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Your Beautiful Grunt
The Stella Adler Studio of Acting and the
Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre, New York, NY
September 4 & 5, 2008
30-minute performance with music by Joel Mellin
(a shared evening with Nelly van Bommel)
This work was developed in the Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre Artist-in-Residence Program (MAD-AIR), at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting.
It's not my fault that it was your rock I collided with, or your couch, or your life, Mary, that I was living. They call it chance, and I refuse to apologize.
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Performers: |
Daniel Bainbridge, Mary Cavett, Jessica Cook, Holly Faurot, Kaitie Fitzgerald, Molly Fitzgerald, Sarah H. Paulson, Susie Paulson |
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Video Appearance: |
Anthony A. Austin |
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Custom Furniture: |
Paul Loebach |
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Clothing: |
Linda Fitzgerald |
Text:
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Molly McDonald
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Grush Choreography: |
Susie Paulson |
Special Thanks: Dennis & Ellen Faurot, Lael & Nancy H. Paulson, Alexandra Wells, Mary Cavett, Billy Stamey, The Stella Adler Community, Lite Brite Neon, Anthony A. Austin and Lake Te-ATA, Spirit Man, Erin Lee Jones, Sergio Almarez, BB, Peter Dobill, Chris Harding and English Kills Art Gallery, Billy Stamey, and Middle of Man
"We've destroyed ourselves; we don't have time to haul shit.
Thanks for the rescue." -Holly Faurot & Sarah H. Paulson, 2008
(Photos by Iris Jaffe)
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hee-hoo
he who Meets Us will adore us
English Kills Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Bushwick)
August 16, 2008/ 2-hour performance with music by Daniel Shuta
"I'm getting good at this. I wasn't even trying; I took it with me in my hand."
We've been pushing rocks every day. Come rescue us.
PRESS RELEASE:MAXIMUM PERCEPTION: CONTEMPORARY BROOKLYN PERFORMANCE is the first exhibition to cover the entire range of contemporary live art produced in Brooklyn.
Featuring 30 artists producing over 20 newly commissioned performances, this exhibition thoroughly seeks to open and explore the crucial dialogue produced by these artists within Brooklyn and its artistic community.
In addition to featuring traditional photo and video documentation, the exhibition seeks for the first time to create an entirely live environment for expression: At all open gallery hours at least one performance will be taking place. Within this goal, both curators, Dobill and Harding, aspire to substantiate and elevate the "live" aspect of the performance artists' practice beyond the realm of "opening reception" and "special event" categories to the actuality of an available experience in a gallery setting.
Participating Artists:
AMBERT ALERT, ROB ANDREWS, ELAINE ANGELOPOULOS, LYDIA BELL, MATTHEW BLAIR, RYAN BROWN, IAN CAMPBELL, ALEX CHECHILE, ANDREA COTE, PETER DOBILL, HOLLY FAUROT + SARAH H. PAULSON, XIMENA GARNICA + SHIGE MORIYA, ANDREW HURST, NAOKI IWAKAWA, AMERY KESSLER, MARNI KOTAK, SUJIN LEE, EVELYN LEWIS, MELISSA LOCKWOOD, JILL MCDERMID, THE MERCURY TWINS (EMCEE C.M., MASTER OF NONE AND HUONG NGO) WITH THE K.I.D.S., MARISSA MICKELBERG, JEREMY SLATER, MARK STAFFORD, LECH SZPORER, MATT WHITE, AND JEN ZAK.
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Clothing: |
Linda Fitzgerald |
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Performers: |
Julia Bean, Holly Faurot, Sarah H. Paulson |
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Benches: |
Paul Loebach |
Video Appearance:
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Anthony A. Austin
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(Photos by Iris Jaffe)
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My Meaty Showers
The Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, NY
May 31, 2008
20-minute performance with music by Joel Mellin
My Meaty Showers is a document of our attempt to find closure to what has felt like a 17-week hallucination. Superbowl Sunday 2008 kicked us into something really fucked up, yet propelling. Come celebrate with us.
