news & events (category: performance)

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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(Re)DO IT - Live Performance via WebCam @ The Arlington Arts Center

Date: Friday Dec 12, 07:00 PM - 09:00PM
dual-site location: Arlington Arts Center & my studio in Washington, DC

NOW TAKING YOUR REQUESTS...RE/DO IT TODAY!!  http://redoit.kathryncornelius.com/contact/ 

From the Arlington Arts Center Press Release written by Jeffry Cudlin, Director of Exhibitions...

"ReDO IT is an artwork that employs Twitter, webcams, and video projections to connect the artist in her studio with a live gallery audience at the Arlington Arts Center located in Arlington, VA. The event will take place on December 12 from 7:00 to 9:00 pm as part of the AAC's show about art, mass production, and commerce entitled UNLIMITED EDITION. Washington, DC-based performance artist Kathryn Cornelius will stay home in her studio. Not to worry, though. She'll be transmitting a performance piece live via webcam to be projected onto the walls of the AAC. For ReDO IT, Cornelius will upend the typical model of artistic production and authority, allowing gallery-goers to direct her actions, turning her into a sort of service provider. Anyone who chooses to do so can send instructions for Cornelius to act out-via Twitter, through e-mails prior to the night, or at a web terminal conveniently set up in the gallery. All of the instructions will appear projected on one wall as they are updated. On theadjoining wall, viewers will see Cornelius interpret her audience's directives.

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More information on how to participate can be found on a website designed by the artist specifically for the project: http://redoit.kathryncornelius.com

Cornelius is known for pieces that create a strange, phantom territory at the edges of the art world: From offering massages at one art fair; to staging a faux red carpet event at another; to masquerading as a one-woman arts corridor cleaning company, Cornelius is often darkly funny, never boring, and typically whip-smart." - Jeffry Cudlin, Director of Exhibitions @ the Arlington Arts Center

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