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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

https://youtu.be/aTfiOxATUdU

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