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Triathlon of the Muses - a performance collaboration with Jeffry Cudlin

Triathlon of the Muses, 2011
Kathryn Cornelius & Jeffry Cudlin
Live performance
(e)merge art fair, Washington, DC
Saturday, September 24
12-2pm

Performance artists Kathryn Cornelius and Jeffry Cudlin are getting physical. On Saturday, September 24 (12-2pm) the two DC-based artists will stage their own battle of the sexes, competing head-to-head in a two-person sprint triathlon during the (e)merge art fair.

At the Capitol Skyline Hotel, Cornelius and Cudlin will engage in three very real tests of physical and mental stamina: They'll both swim 750m in the hotel pool, pedal 20k on stationary bikes, and run a 5k on treadmills. Immediately after the competition, in a pomp-filled ceremony held poolside, a champion will be declared; a loser will be shamed; and gold and silver medals will be awarded.

Watch the pre-competition drama unfold:
Team Cornelius (Twitter training log) - http://twitter.com/TeamCornelius
Team Cudlin (Twitter training log) - http://twitter.com/TeamCudlin

For more details...
Triathlon of the Muses (Performance info) - http://www.facebook.com/groups/229067177144345/
Triathlon of the Muses (RSVP) - http://www.facebook.com/groups/229067177144345/#!/event.php?eid=231500870235589
(e)merge art fair - http://www.emergeartfair.com/

photo credit: Max Cook

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Beat Freaks Performance @ The Katzen - WPA Catalyst exhibition

Update: Check out Michael O'Sullivan's (Washington Post) review of the exhibition.

Also, Phillippa Hughes (Pink Line Project) captured some footage of our performance.


The debut performance of the band formerly known as MIRROR MIRROR (Kathryn Cornelius & Jeffry Cudlin) will take the stage to kick-off the VIP Opening Reception for the WPA 35th Anniversary exhibition "Catalyst" at The Katzen Arts Center.

Tuesday, November 9, 2010
6:30 - 9:00 pm

American University Museum
Katzen Arts Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC

Also exhibited in the Catalyst exhibition is video and photo documentation of my 2007 performance, "Art Services (WASTE)."

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10.10.09 @ 9pm: Performance Collaboration with Robin Bell @ Arlington's new cultural center

Robin Bell and I are bringing our first performance collaboration to the new Arlington's new cultural center kick-off event, Creative Briefs.  The event will also showcase "briefs" by:  Synetic Theater - Washington Shakespeare Company - Anthology of Booty DJ Crew - Hoop Dance - X Live Design Competition - Rosebud Film & Video Festival - Los Quetzales Mexican Dance Ensemble - Video Art Curator Amelia Winger-Bearskin - and Visual Artists Brandon Morse, Alexandra Zealand & Henrik Sundqvist

Monuments of Future Nostalgia
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Our piece, Monuments of Future Nostalgia, is a collaborative public performance engaging mobile technology, crowd sourcing, and auditory projections. 

PREVIEW:  
Hope masquerades as a vision, where the passion and insecurity felt by people become part of a call for national unity and identity, part of a community sentiment and future ideal of what we imagine ourselves to be.  It is a kind of future nostalgia, a 'fantastic hope' for national unity charged by a static vision of life and the exclusion of difference.  When, for the benefit of our security and belonging, we evoke a hope that ignores the suffering of others, we can only create a hope based on fear.  This hope lies in the heart of terror. 

Monuments of Future Nostalgia

October 10, 2009, 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
New Arlington Cultural Center
1101 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, VA

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Soup Kitchen @ Transformer Gallery

SOUP KITCHEN
Friday, February 20, 5 – 8pm

a Communal Meal and part of SUMMER CAMP at
TRANSFORMER GALLERY
Washington, DC

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Baby, it's COLD OUTSIDE! This Friday DC-based artists Kathryn Cornelius and Lisa Marie Thalhammer heat things up with SOUP KITCHEN, serving a FREE meal of soup and bread to ALL. Join the artists as they fill bowls, slice bread, and entertain guests with an event that engages the relationship of art and community service with the common concerns of our current economic situation, in the format of a communal experience.

*All remaining food items will be donated to S.O.M.E. (So Others Might Eat), a local non-profit outreach program located next to the O St. artists live/work space.

"We can start the country over from scratch…Can you see the Blue Room with Campbell's Soup Cans all over the walls?Because that's what Foreign Heads of State should see, Campbell's Soup Cans and Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe. That's America. That's what should be in the White House."
- Andy Warhol, 1975

"Warhol's Campbell's Soup cans were a brilliant parody of art in the same way that Campbell's Soup is a brilliant parody of food."
– Craig Kilborn during The Daily Show

"Who knew that Campbell's Soup still existed? The only reason they are probably still in business is because Andy gave them a place in pop culture history that will forever be celebrated as some of the best art work ever created."
– a Pop Burger rep on the 139 year-old soup company

For more information, please see:
www.transformergallery.org
www.some.org
www.kathryncornelius.com
www.lisamariestudio.com

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Outdoor Video Projection - 1515 Arts Building, 1515 14th St NW

H o w   W e   L e a r n   T o  L o v e

Saturday, December 13, 2008

projected on the external wall of the 1515 Arts Building
1515 14th Street NW
Washington, DC 20005
8 - 9 pm

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How We Learn to Love Vol. I, 2008
HD DVD
2:53 min (looped)


This video explores the tenuous dynamics between two women as they walk the “thin line” tightrope between love and hate, and ride the “relationship roller coaster.”  The camera’s alternating distance and closeness to the subjects betrays their intimacy, and parallels how perspective influences our interpretation of another’s gestures and intentions. Regardless of the flavor of interplay, there is always a space between them.  And yet they remain with arms linked throughout the duration of the video, suggesting the continuum upon which love and understanding preside.

This video is the first in a new series of videos and photographs, funded in part by the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities.

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