By Christine Korte The language of materials was the central talking point of yesterday’s (Friday’s) Performance Art Daily. Each artist – Guadalupe Neves, Paul Hurley and Maria Hupfield – was asked by moderator Wanda Nanibush to elaborate on their relationship to the materials or objects used in their performances. The most interesting question of the …
Performance Art Daily 2012: The cutting edge, 7a*11d
October 27: Sylvie COTTON, Nyan Lin HTET, Anna KALWAJTYS, and moderator Istvan KANTOR
par Sylvie Ferre A chaque soirée du Festival 7A*11D, il y a foule. Toute sorte de public mais aussi beaucoup d’étudiants fortement impliqués, ce qui laisse entrevoir un bel avenir performatif, d’autant plus que ces jeunes sont de nationalités diverses, vont bouger et transmettre à leur tour ce qu’ils auront reçu. La relève assurée par …
By Christine Korte Let me begin with last tonight’s performances. I’ll start with Rachel Echenberg’s At Home. Wearing a transparent plastic house on her head which framed her face, Echenberg began by delineating spaces in the gallery. A large piece of synthetic turf covering the center of the gallery marked one space, within which the …
By Randy Gledhill The night concierge at the Alphaville Inn is enchanted by the performance art crew that has invaded. He is also computer savvy, saving me several times from the usual system crashes endemic to the makeshift patch-and-fix servers of big hotels in these pioneering years of internet access. “OK your system is down, …
Performance Art Daily 2012: Language of Materials, 7a*11d
October 26: Maria HUPFIELD, Paul HURLEY, Guadalupe NEVES, and moderator Wanda NANIBUSH
By Randy Gledhill “I will focus on the limitations of humanity by investigating the topics of social cannibalism, mutual social elimination, the exclusion of weaker individuals, repression, and isolation”Anna Kalwajtys, from the 7a*11d festival programme Mid afternoon. The weather has changed. A dark cloud is rolling in. I enter Mercer Union. Anna Kalwajtys, the serious …
By Randy Gledhill The set-up Three farmyard buckets equal distance to form a triangle. Each containing something. One sprouts Blue Hydrangia. A black leather jacket. A bottle of red wine. And a pair of gold lame stiletto heel shoes, as worn by a woman or someone pretending to be. On with the Show Paul Hurley, …
By Randy Gledhill Five IV drip bags hanging in a row, filled with something dark. A white paper flower garland around her head. A white paper frock with a long paper train, Guadelupe Neves scatters industrial stainless steel bowls to catch the offerings, then, standing below, opens the first hose. Dark blue liquid flows over …
By Christine Korte Carl Bouchard and Martin Dufrasne’s performance on Wednesday night began with us beholding the performers’ heads on a guillotine–like mirrored plank. The two performers were locked into this bizarre contraption, instantly evoking the idea that this could be a troubled union (uh oh!). After completing a perilous round of the gallery space …