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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
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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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
video
- https://youtu.be/rHq88uMD3nU
Apples
video
- https://youtu.be/BRsAVkbgmuY
Hay
Bale
video
- https://youtu.be/6x2tudb7rJ8
Elderberries
video
- https://youtu.be/Hn3hjfnULvY
Lake
Eden
video
- https://youtu.be/1bGGcQx5aDo
Autumn
Leaves (dancing)
video
- https://youtu.be/Qviw13ZWTM0
Snowbay
video
- https://youtu.be/z_PJt5Z9KlM
Snow
– sleepwalker
video
- https://youtu.be/Mx05DznaVoU
Oysters
video
(Oyster Hands) - https://youtu.be/4PlzcT2y0xs
Pine
Forest
video
- https://youtu.be/e6hsfxQwtR4
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
video
- https://youtu.be/SbeIKFfD-A0
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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