INFILTRATE! PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL!! MARCH 3-6
Grace Exhibition Space drops anchor off the coast of Manhattan at pier 66a for this year�s Fountain Art Fair. Aboard the historical lightship Frying Pan, Grace Exhibition Space�s prestigious program will be presenting a series of never-before-seen live action works by world-renowned performance artists. With a full schedule of on-site, and roving, performance art presentations on the deck and below.
INFILTRATE! PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL
A 4-day curated program of Performance Art �Infiltrate!� commandeers the Frying Pan with art to heave overboard all preconceived notions of art fairs. INFILTRATE! will use performance art, a non-commodity art, to explore the boundaries of expression through performance within the confines of the art market. Featuring artists from USA, Canada and Europe including Chaw Ei Thein, AABier, Mark L. Stafford, Myk Henry, Rosabelle Selavy, Quinn Dukes McDivitt, Lopi LaRoe, Marni Kotak, Travis McCoy Fuller, Sandrine Schaefer, Phil Fryer. On view Friday through Sunday.
NY Performance Art:SPOTLIGHT! MARILYN ARSEM AND THE MOBIUS COLLECTIVE :
Founded by Marilyn Arsem in 1977, Mobius is the longest running Performance Art Collective in the United States. Grace Exhibition Space will be featuring a selection of artists from this seminal, alternative, artist-run organization, which has been the testing ground for 1000�s of experimental works. Featuring the work of Margaret Bellafiore, Jane Wang, Sara June, Burns Maxley, Milan Kohout, Alisia LL Waller, Daniel DeLuca, El Putnam, Anna Wexler & Catherine Tutter, Joanne Rice, Jed Speare and Mari Novotny-Jones with Cathy Noland. On view Thursday through Saturday, with a special performance art piece by Marilyn Arsem and Burns Maxley on Friday evening at 7:00 pm
MOBIUS:SOLO EXHIBITION of photographer BOB RAYMOND at the Fountain / Pier 66 Maritime barge
Bob Raymond has been photographing Performance Art since the 1980�s. With over 25,000 images created over 30 years of documenting, these images are masterpieces in performance photography and rich in history. �Taken together, it might even be possible to weave a narrative of the inhabitants of this other world, elaborations as to why they carry fish around so carefully, why they destroy potted plants with such vigor, why they coat themselves from head to toe in colors, why they toss their musical instruments off cliffs, or use them upside-down�
Bob Raymond:Friday, Saturday 8:00 pm � 12:00 am, Sunday 12:00 pm � 7:00 pm
GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE�S INFILTRATE! Performance Art Festival!
GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE commandeers the Frying Pan, heaving overboard all preconceived notions of art fairs. Using performance art, a non-commodity art, to explore the boundaries of expression within the confines of the art market.
Performance art, traditionally a non-commodity art form, explores the boundaries of expression through performance within the confines of the art market.
