A 24 hour festival of performance
ARTERY 24/ twenty-four hours of performance and new media
July 5 – July 6, 2008
Begins July 5 at 12 noon. Ends July 6 at 12 noon.
FREE
The Soap Factory presents ARTERY 24, a new performance event. ARTERY 24 features over 30 artists, local, national and international.
ARTERY 24 brings together artists from a myriad of backgrounds placing them in a pioneering exhibition format which will use multiple galleries throughout The Soap Factory as well as individual project rooms and the outdoors. For each hour of the twenty-four hour period a different artist/dancer/musician/puppeteer/actor/group or collaboration will perform. New media works will be featured in time-based synthesis during performance interludes. ARTERY 24's format is derived from a non-religious appropriation of a Catholic ritual known as the Forty Hours' Devotion. In 16th Century Italy the aforementioned ritual was a prominent feature of any artist’s calendar whether they were a performing artist or a visual artist, notable participants were Caravaggio and Prospero Orsi. ARTERY 24 is designed to be a vessel for the exposition of a broad spectrum of performing arts, enabling a space and time for experimentation and exhibition. The artists themselves were invited to respond to the following: the historical basis of the festival, the historical gallery space, and their experiences of modern urban life.
In addition to 24 hours of performance, there will also be an Italian Banquet 7pm - 9pm. Suggested donation: $20 per person. Banquet credits: JoAnne Makela (concept), Carlo Cicala-Saracino (Harlequin), Daniela Ruggiero (catering), Michael Basler and Tim Carroll (table-dressing).
ARTERY 24 will feature installation-performance-symbiosis, a large scale marionette, acting, dance (inside and out), small scale and large scale projection, a mascot, an assessment of historical loft conversions, a magical item of furniture, a flamboyant Harlequin, a sociopathic politician and a ghost train, amongst many other happenings/live events/productions. ARTERY 24 is a harried engagement and an act of endurance, daring the will of the spectator to attend for as long as possible, but also to come and go as they please upon the hour.
ARTERY 24 performance artists include (in order of appearance): Seth Alt and Michael Duffy, David Dobbs, Travis Freeman, Aaron Ridgeway, Anna Marie Shogren, Ellen Mueller, Soozin Hirschmugl, Dawn Strom and Britta Hallin, Flock Chaotic, Lamb Lays with Lion, A Bird in the Sky Primary School of Conceptual Arts, Jaime Carrera, Joseph Gillette, Elliott Durko Lynch, Tim Carroll, Venus DeMars, Vermin Venison & Natasha Hassett, Fiona MacNeill, Megan Mayer, GD Mills, CultureMesh Collective, Cindy Baker, Avye Alexandres, Max Wirsing, Denise Gagner, Laura Grant, Sarah Jacobs, Mandy Herrick & Lauren Simpson.
ARTERY 24 media artists include: Minneapolis Art on Wheels, Lewis Weinberg, Evan Drolet Cook, Katinka Galanos, Kari Pearson, Alexander M. Coyle, Alicia Dvorak, Orie Terrada, Abbigail Knowlton Israelsen, Deborah Wing-Sproul, Mark Nye, Kevin Obsatz, GD Mills, Anthony Warnick.
Concept & Curator: Fiona MacNeill, Curatorial Assistant: Kristina Fong, Media Art Curator: Annie Goodner, Event Advisor: Elliott Durko Lynch.
Detailed Artery 24 Schedule:
12 noon – Gallery 1
Seth Alt and Michael Duffy
Interference Patterns
Interference Patterns is an immersive interactive multimedia environment and performance. In a complex inter-related system of audio and video, the audience and performers will control and create the projected manifestation of the work.
Michael Duffy; composer, improviser, and sonic adventurer. Guitar, trumpet, 4-track, and drums as a youth lead to computer-obsessed electronic and acoustic composition and improvisation.
http://ruccas.org/wiki.pl/Michael_Duffy
http://www.myspace.com/michaelduffy
Seth Alt; noise maker, contact mic elaborator, things builder, computer sound/image interfacer. Influenced by the woods, hills, and rivers of south-western Wisconsin and its inhabitants. Seth is an ambitious creator, multimedia collage artist, and improviser.
http://www.sethalt.com
1pm – Gallery 3
David Brian Dobbs
Our Song
Our Song is a vocal and listening experiment with the ambition of creating a new song. Each participant sings a different song at the same time to see what will be created from singing different songs together.
