PERFORMANCE 1101-002

Introducing students to a wide spectrum of performance forms including performance in every day life, rituals, folk forms, artists’ actions, experimental dance and theatre, activist performance, and intermedia forms.

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Julie Laffin - The Red Perpendicular Gown

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Sad Girls Club

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Sad Girls Club MIA ARDITO AND MÁIRE WITT O’NEILL WILL BE RELEASING THE FOURTH SEASON OF THEIR VIDEO SERIES SAD GIRLS CLUB TV THIS SUMMER. A SATIRE OF POPULAR NETWORK SHOWS, SGCTV BENDS THE GENDER AND SUBVERTS THE GENRE TO EXPLORE THE CULTURAL DEMONIZATION AND CELEBRATION OF WOMEN PRESENTED AS BEHAVING REAL “BADLY” ON REALITY TV.   IN PREVIOUS SEASONS, SGCTV EPISODES HAVE LIVED AS THE LEFT OVER INTERNET EPHEMERA OF AN IMAGINARY REALITY TELEVISION SHOW. THIS SEASON THE SAD GIRLS ARE TRANSPLANTED FROM THE SAFETY OF THEIR PRIVATE WORLD IN THE “SAD GIRLS’ HOUSE,” MARYLAND AND BROOKLYN RESPECTIVELY, TO THE PUBLIC AND REAL WORLD OF ROCKVILLE CENTRE, LI—A HOTEL, A LOCAL NIGHTCLUB, A 7ELEVEN, JONES BEACH. SGCTV 4 DELVES DEEPER INTO THE LAYERS OF REALITY AND EXPOSES CAPTURED ELEMENTS OF THE IMPROVISATIONAL PROCESS OF THE ARTISTS AND THE SIMULTANEOUS ROLES THEY PLAY--DIRECTOR, PERFORMER, CHARACTER, PERSON. RICH WITH THE LANGUAGE OF CAPITALISM AND UNAUTHORIZED BRANDED CONTENT, THE VISUAL NATURE OF SGCTV IS JUST AS LAYERED AS THE NARRATIVE. THE SHOW IS BOTH AN ADDICTIVE REALITY TV SERIES AND A DOCUMENTARY OF ITSELF. THIS CONSTRUCTED REALITY BUTTS UP AGAINST THE REAL ISSUES OF ON-LOCATION FILMING THUS COMPOSING THE NARRATIVE ARC OF THE 6 NEW HALF-HOUR EPISODES. http://www.sadgirlsclubtv.com/

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Pipilotti Rist, from Ever Is Over All, 1997.

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Pipilotti Rist

Installation view, Wexner Center for the Arts, ‘The Tender Room’, Columbus OH, 2011.

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Ron English - Popagandastan.

Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City, California will present Ron English’s new solo show, “Popagandastan,” on October 26th, 2013.  English is well known for his involvement in helping to start the street art and pop surrealism movements.  This show is English’s idea of a “Pop Utopia” and will feature an assortment of conceptual paintings depicting it and several characters who are traversing the fantasy world.  A three eyed rabbit named “Ronnnie Rabbbit,” dinosaur riding, feral clowns named “Combrats,” “Wolves,” the cult of “Sheep,” the drug dealing “Quacks,” the consumerists known as “Buddha Burgers,” mother nature’s own “Cowgirls” and “Snappers” the antagonists of Popagandastan.  Certainly sounds like something not to be missed.    

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Ron English

“The Greatest Story Ever Sold”

Oil and collage on canvas - 38" x 56"

www.popaganda.com

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i quit smoking cigarettes

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Paul McCarthy (Am. 1945-  ), Tree, sculpture gonflable, H : 24,5 m, installation Paris place Vendôme 2014

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Paul McCarthy, Original Shitface Clay (2002-2005)

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Halloween

Paul McCarthy 1978

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Paul McCarthy, Fucked-up Michael Jackson Big Head, 2004

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Paul McCarthy, White Snow Dwarfs. 

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Art: Jefferson Pinder - Afro-Futurist

Jefferson Pinder Afro Cosmonaut/Alien #1 2008 c-print 28 x 32 inches

Jefferson Pinder, a Washington based video artist, seeks to find black identity through the most dynamic circumstances. His experimental videos and films feature minimal performances that reference music videos and physical theatre. Pinder’s work provides personal and social commentary in accessible and familiar format. Inspired by soundtracks, Pinder utilizes hypnotic popular music and surreal performances to underscore themes dealing with blackness.

Afro-Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise)

HD Video - 2008 Afro-Cosmonaut/Alien (White Noise) is an escapist video narrative that ends in destruction when the protagonist plummets back to earth after a mystical space journey. Like Icharrus, the epic fall comes after reaching a brilliant zenith that is both mesmerizing and lethal. This white-faced Butoh inspired performance is a crude metaphor of the civil rights legacy. Taking cues from experimental films, I plant myself within my work and ask the viewers to watch the images of propulsion and power. Utilizing time-lapse animation, White Noise consists of over 2,000 photographs. Each frame of this piece is an individual pose. All together they form a continuous flow of activity. The sequence, which happens in exaggerated time, draws attention to the physicality of the performance and the identity of the figure represented.

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Artist Jefferson Pinder: Exploring Blackness Through Unique Media

Six African-American men sat in rowing machines in the center of a gallery, rowing until they could row no more. One by one, each man reached the point of exhaustion and stopped.

This performance artwork was inspired by ‘slave galley’ scenes in old movies where slaves row themselves to the point of collapse. The artist behind this public display of physical labor as a work of art was this university’s alum Jefferson Pinder.

The “Ben-Hur” piece was one of many works Pinder discussed March 24 at the David C. Driskell Center in Cole Field House. It was also the most memorable.

READ THE FULL STORY AT UMD’S WRITER’S BLOC

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Jefferson Pinder, Black Power/White Light

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In the early stages of planning “A Subtlety,” Kara Walker created a powerful slideshow of images and words—an “inspiration deck” of sorts outlining the many ideas relating to the history of sugar and slavery she was exploring. Watch the whole thing and discover more of her creative process here.