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Second Skin: Performing Identities
This series of exhibitions and performances examines how identity is reflected, constructed, and challenged through visual and performing arts.
Vladmaster Presents
Remember View-Master™? This nearly-obsolete precurser to video gets a new lease on life in a Vladmaster performance. Vladmasters are handmade View-Master™ reels designed, photographed, and hand-assembled by Portland-based multimedia artist Vladimir. For a Vladmaster performance, every attendee is given a viewer and set of disks and then led through the story by a soundtrack featuring music, narration, sound effects, and "ding" noises to cue the change from image to image.
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1440 Minutes: An Evening of Installation and Performance
A twenty-four hour art installation and exhibition event, curated around the theme of “Social Spaces”.
Exhibition curators Christopher Lynn, Director of the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, and Jessica Hunter Larsen, Curator of the InterDisciplinary Experimental Arts program at Colorado College, selected the 1440 Minutes artists from a pool of 20 applicants who answered an open call for proposals. Artists were invited to submit installation or performance-based projects that interpreted the theme of “Social Spaces”.
Curators Hunter Larsen and Lynn conceived of the project as a way to open an ongoing dialogue among art, artists, and gallery audiences, as well as a way to link two vibrant contemporary art spaces in Colorado Springs.
Featured Artists:
- atomic elroy and the artoffical choir
- Valerie Brodar & Angela Forster
- Goatsilk (featuring Caroline Peters & Ben Bloch)
- Jocelyn Nevel & Melanie Grimes
- Robert Snowden
- The Bridge Club: Julie Wills, Emily Bivens, Christine Owen & Annie Strader
Vickie Meguire: Body of Pattern
Drawing inspiration in the rich decorative traditions of Japan and the high-tech world of computer graphics, Vickie Meguire creates finely-detailed paper kimonos that simultaneously evoke and negate the presence of a body. Combining high-tech and handmade, Meguire designs the kimonos’ richly patterned surfaces on the computer, then hand-stitches and glues the prints to form life-size paper garments.
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Performing Identities
Featuring artists Pushpamala N., Albert Chong, and Coco Fusco, this exhibition explores the ideas of self-representation and the construction of personal identity.
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Cornerstone Presentation in the Arts
An Evening with Sandra Bernhard
Featuring music, comedy, and monologue, Sandra Bernhard’s one-woman show provides a witty answer to the question “Is the Media at War with the Arts”? One of the most innovative artists working today, this accomplished comedienne, writer, actress, and singer breaks down perceived boundaries between entertainment, social commentary, and performance art.
MUSE: Etch a Sketch Battle in Coburn Gallery
In the tradition of popular television show "Iron Chef", a theme was revealed and four students went head to head to create an etch a sketch drawing that best reflected the theme. Audience members also participated, accompanied by a student DJ, Charles Lovett.
Bently Spang: Cyberskins
Cyberskins are technologically wired powwow garments for the 21st Century.
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View a Culture Cast Segment on the Tekcno Powwow:
http://springsculturecast.blogspot.com/
Second Skin:
Mary BlackBonnet & Trevino Brings Plenty
Poetry Reading
Trevino Brings Plenty (Minneconjou Lakota) and Mary BlackBonnet, (Sicangu Lakota) share their poetry in conjunction with Bently Spang’s exhibition Cyberskins. Both poets address the ways in which contemporary Native American identity is constructed. click here for more details
Operation Atropos: Coco Fusco
This film documents the experiences of Fusco and six other women enrolled in an immersion course entitled Prisoner of War Interrogation Resistance Program to learn techniques of “persuasion”. click here for more details
MUSE: Electronica in the Gallery
Improvisational electronic musicians and CC students Ian Asbjornsen and David Cummings will perform in Coburn Gallery. Responding to the work in the "Bently Spang: Cyberskins" exhibit, Asbjornsen and Cummings will perform a unique set of music.
Sponsored by the Robert & Ruby Priddy Charitable Trust.
Tekcno Powwow
A participatory multimedia event, the Tekcno Powwow mixes elements of the American Indian powwow with rap, hip-hop, and high-tech culture.
Sponsored in part by the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies.
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Laura Ross-Paul: The Allusive Self
Exhibiting and active throughout the Pacific Northwest for over 20 years, Laura Ross-Paul is among the foremost painters of the region. Her narrative imagery is known for potent, direct emotion.
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LINK TO ARTIST'S SITE: www.laurarosspaul.com
MUSE: EDITH Acoustic Performance
Coburn Gallery
Local musicians Sarah Hope and Hilary Studebaker will play their individual brand of Indy Folk Pop power ballads for a lunchtime audience in Colorado College’s Coburn Gallery.
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High-energy surrealist global-groove alternative big band, propelled by electric bass, 10-piece percussion ensemble, and mind-blowing 12-piece horn section. Visually enhanced by costumed dancing beauties, acrobatic stilt walkers, fire, and theatrics, M4 invokes dancing in the streets and beyond!
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What’s the Big IDEA?
This series of exhibitions, installations, films, lectures, and activities identify and deconstruct ideas of “art” and “reality” and look for moments of intersection, conflict, and dialogue.
CORPUS PROJECTI:
an interactive performance installation
for an audience of one
By Lian Amaris Sifuentes
Coburn Gallery
In this performance, the live female body becomes a matrix of stories, accessed through human bodily touch. Lián Amaris Sifuentes is an interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is Assistant Professor of PerformanceStudies and Digital Media at Colorado College.
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Julia M. Becker:
Savoring the Sacred in a Secular World
Painter, printmaker, installation artist, sculptor, and filmmaker Julia M. Becker will create an installation on campus that celebrates the sense of the spiritual in a public space.
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Coburn Gallery Exhibition: February 20 – April 12, 2007
Created by award-winning multidisciplinary artist Marina Zurkow, the video installation "Nicking the Never" expresses the Tibetan Wheel of Existence as seven simultaneous animated sequences.
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Braingirl by Marina Zurkow
Braingirl is a nine-episode animated series about a mutant-cute girl who wears her insides on the outside, literally.
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Art, unscripted
Artist, curator, and television producer Christopher Sperandio on the intersections of art and television.
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Genius, Visionary, Icon: The Culture of Celebrity in the Contemporary Art World
Public lecture by Erika Doss, Ph.D.
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Everything has been Recorded
Mungo Thompson
Interpretive Performance by Daniel Boron-Brenner
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Harrell Fletcher:
Nothing is Ordinary
Julia M. Becker
Non Stop India
Video Paintings
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