//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 timeline autobiographia: everything that is...A Naked Stages Performance by Kim Thompson -- October 19-21, 2006
WHAT:Naked Stages artist Kim Thompson explores a series of questions that revolve around one core question--HOW did I end up like this?--that arose out of nomadic continental driftings, tattoos, emptied bottles and littered ashtrays, coming out as an artist and a queer and turning 30 in timeline autobiographia: everything that is..., a solo performance by Thompson to debut at Intermedia Arts on October 19-21, 2006 with direction by OBIE and BEESIE award-winning actress and choreographer Laurie Carlos. How does someone raised in the bowels of deep southern conservative evangelical fundamentalism end up a queer liberal vagabond artist? How does someone left on a doorstep at birth in South Korea end up with a college prep white privileged private school education? How does an Asian American adoptee end up living and traipsing throughout Eastern and Western Europe for eight years? What is the sound--both audible and inaudible--of memory? Thompson is not seeking answers to these questions but rather, through the process of chronicling the past three decades of her life, she is discovering points of intersection in her personal history. Thompson offers an important inquiry for self-examination, "Given my beginnings, how exactly did I end up this way?" Via soundscaping, visual imagery, spoken word and movement, Kim will offer her life up on stage to explore this central question. Kim recently finished a three-year grant performance art collaborative project with Pangea World Theater entitled "Bridges" and was co-creator/curator of "S.A.F.E." (Starving Artists Financial Endeavors) which she started and ran with Twin Cities spoken word/hip hop artist Desdamona. Having moved to Minneapolis less than four years ago, Thompson is a relative new comer to the Twin Cities art scene. Beyond performing at a variety of local venues like Patrick's Cabaret and the Blue Nile, she has performed at the Loft Literary Center, opening for Def Poetry Jam artist Ishle Park, as well as working and performing with MNSWA and SASE. Kim has shared the stage and worked with artists like Sha Cage, e.g. bailey, J. Otis Powell!, Rene Ford, Laurie Carlos, Hlee Vang, Bill Cottman and Roxane Wallace. Kim is, for the most part, a self-taught artist who works in the mediums of painting, photography, writing, printmaking and spoken word. From the age of 19 to 27 she worked, studied and lived in England, Austria and Lithuania as well as traveling throughout most of the European continent. Much of Kim's visual art is on permanent display in countries like Austria and Lithuania. Thompson's performance is part of a double bill, also featuring Elliott Durko Lynch's For Your Eyes Only. 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/ |