel Plemmons
Vocalists: Luke Matter and Cali Ricks
Lighting Design/Technical Direction/Set Design and Construction: Alex Gagne-Hawes
Costume Design: Britta Hellquist
About tEEth
Choreographer Angelle Hebert and Composer Phillip Kraft began their artistic collaboration in 2000 and co-founded Portland-based dance company, tEEth in 2006. Their work is generated through deeply collaborative processes, interweaving original music and movement through melodic and conceptual mirroring. Approaching the body with an eye for life’s beauty and dark absurdity, tEEth offers a poignant and uncompromising glimpse of humanity, combining technical virtuosity with raw visceral impact.
tEEth has toured to On the Boards (Seattle), Joyce SoHo (NYC), Fuse Box Festival (Austin), St. Ferdinand Church and Sidearm (New Orleans), Rose Wagner Theater (Salt Lake City), and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco) and recently won the Joyce Theater Foundation’s prestigious A.W.A.R.D. Show! at On the Boards 2011. Locally, tEEth has created and presented works for Portland Institute for Contemporary Art’s TBA Festival, Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, Ten Tiny Dances, Reed Arts Week, Performance Works Northwest, Conduit, Water in the Desert Festival, among others. In addition to private and corporate sponsorship and support, tEEth has received significant grants from the National Performance Network, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, Oregon Cultural Trust, and Westaf. Their new work, Make/Believe, premiered January 26-28, 2012 in Portland was co-commissioned by White Bird (Portland) and On the Boards (Seattle). Make/Believe will tour to On the Boards March 1-3 and tour nationally to pending locations.
For more info: www.tEEthperformance.com
Keely McIntyre (Dancer)
Keely McIntyre is originally from Vermont, where she began dancing at an early age. She continued her classical training at the Boston Ballet School and Le Centre de Danse de Paris Goubé. She has been in Portland since 1999, where she has danced with Oslund+Company/Dance, Tere Mathern, POV Dance and bobbevy, among others, as well as in her own work. This is her first project with tEEth.
Noel Plemmons (Dancer)
Inspired by ABBA, Noel Plemmons began choreographing and performing in his living room at age six. His young career ended abruptly, however, with the death of disco and he didn’t find dance again until age 27, while studying anthropology at UC Berkeley. He found his way to San Francisco where he is proud to have worked with Lizz Roman & Dancers, EmSpace Dance, Shift Physical Theater, Company Mécanique, and Huckabay McAllister Dance. Since moving to Portland he has worked with Oslund + Co., tEEth and Keely McIntyre. Noel is Co-Artistic Director of POV Dance, an architecturally based site-specific dance company. He is grateful for this opportunity to work again with tEEth’s talented and inspiring dynamic duo.
Luke Matter (Vocalist)
Luke Matter, 27, is a self-trained singer with a multitude of influences ranging from the experimental era of the late 60’s and early 70’s to the arena rock era of the mid to late 70’s and what can only be described as space rock today. He is a tenor who realized early in his development how pretty a girl-like falsetto could be and is equally comfortable in low, mid, and high registers. As a multi-instrumentalist and recording artist who has played in several bands over the past seven years, he is known best as the keyboardist and backing vocalist for the Portland-based band “Pigeons”. “Home Made” is his third project with tEEth.
Cali Ricks (Vocalist)
Cali has been singing for the past fourteen years. She first began studying voice in Los Angeles when she was accepted for enrollment at the Los Angeles County HS for the Arts. During her time there, she was guided and instructed by several established musicians in voice technique, ear training, sight-reading, and music theory. Since then, she has continued her training on her own. In addition to voice, Cali plays the piano and writes and self produces original songs. This is her first project with tEEth.
Alex Gagne-Hawes (Lighting Design/Technical Direction/Set Construction)
Alex was born in Juneau, Alaska and educated at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Since graduation he has worked across country as a theater technician and youth educator. Portland designs include the Working Theatre Collective, Meshi Chavez, Lisa DeGrace, bobbevy, and the Great Hereafter Traveling Medicine Show. He is the ringleader of an anarchic circus. Many thanks to Angelle and Phillip for this opportunity and to his far-flung family for their support and inspiration. Ever onward ever up!