My Meaty Showers was created specifically for the Movement Research Festival edition of Live Sh-- (curated by Chris Peck and Chase Granoff).
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Clothing: |
Linda Fitzgerald |
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Performers: |
Jessica Batten, Holly Faurot, Sarah H. Paulson |
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Video Appearance: |
Matt Dilling |
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Chairs: |
Paul Loebach |
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Video Monitors: |
Cedar Mannan, Nancy H. Paulson | | | | |
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Are you going to sweat on my face, again?
NYCAMS (New York Center for Art & Media Studies), New York
November 17, 2007 / 3 hour performance with music by Joel Mellin
PRESS RELEASE:
NYCAMS (New York Center for Art & Media Studies) will present Are you going to sweat on my face, again?, a one-night-only performance by Holly Faurot & Sarah H. Paulson. This new work marks the institution of the Sequence System, an automatic cycling of multiple video components used to choreograph the breakdown of time and movement within a non-linear performance installation. This system is a development of the Surveillance System, a physical network of bodies controlling one another through movement, video, improvisation, and sound.
Eight performers are stationed along the periphery of the gallery. Some performers sit awkwardly in what seem to be backwards chairs, while others take cues from videos and one another. The videos displayed on three LCD monitors generate subtle movements that gain emphasis from the performers� partially exposed bodies. Meanwhile, the artists periodically pass through the audience and retreat to a freestanding pink neon-lit room in the center of the space.
A multi-channel video device cycles through a series of four videos, two of which are live feeds. The first pre-recorded video component consists of edited footage of Chimaera, natural clusters of fire located on a mountain five miles from Olympos, Turkey, which the artists shot in May 2007. Another pre-recorded component features a seated man on an industrial rooftop. His intense focus and partially hidden arm movements hint at interactions taking place off-camera.
Are you going to sweat on my face, again? is executed by ten performers, including the artists, and features sound by Joel Mellin, an experimental computer music composer who writes software using JMSL (Java Music Specification Language). The performance is presented in the round. The audience is invited to walk alongside the performance and experience the work from multiple vantage points. Viewers may enter and exit at any time throughout the three-hour work. Optional seating is provided.
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Clothing: |
Linda Fitzgerald |
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Performers: |
Jessica Cook, Holly Faurot, Kaitie Fitzgerald, Molly Fitzgerald, Onnie Mancino, Troy Ogilvie, Sarah H. Paulson, Susie Paulson, Emily Poole, and Sarah Aphrodite Stolwijk |
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Chairs: |
Paul Loebach |
Video Appearance:
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Daniel Bainbridge
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Neon: |
Lite Brite Neon | | | | |
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Are you going to sweat on my face?
NURTUREart, Brooklyn
November 9, 2007 / 7-9pm
2 hour performance during the opening of Bodies Of/At Work curated by Brian Balderston
Featured artists in the exhibition include: Hilary Basing, Nell Breyer, Andrea Cote, Peter Dobill, Holly Faurot and Sarah H. Paulson, Joshua Eggleton, Marshall Marice and Jose Ruiz.
From the press release:
A man explains the triumph of conceptual art over craftsmanship to a stuffed octopus, another inexplicably flies through the door of his suburban garage, and another dances with his projected alter ego to ward off loneliness. Add to this spectacle aerobics videos, sand-swallowers, discombobulating camera tricks and trained dancers, and you have Bodies of/at Work. An exhibition of both new and old media, performance, and self-redefining ideas, curator Brian Balderston highlights the work of nine emerging artists who move beyond generic body-politics to find new, personal statements of the self. Here, the artists are no longer preoccupied with classical concerns of depictive figuration. Rather, they transform living, breathing bodies literally and metaphorically into sites and tools of art making by addressing elements of self-portraiture, performance, identity politics and location in time and space, which in turn, redefines the contemporary, conceptual understanding of the self.
