Member Spotlight: Grace Exhibition Space/Jill McDermid-Hokanson/Erik Hokanson (Brooklyn, NYC)
Each week, members of the network vote for one of the top 10 most active CPnetwork artists to be featured on the home page and interviewed for the blog. We would like to introduce you to last weeks leader, Grace Exhibition Space/Jill McDermid-Hokanson/Erik Hokanson (Brooklyn, NYC) Grace Exhibition Space is Directed by Jill McDermid-Hokanson and...
Member Spotlight: Pablo Ramírez (Buenos Aires Argentina)
Each week, members of the network vote for one of the top 10 most active CPnetwork artists to be featured on the home page and interviewed for the blog. This week’s vote is half way to the deadline and we would like to introduce you to last weeks leader, Pablo Ramírez (Buenos Aires Argentina). Pablo...
Member Spotlight: Theo Edmonds (Lexington, KY, USA)
An Interview with this week’s Member Spotlight, Theo Edmonds (Lexington, KY, USA). I am a Scotch-Irish-Cherokee child of Appalachia and former corporate lawyer, whose work explores the concepts of: (1) Nature (DNA) vs Nurture (religion, politics, homophobia, racism, elitism, violence, etc); and, (2) the role of “free will” in determining self-worth in the conformist-based culture...
Member Spotlight: Shiyuan liu (Brooklyn, NY)
Shiyuan liu, Director Current Town: Brooklyn, New York. Director of An_Ding_Men Performance Group Shiyuan Liu is the director/creator of An_Ding_Men Performance Group. Her performative interest falls mainly in the field of meshing performance art with other mediums in order to challenge the definition of performance art. Currently focusing on transferring the minimal status of performance...
Member Spotlight: Opie Boero Imwinkelried/Dimanche Rouge (Paris, France)
Can you tell us a little about your group’s mission, your history and your performative concerns. Working with a collective of artists on an experimental performance, I realized how difficult it was to get a venue to perform in Paris, France. I decided to start Dimanche Rouge to provide a space for experimental performers to...
Member Spotlight: Red Bind (Toulouse, France)
Red Bind (Toulouse, France) are multidisciplinary artists; they investigate subjects such as dominant/dominated relationships, social yokes, gender and its limits and ambiguities, issues of the double and of the multiple characters under a single skin, codes and what happens to them out of their context, or yet the identity, status and image of Woman. [...
Member Spotlight: Michel Melamed (Rio de Janeiro Brazil)
MICHEL MELAMED is a poet, writer, director and performer of The Brazilian Trilogy (Regurgitophagy, Free Money and Musicman) and author of the self-title books. Among many locations, Regurgitophagy was presented in New York (twice), Paris/ France, Berlin/ Germany, etc. Michel is also the creator, host and artistic director of several TV shows. He was one...
Member Spotlight: VestAndPage (Florence/Berlin)
VestAndPage (Florence/Berlin) Verena Stenke and Andrea Pagnes have been working together since 2006 as VestAndPage in contemporary performance and video art. Their art practice explores the limits of communication as well as the boarders of private and social spheres, fragility, transformation, impermanence and memory activation.VestAndPage are present in galleries, museums, biennials, theatres and festivals in...
Member Spotlight: Natasha Padilha (Brasília, Brazil)
1. Can you tell us a little about your work, your history and your performative concerns. I’m Natasha, 20 years old. My first contact with the arts was when I was 3 years old, and I got into ballet classes. I danced for 12 years, and then I changed to the theatre´s universe. Nowadays, I’m...
Member Spotlight: Alexander Pohnert (Berlin, Germany)
Alexander Pohnert (Berlin, Germany) Bio: As an ‘emerging’ artist and being, he combines video, performance and alternate settings and practices of experience and image production (including edibles, the auditory and olfactory perception). He is interested in the coming into being, absence and decay of self, other and the in-between through experience, imagery, its failure and...
Member Spotlight: Genevieve Belleveau aka gorgeousTaps (Brooklyn, NYC)
Genevieve Belleveau (b. Bemidji, MN USA ) currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. She studied visual art, voice and theatre at Bennington College. She explores self disclosure, community and desire through live performance, video, intervention, installation, original music and networked media. The heart of her work draws from obsessive research into performance sociology, experimental psychology and...
Member Spotlight: Yann Gibert (Lisbon Portugal)
Bio: Yann Gibert’s body of work is situated in the exploitation of the perfomative moment for a revelation of its space/time context. His performances displace social rituals and collective memories in order to activate new fiction fields. In his pieces, the figure of performer takes the function of a revealing entity for the diverse actors...