Britta Hellquist (Costume Design)
Britta Hellquist moved to Oregon at the end of 2006 from Utah to attend the Art Institute of Portland. She graduated with a BFA in apparel design in 2009. After graduation she took up many odd jobs and freelance work, including costuming and custom lingerie. In the spring of 2010, she met a creative designer named Paloma Soledad; Britta started working as Paloma’s assistant. While doing so, she was fortunate to meet the people of tEEth. Creative costume design is incredibly important to Britta and she feels very opportune for the chance to work with such an inspired company as tEEth.
Thank you:
Steve Liggett, New Genre Festival Staff and Crew, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Oregon Arts Commission, tOOth Members and Volunteers, tEEth Board of Directors, and Carole Zoom. Extra Special Thanks: Cali, Keely, Luke, Noel, and Alex for their trust, dedication, and artistry.Back to NG19
viDEO sAVant
SPONTANEOUS CINEMA/ MUSIC/DANCE
by Cincinnati, New York City & Tulsa artists
CHARLES WOODMAN, Artistic Director
IMPROVISED VIDEO/DANCE/CONCERT
2 PERFORMANCES – FRI & SAT, FEB 24 & 25, 8pm –
- at DOENGES THEATRE, PAC,
BRIEF DESCRIPTION:
4 New York based musicians (Val Opielski – Guitar, Margaret Schedel – MIDI Cello, Grady Gerbact, percussion, Heather Wagner, Drums) and 4 Tulsa based Dancers (Megan Miller, Rachel Johnson, Jennifer Alden & Arien Christopher) improvise to a live performed video score (Charles Woodman - Live Image Mix.)
COMMUNITY RESEARCH AT LIVING ARTS LAB 2-22 TO 2-23 (closed to public)
These performances are made possible by the Mid America Arts Alliance, Tulsa Performing Arts Trust, mediaThe foundation, the National Performance Network and Sponsors of New Genre.
Program Description:
viDEO sAVant makes Spontaneous Cinema, performances in which images and sounds are improvised in real-time in front of the audience. As the musicians watch the screen, they react to the flow of pictures, the music evolving in response to the visual score. The images in turn in are being composed and manipulated in response to the music. The work is improvisational, with an emphasis on process and the dynamic evolution of the material, as sound and image lead each other back and forth in the mix. Tonight’s program was especially commissioned by the New Genres Festival and features the additional participation of four Tulsa based dancers who will improvise along with the images and sounds.
“Three aspects characterize this recent spate of live cinema work: first, the works insist on the live interaction of artwork, performer, and audience and suggest the desire for the event and its specificity; second, they propose an interrogation of forms, asking us to contextualize the event within histories of cinema, video, performance, art, and music; and third, the works often play on the liquidity of information and the sense that we exist in a world characterized not by concrete spatial boundaries and fixed temporal coordinates, but instead by a mobile, accelerating experience of fluidity and flows.” Holly Willis, Afterimage, July 2009
Performer Bios:
Charles Woodman, Images
Charles Woodman has been working in the field of Electronic Art for more than fifteen years. His recent projects have concentrated on the integration of video in live performances, often in collaboration with musicians or dancers, and on the creation of multi-image video installations for museums and galleries. Exhibitions of his work include screenings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Block Museum of Art in Chicago, the New Interfaces for Musical Expression conference in Vancouver, BC, the Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Edison, NJ, the American Dance Festival in Raleigh, NC, and the San Francisco Cinematheque. Woodman was a founding member of the video performance group viDEO sAVant and is currently working on a the design of a new instrument for use in live performance, a “gesture based interface for real-time control of video playback” http://www.videosavant.org/savant.html
Margaret Schedel, MIDI Cello
Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media. Her works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, her interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com. She is working towards a certificate in Deep Listening with Pauline Oliveros and has studied composition with Mara Helmuth, Cort Lippe and McGregor Boyle. She sits on the boards of 60x60 Dance, the BEAM Foundation, the Electronic Music Foundation Institute, the International Computer Music Association, the New West Electronic Art and Music Organization, and Organised Sound. She contributed a chapter to the Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music and her article on generative multimedia was recently published in Contemporary Music Review. Her work has been supported by the Presser Foundation, Centro Mexicano para la Música y les Artes Sonoras, and Meet the Composer. In 2009 she won the first Ruth Anderson Prize for her interactive installation Twenty Love Songs and a Song of Despair. As an Assistant Professor of Music at Stony Brook University, she serves as Co-Director of Computer Music and is a core faculty member of cDACT, the consortium for digital art, culture and technology. In 2010 she chaired the International Computer Music Conference. http://www.schedel.net/
Val Opielski, Guitar
Musician, composer, sound designer, filmmaker, installation artist, performance artist. Current Bands: ps xo, an experimental post-punk duo, which toured Japan in March 2011; The
