Performance/Interactivity/Time
Curated by Fiona MacNeill, Kristina Fong and Tucker MacNeill
The Soap Factory's Gallery Four is a monthly video program documenting the goings-on at the gallery. Watch the latest SFG4 Episode on Artery 24:
Artery 24 is FREE and open to the public.
Soap Factory September 09 from Soap Factory on Vimeo.
Participating Artists: Avye Alexandres, Molly Balcom, Black Sun of March Dance Co., Blake E. Bolan, Jaime Carrera, Tim Carroll and Vena Ambrose, Jeremey Catterton feat. To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie, Chicks on Sticks, Lee Delegard, Dearling Physique, Travis Freeman, Colleen Harriss, Oded Hirsch, Laura Holway, JUHYO, Tera Kilbride, Labor Force Dances, Fiona MacNeill, May Mahala, New Monsters of Hope, Awaken!, Sarah C. Nienaber, M. Oliver Moltaji, and Gracie Young, Rachel Perlmeter, Aaron Ridgeway, Maddy Nye, Paul Puelo and Annika Kaplan, Janet Skidmore, Slackerdancer Aerial, Carl Atiya Swanson, Switzerlind
Artery 24 is an action-packed, experimental showcase for performance and new media now in its second year at The Soap Factory. Artery 24 features the work of emerging artists within both the public gallery spaces as well as the rarely explored bowels of the former factory building. Come explore the building and you’re likely to find aerialists in the boiler room, 24-hour world domination in the War Room, live music in the basement, stilting in the galleries, and a ceremony in the parking lot. Artery 24 is a harried land of ambition, imagination and endurance spanning a non-stop period of twenty-four hours. This year, Artery 24 features more than 50 local and national performance and new media artists, and will be presented amidst the artworks in the exhibition Frontier Preachers.
A performance schedule for Artery 24 2009 may be found below, a schedule with a gallery map will be available from July 1st at: http://www.artery24.com
Check out last year's action:
Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axx3oPlrg5I
Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xtc0F6ExM4Y
For full listings of last year’s performance and new media please visit: http://www.soapfactory.org/exhibit.php?content_id=135
Artery 24 Performance Schedule 2009
6pm – Gallery 1 and Outside
Black Sun of March Dance Co.
Opening Ceremony
Black Sun of March Dance Co. invites the audience and artists to partake in an opening ceremony as a celebration of the inaugural hour of this year's Artery 24.
Black Sun of March Dance Co. is dedicated to expressing the human condition and enlightening the human experience through the use of a wide range of dance forms: traditional, contemporary, and experimental. Under the Artistic Direction of dance artist and educator Ryan Dean, the company strives to develop enriching performances, ceremonies, and community involvement projects that defy normal contexts and venues. Black Sun of March means 'Divine Inspiration for a Coming Salvation'.
6:30pm – Basement stairs [view from Gallery 1]
JUHYO
JUHYO is Bill Henson and Brian Kopish. Together they create horrifyingly beautiful soundscapes of pure noise. Armed with an array of homemade oscillators, delay units, samplers, and sheer volume; aimed with composition, discipline and conscious, focused intent. JUHYO exists as an entity of creative expression, freedom, subtle beauty and eardrum bleeding power. JUHYO will perform again from 6am – 7am in the basement of The Soap Factory.
http://www.juhyo.com/
7pm – Gallery 1
Tera Kilbride
Featuring: Laura Leffler-McCabe, Blake E Bolan, Bryan Grosso, Shannon O'Keefe, Corrie Zoll and Spacedancers.
An Astronaut's Guide to Shooting Stars
What begins as a series of one-on-one improvisations will be choreographed into a highly physical piece of absurdist theatre; utilizing fragmented dialogue and dance-theater through a lens of whimsical psychological humor to explore how we approach the unknown through themes of desire, escapism, dissociation,and ultimately shattering our perceptions of the space and time we are in.
