Mary Campbell

Updates on Mary Campbell, Day de Dada Performace Art Collective, art on Staten Island and other New York City cultural events... More info at- www.marycampbell.net (performance art, fluxus, knitting art)

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In a letter dated 11 April 1917 Duchamp wrote to his sister Suzanne telling her about the circumstances around Fountain's submission: "Une de mes amies sous un pseudonyme masculin, Richard Mutt, avait envoyé une pissotière en porcelaine comme sculpture" ("One of my female friends, who had adopted the male pseudonym, Richard Mutt, sent me a porcelain urinal as a sculpture.")* My  mail art piece for FEMAIL XX PROJECT, global initiative to promote the art work of  FeMail-XX Artists * Marcel Duchamp, Affectionately, Marcel: The Selected Correspondence of Marcel Duchamp, ed. Francis M. Naumann and Hector Obalk (Ghent: Ludion Press, 2000), p. 4

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Become a star as Day de Dada Performance Art Collective creates video reenactments of Aesop’s Fables. Props and Costumes supplied, no acting experience necessary!

Join us at the 2016 Westerleigh Folk Music and Art Festival 

Westerleigh Park in Staten Island, NY 

Saturday, September 24th 11:30am - 2pm

(festival continues until 7pm)

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Members of Day de Dada Performance Art Collective at LUMEN16, on Saturday, June 25, 2016, Staten Island’s waterfront festival of performance, installation and video.

Click here for Day de Dada’s  Video on YouTube.

Performances included- Mary Campbell commemorating the 100th anniversary of Dada by giving out Dada fortunes, M and M (Milenka Berengolc and Margaret Chase) provided the Helmet of Truth, Lydia Grey asked people to share their favorite things, “EAT MY WORDS” game with Edible Eddie, Barbara Lubliner as Cautionistra discussing cautionary tales, Jennifer Weigel “Luck of the Dice”, Viv de Dada with your new "Lumen-ous Name", Philip Sanders digitally captured and constructed, processed and projected video and the Day de Dada spinning wheel constructed by Mark Semanchik. check out- daydedada.com

Produced by Staten Island Arts, Curated by Monica Valenzuela. More info at lumenfest.org

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The Political Speech Generator, based on the Tristan Tzara’s Dada Poem instructions.

For Fluxfest 2016 at the Chicago Cultural Center on Friday May 27 I had lines from Sarah Palin speeches that I pulled out of the bag randomly and read. Since her speeches are already Dada like it was easy enough, but a better performance occurred on Saturday June 11 at ETG Book Cafe in Staten Island, NY when I asked the audience to write one line of a speech they would like to hear and then I collected them and again pulled them from the bag randomly and read to create a speech. Here are some of the lines from the speech created that evening-

“I have a great brain, No more NATO,

I am a counter puncher, all truth is subjective,

I will legislate free education and housing and

abolish nuclear power and GMOs.

Term limits for Congress senators,

no more than two terms,

Living wages for everyone in the U.S.A.,

equitable distribution of kale,

prioritize women’s orgasms,

do not demonize the unknown. learn!

I will be the spiritual president,

I will tell the truth about myself and my views,

I promise to promise everything you want- text me!

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My wishbone piece- "A Lucky Break" for sale at the A More Store at Printed Matter, 231 11th Avenue, NYC. It includes a synthetic wishbone and a manual I put together with the history and myths of wishbone breaking. I learned a lot about wishbones while doing research for this.

“A Lucky Break” was created for the 2015 Day de Dada show at the SI Arts Culture Lounge in the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

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“Sitting and knitting” performance at Figment on governors island in 2008

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Sitting And knitting 

For about 10 years I performed "sitting and knitting" and then as the piece grew to over 100 feet and became difficult to transport I moved on to other things. When I saw the call for the knitting choir" for a performance that was part of the American Realness festival at the Abrons Art center I got really excited to be able to do public knitting again.

The knitting choir turned out to be me and two other people. The first evening we sat together which seemed to make sense, the second evening we were dispersed through the space. The performance travels to another room and we did stay together there knitting.