MOBIUS GROUP: FRI & SAT 12 � 7:00 PM
Please see Mobius program for details
- available at entrance and Booth 6 -
Fri 8-9, Sat 2-4 + 8-9, Sun 2-4
In the dome outside
LOPI LAROE
FRIDAY 8 -12
Booth 6
CHAW EI THEIN 8:00
Outside
AABIER 9:00
Roving
MYK HENRY 10:00
SATURDAY 9-12
stage
MARK LAWRENCE STAFFORD 7:30 Booth 6
QUINN DUKES 9:00
DAVID B BOYLAN 9:15
ARIANNE FOKS 9:30
TRAVIS M. FULLER 10:30
ROSABELLE SELAVY 11:30
Roving
MARTINE VIALE 5-7
SANDRINE SCHAEFER 6-9
CAVEMAN ROBOT 9-12
MARNI KOTAK 11:00
SUNDAY 12 � 7
Outside:
MATT WHITE 3:00-5:00
TRAVIS M. FULLER 4:00
QUINN DUKES 3:00
ARIANNE FOKS 5:00
SANDRINE SCHAEFER: 2-8
BOOTH #6 : BOB RAYMOND : 30 YEARS OF MOBIUS
Special Guest SARAH TOUCHE [FRANCE]
ARTISTS:
CHAW EI THEIN: Many of my friends are in prison. There are over 2100 political prisoners in Burma, some have been sentenced to 56 years of imprisonment, some 65, some 102. All are committed to their fight for freedom and justice in Burma. I cannot help them to be free, so I am doing this performance as I explore the �poun-zan�: a form of torture common in Burmese prisons, in which prisoners must hold a physically excruciating and psychologically humiliating position for a long period of time. My performance is their real performance in those prisons. I hope you can feel it. ARIANNE FOKS: Ms. Foks is interested in the presentation of the body as a medium, its relationship to architecture, domestic objects, and its power to engage the audience and the performer in an emotional way through memory or by evocation. SARAH TROUCHE: Performance is a medium of possibilities always pushing the limits of dance videos, installations, and sculptures. Performance becomes the means to experience and produce art. MARTINE VIALE: At the meeting point of Japanese Butoh and performance art, I am concerned with the act of �Presence� as a committed and essential action. TRAVIS MCCOY FULLER: TMF will be presenting new works that explore the relationship between the autonomous self and the collective self. He will also be nurturing the sailor in his genes. PHIL FRYER: Philip creates ephemeral works that meditate on chaos and order, order and chaos. To witness the work is to see its birth and death, to look at the photos are to experience a fleeting memory. He explores the unknown through performative practices. SANDRINE SCHAEFER: Sandrine's ephemeral artwork explores cycles of the visible becoming invisible to challenge the body's endurance through duration, actions of transport and units of measure. AABIER: Their work focuses on relationships and environments. Within the situations and atmospheres that AABier create, they explore the notions of creature-comforts, territory, and flights of the imagination. They use fantasy as a metaphor for exploring relationships. DAVID BOYLAN: David Bodhi Boylan is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work questions how emotional instability can be represented by material decay. MYK HENRY: �Provocation when used intelligently can be a powerful means of jolting the spectator out of their normal comfort zone. Once this happens the mind is open to suggestion and people begin to think outside of the box.� REBECCA JAMPOL: The Complete to Clown Tea Party is a 20 min performance that displays where I begin and where I end. The beginning of my day, and the end of the night. Who some may think I am, but who I really am. MARNI KOTAK,: Marni Kotak is a Brooklyn-based performance artist who creates interactive multimedia works in which she presents her life as art. LOPI LAROE: Her work maintains a strong foundation in movement. She activates constructed environments with kinetic compositions using props, projections and sound scapes inside of site specific installations. QUINN DUKES MCDIVITT: Human interactions within forced ecological and social scenarios are often primary tenets within Dukes� work. Performance provides a platform in which her metaphorical re-interpretations of personal relationships can exist, perish, grow and morph. ROSABELLE SELAVY: With no formal education, she left her first and only legitimate job at a button factory in Ohio to move to New York City. She began her career as a dancer after being discovered wandering around the Port Authority bus station by a Slipper Room producer named Mr. Choade. MARK L. STAFFORD: His multi-disciplinary art practice explores work ethics, civic oppression, and productivity with a focus on the underlying model of role-assignment and stratification dominating in our society. MATT WHITE: My performance-based work is always a reaction to my environment, mostly my political or social environments. Most of my performances in the past have involved me blending into my cultural surroundings.
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Grace, n. - simple elegance or refinement of movement
Grace Period - an extended period granted as a special favor
The Three Graces (Greek Mythology) - charm, grace, and beauty
Opened in 2006, Grace Exhibition Space is devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We offer an opportunity to experience visceral and challenging works by the current generation of international performance artists whether emerging, mid-career or established. Our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced and our mission is the glorification of performance art.
Grace Exhibition Space presents over 30 curated live performance art exhibitions each year, showcasing new work by more than 400 performance artists from across the United States and the world since 2006.
Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art Space IRS tax-exempt 501(c)3 status in 2015.
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