Hillyer Art Space is proud to present its new performance art series, Soapbox. This series aims to increase exposure to this critical, yet underrepresented, art form in Washington, DC. Soapbox's mission is to cultivate emerging talent and showcase the best that performance art has to offer.
With Soapbox, Hillyer Art Space will act as the platform for performance artists to present their work in an intimate setting that allows the audience to fully appreciate the artist's work. This new performance art series will be a monthly event featuring two performance artists.
If you are a performance artist and would like to participate in Soapbox please contact gallery@artsandartists.org for more information.
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Previous Performance: Kool Raunch Collective and Chanan Delivuk and Bradely Chriss December 9, 2011
Kool Raunch Collective: Work With An Odor Best Discerned by a Pig
Kool Raunch will be exploring human limits and bodily excesses. While the live stream of a hunger strike is projected within the space, the collective enacts a completely counter example: binge eating. As all expeditions of human will are, the result is either carefully crafted or absolutely uncertain.
Chanan Delivuk and Bradley Chriss: Love to Love
Chanan Delivuk and Bradley Chriss are going to fall in love. They are going to express their love for one another by passing a foot-long vegan hotdog between each other's lips while muttering their deepest feelings. Bradley and Chanan will be kneeling on a white fake fur rug in front of a massive backdrop adorned with a pink on pink heart shaped theme. The Audience (you my dearest public!) will be standing barefoot on a massive heart shaped floor sculpture made from vegan hotdogs while writing their deepest feelings of love on heart shaped papers and then trading them with one another, sealing their new found love in a moment of incredible privacy suspended in a public forum.
Previous Performance: Michelle Gomez and Jonathan Wille, and Carolina Mayorga
November 2011
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Michelle Gomez and Jonathan Wille's The First Supper is both an installation and three performances that deals with cultural and identity issues by looking at the idea of a non-traditional family. During the performances, viewers witness the artists enacting dysfunction at a family dinner, exploring the notion of
roles and performance particular to each family member. The father figure, transformed into a character through generalized stereotypes acts as the main character of the narrative. As three hour performances, viewers are invited to come and go as they please, offering an alternative to a more common audience-performer dynamic. Like a theater set, between performances the vibrant and chaotic dining room installation echoes of the absence of the performers, emphasizing the physical presence of the viewer and their own performative roles as they enter the space.
Carolina Mayorga's The Miraculous Artist is an interactive installation including sound, printed material and performance art that intends to comment on the commercialization of spiritual values. It offers a satirical view of organized religion by advertising products that help finding solutions to an individual’s problems. The character is based on The Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic Patron Saint of Colombia.
Previous Performance: Katie Kehoe and Patricia Brace October 2011
Previous Performance: Kat Sotelo and Kunj Patel July 2011
Previous Performance: Chukwuma Agubokwu, Wilmer Wilson IV, and Chajana DenHarder August 2011
Hillyer Art Space is proud to present its new performance art series, Soapbox. This series aims to increase exposure to this critical, yet underrepresented, art form in Washington, DC. Soapbox's mission is to cultivate emerging talent and showcase the best that performance art has to offer.