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Event Center Performance
As part of Hoedown Hall, an AUNTS event
November 1, 2007 / 8-10pm / 2 hour performance with Gavin Kenyon
Hoedown Hall is a performer-driven, dance curation project that evolves over the course of a month in four consecutive 3-hour events. AUNTS invited 15 artists to perform in the first event; these artists were responsible for each selecting an artist to represent them in the next event; those artists selected were responsible for the line-up of third event, and so forth. The evening is the typical, over-stimulated AUNTS style where multiple performances of varying mediums may be happening simultaneously; everyone can social dance.
November 1 - November 8 - November 15 - November 29 /
Melanie untouchable - Melanie Maar - Leo van Vienna - M. M. leaves home /
Christine Shallenberg - Chris Giarmo - Tymberly Canale - Cynthia Hopkins /
Arturo Vidich - Elizabeth Ward - Jessica Ray - Leslie Cuyjet /
Kyle Abraham - Benjamin Asriel - Richert Schorr - Eva Schmidt /
Isabel Lewis - LEWIS FOREVER - George Lewis Jr. - Isabel Lewis and Her Private Life /
Heather Olson - Jeff Larson - Larissa Velez - Hilary Clark /
Regina Rocke - eto oro - N/A - SHOTGUN WEDDING /
Melinda Ring and Liz Young - we - Chih Chun Huang - Bret Mantyk /
Devika Wickremesinghe - Jo Kirk - Katie Patchett and Melina Gac-Artigas - Leah Nelson & Benjamin Asriel /
Megan Byrne - Abi Sebaly - Cathy Richards - DefiANCE /
David Hurwith, Melinda Buckwater - Jen Harmon - 4 TBD /
Colin Stillwell - Gillian Gormon - Laurie Berg - Jacqueline Fritz Scammaster /
Nancy Garcia - Felicia Ballos & Rich Aldrich - (2 reps) Nancy Garcia, Theo Angell - Zoraida (Nancy), Liz Haley (Theo) /
Paul Singh - Jen Schmermund - Darrin Wright - MGM /
Holly Faurot & Sarah H. Paulson - The Cook Sisters - Eleanor Bauer w/
Femke Gyselinck: At Large and Ongoing - Jane T. Pants /
*This event is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by the Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (BAC).
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I want to see you limp with pleasure
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
November 30, 2006 / 2 hour performance with sound by Joel Mellin
In I want to see you limp with pleasure, the artists sit atop ottomans, performing private gestures, as they act as distant directors of the two-hour nonlinear event. The remaining ten performers in the adjacent room take cues from the artists via live feed video displayed on multiple monitors. Performers also rely on two pre-recorded videos to dictate their movements and boundaries. In one video, a woman executes fleeting gestures, while in another, an ambiguous animal form is caught by a surveillance camera. Selected performers are responsible for actively switching the videos on the monitors. Chance occurrences and retreats from the system fuel the self-regulating work.
This performance took place in conjunction with Peggy Jarrell Kaplan's Contemporary Dance: Portraits of Choreographers, Chez Bushwick Presents, and Yvonne Rainer's reading from her book Feelings Are Facts.
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Clothing: |
Linda Fitzgerald |
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Performers: |
Jessica Batten, Jessica Cook, Holly Faurot, Kaitie Fitzgerald, Molly Fitzgerald, Taylor Garrabrant, Yasamin Keshtkar, Kristin Licata, Troy Ogilvie, Sarah H. Paulson, Susie Paulson, and Emily Poole |
Video Appearance:
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Doris Reyes
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You have access to my cold limbs
NYCAMS (New York Center for Art & Media Studies), New York
March 14, 2006 / 2 hour performance with sound by Joel Mellin
You have access to my cold limbs is a continuation of Faurot and Paulson's work with the Surveillance System. This new work is stripped of the highly saturated installation elements of their previous performances and leaves the audience with the institutional aloofness of walls, benches, video monitors, and bodies in cubicle-like spaces.
Faurot and Paulson act as behind-the-scenes regulators as they trigger the actions and decisions of bodies within the space through pre-recorded and live video. The artists are stationed opposite what they refer to as The Hot Box - an isolated representation of the surveillance systems that quietly permeate our private and social structures. Performers retreat to this space and engage in private physical exchanges before feeding back into the cyclical momentum of the control network.
