Emergency Index Volume 9

I’m happy to announce that my piece, “What a Life I Lead in the Spring” performed at Warren Wilson College for the Annual Spring Arts Festival, was published in Volume 9 of Emergency Index. The book presents 310 works from 55 countries performed during 2019, documented in the words of their creators. By including performances regardless of their country of origin, genre, aims, or popularity, INDEX reveals the breathtaking variety of practices used in performance work today. Each volume features a comprehensive index of key terms used by contributors in describing and discussing their own work. Begun in 2011, INDEX is a lens for seeing the field of contemporary performance from the ground up. There are some great performance works in this volume from many artists around the world that I have the privilege of knowing and working alongside. Grab a copy from Ugly Duckling Presse.

Signal Fire Arts: Talking Knots

I am very excited and honored to have been juried into a Signal Fire Artist Residency/Retreat happening this May! Signal Fire runs public-lands-based backcountry trips and residencies for artists It’s a wonderful chance to think, read, and write about my art practice and work in the Four Corners Ecogregion / Pueblo, Diné, and Apache territories in Northern New Mexico.

TALKING KNOTS: SW BACKPACKING

May 17-23, 2020
Location: Four Corners Ecogregion / Pueblo, Diné, and Apache territories

Guides: Amy Harwood and Anna Ialeggio

The Pueblo Revolt was one of the largest Native American uprisings in North America and its significance lives on. Led by Popé, a Tewa religious leader from Ohkay Owingeh, the pueblo people summoned their combined strength in August 1680 to drive the Spanish occupiers from the province. Freedom from Spanish colonial rule was ultimately short-lived, but this victory was an important turning point for the self-preservation of pueblo culture and language, and still resonates today in the social structures of Northern New Mexico.

Traveling through the Jemez Mountains of NW New Mexico, we’ll center the legacy of the Pueblo Revolt as we immerse ourselves in the deep social and ecological histories of a complex place: not as a linear set of events, but as an entangled field that is still unfolding. This trip combines short but challenging backpacking segments with periods of rest and stillness in the diverse mesas and canyons of the Jemez region. Rolling ponderosa forests open onto the vast grasslands of a collapsed volcano. It is a place of hot springs, wildflowers, and hoodoo rock formations. Evidence of ancestral and contemporary Puebloan culture abounds even in the back-country, with thousands of un-excavated archaeological sites throughout the area. Troubling aspects of the military-industrial complex are present as well, from the nuclear testing areas of Los Alamos, to the oil derricks and abandoned mines studding the public lands of the high desert.

Our group of artists will share a week together, immersed in and responding to this ecological and cultural landscape. Site visits and readings will offer entry points for interpretation and exploration. This “walking residency” is not focused on creative production per se, although we will offer time for reflection and discuss ways to incorporate the experience into our various practices.

Emergency Index Volume 8

Very excited to have my performance and installation piece in Volume 8 of Emergency Index. INDEX Vol. 8 presents 285 works from 48 countries performed during 2018, documented in the words of their creators.

My work, It All Belongs to Another Place and Time, is documented alongside some amazing artists from around the world that I’ve had the privilege to work and perform alongside.

What a Life I Lead in the Spring - Warren Wilson College Spring Arts Festival

I’ll be performing a new piece titled “What a Life I Lead in the Spring” as part of the 11th Annual Spring Arts Festival on the Warren Wilson College campus. The performance will be about 30 minutes and takes place Friday, April 26th from 1:30-2:00 pm EST.

If you’re in the area and able, come witness the piece at Holden Art Studios and then grab some art pieces made by some talented undergraduate students.

The Space Under the Surface

I will be building a brand new installation titled "From Another Place and Time" for "The Space Under the Surface" exhibition. My performance will take place at 6:30 pm during the First Thursday opening reception that runs from 6-8 pm on March 1st. The work will be on view every day from February 27th - March 15th, 2018 in The Commons, located on the Pacific Northwest College of Art main campus building: 511 NW Broadway, Portland, OR 97209.

The Space Under the Surface: an exhibition of work that represents a Sense of Place

Pacific Northwest College of Art and the PNCA Staff Council cordially invite you to the 2018 PNCA Staff exhibition titled "The Space Under the Surface".

This year 21 artists and designers from across a wide range of departments around the college have come together for an exhibition that showcases how the creative talent at PNCA extends into all parts of this community. The exhibition was juried by PNCA Faculty and Artists Jodie Cavalier & Nan Curtis.

"Here at PNCA, we are surrounded by creative people. After reviewing works submitted by staff members, we were not surprised to find creative energy thriving in every space. We are excited to highlight a collection of work that is vast and varied, just like PNCA." - Jodie Cavalier & Nan Curtis

Exhibiting Artists: 
Rachael Allen
Maxwell Brown
Maggie-Rose Condit
Erin Dengerink
Cody Gauthier
Meghann Gilligan-Koehn
Anastasia Greer
Tiara Johnson
Quyen Le
Tyler Mackie
Heather McLaughlin
Anna Christine Miltenberger
Scott Nieradka
Beatrice Ogden
Nicholas Patton
Raziah Roushan
Rita Sabler
Jessie Spiess Werner
Chelsea Stephen
John Summerson
Nathaniel Wyrick

(Event image: Maggie-Rose Condit)

Flashbulb: An Exhibition of Performance + Video + Sound

Panoply Performance Laboratory
October 8th, 2016
7:00 pm - 11:00 pm
PPL’s Fall 2016 exhibitions

An exhibition of seven performances involving sound, projection and duration that relate to memory, particularly the contracting accuracy/inaccuracy of histories and how those affect our reality. 