Walking Hellos, an experimental pop band, which recently released a CD titled "Because I Wanted To Know"; Sportsman's Paradise (Guitar Army collective), and experimental duo with Meg Schedel. Other recent collaborators include Charles Cohen, Rhys Chatham, Helena Espvall, Glenn Branca, Electric Junkyard Gamelan, Pauline Oliveros, Krakatoa, French 75 Percussion Ensemble. Latest soundtracks include for Janie Geiser's Kinetic-Installation/Performance Piece "The Reptile Under the Flowers", performed at the Museum of Jurassic Technology in LA; Luis de Robles Tentindo's "The Mud Angels", which premiered in part at St. Ann's Warehouse; full-length version of same premiered at Theater for the New City; and for the Japanese/US indie horror film "Tales From the Dead". http://www.myspace.com/valopielski
Grady Gerbracht, Electroacoustic Percusion
Grady Gerbracht's cross disciplinary work focuses on the ordering systems of everyday life. His projects employ art, architecture, technology, experimental spontaneously composed music, sound and social dynamics to render these systems temporarily visible and have been published, exhibited and performed in the US, Canada, Brazil, Asia, and across Europe and the Nordic countries. Gerbracht is Assistant Professor of Art at The College of New Jersey, Executive Director of NoMoS Nomadic Museum of Sonic Arts, and co-founder of PROJETO LOMBA ALTA, an international artists' residency in the south of Brazil. He has curated exhibitions such as Back and Forth, Global Priority, and Civic Performance which have traveled internationally. Ongoing research includes Sonic Architectures, a series of live events wherein the artist and collaborators perform the post-industrial built environment using only their bodies. As a percussion focused multi-instrumentalist, Gerbracht performs as a soloist as well as in several ensembles including Ideosynchronic an improvisational duo with collaborator John Loggia. Together they compose sound tracks for films and Butoh dance, lead workshops and regularly perform with, among others, the Re: Percussions collective, Floor Models and Anarcho Art Lab, a loosely structured collective of interdisciplinary performers presenting monthly themed events at The Living Theater. www.gradygerbracht.net
Heather Wagner, Drums
Heather Wagner is a Brooklyn, NY-based drummer. She currently plays with ps xo, The Walking Hellos, and Ghostwise and has played or recorded with various artists including Morex Optimo, Melomane, Lucinda Blackbear, C. Gibbs, The Big Sleep, Renminbi, THIS, John Watt (of Fischer-Z), The Roman Games, and Anton Sword. She has a BFA in Fine Art from Parsons School of Design, BA in Philosophy from The New School and an MFA in Computer art from The School of Visual Arts, none of which has anything to do with playing drums.
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REVISED AND REVISITED by Chicago, ILL Artist ERICA MOTT
Full Description: Revised and Revisited traces Mott’s memory and absence of memory of her ancestry. Through her body, she traces her family’s journey to America through present incorporating the movement based rituals that have kept them together and ones that have pulled them apart. Created in collaboration with New Dramatist Playwright, Sharon Bridgforth.
Erica Mott is a performer, director, and deviser whose work is particularly inspired by observation of her immediate environment. Through mask, clown, butoh-inspired movement and site-specific performance, she attempts to capture and heighten the magic, mystery and tragedy in everyday activities and interactions. She endeavors to find universality in these actions and her performance that may be communicated across social, economic, and cultural boundaries.
Erica’s most recent site-specific performances were featured at North Carolina’s Penland School of Craft, Chicago’s PopUp Art Loop, SPOKE Chicago, Toronto’s Beaver Hall, Minneapolis Fringe Festival, Random House Classics, the City of Chicago’s Lurie Gardens Celebration in Millennium Park, and the Chicago Cultural Center. Erica has performed locally with Synapse Arts Collective, Blair Thomas and Company, Redmoon Theater, Storybox, and Local Infinities Visual Theater, as well as Washington Improv Theater in Washington DC. She received a Patrick Stewart Human Rights Fellowship and a English Speaking Union Scholar Award to serve as the artistic director of the MUKA Project Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa. Erica has taught workshops for Lookingglass Theater, Northeastern Illinois University’s Teacher’s Center, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE) and The Second City Training Center. Additionally, she has designed and facilitated lectures and residencies for a variety of academic institutions, corporations and community organizations including but not limited to, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Amnesty International, The Memphis Theological Seminary, The College of Wooster, Chicagoland Librarians Association, University of Witwatersrand (RSA) and University of Kwazulu-Natal (RSA). She has a Masters in Psychophysical Theatre Practice with an emphasis on intercultural performance from the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Erica is a recipient of the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Community Arts Assistance Program (CAAP) and the Neighborhood Arts Program (NAP). She was recently awarded a Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artist Fellowship.
