//Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.//
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//Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art.// |
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Naked StagesNew Performance WorksOctober 19-21 & November 9-11, 2006 |
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Naked Stages: Performance Art Created by Bold Artists for Adventurous AudiencesOctober 19-21 & November 9-11, 2006Intermedia Arts How does someone raised conservative evangelical fundamentalist Christian grow up to be a queer liberal vagabond artist? Beyond denial and shame, how can white people confront white supremacy? Has digital communication eroded genuineness and intimacy in human relationships? With media reinforced commercialization of the female body, how do we find true beauty? Join us at Intermedia Arts as we seek answers to these questions and more at two double bills of new work by untried but true artists: Naked Stages 1 on October 19- 21, 2006 features Kim Thompson in timeline autobiographia: everything that is..., a performance memoir tracing her history from being left on a doorstep in south Korea to being raised in a conservative Christian family to leaving home and coming out as queer, and Elliot Durko Lynch's For Your Eyes Only, which integrates media, movement and object theater in a scrutiny of the digital river's constant stream of communiqués with the lost art of letter writing. On November 9-11, 2006, Intermedia Arts presents Naked Stages 2 with Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe's Dirty the Bones: On Being White and Other Lies (History as Medicine), a ritualized performance drawing on 37 years of living as a white person in a white supremacist society and Katie Herron in Mirror, Mirror, which takes us through the looking glass of the media's image of female perfection. These two double bills are the culmination of the artists' work in the Naked Stages program, an intensive performance research program that gives artists space to dig deep into creative process. Now in it's eighth year, the program, developed and directed by artist and curator Eleanor Savage, is designed to give artists a supportive environment for building their performance and production skills while creating a new performance art piece. The showings with an audience are the final step in the program, giving the artists a true assessment of how their ideas are communicating through the form. Audiences and artists alike question the performance art: What is this ambiguous form that calls to mind everything from Karen Finley's notorious chocolate smearing rants to the durational marathons of Forced Entertainment? In the essay "Fluid Landscapes," by Lois Keidan and Daniel Brine, they capture the spirit of the form:
NAKED STAGES PERFORMANCES
All performances take place at Intermedia Arts and begin at 8 PM. There are Q&A sessions after each performance; a reception will follow the Saturday performances. Intermedia Arts is located at 2822 Lyndale Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55408. Tickets are $12 ($6 members, students, seniors and youth under 17). For more information or to make reservations, call (612) 871-4444 or e-mail info@intermediaarts.org.
Naked Stages 1: October 19-21, 2006 at 8 PM Naked Stages 2: November 9-11, 2006 at 8 PM Naked Stages is supported by the Jerome Foundation. Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art. CONTACT:Theresa SweetlandPhone: 612-874-2813 E-mail: theresa@intermediaarts.org http://www.intermediaarts.org/ |