Friday, June 3, 2016

RAW/PORTRAYAL/MATERIALS/SELF/PORTRAYAL/RAW/MATERIALS/SELF/MATERIALS/PORTRAYAL/RAW

DIALOGUES
MFA presentation in collaboration with Robyn Thomas
July 26 at 7-8pm
Transart Institute Summer Residency 2016
Uferstudios Berlin
Studio 14
Moderated by Laura Gonzalez




Dialogue: a conversation between two.
Conversation: interactive, spontaneous communication; important to socialization.
Socialization: a continuing process by which an individual acquires a personal identity
through responsive acts.
Response: any behavior that results from an external or internal stimulus.

Part One: interactive, spontaneous, and responsive conversation[s] between the artists,
spectators, and raw materials of self portrayal across an expansive space.
The raw materiality of the Self performed through a continual process of responsive
exploration of fragments of art, life, and space as collaborators and authors reforming
the otherwise distinct roles within the subject-object relationship until they merge as one entity, comprised of many fragments, no longer purely subject or object.

Part Two: a dialogue between Claire Elizabeth Barratt and Robyn Thomas, moderated
by Laura Gonzalez, addressing the conversation[s] of Part One in conjunction to the
overlapping ideas explored by Ms. Barratt and Ms. Thomas in their individual work.



The performance / installation consisted of:

Panel pieces of Robyn's Sonata Series paintings
Text from Claire's journal, pertaining to the body - reconstructed by Robyn
Sound installation of vocal sounds by Claire
Mini projector displaying a slide-show of Robyn's Sonata paintings and Claire's Head and Hand images
Fabric pieces with prints from Robyn's Twinning paintings
Live movement interaction by Claire
Live text reading by Robyn 
Long mirror
Small mirror fragments
Audience interaction with all pieces
Live video feed of details projected onto large screen 

Followed by moderated discussion with Dr Laura Gonzalez



 
Video documentation of event (camera Stephanie Reid, Omar Shoukri)
Performance/Installation:
https://youtu.be/flNPOKuxJbU
Discussion:
https://youtu.be/L7N9AQ3UWHE

Event images (by Anne Labovitz, Lindey Anderson, Margaret Hart, Alex Slota):
https://www.flickr.com/photos/114531261@N02/albums/72157671705309150 

Slide-show images:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/114531261@N02/albums/72157668217947253

Text - Claire's text mash-up by Robyn:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4cHBYnXHpXzR1k0eUxuTmFSYXc/view?usp=sharing

Sound - Claire's vocal mix:
https://soundcloud.com/cilla-vee/rawinstallationmixshort



















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RAW-(Material) - BUTOH


Dissemination of the RAW-(Material) project as a Butoh performance piece.



  
The weekend after the RAW-(Material): Self as Living Art presentations at Weaverville Yoga studio, my musical collaborator for those events, Elisa Faires, spontaneously invited me to come and do a Butoh version of the project. It was for an experimental music and Butoh dance event curated by Cher Von from Cincinnati at a local Asheville music venue, The Sly Grog.

For this performance, I decided to use all the foliage left over from EarthDay – which now had a kind of dry, crunchy texture – as well as projected images of the pictures I had used in the digital picture frame for the installation at Weaverville Yoga studio.
We also kept the idea of asking for audience response to nature objects from the basket we had used for the performance at Weaverville Yoga.


Butoh

RAW-(Material): BUTOH - video
performance with Elisa Faires – musician
May 20 2016
Butoh & music event curated by Cher Von
The Sly Grog – Asheville NC
camera – Cher Von



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Tuesday, May 31, 2016

RAW-(Material) at Weaverville Yoga - WORKSHOP


Dissemination of the RAW-(Material) project as pedagogical method to investigate the Self as medium for art, then the Self in relationship to the raw materials of nature and the environment as method for artistic creation.



Living Art Workshop

The Living Art workshop took place at the Weaverville Yoga studio space on Sunday May 15 at 2 – 5pm. Its purpose was to demonstrate the working method I have utilized throughout the Raw-(Material) project – beginning with the pedagogical structure I have developed to investigate the Self as medium for art, a set of explorations I call Body Tuning – then some of the explorations I have developed for the investigation of Self in relationship with Other, which I call Creative Response.
Within the context of the RAW-(Material) project, Other has been the raw materials of nature and the environment.




