By Christine Korte Jeff Huckleberry’s performance on Saturday night, Attempt at not being a walking fucking joke, was a meditation on the performance artist as a fragile or failing tour de force. Not only because Huckleberry was uncomfortably vulnerable and self-reflexive, but also because the relationship between his massive body, his even bigger wooden planks, …
par Sylvie Ferre Ce qui ne veut pas dire que les autres performances étaient dénuées d’intérêt, mais celle de l’Américain Jeff Huckleberry a concentré tout ce que nous sommes avides de trouver dans une action. Il a réuni avec brio tous les éléments qui donnent sens à un acte original, intelligent, limpide, en construisant une …
Performance Art Daily 2012: Reflections on praxis, 7a*11d
October 28: Rachel ECHENBERG, Patrycja GERMAN, Jeff HUCKLEBERRY, Agnes YIT, and moderator Johanna HOUSEHOLDER
By Randy Gledhill Simply dressed in black, seated on a step-stool cloaked in white. A large hind quarter of raw meat on his lap. Perhaps the haunch of a pig, or a person. Burmese artist Nyan Lin Htet, with needle and thread, diligently sews the dead flesh. He does so with a meticulous devotion. Sewing …
By Randy Gledhill There are several common trends and threads being employed by many artists in the current ‘performance festival’ format and genre. Surprisingly artists, offered free reign to present themselves in any way they wish, usually choose a formal gallery setting and time slot of about 30 minutes to parade their dog-and-pony show to …
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, …