http://www.artshound.com/event/detail/37591/Jacinda_Russell_and_Nancy_Douthey_3_Weeks_6_Earthworks_1_Portable_Studio_and_ALL_That_Lies_in_Between
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
LOST and FOUND A Performance for Houston Community College Northeast
The rumor had started that I was looking for a male with dark hair and I was almost certain this one was a fake.
The crowd had been forewarned. But they were confused. Were the rumors true, were they planted, was I the only pickpocket in the room or was I there to protect the people from the pickpocket? It was all a question of good and evil - which one was I - which one was the person standing next to me? And could it all be so simple? Did suspicion taint the room, were we all questioning one another? How were we coming to conclusions about who was who and how close we would get? Did my checking for a watch on my wrist create a wave of awareness to possessions we carry and the relationship they have to our bodies? Are we more aware than we give ourselves credit for, would another body understand the intention of my body without conceiving of the intent?
A Planted Profesional Pickpocket Is On the Prowl, Protect Yourself
Performance 8:00 - 8:30 pm, December 9th, 2010
To claim lost items please see the Information Desk located at the entry of
Houston Community College, Northeast or speak with Uniformed Security
Friday, January 1, 2010
RECREATION DOCUMENTATION at recreationdocumentation.blogspot.com
8 BELIEFS 4 RECREATIONS BY NANCY DOUTHEY
IN FEAR OF HOLDING ONTO BELIEFS THAT MANY TIMES REVEAL THEMSELVES TO BE LIES. I HESITATE TO MAKE SUCH BOLD STATEMENTS. HOWEVER, RECENTLY I HAVE STARTED TO FEEL THAT THESE BELIEFS MUST BE STATED, ACTED UPON, AND THROUGH THOSE ACTIONS, THOSE TESTS, TRUTH MAY BE REVEALED IN REGARDS TO THOSE BELIEFS. HERE ARE EIGHT BELIEFS I HAVE PRIOR TO THIS STUDY IN THE RECREATION OF PERFORMANCE AND THE DOCUMENTATION
8 BELIEFS
i believe that in the recreation of any performance we not only learn something about the person or persons who have created that work but also something about ourselves and our relationship to that person or persons
i believe that in the recreation of any performance i have a new understanding of that performance in that specific moment in time with the specific people that are witnesses or participants
i believe that in the recreation of any performance i gain an experience that could not ever be gained through text or visual images
i believe that in the recreation of any performance i will change
i believe that in the recreation of any performance it has the same potential to be something entirely different than any other time it was created
i believe that in the recreation of any performance those that may witness or participate in the performance will change
i believe that in the recreation of any performance the artist is responsible for being present
i believe that in the recreation of any performance the artist is not responsible for how those witnesses or participants will change after the performance, but responsible to have hope that change will occur
ADRIAN PIPER: CATALYSIS
"I can no longer see discrete forms or objects in art as viable reflections or expressions of what seems to me to be going on in this society: They refer back to conditions of separateness, order, exclusivity, and the stability of easily accepted functional identities that no longer exist."
"I've been doing pieces the significance and experience of which is defined as completely as possible by the viewer's reaction and interpretation. Ideally the work has no meaning or independent existence outside of its function as a medium of change. It exists only as a catalytic agent between myself and the viewer."
"Art contexts per se (galleries, museums, performances, situations) are becoming increasingly unworkable for me... they preserve the illusion of an identifiable, isolatable situation, much as discrete forms do, and thus a prestandardized set of response. Because of their established functional identities, they prepare the viewer to be catalyzed, thus making actual catalysis impossible(rather that its more comfortable illusion, which consists of filling in the particulars of an aesthetic experience, the general outlines of which are predetermined)."
SNACK DAT PROJECT at SNACKDAT.blogspot.com
Thus, for example, the word spinster is commonly used as a deprecating term, but it can only function this way when apprehended exclusively on a superficial (foreground) level. Its deep meaning, which has receded into the Background so far that we have to spin deeply in order to retrieve it, is clear and strong: a woman whose occupation is to spin. There is no reason to limit the meaning of this rich and cosmic verb. A woman whose occupation is to spin participates in the whirling movement of creation. She who has chosen her Self, who defines her Self, by choice, neither in relation to children nor to men, who is Self-identified, is a Spinster, a whirling dervish, spinning in a new time/space. Another example is the term glamour, whose first definition as given in Merriam-Webster is a magic spell.
- Mary Daly
THE CONTRAPTION: A Long Piece of Wood, Chicken Wire, Cotton Candy, White Cone, Snack Gallery, Bed Sheets and Body
- Mary Daly
THE CONTRAPTION: A Long Piece of Wood, Chicken Wire, Cotton Candy, White Cone, Snack Gallery, Bed Sheets and Body
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