The catalog description of the piece is “out-of-bounds choreographic salon, time-based sculptures shift between the human and the animal, the real and the imaginary; a series of unexpected contemplative landscapes.”  There were 2 performance each evening so I saw 4 iterations of it. Interesting to see the differences in energy, costume, lights... The only consistent thing pretty much was the sound. In dance my preference is for pattern and repetition, so in this performance my favorite parts were the sections of simple walk, swoosh, turn of groups of dancers.

Photo is the 48″ of knitting I accomplished during the 4 hours of sitting and knitting during the performances for “CULTURE ADMINISTRATION & TREMBLING” January 7 & 8, 2016

NY Times review of “CULTURE ADMINISTRATION & TREMBLING” here-http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/09/arts/dance/review-american-realness-a-festival-of-audacious-movements-and-slitherings.html?_r=0

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I like using chance in performance, it's exciting to not know what will happen.

In the “Wishbone Performance”

1. I asked if the person ever participated in breaking a wishbone

2. Explain proper wishbone breaking procedure, using the small finger wrapped around the wishbone and then pulling (after you have decided on your wish)

3. Broke the bone

I had purchased online, a bunch of synthetic wishbones and for whatever reason they always broke in my favor. I was feeling bad that no one was getting their wish and so started giving the bone to two people and asking them to do it together so that someone besides me would get the lucky piece.

Chickens were thought to be prophets and so when they died people thought they could use their breast bone for luck. At some point over the years due to a lack of wishbones the tradition of two people breaking one began, with the person who got the larger piece, getting the luck. When the pilgrims came to the America they started using turkeys.

Performance August 8, 2015, Part of the Day de Dada "What do you WISH?" exhibit at SI ARTS Culture Lounge in the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

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Sent these for Moan Lisa’s “History of Mail Art” call. Did some searching and found out about Mieko Shiomi’s Spatial Poem series where she collected responses by mail to actions she put out. Sorry I did not see them in the 1970’s but here is my response now… September 2015

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Today we meet in memory of a great man- Mike May.

I think our bonding experience happened the day we took a day trip to Washington, D.C. For a protest march and brought our young sons along. Both of us relieved when we got on the bus and saw there was another child there and so maybe we weren't totally crazy for bringing them. After that I never saw Mike that he didn't ask about Taylor and have news of Luke, who he obviously had an great love for.

Mike died a few weeks ago. I saw Delfina the other day and she told me that a few days before he died he asked for the kata scarf I had given to him. It was part of the performance I did in 2006 when I knit 19 scarves and then presented them at a kata scarf ceremony at the Jacques Marchais Museum. But Mikes was the first one that I had finished knitting at a Day de Dada event at the Art Cypher Center. Mike was there so I gave it to him. All the scarves went off into the world, I heard one was being passed on from person to person as a healing gesture, but otherwise don't know what happened to them. I was so surprised, and gratified that my scarf held some comfort for Mike in his final days!

More info here on Mike- “NOBODY’S HERO: AN APPRECIATION OF ACTIVIST AND PUNK MUSICIAN MIKE MAY”

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July 16th, Culture Lounge’s new exhibit “WISH,”will ask visitors to the gallery space at the St. George Terminal, “What do you wish?”

July 16th, Culture Lounge’s new exhibit “WISH,”will ask visitors to the gallery space at the St. George Terminal, “What do you wish?”

A wish is a desire connected to the heart and mind, conscious and unconscious. There is great power in a wish; it begins an energy movement. Thinking, writing, revealing a wish helps one to understand one’s self more and prioritize actions. Related to hope, wishes become a constant reminder of how life can be better. On July 16th, Culture Lounge’s new exhibit “WISH,” created by Day De Dada and…

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My submission for the A.I.R. GALLERY'S ANNUAL POSTCARD SHOW themed- "Wish You Were Here 14" July 1 - 26, 2015 (Opening Reception: Thursday, July 9, 2015 from 6-8pm) 155 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn, NY

Following my interest in WISH actions, specifically using the wishbone. This piece deals with the wishbone as a lucky charm for love.