David Brian Dobbs was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA, Earth on September 4th, 1975. He has been living and working in Minneapolis, Minnesota for the past twelve years where he is continually pestering everyone he meets with the question, “Why?” Dobbs has frequented the University of Minnesota since 1995 gaining a plethora of experience in and out of academia along the way. He dislikes leaving things unfinished….
http://www.myspace.com/kojaktheartist
http://www.youtube.com/davidbriandobbs
1:10pm – Elevator in Gallery 2
Kari Pearson (new media)
The Aquaphone Color Symphony
You are invited to the elevator where a performance of the ever-expanding Aquaphone Color Symphony will be taking place. Guests are welcome to listen to and/or participate in this ongoing installation of sonic color.
Kari Pearson is a local artist with an interest in public art and interactive media. A recent graduate of the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Pearson divides her time between art-making, mess-making, and performing with her neo-folk band, Lady Franklin.
http://www.karipearson.com
2pm – Video Room 1
Travis Freeman
Thank You/I’m Sorry
Travis Freeman’s first spiritual awakening came from movies like Star Wars, Naussica, Lord of the Rings, and The Who’s Tommy. Now he invites you to an honest attempt at creating magic through popular culture.
3pm – Gallery 1
Aaron Ridgeway
Untitled
In his own exploration of reality, Ridgeway has fixated on a few definitive concepts; the moment of human conception, the time spent in the womb, and the birth and ultimate death of the individual, which have all formed large masses in his curiosity. In a new vocabulary of second skins and spandex wombs, Ridgeway and his companion performers will attempt to articulate these concepts to shed new light onto reality.
4pm – Gallery 1
GD Mills
A/V Phase II
Mills’ work creates a symbiotic relationship between audio, installation, performance and graphic design resulting in a conductive situation conceived to enable the simultaneous occurrence of aural, visual and physical phasing. Audience members will be invited to participate in this work.
http://www.gdmills.us
4:30pm – Video Room 1
Katinka Galanos (new media)
Untitled (in iteration)
With the periphery as its center, this performed slide show wanders through the questions posed by one found photograph.
Using photographs, objects, print media and video, Katinka Galanos explores the poetic durations of visual existence. Nodding towards iterations of thought and language, her work presents a levitation of the ordinary _while working through the 'thought unknown'._ "It is always much more about what isn’t said or shown, than what is".
5pm – Gallery 1
Ellen Mueller
Control & Death 2008: Time Travel & Consequences
Also featuring: Phil McCollam – Actor/Technician
Control & Death features several characters who will share their thoughts and experiences related to time travel. The work features an underlying tone of paranoia, hinting at the insularity of shared conspiracy theories and experiences exclusive to small groups of believers. The work focuses upon imaginative description and demonstration of artist-constructed theories.
Mueller's visual artwork is currently on exhibition at The DeVos Art Museum at Northern Michigan University as part of the North of the 45th exhibition. Previous performances include several improvisational comedy groups that performed regularly at the Brave New Workshop's Improv-A-Go-Go and Six Ring Circus.
http://www.ellenmueller.com/
6pm – Gallery 1
Soozin Hirschmugl
“what the heart knows the brain forgets”
Created and Directed by Soozin Hirschmugl.
Performers: Karen Townsend, Tara Fahey, Kristin Abhalter, Soozin Hirschmugl with live video by Kelly Shipwreck.
