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ARTIST STATEMENT
For the past six years we have been collaborating on performances that focus on movement as a language of basic human interaction. These works serve as non-linear autobiographical documents. The collection and comparison of our shared and unshared personal experiences are translated and re-assessed through the use of multiple videos, chance improvisation, sound, and the choreography of the breakdown of time.
We are constantly reframing ourselves and our perceptions through timed site-specific movement exercises on camera. The recorded results link the human experience and the event of performance, serving both as filtered documents and as actual video components placed within the live works.
We’d like to share our epiphanies, moments of hopelessness, debauchery, victories, whirlwinds of energy, and secret exchanges through these intimate spectacles. The performances are a celebration and a reminder of everything that can happen all at once. We seek to bring humanness and the body to the public in its most shimmering form, whether it is through a triumphant sensory experience or a grotesque yet celebrated vision of reality.
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Education
1998-2002 Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, College of Visual and Performing Arts,
Bachelor of Fine Arts; Sculpture (Faurot) & Special Studies in Art with focus in performance & video (Paulson)
Exhibitions/Performances/Screenings
(collaborations, unless otherwise noted)
--->2008
(Upcoming) Performance during Catch 33, Starr Space, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Jeff Larson & Andrew Dinwiddie, December 13.
(Upcoming) Performance at Jajo Gallery, Newark, NJ, during Mutiformity exhibition, November 15, all-day performance art event curated by Jill McDermid (Director of Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, NY).
(Upcoming) Dark Room, Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, NY, photos from "Are you going to sweat on my face, again?", 2007 on view (curated by Joe Ahearn, Carla Aponte, Samia Manuel, and Janine Wallach).
(Upcoming) "i believe in you" (an AUNTS event), Event Center, BedStuy, Brooklyn, NY, November 22 / "i believe in you" is a performer-driven, dance curation project that is four consecutive evenings of 3-hour events. Other artists include Laurie Berg & Liliana Dirks-Goodman, Hanny Ahern, Anne Zuerner, Architeuthis Walks on Land, Benjamin Asriel & his hair, Rebecca Wender, Jim Byrne, Genevieve Belleveau, Cheap Cake, Alfie, Novice Theary, Coco Karol, Jesse Wintermute (Glory to the Hole), Benjamin Asriel & Leah Nelson, Lydia Bell, Natalie Green, Ali Fischer, Sarah Beth Percival, Maggie Bennet, Terry Hempfling, MINA / Mina Nishimua / Mina CAT / MOO MAN, Launch Movement Experiment, Jesse Wintermute (Plastic Consumption), Chirstine Elmo, Marin Lanz Landazuri, Menjamin Asriel & Tim Goossens, Miriam Wolf, Source of Yellow, The Roxanne Lola Movement Machine, Susan Alcorn, Montzerrat Contreras, Megan Byrne, Madeline and Tess, julie fotheringham
Your Beautiful Grunt, Harold Clurman Center for New Works in Movement and Dance Theatre at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting (made possible by the MAD-Artist-in-Residence Program), New York, NY, September 4 & 5 (a shared evening with Nelly van Bommel). 30 minute performance with 8 performers, 3 video monitors, neon, single-channel video, live music by Joel Mellin.
hee-hoo he who Meets Us will adore us, English Kills Art Gallery, Brooklyn (Bushwick), NY, “Maximum Perception: Contemporary Brooklyn Performance”, curated by Peter Dobill and Chris Harding, August 16 – September 6. 2-hour performance during opening. Other work by Faurot and Paulson on view throughout duration of the group exhibition.
My Meaty Showers, The Chocolate Factory Theater, Long Island City, NY, performance during the Movement Research Festival edition of Live Sh--, curated by Chase Granoff and Chris Peck, May 31.
--->2007
Are you going to sweat on my face, again?, NYCAMS (New York Center for
Art & Media Studies), New York, NY, 3-hour performance with 10
performers, 3 video monitors, neon, 4-channel video component (live &
pre-recorded), and sound/sensors by Joel Mellin. November 15 / 7-10 pm.
Body Of Work / Bodies At Work, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY, November 9 –
December 16. Group exhibition, curated by Brian Balderston.
Hoedown Hall, Event Center, Brooklyn, NY, November 1, chain curation
performance event curated by AUNTS.