Wish You Were Here 14 exhibits original works by more than 300 artists. All 4” x 6” art works are priced at $45 per piece. Proceeds from the exhibition benefit the A.I.R. Fellowship Program for Emerging and Underrepresented Artists and other programs that serve A.I.R.’s mission to advance the status of women in the arts.

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Day de Dada Art Nurses performed check ups at LUMEN 2015 at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island (June 20, 2015 sponsored by SI Arts.)

Checkups inspired by traditional medical exams but in a Dada fashion, included interacting with Lumen audience to offer Dada medical advice, sound healing, psychiatric advice and third eye exam. Video on YouTube 

Art Nurse Mary provide height measurement using either the apples or oranges measuring system, and also provided prescriptions for “better health”.

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Something Else & "Deconstructed Fluxus" exhibit at Mobius in Boston

I had the chance to do a wishbone performance that I created for the upcoming Day de Dada “What Do You WISH?” Culture Lounge show. Gave out a bunch of the multiples that I created for the show too.

Fluxus artist Picasso Gaglione presented an exhibition of his flux box sets which he is generously donated for sale to benefit mobius. Along with an exhibit of Symbols created by artists deconstructing the Fluxus symbol that he created. Other guest performers included- Jennifer Weigel, Reed Altemus, and William Evertson

Monday June 8th, 2015

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One more month to submit work for the “What do you WISH?” mail art exhibit at the Staten Island Ferry Terminal July 16 - Sept. 19, 2015

Send mail art to- Day de Dada, 123 Scribner Avenue, Staten Island, NY USA 10301

mail art deadline-  June 26, 2015

size- no larger than 12” x 12” / provide your name & email / All entries will be exhibited, however because of the public nature of the site, any images not appropriate for viewing by all ages will not be displayed. / Your agreement is given to exhibit your work by your submission of it. / No work will be returned.

Submissions & photos of the mail art installation will also be posted online @ Flickr- tinyurl.com/kombogy

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My collage (Eye mandala 40_Goddess Annakama protecting the legacies of Andy Warhol and Ray Johnson-May 2015), created for the Performa - RAY JOHNSON, “Please Add To and Return To” project.

Performa, the performance art corporation is now getting interested in mail art with an homage project for Ray Johnson and his add to art pieces.

They are making available templates for 4 of Johnsons “add to” graphics and asking participants (the next generation of Johnson admirers) to add on and then send or upload to them.  

Also presently Richard L. Feigen & Co. Gallery on East 69th Street is exhibiting “Please Return To” with original examples that were returned to Ray Johnson and are now in the Estate archive.

http://www.rayjohnsonestate.com/exhibitions

AND MEANWHILE Day de Dada is receiving mail art every day for the upcoming exhibit at the Culture Lounge in the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.

Flickr- www.flickr.com/photos/13040310@N03/sets/72157650355287698/

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SWAN DAY 2015 Staten Island

Elaine Mendez-Torres has brought a great event to Staten Island- SWAN Day.

It is, according to the WomenArts and Chicago’s WITASWAN groups who started it, "an international holiday designed to showcase the power and diversity of women’s creativity." Some of the places this years events were held in included Burundi, Bulgaria, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Italy, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkey, New Zealand.

Elaine held a SWAN Day event in 2014 and felt it was so very successful that she started organizing for this year the day after.

Her 2015 Staten Island efforts included an exhibit during March, "UPCLOSE", A Photo Exhibit of Present Day Staten Island Female Artists in Hormann Library at Wagner College. I was honored to be one of the women she photographed and included in the show, for which she also produced an accompanying book.

For the designated SWAN Day- Sat. March 28, Elaine produced an event at the SIABC Main Gallery (73 Wave St.) an afternoon of exhibited work, readings, performance and an open mic for announcing upcoming projects. We were entertained by Christine Dixon performing part of her Harriet Tubman monologue and the Deep Tanks Butoh Dancers.

A raffle was held to start funding next years Staten Island SWAN Day! YES! We need this event to celebrate the accomplishments of our local women artists, and I'm hoping to see even more women participate next year.