Tera Kilbride is a Minneapolis-based theater-maker, performer, and real live human. She graduated from the Experimental Performance Institute in San Francisco. She is interested in developing collaborative or inter-dependent independent performance relationships. Work: Derive 2, Bedlam, Mpls Pinter Studies, Interact, Savage Umbrella.
8pm – Project Room 1
Switzerlind
Switzerlind is an instrumental pop quartet from Minneapolis. They blend Casio keyboards, a Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, and homemade percussion together with a groovy drum kit and are planning to pick through piles of discarded objects from the dark corners of the Soap Factory to add to their collection of percussive instruments.
http://www.myspace.com/switzerlind
8pm – Boiler Room
Slackerdancer Aerial
Slackerdancer Aerial is comprised of an extended family of aerialists, with different skills and abilities, who all have a passion for movement up in the air. With the specific rigging needs of trapeze and silk/tissue apparatus, it will be a challenge to transform the bowels of the Soap Factory into a space fit for spectacular aerial performances.
8pm - 12pm – Video Room 1
Oded Hirsch
50 Blue
Digital Video, Color
When the artist was 5 years old his father was in a truck accident. He remained paralyzed from his chest down. The artist has no memory of his father walking and he spent his childhood looking down when approaching his father unlike any normal father-son relationship. Hirsch has always had a dream of elevating his father onto a high platform so that he can finally return to his deserved place. This video component of his ongoing body of work 50 Blue, is a culmination of that dream. Oded Hirsch was born in a small community (a Kibbutz) in the Jordan Valley of Israel. He holds a BA from the Academy of design in Haifa, Israel and an MFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.
http://www.odedhirsch.com
9pm – Galleries 1 and 2
Chicks on Sticks
3-D
Chicks on Sticks is, Nicole Amaris, Sharon Dill, Tara Fahey, Soozin Hirschmugl, Anne Sawyer-Aitch, and Amy Taylor. Join Chicks on Sticks as they create a kinetic (moving) sculptural dance on stilts inspired by female sculptors and Charlie Chaplin's Modern Times.The performance will be accompanied by a new musical score created expressly for this ensemble piece.
http://www.chicksonsticks.us/what.htm
10pm – Gallery 2
Jaime Carrera
Hogar
Performance artist Jaime Carrera will create a performance piece based on the idea of “home,” and how its meaning has changed and evolved in his lifetime. Having recently completed a month-long tour with his band, Carrera will use these new experiences as well as chapters from his past to inform the choreography of this piece.
Jaime Carrera is an independent artist living and working in Minneapolis.
He has has consistently captivated audiences with his approachable, non-pretentious style of performance art. He recently shacked-up with the man he's been dating for over a year (his longest relationship to date).
http://www.mnartists.org/Jaime_Carrera
11pm – Gallery 1
Jeremey Catterton
Featuring: To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie
DISTR|ACTIONS
This original collaborative effort is a confessional lecture/performance that boasts an intricate sound design and visceral performing style that contemplates if Kant is going to resolve Humean skepticism about first principles such as the universal validity of causation by demonstrating that such principles are necessary conditions for cognition of external objects and even of the numerically identical self, he will not only have to confront Cartesian skepticism about external knowledge but also even the more radical Humean doubt that we have any real knowledge of a continuing self at all. This performance is also about depression.
http://www.jeremeycatterton.com/
http://www.myspace.com/tokillapettybourgeoisie
Click here to watch the trailer!
12am – At the back exit of Gallery 2 and Outside
Colleen Harriss with Cara Krippner, Julia Winkels and others
relay
relay is an interactive performance piece which uses information drawn from short conversations between pairs of participants to create live, one-time performances. Over the course of an hour, approximately 6 pairs of participants will take part in the interaction, creating six unique performances based on each unique pair of individuals.
