7:30pm
www.marybabcock.com
Mary Babcock is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Fibers Program in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her work is a hybrid of fiber, performance, installation and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her creative interests focus on the metaphor of mending as it relates to cultural transformation, particularly in regards to environmental and social justice.
Paul Hurley
8:30pm-11pm
www.paulhurley.wordpress.com
Paul Hurley’s practice is centred around action- and body-based performance and has recently explored what he calls ‘the shamanoid’, a queering of ritualistic and shamanistic performance art. This work, manifesting in structured ritual sequences as well as looser durational actuations, simultaneously perform, interrogate and subvert the functions and forms of classic performance art. Hurley regularly combines natural materials (fruit, vegetables, flowers, eggs), sports equipment (jockstraps, cricket pads) and gay kitsch (stilettos, ostrich feathers, glitter), with more functionalist action art paraphernalia (metal buckets, paint, wooden sticks), to create works that are both disruptive and familiar, that strive to break a dualistic artist-audience relationship and replace it with a different, more productive, kind of empathy. He usually hurts the next day. Hurley has shown his work widely across the UK and internationally, published in books and journals, and has been involved in the instigation and organisation of a number of artist-led projects in England, Wales and Russia. In 2010 he was awarded a PhD (for his practice-based project ‘Reconfiguring the human : the becoming-other of performance’) from the University of Bristol, in collaboration with Arnolfini gallery, and funded by the AHRC.
www.marybabcock.com
Mary Babcock is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Fibers Program in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Her work is a hybrid of fiber, performance, installation and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her creative interests focus on the metaphor of mending as it relates to cultural transformation, particularly in regards to environmental and social justice. Babcock is an Assistant Professor and Chair of the Fibers Program in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She received her MFA from the University of Arizona, BFA from University of Oregon,Ph. D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania and B.A in Psychology from Cornell University. Her installation and mixed media work is exhibited regionally, nationally and internationally (including Korea, Japan, France, Hungary, Canada and the Ukraine). She has performed across the United States in individual and collaborative contexts, as well as throughout Japan, in Italy, Poland, Canada and the Philippines, and has lectured at numerous conferences on her work linking fiber, performance and peace and justice studies.
Paul Hurley
8:30pm-11pm
www.paulhurley.wordpress.com
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Untitled Actuation © Simon Humphries |
Paul Hurley’s practice is centred around action- and body-based performance and has recently explored what he calls ‘the shamanoid’, a queering of ritualistic and shamanistic performance art. This work, manifesting in structured ritual sequences as well as looser durational actuations, simultaneously perform, interrogate and subvert the functions and forms of classic performance art. Hurley regularly combines natural materials (fruit, vegetables, flowers, eggs), sports equipment (jockstraps, cricket pads) and gay kitsch (stilettos, ostrich feathers, glitter), with more functionalist action art paraphernalia (metal buckets, paint, wooden sticks), to create works that are both disruptive and familiar, that strive to break a dualistic artist-audience relationship and replace it with a different, more productive, kind of empathy. He usually hurts the next day. Hurley has shown his work widely across the UK and internationally, published in books and journals, and has been involved in the instigation and organisation of a number of artist-led projects in England, Wales and Russia. In 2010 he was awarded a PhD (for his practice-based project ‘Reconfiguring the human : the becoming-other of performance’) from the University of Bristol, in collaboration with Arnolfini gallery, and funded by the AHRC.
Dominc Thorpe
8:30pm-11pm
8:30pm-11pm
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He has shown in Ireland and internationally including the Bergen Museum of Art 2010, World Social Forum Brazil 2009, the Third Space Gallery Belfast 2011 and the Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin 2010.
Martin O'Brien
6pm-11pm
martinobrienperformance.weebly.com
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Mucus Factory
"Death is always with me. It’s in my lungs. I’m a factory of mucus as thick as pudding… a human foster’s freeze machine making sundaes of sickness."
- Bob Flanagan.
Martin O’Brien’s practice focuses on physical endurance and excess in relation to the fact he suffers from Cystic Fibrosis, a severe chronic disease in which the body produces excess mucus that, amongst other things, works to restrict and prevent breathing through clogging up of the airways and lungs. Mucus Factory is based around a mixture of a durational physiotherapy session, a technique designed to clear the airways, and an artificial attempt to use mucus as a substance for vanity and pleasure. The performance space becomes one of discipline, abjection and monotony. Mucus Factory presents a transgressive image of the sick body and considers the relationship between pain and medicine.
Tickets:
All Thursday: £10
