//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 For Your Eyes OnlyA Naked Stages Performance by Kim Thompson -- October 19-21, 2006
WHAT:On October 19-21, 2006 at Intermedia Arts, Naked Stages artist Elliott Durko Lynch debuts For Your Eyes Only, a performance integrating movement, media and object theater to uncover the virtues and vices of today's digital Town Square. In Elliott's lifetime of technology addiction, those privileged enough to afford vehicles to the Information Superhighway have seen the rise of blogging, overabundant access to information, downloadable tax forms and instant communication. Has this ease of connection left us feeling bored, all knowing and suffering from carpal tunnel? Has anyone written a letter in the last 10 years? Are our hard drives full of personal memories? Lynch inspects the progression from his adolescence of online gaming mania to his now adulthood advocacy of slowness and resistance to all things "My Space." This new performance is coached by Charles Campbell, Naked Stages alum and Co-Director of the Minneapolis Performance Group Skewed Visions, and assisted by a supporting cast of local artists including Anna Marie Shogren, Matt Alto and Sara Shaylie. 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. Film, television and the Internet constantly invade our reality, but it cannot disrupt the performance, liveness and privacy of a Theatre space, or can it? What use is the theatre in the age of the Internet? Live and in person, not available streaming on the web or for download, Lynch works to untangle what once was a world of the Evening News and Mr. Roger's Neighborhood from the constant presence of the AP newswire in the palm of your hand. Witness the reclamation of identity, space and time as something that does not have to be experienced as bombardment. Elliott Durko Lynch is a performance and new media artist and 2005 University of Minnesota Twin Cities Arts Quarter alum. Recent projects include those with Anna Marie Shogren, Body Cartography, Jenny Pennaz, Hannah Kramer, Chris Schlicting, Players of Notorious Temerity and Open Eye Figure Theatre. Elliott is half of the art duo "Free Idea," a member of the Minneapolis Tuning Club and wants you to drink water. For more, visit www.mnartists.org/elliott_durko_lynch Lynch's performance is part of a double bill, also featuring Kim Thompson's timeline autobiographica: everything that is . . .. 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, October 19-21, 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/ |