12am – Gallery 2
Switzerlind
Switzerlind is an instrumental pop quartet from Minneapolis. They blend Casio keyboards, a Fender Rhodes Electric Piano, and homemade percussion together with a groovy drum kit and are planning to pick through piles of discarded objects from the dark corners of the Soap Factory to add to their collection of percussive instruments.
http://www.myspace.com/switzerlind
1am – Project Room 3
Tim Carroll and Vena Ambrose
SECURITY
Fiscal androgynes Tim Carroll and Vena Ambrose have arranged for you to lick and heal your circumstance by viewing a performance via primitive peepholes embedded in a series of doors. Fail to imagine your actions criticized and tampered with by the masque of cruel unease! Is semen a species? Proximity will inform the charm with a secure lead response; buzz with us, please.
We propose a fully absent veneer in low light, and a certain cracking of noxious fluid on the hearts and minds of a low-fidelity transaction. Our sacrosanct material: meticulously wrapped bundles against the whisper of mirrored authority. Where is your money? Will your latest scrape congeal properly? Or will the Doctor see you now?
2am – Gallery 2
Avye Alexandres
FEATURING!: (but not limited to) the acoustic, spatial and/or visual talents of Annie Rollins, George McConnell, Jennifer Kotting, Kate Roarty, Anna Sundberg, Kalen Keir, Julianna Drajko, Mark Sweeney, Gemma Irish and Maggie Sandford.
I said LAST CALL motherfucker
I said LAST CALL motherfucker
is not about drinking.
but it is about perception.
I said LAST CALL motherfucker
is not about television.
but it does borrow from reality.
I said LAST CALL motherfucker
is not about cussin’.
but it does call ‘em like it sees ‘em.
I said LAST CALL motherfucker is an experiment. It is also a performance featuring 5 televisions, 5 live video feeds, 8 re-enactors, puppetry and a shower curtain. It is performed in the round, outside the round, and around the round.
http://www.is-of-was.blogspot.com/
3am – Basement [entrance in Gallery 1]
Carl Atiya Swanson
When I Was Telling You All I Was Telling You I Was Telling You All I Was
Revolutions end in tragedy, even ones guided by love, especially ones guided by love that take place in the afterbar basement of a performance festival where the set may explode and the video might not work and Beyonce's "Single Ladies" gets stuck in your head and Che Guevara won't shut up about revolutionary duty and it's all too much to live up to. At least there will be rum. Featuring new music from City on the Make.
http://www.carlatiyaswanson.com
4am – War Room in the Lodge of Unsecret Knowledge of the White Flag of Surrender
Travis Freeman
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Travis Freeman will spend the entire twenty-four hours of Artery 24 playing Civilization IV nonstop on the most difficult level. He will do his best to succeed where he has so often failed in the past. You are invited to watch his progress or his humiliation. If you have your own gaming obsession feel free to bring your laptop and join him. The audience are invited to check in on Freeman's progress between 4am and 5am.
http://www.mnartists.org/Travis_Freeman
5am – Basement [entrance in Gallery 1]
Fiona MacNeill
WASP
Women Against Spurious Propaganda: a presentation by intrepid investigator Philippa Lauter. Lauter has journeyed from Scotland (and 1949) to present her latest findings within the mysterious depths of The Soap Factory basement. Find out how to pick your Flu Friends and "recognize" the wisdom of government issued leaflets.
http://www.mnartists.org/Fiona_MacNeill
6am – Throughout the Galleries
Lee Delegard
Redistribution
Twenty-four hour installation - The audience are invited to check in with the artist at 6am.
Things do not exist necessarily and unshakably; they must be constantly reaffirmed to be maintained. Redistribution, an ongoing, spatial investigation, will explore ideas of transformation, the value of labor/process, and imagination as a creative force of change. Delegard will question the definition of useful and productive work, as well as challenge peoples relationship to the gallery space and expected uses of everyday materials.