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STILL LIFE: GRAPHITE ON PAPER
by BENJAMIN ENTNER (Rochester, NY/ Florence, Italy)
- INFLATIBLE SCULPTURE INSTALLATION
- OPENING: MAR 2, 5-7PM, LIVING ARTSPACE SOUTH GALLERY No Charge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: Graphite rubbed inflatable Tyvek Sculptures, hairdryers. Community participation encouraged
RESIDENCY/WORKSHOP: Public Lecture with ArtCore Students and the General Community on Creating Inflatible Sculpture & Installation Artwork Feb 28, 5-7pm, Living ArtSpace, South Gallery, Exhibit continues through Mar 24.
This exhibition is made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts & Sponsors of New Genre.
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Title: Still Life: Graphite on PaperThis piece satirizes the relationship and/or competition between drawing/painting and sculpture. As a trained sculptor I have often suffered from ‘painting envy’ — the longing for the respect and gravitas given to two dimensional artists. So for this piece I thought I would try my hand at making reputable artwork: a simple still life.
For this drawing I limited myself to a paper-like substrate (tyvek), and the most elementary of two-dimensional media (graphite). I carefully chose a variety of forms for their allegorical and historical allusions and threw them all together.
This interactive installation or rather interactive drawing invites its viewers to navigate and enter the drawn space, creating and completing what I call the ‘allegory of life’ —undoubtedly becoming the nexus of all art history.
Artist’s Statement
Although I am formally trained as a sculptor, I am conceptually and technically drawn to a multidisciplinary studio practice that involves video, installation, performance, drawing, sewing, sound, and painting... as well as the traditional modes of three-dimensional art, most especially wood-working. My work is driven by ideas or curiosities, and I simply try to find the best tools to address these.
I create works that are the result of play or experimentation, and that range conceptually with my many interests: from children’s literature to aquatic life; women’s underwear to architecture; fire to fly-fishing. Often the only constant is the importance placed on an imperfect and obsessive craft, whether seen or not, and a sarcastic sense of humor.
As I work on a project, I try to anticipate and plan for the viewers' experience. I want to make viewers aware of themselves as they relate to my art. I accomplish this by creating a presence of an object or installation that interrupts or intervenes in the passive viewing of a piece and invites an active experience with it. Within the gravitas of a typical art space, I also try to inspire a childlike nostalgia and wonder by engaging the viewer with an object or environment that is fun, funny, playful, awesome, and/or rad.
Bio:
Benjamin Entner creates works that are the result of conceptual play and material experimentation. Entner’s work actively engages a viewer to intimately react and interact through the use of humour, wonder, and large physical presence. Entner writes, “When I work, I am very conscious of my viewer and, often, I want to make my viewers conscious of themselves. I try to accomplish this by creating a presence of an object or installation that interrupts or intervenes in a viewer’s passive viewing of a piece, and forces them to actively experience it.”
Benjamin Entner is a graduate of Syracuse University's prestigious Sculpture Program. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree. His work has shown nationally and internationally; most recently with solo shows at the Houston Art League, the Kansas City Artists’ Coalition, as well as, at the Earlville Opera House, the XL Projects, and his living room. He was born in the plains of Western New York, and for a time was reared by wolves. He is a Taurus and enjoys longs walks with his dog, Taz. Entner is currently in-waiting for the MacArthur Genius Grant
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DARNED DELICATES
By Champaign, Ill Artist LAURA TANNER
- EXHIBITION OF MIXED MEDIA
OPENING: MAR 2, 5-7PM, LIVING ARTSPACE NORTH GALLERY No ChargeBRIEF DESCRIPTION: Artist explores the contemporary possibilities for the practice of quilt making from Rives BFK paper, ink, cotton thread, latex paint, sewing needles, contact paper and mylar. The work deals with the disintegration that comes with the progression of time. , Exhibit continues through Mar 24.
