UPCOMING
ART IS THE NEW RELIGION :
Shapeshifting in the information Age
Manitoba Goddess Festival
June 25-27, 2010
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AMYGDALA
Performance/Installation
Ace Art Inc., Winnipeg
14 Jan — 11 Feb., 2011
Opening/Performance : Fri., Jan. 14, 8pm
RELIGION I : The Book of Deer
(Performance/Installation)
Pari Nadimi Gallery, Toronto
Spring 2011
NEWS
RITUALIZ'D
Exhibition
20 May - 26 June 2010
Opening Reception + Performances
Thursday 20 May, 7:30pm
Panel Discussion
Thursday 24 June, 7:30pm
PLATFORM Centre for Photographic + Digital Arts
121-100 Arthur St. Winnipeg, MB
PLATFORM centre for photographic + digital arts is pleased to present the exhibition, Ritualiz'd, featuring Winnipeg-based artists: Leah Decter, Michael Dudeck, and Freya Bjorg Olafson.
A three-person exhibit, Ritualiz'd, will act as an investigation into notions of ritual from various starting points. Decter, Dudeck, and Olafson will examine how the medicalization of society, the history of ancient myth, and cyberspace all leave traces on the body in a ritualized manner. To do so, the three artists will stage individual performances opening night, animating and/or creating installation components, the ephemera of which will remain as residue throughout the remainder of the exhibition.
Curated by J.J. Kegan McFadden, this coming together of voices is meant to comment on aspects of the past, present, and future of ritual, its place in contemporary society, and what role, if any, the photographic and digital arts play in its presentation and understanding.
MARINA ABRAMOVIC — ARTIST IS PRESENT
From March 10-May 5th I will be in New York assisting with Marina Abramovic's large-scale performance retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Artist is Present, curated by Klaus Biesenbach. I was chosen as one of 35 performance artists to re-perform 5 of Marina’s earlier works for the entire duration of the three month exhibition. I attended Marina’s Cleaning the House Workshop in August in upstate New York, where we fasted and underwent four days of endurance training with the other artists under Marina’s tutelage. However due to unexpected VISA issues, I will no longer be performing in the exhibition. Thankfully I have received funding from the Manitoba Arts Council Special Projects Grant to assist my continued involvement in the exhibition. My function will be threefold ; I will be assisting Marina throughout the event, volunteering my services for the Marina Abramovic Institute for the Preservation of Performance, as well as launching my SHAMAN-IN-RESIDENCE project wherein I will be providing shamanistic and energetic support to all of the performers individually throughout the duration of my stay.
The exhibition opens on March 15, 2010 and runs until May 31st, 2010.
THE INSTITUTE FOR ART RELIGION AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
While in New York from March 10-May 5th, in addition to my services towards Marina Abramovic’s exhibition at the MoMA I will be interning two days a week at the Institute for Art Religion and Social Justice. I will be helping to organize a performance art event featuring a number of artists, including myself, in which I will premiere my durational performative opera The Embryonic Chants (more info coming soon). This event will be the second project of the Institute following the success of its first exhibition, Compassion, curated by AA Bronson.