Lee Delegard received her BA from Beloit College in 2007 with degrees in Studio Art and Art History. She has exhibited at at Beloit College's Hales Gallery and Wright Museum of Art, as well as the Soap Factory, Around the Coyote Gallery and the Hyde Park Art Center.
http://leemorandelegard.blogspot.com/
6am – Basement [entrance in Gallery 1]
JUHYO
JUHYO's second performance will explore communication, miscommunication and the isolation that results. This multimedia performance will focus on amplified sound, low-fi projections and visuals, and the physical space of the industrial catacombs of the Soap Factory basement.
http://www.juhyo.com/
7am – Project Room 2
Aaron Ridgeway, Maddy Nye, Paul Puelo, and Annika Kaplan
Last Memory
Last Memory is a contemporary version of a traditional Japanese ghost story. The story uniquely and systematically explores the cultural subconscious from its most primal to its most enlightened states. Last Memory will use mirrors, fabric, gestures, and ambient noise to emphasize the concepts of fear and love -- where the most satisfying love possible is only out of reach because of our fear to reach out and grab it.
8am – Boiler Room
Slackerdancer Aerial
Slackerdancer Aerial is comprised of an extended family of aerialists, with different skills and abilities, who all have a passion for movement up in the air. With the specific rigging needs of trapeze and silk/tissue apparatus, it will be a challenge to transform the bowels of the Soap Factory into a space fit for spectacular aerial performances.
9am – Throughout the Galleries
May Mahala
Right Practice; or, Which Way to the Good Life?
This piece stages the search for ethical employment through a succession of inter-related works including the interactive “Worst Job Confessional,” a movement theatre piece entitled, “Rat Race: A Series of Choreographic Failures,” and the brief play “Sitting in the Waiting Room; or, Renunciation of the Five Year Plan.”
10am – Gallery 3
Janet Skidmore
The Ballad of Tam Lin and Other Story Songs
Watch a dancer sing. Hear a dancer move. Janet Skidmore, a trained dancer, explores stories through singing. People have sought solace since before recorded history in myths and legends. Whether shared around the cooking fire or in the remains of a bombed out building, stories have inspired and sustained people, especially in times of need. The solo storyteller has served as priest, spokesperson, ethical guide or judge since time immemorial. Communities have been drawn to this figure for confession, comfort, and renewal. The stories of the past can become the inspiration of the future as they are re-imagined through song and movement.
http://www.mnartists.org/Janet_Skidmore
11am – Gallery 2
New Monsters of Hope, Awaken!
Lew Weinberg, Qiuxia Welch, Kevin Welch
The three artist-musicians collaborate to create a piece of visual cacophony and soaring aural landscapes. They will be exploring video mash-ups with French Horn and synthesizers and re-interpreting musical improvisation by playing with the boundaries between sound and light.
12pm – Gallery 2 and throughout the Galleries
Molly Balcom
Wild Feast
Balcom and her talented collaborators invite the audience to commune with nature in the diverse habitat of The Soap Factory. This exploration will investigate an array of forage-able plants unique to the gallery's inner ecology. The audience will be guided through the adventure; identifying and collecting these plants followed by an optional feast, when they can taste the fruits of their efforts.
Balcom is a Minneapolis writer and director working at the intersections of food and performance. To learn more, please visit: http://www.mnartists.org/Molly_Balcom
1pm – Gallery 1
Blake E. Bolan
buckets
Created by Blake E. Bolan and Kevin Lee Terry
A collaboration between these two artists explores the everyday accumulation of weight that we all carry on our shoulders as we move through our daily lives. What if every bit of emotional baggage we pickup every day actually had a physical representation? How much of the weight would we be willing to carry, and what would we choose to discard? Bolan brings this exploration to life thorough her performance.
