PPL’s Relational March
From Feb 28-March 31, 2014 PPL (Esther Neff and Brian McCorkle) + Future Death Toll (David Griess and Edward Sharp) will pile into a car with all of their art materials, a change of underwear each, and take their chances on the USA outside of NYC!
http://www.culturebot.org/2014/02/20931/ppls-relational-march/
March 13th, Counter Path (22nd & California, Denver, CO)
Counter Path’s Event Page: http://counterpathpress.org/esther-neff-march-13-2014-at-700-pm
From the page:
PERFORMANCY: social experiments defined by absence is part performance, part workshop, and part lecture, a theatrical text and score for collective actions outlining and practicing cognitive framing processes which analyze and complicate social learning and individual identity.
PERFORMANCY: social experiments defined by absence is part of a body of work that exists as a methodology and as a two-year process of live operations. Beginning with the perspective that human social practices are ‘performed’, as public expressions and presentations of the self, PERFORMANCY draws on methodological ‘performative turns” in the humanities and social sciences, problematizing representation and promoting metaphysical sensation through the use of objects, language, and group action. PERFORMANCY seeks to frame social construction as a creative act, one that implicates each participant in any social situation, self-mediating its own hierarchies, identifications, and indices of experience. Ultimately, the performance practices framing itself as an act, researching the concrete making of artistic decisions across situational spheres.
Esther Neff is the founder of Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL). She is a performance artist, writer, sculptor, theorist, and curator. Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) is not bounded by discipline or field, collecting around processes, theorizing social systems, building ideological structures, and parsing modes of production and epistemic geneologies via actions, relational constructs, images, noise, and objects. Past projects have included a durational diner, a silviculture museum, video and film, full-length operas, workshops, solo and duo actions, conferences, concerts, gallery exhibitions, and works of constructional institutional critique like the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF), and the ongoing monthly PERFORMANCY FORUM. PPL is also a performance space in Brooklyn, NY. http://www.panoplylab.org/estherneff
About the Choreographer and Performers:
Ye Taik is a New York-based performing artist and independent curator of multidisciplinary art and media projects. He has been officially invited to participate in the project, ” Wake up and take some sleeping pills with a cup of roasted coffee” in Garage Performing Arts Center, Athens, Greece in this summer and his short film ” Nut and Butter” will be premier at the Crisis Art Festival, Arezzo, Italy in 2014. His current work includes “Auteur : My personal life is not for Sale,” mentored by Barbara Dilley in Boulder, and a collaboration with the University of California – Irvine, as part of the”Virtual Venues” project. Additional works have been archived with the Library of Congress and previous works have premiered in New York, Berlin, Boulder, Toronto, and elsewhere. Taik’s practice is influenced by the fusion of abstract expressionistic dance and is immersed in Eastern and Western philosophy. He is the artistic director of “the Blacksheep Collective.”
Geoff Bylina is a squatter, thinker, writer, performer, anarchist and organizer (among other things) currently finding home in Denver, CO. Much of his work concerns structures of thinking, (de/con)struction of identity,understanding the architecture of oppression, the role of language in liberation, the city and the body. He runs a small press, Dig It! Press, publishing non-fiction and avant-garde literature, exploring the relationships between community, performance, literature and action toward liberation. He is a member of ” the Blacksheep Collective.”
The Blacksheep artists also collaborate with musician Benjamin Bentele.
– See more at: http://counterpathpress.org/esther-neff-march-13-2014-at-700-pm#sthash.Rim73FJ4.dpuf
About Panoply Lab:
1.) Esther Neff and Brian McCorkle have been collaborating as “Panoply Performance Laboratory” or “PPL” for the past 7 years on work that combines music, sculpture, social arts practices, conceptual art, and performance art. Each site-and-context-specific performance theorizes compositional and constructive systems, ideological structures, modes of production, and epistemic geneologies via actions, relational constructs, images, and objects. PPL perform barefoot, employing extended vocal techniques, manipulating sculptural objects and analog electronics, and operating crude wood/rope/plastic contraptions. Often participatory and created in the moment with a collaborating audience, PPL performances swing violently between the hyper-structural and the indeterminate, dealing with causation, reaction, conception, cognition, and active human practices of construction and reality-projection.
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