Backstage after the performance 😗 😗
Norse poem accompanied with a performance in suspension. Costumes and stage selected from trending imagery on tumblr.
From the society.org: "This lay suggests the aftermath following the death of a planet. It has been omitted from many translations as scholars, led by the eminent Sophus Bugge, have tended to ignore it as being quite incomprehensible. It is a lay of great beauty, with a strong mystical appeal, as the reader senses the unsaid, dreamlike, all but unimaginable hiatus between periods of life when the planetary soul is immersed in the quiescence following death. Every kingdom of nature is held in breathless suspension, unmoving, unaware, unliving, awaiting the electrifying urges of a new dawn. Allfather alone is active. In all the Edda there is no more poignant piece of music than this stilling of the pulse of life, leaving each group of beings fixed in its own characteristic state of awareness for the long rest until the gods return."
Featuring video and performance by: Animal Charm, Ann Hirsch, Beth Heinly, Bobby Gonzales, Cristine Brache, Bunny Rogers, Gabby Bess, Grace Miceli, Matt Kalasky, Valie Export, and Shana Moulton. Friday, August 9th, 8pm, AUX Space at Vox Populi
Uncanny Visions IV tackles that most persistent and elusive medium "poetry." Specifically, we will feature a range of performance and video artists who function as self-styled "poets" in the most open mic sense of the word, but not. The stage will hold performance artists "performing" poetry as well as poets "performing art."
Our video offering offers up a slice of the same with artists seeking poetic escape, confession, and collage all of a certain "pathetic" direct address that we seek, absorb, and cannot wash off in the morning.
Join us for a truly sweaty, sincere, smoozy, tearful, hilarious and fun "poetry-in."
Intriguing Vox member Beth Heinly serves as curator & ring-mistress for the night! *artist note: I actually had no idea I was hosting until I saw this description in an email. I'm actually performing, but then I was like, I guess I am in charge and it's good to have a host, so no one gets confused on who's who. So, I am performing and I am also host performing.
This iteration of Uncanny visions combines the vision of two Vox members, with videos curated by Catherine Pancake and performances curated by Beth Heinly. *artist note: I actually curated both the performances and some of the videos. In fact, I actually put together the performers and videos under the premise of poetry and art based on the artists I've been following lately who also double as poets.
I'm into this because I enjoy reading and art, so I'm thrilled when artists do both. I also like artists who write art critism, but that would be really, really boring as performance. I'm not saying that it doesn't exist, just that it's boring. Poetry can be boring too if you're not in the mood. I didn't tell the people who wrote this how I feel because who cares really.
I'm writing this here cause most likely no one will see it anyway. And if you are reading this right now, I hope you're laughing. If not, well then, fuck you, seriously. Like, what, you think you're better than me? You probably do think you are better than me. ☺ Uncanny Visions is a series combining the lush private darkness of micro-cinema with the visceral charge of live cutting-edge performance art. The series takes inspiration from the concept of the uncanny, hoping to attract an audience who is drawn to the
unfamiliar ready to take a few risks and participate in our communal unheimlich. Experimental cinema has a long historical engagement with the uncanny, crisscrossing psychoanalysis, altered states of mind, and visual illusion. Performance artŐs obsession with the body and its extension through technology celebrates the flesh becoming art object and the anthropomorphism of the machine. Each Uncanny Vision
event will join a program of experimental film with an original conceptual performance from national and internally renowned artists.
