//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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Media Advisory/Photo Opportunity Dirty the Bones-On Being White and Other Lies (History as Medicine)A Naked Stages Performance by Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe -- November 9-11, 2006
WHAT:Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe, poet, filmmaker, activist and emerging performance artist, brings all these forms together for Dirty the Bones-On Being White and Other Lies (History as Medicine) as part of the Naked Stages program at Intermedia Arts on November 9-11, 2006. As a white artist Hinchcliffe asks, "Who are white people anyway?," "What is the story we white people keep telling ourselves about who we are?," "Just how did we become white?" and "What is the lived reality of white supremacy for white people?" This show is the culmination of the nine-month Naked Stages mentorship program funded by the Jerome Foundation as well as thirty-seven years living as a white person in a white supremacist society. With humor and history in hand Ellen Hinchcliffe goes digging in her closet for skeletons, searching for a means of healing by dismantling the fundamentals of whiteness as an active conduit for confronting white supremacy. Dirty the Bones-On Being White and Other Lies (History as Medicine) is neither a confessional piece, a place to admit racial "sins" and ask for redemption from people of color nor a piece where the "good white" can tell the "bad white" how really bad they are. Hinchcliffe attempts to change the discussion from the idea that racism is "just a few bad apples" to a more complex view of the white power structure as a pervasive and destructive system that negatively affects all people, especially white people. Laugh your ass off, cry your eyes dry, tell yourself the truth the best you can, all together now survive. Ellen Marie Hinchliffe is a poet, filmmaker, activist, loving auntie and emerging performance artist. She has performed widely as a poet including at The Walker Art Center and The Center for Independent Artists. Her videos have screened at The Women in the Directors Chair film festival, Down Town Community Television in New York City and on Twin Cities Public Television. Her video We Remain All This Time- Iraqi artists living and creating under war and sanctions currently tours with the Art Across Borders Exhibit. Her public arts project, Altars for the dead was funded by a grant from Metropolitan Regional Council for the Arts. Her writing appears in Z Magazine, Clamor and We' Moon Journal. Her work deals with ancestors, resistance to and dealing with white supremacy and the power of art in our daily lives. Hinchcliffe's performance is part of a double bill, also featuring Katie Herron's Mirror, Mirror. Q&A sessions follow each performance with a reception following the Saturday, October 21 performance. Tickets are $12 and $6 for Intermedia Arts members, students, seniors and youth under 17. For the most up-to-date information and to learn how to purchase tickets, call Intermedia Arts at (612) 871-4444 or visit www.intermediaarts.org. Intermedia Arts is located at 2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55408. WHEN/WHERE:Thursday-Saturday, November 9-11, 2006 PHOTO/INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:Digital photos, audio, video, interview and photo opportunities are available upon request. ABOUT NAKED STAGES:Naked Stages, sponsored by Intermedia Arts with support from the Jerome Foundation, is 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. Intermedia Arts is a catalyst that builds understanding among people through art. CONTACT:Theresa Sweetland
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 seventh 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/ |