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Meghan Moe Beitiks // Marissa Lee Benedict // Liz Ensz // Lindsey french

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GVSU professors present four-piece exhibit in Chicago

Meghan Moe Beitiks, a visual studies and foundations professor at Grand Valley State University and her colleagues, Marissa Benedict, Liz Ensz and Lindsey French, presented four stations of performance art varying in complexities of sites, systems, ecologies, communication, matter and relevant social histories. Their work was put on display this past week at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

Meghan Moe Beitiks, a visual studies and foundations professor at Grand Valley State University and her colleagues, Marissa Benedict, Liz Ensz and Lindsey French, presented four stations of performance art varying in complexities of sites, systems, ecologies, communication, matter and relevant social histories. Their work was put on display this past week at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.

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Tree Skype (Distance) 2014

5-minute excerpt from a 60-minute high-definition video (16:9; 1080p24). Documentation of a live video conference between one Eucalyptus in the Oakland hills and another in Sydney, Australia. This gesture aimed to open up a space in which a ‘conversation’ could occur between two Eucalypti - one a ‘native’ species and the other an ‘invasive’ one - in just the kind of distance-erasing technological environment that has accelerated similar global flows of people and plants.

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Individual New Works by Marissa Lee Benedict, Liz Ensz, Lindsey french and Meghan Moe Beitiks. Part of MCA Live: aper_ture: admitting the light at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Photos by Ji Yang. Thanks to Ann Meisinger. 

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Decolonization as the Horizon of Political Action - Journal #77 November 2016 - e-flux

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“i actually am critical of the notion of safety in my work, and what i want people to feel comfortable in the circumstance of risk…what does it mean for us to cultivate together a community that allows for risk..?

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Deep in the Altai mountains, American scholars are using drones to study glacier-formed ridges that could unlock the mysteries of abrupt…

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Nayda Collazo-Llorens: An Exercise in Numbness & Other Tales

An Exercise in Numbness & Other Tales, exhibited last fall at the Richmond Center for Visual Arts, Western Michigan University, was Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ largest solo exhibition to date.…

“We are continuously navigating through various time/space realms — is it necessary to distinguish between time and space, I wonder? — it is non-stop, even when time seems to stand still.  Layered is too simple a term to describe it; and so is non-linear as it affirms the consistency of Euclidean geometry.  We could try hyperconnected or rhizomatic.  The point is that once you start that journey — and I believe we have always been in it, could that be possible? — there is no way of tracing your way back, because there is no back or forward, but movement in all directions: infinite angles, in, out, around, micro, macro — yes, like Alice!  I am talking about navigating that space where so many things, including data, thoughts, feelings, and experiences may at points amass, connect, repel, collide and collapse. There is your “scattered awareness.” I am glad that it implies some awareness, so there must be a glimpse of hope.”

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Colleen Billing and Riley Duncan "We're Pregnant" Human Chorionic Gonadotropin (hCG) is a fertility hormone found in the urine of pregnant women. In the world of performance-enhancing drugs hCG is increasingly used as an anabolic steroid adjunct, taken to maintain testosterone levels that symptomatically dip after a steroid cycle. A few years ago it was a fad diet. In each instance the hormone operates uniquely, laying bare the mutability of our own bodies — self-contained and dually permeable. It was recently discovered that birth control in waste water has caused some fish to change sex. In salmon hatcheries, a random mother is often killed to sacrifice her eggs for artificial insemination and the progeniture of the species. How does the biological climate challenge our understanding of what it means to be human? How does human intervention affect ecology? I was 10.5 lbs when I was born, six weeks early. My mother was in labor for 40 hours. This isn't my real hair color. We're not made of mud and can't dream of returning to dust. Your edges are starting to blur. You're glowing. I'm eating for two.

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The Institute for New Feeling is a research clinic committed to the development of new ways of feeling, and ways of feeling new. We offer a rotating menu of wellness treatments, therapies and retreats. Currently, IfNf exists as a traveling performance series, with the longterm plan of opening a permanent spa.

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Elana Mann, "Listening as (a) movement" (http://www.elanamann.com/project/listening-movement)

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Elena Mann, "Having a voice and having a choice, Having a choice and having a voice," 2014, metal, assorted antique ear trumpets from the 19th and 20th centuries, 7’ X 4 ½’ X 3’

Elana Mann, "learning to live within the all of it," 2016. Performance view, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, 2016. Diana-Sofia Estrada, Guan Rong, Justin Dixon, Janice Gomez, Atticus Korman, Derrick Maddox, and Kimberly Kim. Photo: Devon Tsuno. (http://artforum.com/words/id=64000)

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Letter from a Mother: I have never been in Europe . I was born in Minneapolis and I am the mother of three children, all gifted, two exhibiting in this exhibition. I have always felt nervous about artists, but in my modest way I am a believer in democracy. Therefor e as a woman who has done her duty towards the race and experienced life, I make the plea to all other mothers and women of constructive comprehension, that we keep this exhibition sane and beautiful. It is only by elevating the soul and keeping the eyes of our young ones filled with lovely images that we can expect good results from the generation that will follow. People without refinement, cubists, futurists, are not artists. For Art is noble. And they are distorted. Independence is needed, but a line must be drawn somewhere. In sincere faith I hope for your success. Sincerely, A MOTHER. 

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Binding problem

The binding problem is a term used at the interface between neuroscience, cognitive science and philosophy of mind that has multiple meanings. Firstly, there is the segregation problem: a practical computational problem of how brains segregate elements in complex patterns of sensory input so that they are allocated to discrete 'objects'. In other words, when looking at a blue square and a yellow circle, what neural mechanisms ensure that the square is perceived as blue and the circle as yellow, and not vice versa? The segregation problem is sometimes called BP1. Secondly, there is the combination problem: the problem of how objects, background and abstract or emotional features are combined into a single experience.[1] The combination problem is sometimes called BP2. However, the difference between these two problems is not always clear. Moreover, the historical literature is often ambiguous as to whether it is addressing the segregation or the combination problem.[1][2]

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Communication, according to Maturana, is not a transmission of information, but rather a coordination of behavior among living organisms through mutual structural coupling. Such mutual coordination of behavior is the key characteristic of communication for all living organisms, with or without nervous systems, and it becomes more and more subtle and elaborate with nervous systems of increasing complexity.

Capra, Fritjof. The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York: Anchor Books, 1996. 287. (via sop-nor)

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Our discussion has led us to conclude that, biologically, there is no 'transmitted information' in communication. Communication takes place each time there is behavioral communication in a realm of structural coupling.  This conclusion is surprising only if we insist on not questioning the latest metaphor for communication which has become popular with the so-called communication media. According to this metaphor of the tube, communication is something generated at a certain point. It is carried by a conduit (or tube) and is delivered to the receiver at the other end. Hence, there is a 'something' that is communicated, and what is communicated is an integral part of that which travels in the tube. Thus, we usually speak of the 'information' contained in a picture, an object, or, more evidently, the printed word.  According to our analysis, this metaphor is basically false. It presupposes a unity that is not determined structurally, where interactions are instructive, as though what happens to a system in an interaction is determined by the perturbing agent and not by its structural dynamics. It is evident, however, even in daily life, that such is not the case with communication: each person says what he says or hears what he hears according to to his own structural determination; saying does not ensure listening. From the perspective of an observer, there is always ambiguity in a communicative interaction. The phenomenon of communication depends on not what is transmitted, but on what happens to the person who receives it. And this is a very different matter from 'transmitting information.'

Maturana, Humberto R. and Varela, Francisco J., “The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding,” Revised Edition, Shambhala, Boston & London, 1992, p. 196