Here you can find the submissions for my masters project 1. Please access the materials in the order provided. The participatory performance 20 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 90 | 20 will happen on Sunday May 10th, and will be discussed at the Listen-In event.
2. Recording of text work : This text, entitled Inauspicious Beginnings: On Monsters and Transformation, is part of the 20 | 45 | 45 | 45 | 90 | 20 participatory performance, and is intended to be listened to during the final 20 minute interval. The ideal listening conditions for this audio file is through headphones, in a place of comfort.
“Established in 2012 by theatre writers, media artists and computer programmers, Tough Guy Mountain creates spectacles about the differences and similarities between art and business. They create interactive live shows modelled off of forms present in the business world, but demonstrating possible applications in the art world. Celebrating both worlds and using an appropriate amount of critique and satire is the foundation of Tough Guy Mountain’s shows.”
“In May 2012, I was invited to create a site-specific work for the Oh, Canada exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in the North Adams.
The project began as a 10-day performative walk where I, along with participants, foraged for invisible local wild yeasts located in culturally and geographically significant areas of the town. Wild yeasts were harvested from several locations: parks and forests, a Joseph Beuys exhibition, an outdoor zumba event, a pizzeria, people’s homes, Dunkin’ Donuts, for example. Once enough yeasts were foraged, and the fermentation process was complete, a unique sourdough culture was then created and used to make bread and other baked goods.
In addition to cultivating a sourdough culture, I also, with assistance, constructed a custom-made bake oven to be situated permanently next to the grounds of the museum. Located on newly established community gardens property, the intention of the oven was that it would perform as a kind of usable public sculpture that along with the sourdough culture, would be given as a gift to the community of North Adams.
For one week leading up to the exhibition opening, “North Adams Sourdough Bread” was baked and given away at the community bake oven. A special ceremony involving the town’s mayor and the giving away of the first jar of “North Adams Cultured Culture” also occurred at this time. For the one-year duration of the exhibition, the culture was on display in the Oh, Canada exhibition and visitors to the gallery could request a jar to take home. Those requesting the culture, would receive a short tutorial and instructions on use; they would also receive a certificate of authenticity and other types of related ephemera.”
The largest annual contemporary art festival in the Baltics, Survival Kit, which is organised by Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, will take place in Riga from 23 May till 30 June at the former building of the faculty of physics, mathematics and optometry of the University of Latvia.
