GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE
has been invited to curate
Contemporary Visual Performance
at the Fountain Art Fair in MIAMI, FLORIDA
December 1-4, 2011
FOUNTAIN ART FAIR
2505 North Miami Avenue
(at the corner of 25th St)
Miami, FL 33137
DECEMBER 1-4, 2011
�INVASIONS OF THE SURREAL�
CONTEMPORARY VISUAL PERFORMANCE
HECTOR CANONGE
MYK HENRY
MEGHAN VAN ALSTYNE
ERIK HOKANSON
GIM GWANG CHEOL
NYUGENT SMITH
ANYA LIFTIG
JILL MCDERMID
CHLOE BASS with HIROSHI SHAFER
plus special guests: sounds by
WOLFGANG &THOMAS BELL
FOUNTAIN ART FAIR
2505 North Miami Avenue
corner of 25th St - Miami
ARTISTS:
MYK HENRY
www.alicechiltongallery.blogspot.com/2010/06/myk-henry-jolt-retrospective-exhibition.html Mediums such as new media installation, sound sculpture, video and performance are used by Henry to engage the public and bring them to a heightened level of awareness about their own personal values and viewpoints. Provocation is used as a tool to jolt the spectator out of their normal comfort zone which creates an arena where various political issues, social stigmas, and stereotypes are questioned.
HECTOR CANONGE
www.hectorcanonge.net
Hector Canonge lives and works in New York City where he studied comparative literature, film and Integrated Media Arts. His work incorporates the use of various media, commercial technologies, physical environments, cinematic, and performative narratives. Canonge has been featured by the Queens Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, Jersey City Museum, Exit Art, NY Studio Gallery, Flux Factory, Gallery Aferro, Topaz Arts, Y Gallery, Art for Change, and other art spaces in the city and abroad. His work has been reviewed by the The New York Times, ART FORUM, New York Daily News, Manhattan Times, Hispanic Magazine, El Diario, Timeout NY, by online publications such as NYRemezcla, Turbulence, ART CARDS Review, and by networks such as ABC, NBC, CNN, NY1, and UNIVISION among others.
MEGHAN VAN ALSTYNE
meghanevanalstyne.com
Her work references anatomy and its locality to sociological and psychological relationships. Love, mortality and the human condition are current threads of interest. The human body is the most intimate way communicate a message. We understand our bodies and the bodies of others. A gesture, an expression and an action can all move and shake us in a way nothing else can. Her work has been exhibited in Boston, New York and Art Basel, Miami (2007) as well as various venues in Estonia.
ERIK HOKANSON
The most common, stable, and reliable states of the universe are the qualities of darkness and cold. 
We live in a very unusual condition of relative warmth and light. 
 We are living here (earth) -humans, spiders, grass, fish, carrots, bacteria, mice, viruses. We are all related. We need to eat each other. It is the price of peace, beauty, security, humor, love, and hope. Our bodies, like those of all other organisms here, are communities of cells working together essentially for their own preservation. We will all become food for something someday. The sun will make our place food for itself someday. I do not know what will eat the sun. Then it will likely become cold and dark. I take comfort in this. I like natural states.
GIM GWANG CHEOL [KOREA]
Power never changes but the form changes. Form can change by time and place but the characteristics never change. The artist relates power with language. Language is power, and language forms �Ron�, �Ron� forms civilization, civilization needs power from society. This work symbolizes language �(cut)� Human�s mouth has a weapon called language that produces absolute power. Feel the paper is expressing never changing power. The individual creatures that exist inside cannot be ever free in that society.
NYUGENT SMITH [NEW JERSEY]
Recent performance work: www.nyugensmith.com/?cat=10
Nyugen E. Smith (b.Jersey City, NJ, 1976) is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator currently examining particular behaviors, customs, coping strategies, and psychological effects unique to blacks in the West Indies and Africa under European Colonial rule.
ANYA LIFTIG
www.anyaliftig.com
Anya Liftig is a nationally and internationally recognized performance artist. Her most recent work, The Anxiety of Influence, was an intervention into Marina Abramovic�s The Artist is Present retrospective at MOMA. Liftig dressed as the elder artist and sat across from her all day. Liftig�s work has been featured at the TATE Modern, Highways Performance Space, Exit Art, Chashama, Surreal Estate, Eyedrum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Galapagos, The Flea, Yale University, INCUBATEChicago, University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, Mess Hall, Joyce Soho and many other venues.
CHLOE BASS with HIROSHI SHAFER
HIROSHI SHAFER
www.hiroshishafer.com
Hiroshi Shafer was born in Tokyo. His grandfather was a secret agent for the Japanese Air Force. He tried to force Shafer to become an air force pilot, but he has become a smart artist instead and moved to NYC.
Seven years ago he became a kindergarten art teacher, where he learned how to make his own representations of the secret emotions of children. It wasn't surprising that this would change him. Shafer became a secret detective of soft and misty people. He loves to explore the new and unknown world of familiar surfaces and pink atmospheres.
CHLOE BASS
Chloë Bass is an artist and community organizer based in Bushwick, Brooklyn. Recent performances have been seen at FIGMENT on Governors Island, Emily Harvey Foundation Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art Atrium, and in various urban public spaces. She spent the spring developing a new performance installation, Mnemonic 1.0, for the Bushwhack Series at the Bushwick Starr. She is a core organizer for Arts in Bushwick (Bushwick Open Studios, SITE Festival, BETA Spaces). BA in Theater Studies, Yale University; MFA Candidate in Performance & Interactive Media Arts, Brooklyn College.
JILL MCDERMID
Jill McDermid-Hokanson has participated as a performance artist since 2000 in Living Walls Festival, Albany NY (2011); MEME Gallery, Boston MA (2011); Transmuted International Festival, Mexico (2011); KoPAS International Festival, Korea (2010); In�Fraction Festival International d�Art Performance, France (2010); Transmuted International Festival, Mexico (2010); Performagia o Muerte Festival with Raramuri. Chihuahua, Mexico (2010); Maximum Perception, NYC (2009); The Diverse Universe Festival: European Tour (2010); The Diverse Universe Festival, Estonia (2009); Perfo Puerto International Festival and Conference, Chile (2005); BA+PAF International Festival, Indonesia (2004); Open Art International Festival (2004) and as Guest Curator to The 10th Open Art International Festival (2009) Mrs. McDermid-Hokanson has been curating and presenting Performance Art in New York City since 2001, including the 21st Suffragettes: Art + Performance by Women (2001), Egeszegedre! Monthly Installation, Video and Performance Art series (2002-2004), Time Shadows Performance Art Series (2005) and opened The Grace Exhibition Space in September, 2006 since then presenting over 300 International Performance Artists. She has a Master of Fine Art and a Master of Art in Intermedia and Video from the University of Iowa, under the Direction of Mr. Hans Breder
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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.
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