“what the heart knows the brain forgets” is derived from the fifth segment of a longer work by Hirschmugl entitled Still it Moves. This piece will feature giant marionettes, toy theater, live video feed projections and live music. Hirschmugl has worked as a company member with the Bread and Puppet Theater and In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater. She is also a founding member of Chicks on Sticks and Barebones Productions directing and choreographing several of their annual outdoor spectacles. She has recently received a Henson Foundation Grant for the production of Still it Moves.
http://www.mnartists.org/Soozin_Hirschmugl
7pm – 9pm, Project Room 1 in Gallery 1
Italian Banquet
The mischievous Harlequin will host a ritualistic Italian banquet based on the customs and characters of Commedia dell’Arte. Audience members will be invited to participate and eat in ways appropriate to characters assigned to them. Guests are welcome to leave the table to watch performance works. Banquet credits: JoAnne Makela (concept/Colombina), Carlo Cicala-Saracino (Harlequin), Daniela Ruggiero (catering), Michael Basler and Tim Carroll (table-dressing). Minimum suggested donation to cover costs: $10.
http://www.myspace.com/medusaheads
7:20pm – Gallery 1
Dawn Strom and Britta Hallin
Here
Performers: Sharon Picasso, Jennifer Mac and Natalie Brown. Movement created by Dawn Strom, Sharon Picasso, Jennifer Mac, Natalie Brown. Sound: Mark Ruark
Here is a multi-media experiential dance installation. This piece explores the physiological rhythms of respiration and circulation as they inform experiences of presence and absence. Iterations of movement and image invoke an invitation to cycle through outer landscapes and inner rhythms.
Dawn Strom is a philosopher working with movement, image and sound to explore rhythms of body and place.
Britta Hallin is a visual and somatic artist working in sculpture, video, performance and the body.
8pm – Gallery 1, 2, 3 Video Room 2 and Outside
Flock Chaotic
ewe meef to rarr
Choreography by Cara Krippner
Performers: Kate Shannon, Celestine Pueringa, Paul Kristapovich, Nick Jentz, Nell McCarty, Cara Krippner, Claire Monesterrio, Becky Yates, Ross Yates, Joey Heinen, Lee Ann, Tyler and Dan, Emily, Travis Freeman, Aaron Ridgeway, Sam Lagger and Holly.
Geese, worms, lightning, humpbacks, babies, daises, airplanes, lions, elephants, ovens and Albert Einstein will be here.
http://www.myspace.com/flockchaotic
9pm – Gallery 2
Lamb Lays with Lion
Tenebrism
Performers: Jeremey Catterton & Jayne Deis
Lamb Lays with Lion is proud to present their newest project: Tenebrism. Inspired by the religious imagery of Caravaggio, "The Last Temptation of Christ," and legendary post-punk icon Ian Curtis and Joy Division, Tenebrism is the first result of an exciting shift in the LLwL company's approach to creating performance.
Lamb Lays with Lion is an Original and Experimental company dedicated to the exploration of unique and radical new forms, virtual and spectral expressions, and the thrust into a new age of art; one in which expectations are checked at the door, to be replaced by ear plugs and open minds.
http://www.lamblayswithlion.org
10pm – Galleries 1, 2 and possibly elsewhere.
A Bird in the Sky: Primary School of Conceptual Art
11pm – Gallery 1
Jaime Carrera
Povera
Also featuring: Jose Guerra, Peter Hogan, Rocky Rosga, Jason Messerschmitt and Scottee.
Povera focuses on the struggles of existence as a working artist with virtually zero financial resources: creating with what's at hand whilst weathering the constant burden of food and shelter as well as how one is perceived by the nine-to-five segment of the population. Jaime Carrera is a Mexican-born independent artist. His work is often about the things he is currently living.
http://www.myspace.com/photojaime
12am – Outside
Minneapolis Art on Wheels (new media)
Outdoor Art Projection
Minneapolis Art on Wheels will welcome the new day with a projection piece that will take place at the back of the building. The piece may continue for quite some time, weather permitting, and the Artery 24 audience is free to come and go as they wish.
Minneapolis Art on Wheels exists to diffuse art, engage with community and claim/explore urban public space for artists, students and residents with the use of bike-mobilized media disseminators.
http://minneapolisartonwheels.org/
12:15am: Galleries 1
Joseph Gillette
Prrty Food 3 : *sigh* hard
A psychedelic pop-music parable. In Prrty Food, the people are real, and the monsters are make-believe. Here, in the 3rd live instalment, we learn about the digestive system from a monster who says, "life is party . eat. it. UP ." And what about the by-product of our all-consuming culture? It is POOPED.
