[-empyre-] Week two on "Contextualizing Making Sense"

[Janice Perry]

Web Art Happening as part of Making Sense

Web Art Project: Taking place IN YOUR HOME, or anywhere you choose to do it—

Answer this question:
What makes you feel powerful?

Please describe/respond to this in any medium/media—a couple of words or sentences, a short performance, 1-3 photos, a slideshow, audio, movie, or…

POST your response/documentation to the Art Worldville FaceBook page (anyone can post), BEFORE THURSDAY EVENING Oct 20, 2010 at 6:00 pm GMT.

INVITE YOUR FRIENDS!
Here’s a link to the page:
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000755884706

Over the next few days, I will be an artist-in-residence at the Making Sense Colloquium held at the Centre Pompidou, the Institut Télécom, and NYU in Paris, and this web happening is part of that activity. Should be fun. 

Please do it— minimum effort is acceptable. Please feel free to send ANYTHING THAT COMES TO YOUR MIND. Looking forward to seeing what we post.

This page is a worldwide community. Please feel free to comment on each other’s work.

Please take a look at the Art Worldville page a few days after you have posted, and THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING!

If you are not comfortable posting on FaceBook, join under a FaceBook pseudonym.

Take a look at an earlier project, “Drinking Fallen Water From Sky” on the same Art Worldville page. 60+ people worldwide participated in a simultaneous performance. Scroll to the bottom of the page to start from the beginning.

Thanks! www.janiceperry.com

Colloquium http://www.makingsensesociety.org/

N.B. You CAN post later than Oct 20, but better to post by this time/date. It just takes a minute, and you don’t have to “friend” Art Worldville to post. However, Art Worldville would definitely like to be your friend.

If posting more than one photo, please create an album on your facebook page and post the link to Art Worldville's page. THANKS!!


On Oct 16, 2010, at 6:53 AM, Renate Ferro wrote:

> It has been tremendously helpful for me to lurk the past couple of days to get a better sense of what so many of you already accomplished during the Cambridge Making Sense event. Tim and are are looking forward to leaving for Paris in just a couple of days.  At this time I'd like to introduce four new participants in this week's discussion of Making Sense:  Frank O'Cain, Rebekah Samkuel, Cristina Bonilla, and Xena Lee.  I welcome them to empyre and hope that they will tell us a bit about their work in relationship to Making Sense.  Renate
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> Frank O’Cain was born in San Diego, California, and studied at the Art Students League of New York under Vaclav Vytlacil.   O’Cain has had solo shows at Purdue University; the Miriam Perlman Gallery, Chicago; the Miriam Perlman Gallery, Flint, Michigan; the Princeton Art Association; Levitan Gallery I and II, New York City; the Saginaw Art Museum; the Ella Sharp Museum, Jackson, Mississippi; Northern Illinois University; and the Theano Stahelin Kunstsalon, Zurich, Switzerland.  He has participated in group and solo shows at DDB Gallery, New York City; Gallery Korea, New York City; Yale University; the Centre Pompidou; and Gen-Paul Gallery, Paris, France.  His work is represented by a number of private collectors; the collection of the White Building, University of Michigan; the Midwest Museum of American Art, Elkhart, Indiana; and in the Saginaw Art Museum.  He is currently an instructor at the Art Students League of New York and has presented at Yale University and the Centre Pompidou. 
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> Rebekah Samkuel was a recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant. Her works have been shown in group shows in Germany, France, Chicago, and New York. She likes the solitude of her studio and to search for deeper levels in her work.  In her words: “Art is as old as the human race. Why the need to express in pigment, volume, line and stone?  And dance, music and drama? Others buy and sell or choose to be warriors and tillers of the earth.  It is a mystery.  I am a painter. My soul seeks both inspiration and liberation in art. Art allows me to escape the crude reality of contemporary life where we find the masses ruling and mediocrity reigning. Although I seek the refinement and beauty in life, the themes in my work are the disturbing pathos of the aftermath of the battle, the ancient battles; the struggle between darkness and light. I do search for an understanding. I am a warrior.”
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> Cristina Bonilla has had solo exhibitions at the Galerie d’Art du Parc, Galerie Lieu Ouest and the Galerie d’Art d’Outremont in Montreal and at the Southampton Cultural Center in New York. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France, the Sandra Goldie Gallery and the Gallery of the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal. As part of her artistic practice, she also teaches and lectures to painters, collectors and general audiences, to help them understand the visual reality that is at the core of painting. This has included adult education courses at the City University of New York and Southampton College, New York City gallery tours and visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She was public liaison at the Dia Art Foundation’s Dan Flavin Institute and was awarded the First Grand Prize of Contemporary Painting by la Peau de l’Ours, an association of Montreal collectors. She currently mentors professional painters in the United States and Canada in small critique groups.
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> Xéna Lee seeks an expression that utters the unpronounceable, giving shape to the formless.  As poetry reveals aspects of truth that are inaccessible to discursive prose, she believes that visual art, like music or dance, can go further to touch upon experiences that cannot be expressed in words.  There are moments in life when we catch glimpses of intrinsic truth, when we seem to reach into the depths of reality.  These moments of fundamental wisdom and sublime joy are what she strives to capture in her paintings.  In contrast to the fleeting nature of these moments, expression of them comes only from continuous cultivation and development of the human spirit.  For these reasons, Xéna studied physics, literature, medicine, psychiatry, theology, and anthropology, to understand better the human condition, while she apprenticed after modern master Frank O’Cain to develop her artistic vision.  She showed in numerous solo and group exhibitions since 1995, including in New York (SoHo and Chelsea), Scotland (Edinburgh), France (Tonneins-Unet and Paris), Italy (Modena), Spain (Barcelona), and Qatar (Doha).  Additional influences include her East Asian heritage, martial arts training, travels to Africa, and participation in social movements to promote justice and peace.  Most recently, she has been exploring projects across disciplines, including painting the backdrop for SYREN Modern Dance and serving as visual-artist-in-residence for the Lincoln Center group Ensemble du Monde in New York City; collaborating with a harpsichord performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variations in the museum of Bielefeld, Germany; painting the walls of the Jacques Ibert Conservatory of Music and organizing an exchange between painters and thinkers at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.
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