RESIDENCY/WORKSHOP: Public Lecture with ArtCore Students and the General Public on Creating Installation Artworks on Feb 28, 5-7pm at Living ArtSpace.
This exhibition is made possible by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts & Sponsors of New Genre.
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Through the modification of domestic practices typically assigned to women, the works of Laura Tanner explore the contemporary possibilities of such crafts as quilt making from Rives BFK paper, ink, cotton thread, latex paint, sewing needles, contact paper and Mylar. Beginning with traditional family practices directly passed down to her, the large wall installations of Darned Delicates also include those crafts not learned in childhood. Evolving out of these self-taught attempts, mutated, organic forms confront tradition in the foreground of a southern landscape. Resulting in a tightly woven net of camouflage and disclosure, these installations allow for a limited insight into a vague southern gothic narrative and deal with the disintegration of information that occurs over time.
Originally from Atlanta, Georgia, Laura Tanner received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2009 from Florida State University before pursuing her Masters degree at the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana. Her work has been shown all over the US including Chicago, Philadelphia, and New Orleans. Tanner is currently working exclusively from South Farm Studios in Champaign, Illinois. Darned Delicates will feature an extensive collection of drawings and installations created over the past two years.
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CATHEDRAL OF EMPTINESS & INTERIOSITY
by Philadelphia Artist KATHY ROSE
- VIDEO/PERFORMANCE- at NIGHTINGALE THEATRE,
2 PERFORMANCES: FRI, MAR 2, 10pm & SAT, MAR 3, 8pm
– $15 ($10 Members, Students & Seniors)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: 40 minute video/performance which is a non-narrative poetic choreographic fantasy in which the artist explores a figure moving in a complex surreal environment including a forest of arms, glinting waters, and moon faces floating in the sky in order to create an alternate universe with other-worldly qualities influenced by Noh theater. PUBLIC LECTURE: by the artist discussing her use of film, video, sound and costume in performance together at Nightingale on 3-2-12. She will also conduct 1 workshop with ArtCore Studio & Youth Services of Tulsa students discussing and engaging the use of film, video, sound and costume in performance together at Living ArtSpace on 3-01-12, 5-7pm.
"With the gold masked figure and dripping empty-eyed face in "Queen of the Fluids; the eerily floating head in "Interiosity", and the puppet constructs in videos such as "She" and "The Inn of Floating Imagery" - I am constantly creating a pictorial female art persona, often with inspiration from the supernatural figures portrayed in Japanese theater and art." - Kathy Rose
Kathy Rose’s work has evolved from her early drawn animated films, and her unique, pioneering performances combining dance with film in the 1980-90’s, to her current surreal performance spectacles and videos, with influence from symbolist art and the Japanese Noh theater.
“From sci-fi Balinese insect queen to Kleopat’Ra wandering in the desert night, Kathy Rose offered moments of transcendent strangeness and visual wonder" Best of Year - Philadelphia Weekly
K A T H Y R O S E www.krose.com <http://www.krose.com/>
Kathy Rose’s work has evolved from her unique, pioneering performance work combining dance with film to her current surreal performance video spectacles, installations, and video pieces, with influence from symbolist art and the Japanese Noh theater. Rose also offers projection design onto fabrics of her “Living Tapestries“ for architects, interior designers, as well as for theater directors.
Her numerous appearances include the Museum of Modern Art’s Cineprobe, Kennedy Center, Serious Fun at Lincoln Center, Fondation Cartier pour l’art Contemporain, the Walker Art Center,The Kitchen, Institute of Contemporary Art in London, Danspace-St. Marks Church, Baltimore Art Museum, Akademie der Kunst/Berlin, Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art, etc. as well as performances in Geneva, Helsinki, Amsterdam, Hiroshima, etc. Rose’s video installations have been exhibited at the Victoria & Albert Museum, Aldrich Museum, Cooper Union, etc.
Rose has received numerous grants including a Guggenheim Fellowship in Performance Art.
Her videos have been exhibited recently at The Centre Pompidou in “A Shaded View on Fashion Film Festival”, Dance on Camera/Lincoln Center, New Moves International, Glasgow, Montage video dance Festival /Johannesburg,
Dance on Camera West, American Dance Festival’s 13th annual Dancing for the Camera, Il Correografica-Electronica /Naples, INVIDEO / Milan, FRAME International Dance-Video Festival, Lisbon, BUDAPEST AUTUMN FESTIVAL, São Carlos Videodance Festival,DANÇA SEM SOMBRA /Lisbon , Sans Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, MadDance – Toronto, International Video Dance Festival - Le Breuil, XI festival internacional VideoDanzaBA, Buenas Aires, DANSCAMDANSE Festival/Belgium, Internacional de Videodanza de Chile September 2010,Artechmedia – Canary Islands, etc.
