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CONTAMINATE 3
By contaminate3 on Sun, Mar 16, 2008 12:57 pm
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CONTAMINATE 3 .
MidwayTheater Space at The Midway Studios - 15 Channel Center St. Boston, MA 02210
MayaUrbanowicz (617) 780 7701 ~ test@testperformance.org
PhilipFryer, (617) 913-7027 ~ thepresenttense@hotmail.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
TEST and The PresentTense Announce:
CONTAMINATE3A two-day festival oflive performance, installation, and performance-based video art
Dates: Friday April 4thand Saturday, April 5th, 2008
7pm both nights -suggested donation
TEST and The Present Tense, two Boston based performance artorganizations, team up again to produce the third annual Festival ofPerformance Art, Contaminate 3 on view April 4th and 5th, 2008. The performance art exhibition will showcase 17 works of performance, sound and installationart by local and visiting international artists. The live performance pieceswill push the contextual meaning of the object in action beyond the boundariesof routine.
TheMidway Studios are located at 15 Channel Center Street in Boston's FortPoint. The live art works will bepresented the First Friday and Saturday of April,with a different line up each night. Doors open at 7pm. The videoworks will be screened at the same location through out both nights. The MidwayStudios Building is MBTA accessible via the Red line at South Station.
Please visit www.contaminate-festival.com for more information.
Exhibiting andPerforming Artists:
Robert LadislasDerr (Ohio)
Travis McCoyFuller (Rome)
Paul Waddell (CA)
Artur Tajber(Krakow)
Gregory Kowalski(Gloucester)
Faith Johnson(Boston)
GenevieveSideleau (Montreal)
Deva Eveland(Chicago)
Malcom Smith (CA)
Peter Grzybowski(NYC)
Vicky Sabourin(Montreal)
WilliamWillhelmus (Helsinki)
Lalie Douglas(Canada)
Nick Buffon(Boston)
Maya Urbanowicz(Boston)
Sandy Huckleberry(Boston)
Peter Dobill (NewYork)
Kristina Lenzi & Mari Novotny-Jones (Utah/Boston)
Video Program:
Tony Schwenson(Boston/Australia)
Justene Williams(Boston/Australia)
Rachelle Beaudoin(New Hampshire)
ChristopherRobbins (New York/Serbia)
Kate V. Robertson(Glasgow,UK)
Sen Voodoo(Australia)
Paul Carter andAlexandra Zierle (Falmouth, UK)
Linda Ford (SanFrancisco)
Heather Kapplow(Boston)
Alejandro Uranga(Mexico/Spain)
Erin Donnelly(Boston)
TheWork: Asa medium, Performance Art is a particular negotiation between the artist(s) andthe audience members. In its live and time based format, it underscores theinterpretation of relationships and actions encountered within our dailyexistence. Tackling issues thatcan range from industrial agriculture to puberty, consumer society tointerpersonal relationships, each artist brings their own life experience intothe work they present to the public. The viewing and participation in an artist's live work offers a vitalexperience that is often lost in a society whose attention is increasinglyconsumed by the logos of a dispassionate and often inconsequentialcommercialism. We invite thepublic to come and take part in this convergence and celebration of the vastcultural and material approaches to the medium of performance art.
Background:Over thepast five years, a vital live art scene has been cultivated by the influx ofemerging performance artists who have settled in Boston- attracting theattention of practitioners all over the globe. Aided by the long-standingpresence of Mobius, a strong performance art program at the School of theMuseum of Fine Arts, and a supportive, dedicated audience base, severalproduction teams have sprung up, including TEST, The Present Tense, and Encounterworks.
Each team is firmly committed to showcasing artwhose appeal lays not its commercial value, but in its expressive quality. There is little to sell in performanceart with exception to video works, photographic documents or ephemera, and thusthere is a low gallery representation. Having established their individual branches of activity in the Bostonarts community, TEST and The Present Tense have joined together to produce theContaminate Festival, a more massive emulation of their previous productions.
This yearContaminate has been funded by a grant from the LEF foundation.
For moreinformation about TEST and The Present Tense:
TEST PerformanceArt The Present Tense
www.testperformance.org www.thepresenttense.testperformance.org
test@testperformance.org thepresenttense@hotmail.com