Raw: Video Art & Dining, MonkeyTown, Brooklyn, NY, August 12, 2007, video
screening curated by Joshua Katcher
--->2006
I want to see you limp with pleasure, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York,
NY, 2-hour performance with 12 performers, 5 video monitors, 5-channel video component (live & pre-recorded), and sound/sensors by Joel Mellin
AQUARIUM: A 12-hour performance extravaganza, P.I.T. (Projects in Transit),
Brooklyn, NY, collaborative performance with Gavin Kenyon and Joel Mellin
You have access to my cold limbs, NYCAMS (New York Center for Art &
Media Studies), New York, NY, performance/installation with 12 performers, 6 video monitors, 2-channel video, pre-recorded audio instructions, live video feed, 2 surveillance cameras; sound by Joel Mellin
--->2005
tracking you tracking me, 5th Ave. & 89th St. (outside Guggenheim Museum),
New York, NY, public 3-day performance
Spring Fever, P.I.T. (Projects in Transit), Brooklyn, NY, collaborative
performance/installation with 5 performers, 4 video monitors, 2-channel video component, 800 lbs of dirt; sound by Joel Mellin
90 minutes: Basting/Flouring II, P.I.T. (Projects in Transit), Brooklyn, NY,
performance/installation with 4 performers, 2 video monitors, live video feed, projection, pre-recorded audio instructions, flour & oil; sound by Daniel Shuta
90 minutes: Basting/Flouring, Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, NY,
performance/installation with 2-channel video projection, pre-recorded audio instructions, flour & oil; sound by Daniel Shuta (made possible by Syracuse University and Diversity in the Arts, Syracuse, NY)
[Paulson] Intermission (performance & video), Dance Theatre Lab, SUNY Purchase,
performance in conjunction with Tri-Cycles dance program (guest artist)
--->2004
[Paulson] Practicing Circles / Sucking Milk, P.I.T. (Projects in Transit), Brooklyn, NY,
solo performance
[Faurot] 60 Instructions in 60 Minutes, P.I.T. (Projects in Transit), Brooklyn, NY, solo
performance
Sunset Beach, P.I.T. (Projects in Transit), Brooklyn, NY, performance/
Installation; sound by Joel Mellin
[Paulson] draw_drawing, Gallery 32, London, England, group drawing exhibition as part of
London Biennale
Strap.6, 45 Wall Street, New York, NY, performance
Strap.5, 9th Avenue & 14th Street, New York, NY, public performance
--->2003
Strap.4, Arlene’s Grocery, New York, NY, public performance
Strap.3, Fulton Fish Market, New York, NY, public performance
Strap.2, Corner of Driggs Ave. & N. 9th St., Williamsburg, Brooklyn, public
performance
In/On Strap[ing], Space 317, Brooklyn, NY performance; sound by Joel Mellin
Video Screening, Remote, New York, NY (not a collaboration: individual works
by Faurot and Paulson screened separately)
[Paulson]Acolyte Sequences, New York, NY (and traveling), set/installation for dance
performance, collaboration with choreographer Kyle Ahmed-Bukhari
--->2002
Follow/Follow, Space 317, three-person performance exhibition (not a
collaboration: individual performances by Faurot and Paulson)
Re/Move, Re/Place, Re/Write, SPARK, Syracuse, NY, three-person exhibition
(not a collaboration: individual works/performances by Faurot and Paulson)
Video Now!, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, video screening (not a
collaboration: individual videos by Faurot and Paulson)
SPARK Video Screening, SPARK, Syracuse, NY (not a collaboration: individual
videos by Faurot & Paulson)
[Paulson] Wormy Squirmy, Gallery 120, Syracuse, NY, solo performance
[Paulson] Small Works, Washington Square East Galleries, NYU, New York, NY, group
exhibition, Honorable Mention, Juror: Barbara Millstein (curator: BMA)
[Faurot]Happy Easter, Comstock Studio, Syracuse, NY, solo performance
[Faurot] Plastique Fantastique, Sarah Coyne Gallery, Syracuse University, invitational
exhibition
[Faurot] Happy St. Patrick’s Day, SPARK, solo performance
[Faurot] Happy Valentine’s Day, SPARK, solo performance
--->2001
No More Holes, SPARK, Syracuse, NY, four-person exhibition (not a
collaboration: individual works by Faurot and Paulson)
[Paulson] Baptistry Performance, Florence, Italy, public performance
[Paulson] Plaster, SPARK, Syracuse, NY, solo performance
[Paulson] Tap Into the Light, Drawing Room, Syracuse, NY, solo installation
[Paulson] swallow in/down: spit out/up, The Creamery, Lafayette, NY, collaborative
performance with Joseph Barone and Susan Paulson
[Paulson] Follow Business, Gallery 120, Syracuse, NY, solo performance
[Paulson] Appearances, Gallery 120, Syracuse, NY, group exhibition
SPARK Video Screening, SPARK, Syracuse, NY
Video Now!, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, video screening
[Faurot] Foot Long Show, The Zoid, Syracuse University, invitational exhibition
Thanks for Soaking, The Zoid, solo exhibition
[Faurot] Please Soak Appropriately, Shaffer Art Building, Syracuse University, solo
audience interactive installation
[Faurot] God Bless Me, Shaffer Art Building, solo performance
[Faurot] Digest You, Digest Me, The Drawing Room, Syracuse University, solo
performance
[Faurot] Arrange and Re-Arrange Your Mouthfuls, The Drawing Room, solo exhibition
[Faurot] Auditions: In Search of Hand Speed, SPARK, solo audience interactive
performance
--->2000
Let’s Be Things, SPARK, Syracuse, NY, group exhibition (not a collaboration:
individual works by Faurot and Paulson)
[Paulson] Cage Performance, Shaffer Art Building, Syracuse, NY, solo
performance
[Paulson] Inside/Outside: Performance Box, SPARK, Syracuse, NY, solo performance
[Paulson] Windows, hallway in Shaffer Art Building, Syracuse, NY, solo performance
[Paulson] Suck/Spit/Bleed, SPARK, Syracuse, NY, collaborative performance with Joseph
Barone
[Paulson] Contemporary Music Ensemble Performance, Setnor Auditorium, Crouse
College, Syracuse, NY, solo movement collaboration with experimental sound/music by Curtis Rumrill
[Paulson] Collographs, Coyne Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY, group exhibition
[Faurot] Fuh-Crap, The Zoid, three-person exhibition
--->1999
[Paulson] Four Movements, Drawing Room, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 4 day
solo performance series
[Faurot] Indecision, The Rotunda, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, group
exhibition
--->1998
[Faurot] Kalamazoo Gallery Hop, Park Gallery, Kalamazoo, MI, group exhibition
LECTURES/WORKSHOPS/ARTIST TALKS
2007
Visiting Artists to Tom Sherman’s Dept. of Transmedia classes, March 2007, Tom
Sherman’s Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Commissioned to create video workshop with Joanna Spitzner’s Time Arts class, April-
May 2007; correspondence between Brooklyn, NY and Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY via email
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