The event, titled FLASHBULB, will feature Jose Garza, Valerie Kuehne, Judith G. Levy, Luke Mannarino/Crystal Bateman, Cris Schayer, Kledia Spiro, and Nathaniel Wyrick. CURATED BY Cris Schayer.

A flashbulb memory is a highly detailed, exceptionally vivid 'snapshot' of the moment and circumstances in which a piece of surprising and consequential (or emotionally arousing) news was heard. The term "flashbulb memory" suggests the surprise, indiscriminate illumination, detail, and brevity of a photograph; however flashbulb memories are only somewhat indiscriminate and are far from complete. Evidence has shown that although people are highly confident in their memories, the details of the memories can be forgotten.

Flashbulb memories have six characteristic features: place, ongoing activity, informant, own effect, other effect, and aftermath. Arguably, the principal determinants of a flashbulb memory are a high level of surprise, a high level of consequentiality, and perhaps emotional arousal.

These memories, often vivid yet inaccurate, often form lasting impressions on our selves and change who we are. In this we question the reality of our own histories.

José Garza: www.sentiwere.com,www.transversalproject.com
Valerie Kuehne: www.valeriekuehne.com 
Judith G. Levy: www.judithglevy.com
Luke Mannarino and Crystal Bateman: www.cargocollective.com/lmannarino
Cris Schayer: www.crisschayer.com
Kledia Spiro: www.klediaspiro.com
Nathaniel Wyrick: www.nathanielwyrick.com

Not An Egg in the Hayloft Write-Up →

Incident Magazine covered the performances of this year's Tempting Failure Festival. INCIDENT is a quarterly published arts journal and daily website for the discussion and exploration of performance art through writing and documentation. The journal is focused on developing a healthy and sustainable platform for performance art through an ongoing dialogue on the vocabulary, form, social roles, and historical significance of performance as a discipline and artistic medium.

My performance, Not an Egg in the Hayloft, has a write-up in the Day 6 Review. Check it out!

Tempting Failure 2016, London, England

Tempting Failure is a festival of international performance art and noise art, showcasing under-represented or extreme artwork that may interrogate risk or challenge preconceptions.

Prior to TF2016, the festival has programmed over 125 artists to perform, mentored 5 graduate artists, booked 39 artist speakers, and supported 25 artists through masterclasses. 

Conceived in 2011, initially as part of his PhD at University of Bristol to examine specific phenomenological concerns around body art, Tempting Failure was founded by Thomas John Bacon.  TF then subsequently expanded to become an annual event and arts organisation.  

Tempting Failure is invested in the support of Performance Art and Noise Art, as well as the professional development of artists at all stages of their careers and the education of all. 

This year Tempting Failure received their biggest intake of applications for the fifth anniversary festival running July 21st - 29th.  400 artists applied from around the world to join them over the nine days of the festival. I have been selected to be an Emergent Artist in this year’s festival in London, England. I will be performing a new work titled “Not an Egg in The Hayloft” on Tuesday July 26th, 2016 in London’s Hackney Showroom, a former print works warehouse.

If you're in the London area in July, then join me during my performance, and witness the work of some really amazing performance artists from around the globe.

Porcelain Slip-Cast eggs / Performance Objects, 2016

Spilt Milk: A Performance Exhibition

Image by Cris Schayer

'Spilt Milk' is a one night performance exhibition taking place at the Thomas Young Gallery. The event will feature the work of four Petrichor Performance Collective members — Elaine Thap, Helina Metaferia, Kledia Spiro and Nathaniel Wyrick, all recent alumni and friends of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

'Spilt Milk' will include a compilation of diverse performative works that visually articulate themes of ephemerality and time through installation and action. Each of the five solo performances will converse with each other and the common issues of memory, identity and belonging. The event will include three hours of performances (some durational and some short form) and a half hour audience participatory pre-event discussion on the role of performance based practices in the gallery context.

Pre-event discussion will begin at 7:00 pm. 
Performances will begin at 8:00 pm and conclude at 11:00 pm. A more detailed schedule will be released closer to the exhibition date

American Signage - A Pop-Up Show

I will be performing as part of the American Signage Pop-Up exhibition at the Piano Craft Guild Gallery on Sunday March 1st. The gallery will be open from 6-9 Sunday evening. My performance will begin at 7:00 pm. 

Come and see the piece "Boy, that Ass is Bangin" alongside the work of other wonderful artists and painters. 

Other work by Nicholas Mello, Eric Stefanski, Hillary Irvine, Andy Slezak, Anna Paul, Hannah Perrigo, Paola Page, Courtney Kuno and Alex Johnson.