1am – Gallery 3
Elliott Durko Lynch
“THE HISTORIC NEW YORK ARTISTS LOFTS AND RESIDENCIES + HOTEL!”
THNYALAR+H! features certain pieces of information that may or may not pertain to Minneapolis or New York City, undesirable spaces, desirable Real Estate, Elliott or his family, and will contain words, movement, lies, media and actions including “tutoring or coaching, rapid-fire drawing and sculpting, a magic-lantern show presentation, photography and film projection, declamation, singing, stage directing, choreographing, dancing and, . . . Snacking” -(www.jameswagner.com). It is likely to be a “conventional” (non-experimental) performance work.
Elliott Durko Lynch is a performing artist for himself and others with a degree in Theater Arts from the University of Minnesota. He has presented work at Intermedia Arts, the Catch Series, the Southern Theater, Northwestern Casket Company, ExerciseEXORCISE, and the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater; and performed for Justin Jones, Chris Schlichting, Anna Marie Shogren, Body Cartography, Andy Sturdevant, Morgan Thorson, and Hannah Kramer. He also produces media for live performance, recently in Skewed Visions’ “Jasper Johns” and “Strange Love,” also for Choreographer Justin Jones’ “The Screen/The Thing.” Lynch has recently produced sound for choreographer JoannaFurnans, Interact Theater Company, “The Radio Allstars” pilot, and soon will present an electroacoustic score for Choreographer Chris Schlichting’s “love things”, Morgan Thorson, Justin Jones, and Openeye Figure Theater. Elliott is a real person and member of the Minneapolis Tuning Club.
http://www.mnartists.org/elliott_durko_lynch
2am – Gallery 1
Tim Carroll
Untitled Beginning #8, From the Dick Series
Untitled Beginning #8, From the Dick Series is derived from and features a physical state of suspension in which gravity, undulation and the efforts of the artist to exert control are inherent. These symptoms caused by: weight, time and space while the artist is cradled and restrained within a pendulum-like sack. Pushing and pulling, expanding and contracting, cause and effect. What is inside and what is outside?
http://www.myspace.com/aidsfaggot
3am – Gallery 2
Venus DeMars
Portrait--Deconstruction/Construction
Venus DeMars will utilize music and a crew of performers to create a sculptural form in real-time. The performance will feature projection, provocation, and exploration.
http://www.prettyhorses.net
3:30am – Gallery 2
Anthony Warnick (new media)
I Love Minneapolis and Minneapolis Loves Me
5 site specific phone messages.
Warnick’s work is a deconstruction and assemblage of formulas and language in relation to class, culture and comedy. Warnick lives and works in Minneapolis.
4am – Video Room 1
Vermin Venison and Natasha Hassett
Vokter and Mrs. Verminison's Surreptitious
Barkmeat and Bisectedspecks surmised; now we say No. Lipidish estrangement. Here is Vokter's card. It is useful to.
5am – Gallery 1
Fiona MacNeill
99 Red Balloons/99 Red Buffoons
Performers: Fiona MacNeill, Tucker MacNeill.
99 Red Balloons/99 Red Buffoons is a voyage into the psyche of MacNeill’s recurring character Moira Doyle, a notorious female of ill-repute and high ambition. Join Moira as she dwells upon the effectiveness of E.D. drugs, her campaign for congress, the piety of Martha Stewart and 99 red rubbers. This performance features material unsuitable for ages 17 and under.
http://www.mnartists.org/Fiona_Macneill
6am – Galleries 1, 2, 3 and elsewhere
Megan Mayer
Exactly where I'm supposed to be: This is how I dance at The Soap Factory
Mayer will present a site-specific spontaneous movement response to architectural elements, textures and light in The Soap Factory.