2pm – Gallery 2
Laura Holway
Video design by Ben McGinley
Created in collaboration with and performed by Elizabeth Braaten Palmieri, Joanna Lees, Maria Lanave, Stephanie Blackmon Woodbeck, Peter Hogan, and Wade Haynes
Edina is a State of Mind
Edina is a State of Mind creates a community out of a state of isolation. It is a community tied together through karaoke, gestural movement, miniature homes, film, stories, yoga, and fantastical behavior. Through these means, we examine connection and our methods of achieving it.
Laura Holway makes Dances For Dull Moments, and works as a freelance arts educator and choreographer, actively teaching for Metro Academy of Dance Education and Steppingstone Theatre. Laura is interested in collaboration, and thanks Joe Goode for his recent lessons on collaborative process. Laura co-wrote, performed in, and choreographed Forks! in the 2007 Minnesota Fringe. She likes karaoke, and will duet with you on Total Eclipse of the Heart whenever the opportunity presents itself.
http://minnesotaplaylist.com/talent/laura-holway
3pm – Gallery 1
Dearling Physique
Impressions of the Night
Dearling Physique will present a piece entitled 'Impressions of the Night'; also the title of their current EP. The featured songs, crafted around the concept of sleepless nights, consider questions raised by sleep deprivation. Dearling Physique's performance during Artery 24 will include experimentation in: electronic sound design, live instrumentation and will be set within a surreal environment featuring fabric banners and LED lights. Dearling Physique refers to this experiential environment as a 'glitch-forest'.
http://dearlingphysique.com/
www.myspace.com/dearlingphysique
4pm – Throughout the Galleries and Outside
The Ballets Russe Project: THE PERILS
Conceived and Directed by Rachel Perlmeter
With Lauren Fichtel, Corby Kelly and Peytie McCandless
In 1917 the legendary Ballets Russe created Parade- a celebration of mechanized modernity set to Erik Satie’s syncopated ragtime rhythms. Conceived by Cocteau and Picasso as a cubist ballet, its central figure “The Little American Girl” parodies silent film heroines. She is a flickering cipher, dreamed up by a bunch of European avant-gardists, and inspired by the brash American spirit of optimism. THE PERILS imagines her in a series of sudsy misadventures amidst the strange and perilous nooks of the Soap Factory.
Rachel Perlmeter is a writer, director and curator. Her work has been developed and produced on stage and on the radio by the Playwright’s Center in Minneapolis, Soho Think Tank’s Sixth Floor Series, Mabou Mines’ Suite artist residency program, the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, WRUV FM, and various other spaces in the US, Europe and Latin America. She has been a Fulbright artist and a TCG/International Theatre Institute fellow and at present can be found in the Twin Cities working on a novel.
http://sites.google.com/site/rachelperlmeter/Home
5pm – Project Room 3
Labor Force Dances
Chronic Fault
Choreography by Stephanie Blackmon Woodbeck
Performance by Lauren Baker, Nicole Curry, Erin Drummond, Kristin Howe, and Joanna Lees
Labor Force Dances co-director Stephanie Blackmon Woodbeck premieres a new dance work for Artery 24 inspired by the abundance of finger-pointing perceived from the current economic landscape. This dynamic, highly physical work tests the strength and endurance of the dancers as Woodbeck investigates the many faces of blame, accusation, and responsibility.
Labor Force Dances is a feminism-based modern dance company created by Kathleen Kelley and Stephanie Blackmon Woodbeck in 2006. Their work has been performed throughout the country, including an evening-length production at BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange in 2008. Labor Force Dances currently has homes in St. Paul, MN and Brooklyn, NY.
http://www.laborforcedances.com/
24 Hour Installation in the Gallery 3 Long Room
Sarah C. Nienaber & M. Oliver Moltaji, and Gracie Young
The Photosynthesizer
Highly visual yet sonically fortuitous; the artists' installation reinterprets the new media paradigm by combining elements of new and old technology with live performance. Light is used to produce an image, the image is used to make sound and that sound feeds back into how the light is used. The piece can only thrive when a human entity is present. Depending entirely upon audience participation, this installation promises to make artists out of everyone.