Images by Aoife Giles
Supersaturated @ Panoply Performance Lab, New York, 1st Sept 2013
Supersaturated @ Mobius 23 & 24 August 2013
Images: Sandrine Schaefer
Performance of Supersaturated in collaboration with Eleanor Lawler @ Mobius Boston
Super-saturated: A durational performance that seeks to explore the relationship between
body as flesh and body as image in the context of media overload that arises
through the digital: testing the boundaries between spectator and performing
body through sensorial, evocative actions and phrases.
Fish, flesh, blanket, stiletto, stocking,
splashing, splatting.
Lawler and Nolan’s performances diverge and
interweave as they spill, smack, stink, slice, stretch, envelope and slide
their way around themes of impurity and the sexualized body. The
interaction of the body with everyday objects, explored to the point of
‘overload’ through repetition make them heavy with cultural meaning. The
works seek to push the objects till they slip between ‘thing’ and ‘symbol’, in
turn pushing and pulling the body between a visceral presence in the world and
distanced performance.
Mobius has presented the work of thousands of artists over
its 30-year history and is recognized as one of the seminal alternative
performance spaces in the U.S. Founded by the renowned performance artist and
professor of performance art at the Museum School, Marylin Ansem in 1977, it is
key hub for international live art. As a non-profit, artist-run organization,
its mission is to generate, shape and test experimental art. The members of the
organization believe an effective strategy for supporting this art is to
establish grounds that build relationships among fellow artists.
Super-saturated @Panoply New York 1st of Sept
******FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE *******
contact: katherine
nolan/eleanor lawler 1 (617)987-5843
Irish
Artists Katherine Nolan and Eleanor Lawler perform their way from Boston to New
York. Part touring program, part public
disruption and part lurch into the unknown. These artists will undertake
durational live art performances, public interventions and secret actions as
they travel.
The
project Super-SATURATED seeks to explore the relationship between body as flesh
and body as image. Testing the boundaries between audience and
performing body in the context of media overload that arises through the
digital. The
interaction of the body with everyday objects, and scenes, will be explored
through actions to the point of ‘overload’. Inserting themselves in the various
contexts within and between these cities, they hope to ‘get inside’ and beyond
images of American culture, and in turn push and pull their bodies between a
visceral presence in the world and distanced performance.
They
may or may not be seen in such locations as: Mobius Inc, The Quarry and Jamaica
Plain, Boston; Panoply Performance Lab and Times Square, New York.
event details
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55 Norfolk St, Boston, MA
August. 23rd
& 24th @7pm
Suggested donation $10
Katherine Nolan &
Eleanor Lawler join Mobius artists, Mari Novotny-Jones, Joanne Rice and Sandy Huckleberry in two evenings of provocative performance.
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104 Meserole Street,
Brooklyn, NY Sept 1st @ 8.15pm
A duo of durational
performances by Katherine Nolan and Eleanor Lawler following Performance Art
Open Space.
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