The workshop was three hours long. So I decided to use the first two hours in a brief introduction to almost all of my Body Tuning explorations. Rather than going in-depth on just a few of them, I wanted to introduce all the concepts to the workshop participants so that they would have some working knowledge of the whole.
In the third hour we applied this knowledge of the body to interaction and relationship with nature and the environment. Ending with a movement and sound improvisation utilizing the discoveries that resulted from the afternoon’s explorations.



Workshop Description

Living Art workshop description


Workshop Images

Living Art workshop – images


Workshop Video Documentation

Living Art workshop - video
camera – tripod set-up (CEB & Diana Brewster) plus clips from Kima Moore (3)




(introduction is missing from video 3 – where I introduce the concept behind the Creative Response game “Creative Synesthesia” – information about this exploration can be found in the text files below)


Pedagogy Text Files

The text in these files describes the basic format of all the exploration exercises I facilitated at the Weaverville Yoga studio Living Art workshop. In the context of this workshop they were adapted to suit the specific goals of the RAW-(Material) project and the individuals participating.

Living Art workshop – exploration descriptions

Body Tuning

Vibration

Joint Spirals

Breath

Transfer of Weight

Quality of Motion

Presence

Shape

Body Soundz


Creative Response

Creative Synesthesia 

Environmental Response – Atmosphere 


Closing with guided improvisation.  





















Monday, May 30, 2016

RAW-(Material) at Weaverville Yoga - VIDEO SCREENING


Dissemination of the RAW-(Material) project Nature Specimens as a live video screening performance.



The RAW-(Material) Nature Specimens video screening took place in the Weaverville Yoga studio space on Sunday May 15 2016 at 6pm.
It was presented as a live performance event with narration and poetic text from my journal, plus live improvised sound in collaboration with musician Elisa Faires (please refer to the Performance report for information about Elisa.)




I created a Power Point as the vehicle to present a series of select videos from my Nature Specimens journal series that were each five minutes long or under and at a satisfactory stage of editing. Some of the pieces already had original sound that worked well and some had a sound score I had created and added to the video. For the other pieces that did not have sound, Elisa and I created live sound as the piece was playing.


Screening Event Description

video screening description


Screening Event Documentation Video

video screening with Elisa Faires
documentation video


Narrative Text

video screening narrative


Live Sound Notes

live sound instructions



Links to poetry & videos used in screening:

Wheat











Apples











Hay Bale











Elderberries











Lake Eden











Autumn Leaves (dancing)











Snowbay











Snow – sleepwalker










Oysters









video (Oyster Hands) - https://youtu.be/4PlzcT2y0xs


Pine Forest










Daffodils









video (Daffodil Mouth) - https://youtu.be/sy4XsqMRDAQ


Jasmine









video (Jas-mine Hands) - https://youtu.be/D9Rw-r9Q7dM


Dogwoods









video (Dogwood Eyes) - https://youtu.be/Y2bRaOZzQo8


Sand



















RAW-(Material) at Weaverville Yoga - INSTALLATION


Dissemination of the RAW-(Material) journal series as a media installation.


  
The RAW-(Material) installation was open for viewing before and after each live event at Weaverville Yoga studio, in the studio office space, May 14 & 15 2016.

The purpose of this installation was to invite the audience into my process, to be able to view any of the journal entries at their leisure, to peruse through my videos, images and text journal entries in a personal interaction. It was set up in the office space at the studio to create the context of being in someone’s private workspace, an intimate invitation.



In keeping with the honesty of a journal and the concept of the project as my “material culture”, I utilized the materials available and accessible to me to present the work.
Each video piece was burned onto a DVD, given a hand-written title and displayed in a sleeve case on the office desk.
Two old-school TV monitors with DVD players were provided to play the disks on.
I selected images from all the journal entries and created a slide show that was displayed on digital picture frame placed on top of the desk shelves.
A black leather journal containing my narrative and poetic text journal entries was placed on the middle shelf with a magnifying glass that lights up.
I placed colorful sticky notes on the shelves with instructions to the viewer.




Event Description

installation description


Video Documentation

installation documentation video
camera – CEB & Diana Brewster


Contents of Slide Show

RAW-(Material) installation slideshow images
















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