Posted: December 12th, 2012 | Author: J | Filed under: PERFORMANCES, Power Play, PROJECTS | Comments Off
POWER PLAY
Pussy Noir (w/Jennifer Jacqueline Stratton)
Duration: 1 hour, 3 movements
Location: Duke University, East Building. Blue Parlor
Description:
Power Play explores social change with image. Centered in fashion, décor and
the role they have on changing society the installation is to project images of
power through a series of fashion iconographies. By displaying one person as
such, others are invited to watch and be intrigued by how subtle and explosive
power and change can be harnessed into one single entity.
Living Installation + Performance:
On Friday, November 9. 2012 Power Play was performed at the Duke University XCO Group Exhibition as part of the 2012 Hemispheric Convergence Conference: The Geo/Body Politics of Emancipation. This performance was produced specifically for the Blue Parlor space and conference. The historic Women Studies Parlors in the Duke East Building are centered in French Victorian design and contain 12 portraits of Women’s Firsts at Duke. As part of this performance Pussy Noir’s own image and artifacts became part of the room’s decor. Exhibition attendees who wandered into the room were suddenly met with an ongoing performance as Pussy Noir constructed and deconstructed a series of power roles and fashion iconographies. Meanwhile in the opposite corner of the parlor, polaroid film captured each transformation was developed every three minutes. These images were used to construct a dress, re-mediatig and re-presenting the performance in real-time. There became multiple levels of observation, watching the performance, watching a creation based on the performance and watching others watch the performance. Eye contact was established and played with as viewers engaged or didn’t engage with the performer. Changes in movements occurred every three minutes (the time it takes to develop one polaroid). The indicator of this change was an hour glass set for three minutes, but offering new information of overall time as it was turned throughout the performance. After one hour, the polaroid garment was completed and re-located to where Pussy Noir originally sat for the remainder of the conference.
Selected Video from the Performance:
Power Play from Jennifer Stratton on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/55439692
Posted: December 7th, 2012 | Author: Michael Iauch | Filed under: PERFORMANCES, PROJECTS | Comments Off
I want to be a song. I am going hitchhiking using rock n’ roll lyrics as signs to identify myself.
Below is documentation of a ride.
Tom Petty- Free Fallin’ -White Cross, NC to Carrboro, NC
Posted: December 7th, 2012 | Author: Michael Iauch | Filed under: PERFORMANCES, PROJECTS | Comments Off
The Energy Elevator Coffee shop operated for two weeks during the fall of 2012 at UNC-Chapel Hill as an effort to use the phenomenological conditions of the elevator (a space that moves up and down at the call of a commuter) to consider the relationship between Energy and Potential Energy.
Taken from Wikipedia: Energy is the capacity to produce change. Potential energy is energy that is stored in matter.
Following the coffee shop, I held three subsequent events in area elevators. Two of these events were meditation workshops, one was attended and one was not. The final event was an art show, which stayed up for two months and was well received. Below is an institutional warning issued in regard to one of the meditation workshops.
Posted: December 7th, 2012 | Author: Michael Iauch | Filed under: IMAGES, INAUGURAL VISUAL GESTURES, PERFORMANCES, PROJECTS | Comments Off
Hymn to the Night audio clip
I recorded a night and then played it back to the following night. I recorded that night and layered it over the first night, playing this back to the third night. I continued to record, layer and play back these previous nights to the current night. This recording sequences 25 nights together.
2012
Durham, NC
Posted: April 14th, 2009 | Author: CA | Filed under: PERFORMANCES | 2 Comments »
BUY ME!
an anti-capitalist cavalcade
A brilliant mostly non-narrative performance of resistance and obsession.
Come enjoy many moments of heartbreaking beauty as the culmination of our class.
Swain Studio Six
Friday April 17 @ 5 and 8
Posted: April 14th, 2009 | Author: PL | Filed under: HAPPENINGS, PERFORMANCES, PROPOSALS, SOCIAL METHODS, TALKS | 86 Comments »
Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth M. Stephens are COMING to UNC-CH Tuesday, April 14th 5:30 PM Hanes Art Center.
*This event is ***FREE*** and open to the public*
ADVENTURES OF THE LOVE ART LABORATORY
With Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens
‘We, Elizabeth M. Stephens and Annie Sprinkle, are an artist couple committed to doing projects that explore, generate, and celebrate love. We utilize visual art, installation, theater pieces, interventions, live-art, exhibitions, lectures, printed matter and activism. Each year we orchestrate one or more interactive performance art weddings in
collaboration with various national and international communities, then display the ephemera in art galleries.
Our projects incorporate the colors and themes of the chakras, a structure inspired by Linda M. Montano’s 14 Years of Living Art. The Love Art Laboratory grew out of our response to the violence of war, the anti-gay marriage movement, and our prevailing culture of cynicism. We hope the Love Art Laboratory will help make the world a more fun, sexy, tolerant, love- filled place.
Love is the new sex! We hope you will join us for a show and tell afternoon.”
Annie Sprinkle, Ph.D. is an artist and sexologist.
Elizabeth Stephens a professor of art and is the Chair of the Art Dept. at UCSC.