Megan Mayer is a performing artist, dancer, choreographer, director and photographer based in Minneapolis and directs an ongoing video project in which she dances in public bathrooms (http://www.youtube.com/boyscoutgirl). Her work has been commissioned by the Minnesota History Center and has premiered at Bryant-Lake Bowl, Walker Art Center, NYC's CATCH series and at The Soap Factory. Her premiere of socktesting, co-created with Mark Abel Garcia, garnered rave reviews. Recent performances include Karen Sherman's Tiny Town at Theater Artaud in San Francisco and Laurie Van Wieren’s like a movie I saw once at The Ritz. (mnartists.org/Megan_Mayer).
http://www.youtube.com/boyscoutgirl
http://www.mnartists.org/Megan_Mayer
7am – Gallery 3
Carl Atiya Swanson
A Response Too Long to Write Down for the Deaf Man on the Train.
Carl Atiya Swanson grew up in Cairo, Egypt and Rome, Italy and studied studio art and theatre at the University of Southern California, graduating with a degree. If he could only remember what it was actually in, he might be doing that, but instead, he is doing everything else. Based in Minneapolis, he is a poet, artist, contributing writer on HowWasTheShow.com, and a founding member of Lamb Lays with Lion, an original performance company.
http://www.nitroglycerinorion.blip.tv
http://www.lamblayswithlion.org
8am – Galleries 1 and 2
CultureMesh Collective – Anton Jones and Christina Frank
Trying Guilt
Join CultureMesh Collective for selected scenes from their upcoming Fringe Festival production: Trying Guilt. One woman, multiple characters, and lots of shoes! Trying Guilt, the newest original work from CultureMesh Collective, fuses Hip-Hop, Mime, and Monologue as Christina Frank puts herself in the shoes of everybody from Murderers on Death row to Well-Meaning Liberals to 5 year old children as she explores the funny, confining, and confusing world of guilt.
http://culturemesh.org/
9am – Gallery 1
Cindy Baker
Eponymously Yours
Baker will appear in a professional mascot costume of herself and is currently travelling across the continent and around the world making personal appearances as Cindy Baker. In this project, her persona’s similarity to other cuddly and approachable characters will function to erase social barriers and encourage physical contact and play, as well as the building of emotional bonds. It will, allowing her further and more complex access, add to Baker’s ongoing project: studying people through allowing them to study her. Baker will have the opportunity to watch the world from a safe emotional (if not physical) distance, exaggerating and simplifying herself for ease of examination and scrutiny by the public.
Canadian interdisciplinary and performance artist Cindy Baker considers context her primary medium, working with whatever materials are needed to allow her to concentrate on the theoretical, conceptual and ephemeral aspects of her work.
She considers her art to exist in its experience, and not in its objects.
http://www.populust.ca/cinde
10am – Gallery 1
Avye Alexandres
Sorting the Coats (in the Morning over Breakfast)
Alexandres will build a half-walled house onstage while documentary audio describes the disassembly of the insides of the home. Breakfast will be served. Television will be watched and furniture will speak for itself. This is a continuation of her theatrical work entitled Sorting the Coats- without the rock stars, microphones and ghosts.
Alexandres has performed at the Red Eye Theatre, with Sandbox Theatre and shown at the Minnesota Center for Photography.
http://www.is-of-was.blogspot.com
http://www.mnartists.org/Avye_Mercini_Alexandres
11am – Gallery 1 and outside
Max Wirsing, Denise Gagner, Laura Grant, Sarah Jacobs, Mandy Herrick and Lauren Simpson.
Sleepers & Spikes
Today's Minneapolis is a city dominated by car traffic and controversy around the light rail system. Within this context, Sleepers & Spikes examines the fantastical romanticism of a Minneapolis with a thriving network of trains. Wirsing et al take as their choreographic starting point the early 20th Century rail systems that formed an intricate network of capillaries through the Twin Cities, enabling burgeoning industry and neighborhoods. Flour sacks, lumber piles, the medical condition known as Railway Spine, city planning, and ghostly images collide in a rhythmic movement piece that assembles and derails itself. A varied and shifting performance scale, from barely visible to interactive, evokes changing notions of public space and a transportation system that once was, but is no longer.
