I’ll be performing a new experimental movement pice called Getting Bent, as a part of the Evaporate Live Art Festival on November 5, 2023. Getting Bent is based on British Pathé film clips of a Cornish water diviner named Catherine Bent, at work, in 1954. Full festival description follows.
As an extension of the exhibition, Reservoir: What the Water Knows, curated by Arlinda Shtuni, Boston’s Mobius Artist Group presents Evaporate, a weekend’s worth of live art programming over the first weekend of November.
Evaporate takes advantage of the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum’s unique setting and the special sensitivity of artists who work in ephemeral ways, and whose practices are deeply informed by watery surroundings, featuring artists from Performance Art Bergen in Norway and from Boston’s own Mobius Artist Group.
Organized by Mobius member Heather Kapplow and PAB member Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Evaporate consists of two days of performances that will activate the museums’ exhibition halls, grounds, and the nearby reservoir, flowing through these spaces in a quick rush, as the city’s water once flowed through them, and then dissipating just as quickly.
Participating artists include: Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Bjørn Venø, El Putnam, Forbes Graham, Jan-Egil Finne, Jeff Huckleberry, Jimena Bermejo, Joanna Tam, Heather Kapplow, Kurt Johannessen, Kledia Spiro, Lani Asuncion, Marcel Marcel, Margaret Bellafiore, Marilyn Arsem, Max Lord, Nayara Leite, Nife Brzoza, Pavana Reid, Philip Fryer, Sandy Huckleberry, Sara June, Serena Gabriels, Tom Mackie.
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Saturday Daytime Program (throughout museum opening hours; 10am-3pm; free)
Open Session, a large group improvisation spanning three hours, is a free and experimental art space, open to performers, artists and audience with an interest in performance art. The concept is inclusive and open, so performance artists can have an arena to test new ideas and freely work with their intuition and with each other. They also aim to stimulate and promote exchange between improvisations from different fields and disciplines - artists, dancers, musicians, actors, vocalists and above all, those who cross all these art forms and have an interest in improvising in an interdisciplinary and interpersonal way. The theme of this Open Session will be water.
Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Bjørn Venø, Forbes Graham, Jan-Egil Finne, Jimena Bermejo, Joanna Tam, Kurt Johannessen, Kledia Spiro, Margaret Bellafiore, Nayara Leite, Pavana Reid, Sandy Huckleberry, and Serena Gabriels. Audiences are also invited to participate in the improvisation.
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Saturday Evening Program (6:30 doors, performances 7pm-9pm, tickets are $15 at the door, cash, cards, venmo, paypal accepted)
Curated by Mobius member Forbes Graham, this evening’s program features three artists from Bergen, Norway: Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Bjørn Venø and Jan-Egil Finne; and a solo performance by Mobius member Lani Asuncion. All performances are water-themed.
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Sunday Daytime Program (throughout museum opening hours; 11am-4pm; free)
Staggered around the museum and its grounds often in overlapping ways, Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Bjørn Venø, El Putnam, Jeff Huckleberry, Jimena Bermejo, Heather Kapplow, Pavana Reid, Marilyn Arsem, and Nayara Leite will showcase individual works related to water and the site throughout the day.
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Sunday Evening Program (6:30 doors, performances 7pm-9pm, tickets are $15 at the door, cash, cards, venmo, paypal accepted)
Curated by Mobius member Jeff Huckleberry, this evening’s watery performances will feature Kurt Johannessen, and local artists Sara June with Nife Brzoza and Max Lord, Philip Fryer, and Tom Mackie.
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Please see https://performanceartbergen.no/en/members/ for more information about the artists from Bergen Norway who will be performing and https://www.mobius.org/mobius-artists for bios of Mobius artists.
As parking is extremely limited at the museum, we strongly encourage taking public transit to the festival. Directions can be found here: https://waterworksmuseum.org/visit/#directions