Rose’s recent performances includes INGENUITY, THE CLEVELAND FESTIVAL OF ART MUSIC AND TECHNOLOGY, The Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College, The University of the Arts/Philadelphia, etc.
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PALPITATIONS
by Norman, Ok Artist LINDSEY ALLGOOD
PERFORMANCE ARTWORK
NIGHTINGALE THEATRE,
- at NIGHTINGALE THEATRE,
2 PERFORMANCES:FRI, MAR 2, 8pm & SAT, MAR 3, 10pm
– $15 ($10 Members, Students & Seniors)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION: "Palpitations explores the inner life of the feminine psyche. This live, one woman performance draws on movement, voice and symbolic materials to weave an abstract narrative that wades through memory and emotion."
Lindsey Allgood is a Norman-based performance, video and installation artist. She has performed and many venues including Living Arts Gallery, Tulsa, OK, MAINSITE Contemporary Art, Norman, OK and Chapman Gallery at Kansas State University.
RESIDENCY/WORKSHOP: 2 Master Classes -
a. Sat, Mar 3, 1-3pm - "Creating Performance Art/ New Media Works" for the General Public and
b. Sat, Mar 3, 3-5pm - "Creating Performance Art/New Media Works" For Middle & High School Students
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Palpitations explores and dissects the term and concept of the heart, both literally and figuratively. The heart depends on rhythm and beat, musical terms that can be applied to the human experience. Through a feminine lens, this live, one woman performance draws on ritualistic movement, voice and symbolic materials to weave together an abstract narrative. Allgood wanders through various personas to tell a story that navigates the interplay between our primal instincts and emotional needs. A red hand-sewn dress made of gathered materials allows her to embody the heart, the womb, and imagined creatures. She creates a surreal and sentient fairy tale ambiance that allows the viewer to mesh together his or her individuality with the universal. PG-13
-Lindsey Allgood Statement
As a multi-disciplinary artist, Allgood is interested in the symbiotic relationship between our physicality and psychological selves, particularly as a woman. She is currently experimenting with monologue, modern dance-inspired movement, and manipulating objects' symbolism to express narrative. She uses delicate materials such as thread, cotton, fabric, milk, hair, her body, voice and matter found in nature in video, installation and live performance. Allgood is a graduate student at the University of Oklahoma in the School of Art and Art History. She has performed and exhibited across Oklahoma and in Kansas. She attended workshops at the studio of composer/choreographer Meredith Monk in New York City and at The Farm, home of visual artists Douglas Rosenberg and Li Chiao Ping. Allgood studied poetry in Prague, CZ and received a BA in Professional Writing/Journalism.
Experience and Awards
Dallas Museum of Art Award to Artist Grant
Viewers’ Choice Performance, Momentum Festival, Oklahoma City, OK
Performance Art Workshop director, New Genre Festival, Tulsa, OK
Co-curator, Smoke & Mirrors multimedia exhibit, University of Oklahoma
Co-juror, New Genre Festival, Tulsa, OK
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HARVEST OF THE CEPHALOPI
By DRAMA DEPARTMENT (Stillwater, OK)
OPENING: MAR 2, 5-7PM, LIVING ARTS CORNER INSTALLATION GALLERY No Charge
The Cephalopi are intergalactic group of gangsters with a strangle hold over much of the galaxy’s resources. Using politics, religion, and war, these cruel beings force others into submission by any means necessary. They have created a caste system that ensures insubordination by offering power to a select few willing to do their bidding. Second only to the Cephalopi are the monastic Simiates. Simiates are the figureheads of the planets under the control of the Cephalopi. The Simiates rule the people of the planets they are assigned to and demand the people revere the Cephalopi. Species such as the Deerpeople are unfortunate enough to exploited by the Cephalopi and Simiates. It is an ongoing struggle for the people of the galaxy to achieve agency. It is a struggle often met with failure. This failure, however, is merely an unfortunate byproduct of learning to truly live.
The Drama Department is: Nokosee Fields, Michol Miller, Todd Robinson and Megan Mitchell. Exhibit continues through Mar 24 and will be lit from sundown to 1am each night of the installation’s duration.