12 noon – 12 noon – Gallery 1
Evan Drolet Cook (new media)
Boy/Girl
Boy/Girl consists of an office laser printer suspended 8 feet off the ground from the ceiling above. Over the course of 24 hours it prints, and then lets float into an amassed pile on the ground, transcriptions of a four-year conversation between an unknown young man and woman in love, beginning in January 2003. Indulging our shared appetite for voyeurism, Boy/Girl confronts the challenges of transforming something completely immaterial into an engageable object, the idea that we have shared experiences that are both painfully individual and beautifully memetic, and the often-unseen consequences created in the wake of these relationships.
New Media Works (in order of appearance)
Times are subject to change due to performance timings.
2:45pm – Gallery 1
Mark Nye.
Untitled
Single Channel Video
2008
In his short fiction film, Mark Nye splices together imagery of nostalgia and alienation from life in the American working class. This work finds at its center the evolution of train and river technology and roughly incorporates narratives of American song writing and Greek epic prose to accentuate the tragedies that lie in these passageways, which established the Twin Cities as a major artery in the U.S. In so doing Nye also uncovers the contrivances of evocative acting, dialogue recitation, and scenery.
8:45pm – Gallery 1
Abbigail Knowlton Israelsen
Beguiled
Animation
2007
Israelsen’s fanciful scenarios and fantastical realms are inspired by fairy tales and nightmares. These stories express disenchantment with contemporary society and question the ruling standards of taste and behavior.
http://www.abbigailisraelsen.com
11:45pm – Gallery 1
Lewis Weinberg
Future Antiquity: Domestic Surveillance
Single-channel video
2008
Weinberg’s piece entitled, Future Antiquity: Domestic Surveillance is an assessment of the maladies affecting modern America. Weinberg uses video montage in synthesis with a powerful voice-over to communicate his analytical message.
2:30am – Gallery 1
Kevin Obsatz
“Briller/Brûler”
Single-channel Video
2007
Kevin Obsatz's short video improvisation investigates the body in motion with the help of dancers and actors from the local performance group Live Action Set.
4:30am – Gallery 1
Alexander M. Coyle
Me Doing My Best Robert Longo Impression
Single-channel video
2007
Coyle’s piece entitled Me Doing My Best Robert Longo Impression is an art performance related to the well-known artist Robert Longo. Longo is most known for his large pencil drawings (1980s) of figures in dramatic impromptu stances and physical anguish.
5:45am – Gallery 1
Orie Terada
Onigiri Performance
Single-channel video
2005
Terada video documents an ongoing performance project entitled Onigiri Performance. It features the artist introducing a little known Japanese food called onigiri (a rice dumpling) to members of the public in a ceremonial style. Terada records the participants’ reactions to the taste of the food, adding to the archive of cultural reactions that she has gathered from England, China, and Japan.
8:45am – Gallery 1
Deborah Wing-Sproul
(un)rest
Single-channel video
2004
What was once a pillow–an article of daily living and a repository for the gesture of rest and subconscious thought–is transmuted into a vessel with renewed and redefined, yet indeterminate function.
Tidal Culture: Part I, Latitude 43.586N/Longitude–70.202W
Maine
2005
Tidal Culture is a long-term nomadic work (2004- ) using the Atlantic Ocean as a focal point and primary resource. Part I begins on the shorelines of Maine. The work continues in several countries bordering the North Atlantic Ocean: Newfoundland, Greenland, Iceland, and the Hebrides. These sites, because of their proximity to the arctic ice cap, have become grounds for observing global warming conditions. I’m drawn to these landscapes for their character–sometimes austere, sometimes lush, often connoting isolation.
http://www.deborahwingsproul.com
9:45am – Gallery 1
Alicia Dvorak.
Rituals Sacred Mothers (2008) and Tracks (2007)
Animation
Alicia Dvorak creates a unique visual poetry from found objects, images and texts. In both her works, Dvorak reassembles words and their meanings to bring about new associations as they are interlaced with the artists own memories and experiences. Together with a continuously looping, geometric animation, the resulting experience is one of a crudely simple digital culture.