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Benches: |
Paul Loebach |
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Clothing: |
Linda Fitzgerald, Holly Faurot |
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Performers: |
David Branum, Jessica Cook, Craig Dempsey, Holly Faurot, Kaitie Fitzgerald, Molly Fitzgerald, Puk Harvey, Sarah H. Paulson, Susie Paulson, Elena Podgorny, Emily Poole, and Sarah Aphrodite Stolwijk |
Video Appearance:
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Lael Paulson
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Trokon Nagbe | | | | |
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On the low roof
Private performance / Brooklyn, NY
January 30, 2006 / 7:00 � 7:30 am
In this private rooftop performance, the artists take turns closing their eyes to carry out roles based on physical manipulation and improvisation. In the cold weather, temperature becomes a metaphor for the location and levels of movement.
On the low roof served as a study for the development of You have access to my cold limbs.
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Holly Faurot & Sarah H. Paulson | | | | |
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tracking you tracking me
Public performance / 5th Avenue & 89th St., New York
November 9-11, 2005 / 7:30 � 8:30 pm
The artists mimic and interact with the public and one another in this three-day performance series during Performa 05. Each day the artists carried out a different set of instructions related to the gestures of unsuspecting audience members.
The performance took place during the first three days of Marina Abramovic�s Seven Easy Pieces at the Guggenheim.
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Holly Faurot & Sarah H. Paulson | | | | |
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Spring Fever
P.I.T. (Projects In Transit), Brooklyn, NY
July 30, 2005 / 2 hour installation/performance with sound by Joel Mellin
Two male performers stationed in separate garden scenes take cues from pre-recorded video and one another. They pose and move in a trans-like state, occasionally scooping up dirt and depositing it into two holes in their skirts. The remaining three female performers stand between a brick wall and their individual piles of dirt. They alternate between following movements displayed on video monitors and interacting with the dirt.
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Clothing: |
Linda Fitzgerald |
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Performers: |
Darwin Black, Kaitie Fitzgerald, Molly Fitzgerald, Andrew Lee, and Emily Poole |
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Video Appearance: |
Sarah H. Paulson and Nathan Rosenberg | | | | |
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90 minutes: Basting/Flouring II
P.I.T. (Projects In Transit), Brooklyn, NY
May 14, 2005 / 90 minute performance with sound by Daniel Shuta
Part II of 90 minutes: Basting/Flouring includes two additional performers and a live video feed component.
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Clothing: |
Linda Fitzgerald |
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Performers: |
Holly Faurot, Mackenzie Fitzgerald, Craig Long, and Sarah H. Paulson |
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Instructional Audio: |
Holly Faurot |
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Video Appearance: |
Holly Faurot and Gavin Kenyon | | | | |
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90 minutes: Basting/Flouring I
Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY
May 14, 2005 / 90 minute performance with sound by Daniel Shuta
The artists explore power positions, object/movement relationships, and internal/external surveillance systems, as they alternate between collecting flour in vinyl torso pouches and basting their environment with oil. Faurot and Paulson follow instructions from a two-channel video installation and audio prompts.
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Clothing: |
Linda Fitzgerald |
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Performers: |
Holly Faurot and Sarah H. Paulson |
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Instructional Audio Voice: |
Gavin Kenyon |
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Video Appearance: |
Holly Faurot, Gavin Kenyon, and Sarah H. Paulson | | | | |
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Sunset Beach
P.I.T. (Projects In Transit), Brooklyn, NY
September 25, 2004 / 2 hour installation/performance with sound by Joel Mellin
While standing in a beach scene complete with one-ton of sand, the performers follow movement instructions displayed on multiple monitors. The glamorous appearance is disrupted by moments during which the performers scoop up fruit in their hands, chew it, spit it out, and deposit it in clear vinyl hip pouches attached to their swimsuits.
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Clothing: |
Linda Fitzgerald |
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Performers: |
Jessica Batten, Samantha Brewer, Holly Faurot, Molly Fitzgerald, & Jenny Hegarty |
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Video Appearance: |
Sarah H. Paulson | | | | |
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