Wednesday, April 02, 2008
PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL - April 4-5, 2008
The Berwick introduces the artists of the 2008 Special Projects season:
Meet The Present Tense, co-presenters of Contaminate 3 (a two-day festival of performance, installation, and video art that's happening this weekend, April 4&5 in Boston) and the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment.
The Present Tense begins development of a physical/virtual archive of 5 years of performance art.
Russell Square/ Shudder by The Present Tense from Contaminate 1The Berwick is pleased to be lend its warm tail feathers to help incubate an analog and web archive of contemporary performance art, compiled by The Present Tense (Sandrine Schaefer and Philip Fryer).
The archive hopes to function as both a physical and virtual space for an international community of performance artists & supporters to experience and share documentation of performance art created within the last five years.
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Also, work destined for this archive will be on view in the flesh at:
CONTAMINATE 3 A two-day festival of performance, installation and video art
Friday and Saturday, April 4th & 5th 2008-7pm both nights.
TEST and The Present Tense, two Boston based performance art organizations, team up again to produce the 3rd annual Contaminate festival of performance art. Showcasing the work of over 25 artists, the festival takes place at the Midway Studios building, located at 15 Channel Center Street in Boston's Fort Point. The live art works will be presented over the two nights, with a different line up each night; videos will be shown both nights in a screening room.
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For more information :
Contact: The Present Tense at ThePresentTense@hotmail.com
or visit www.Contaminate-Festival.com
Bumpkin Island Art Encampment announces plans for a second season of harbor homesteading on Labor Day Weekend 2008.
The Berwick will also be helping the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment to hatch, in partnership with Island Alliance and Studio Soto, its second season this 2008 Labor Day weekend August 27th - September 1st.
Images from 2007 Art Encampment - Studio Soto
Over Labor Day weekend six to eight artists/artist groups will once again receive "temporary land grants" to live and adapt their artwork to the habitat and history of Bumpkin Island. With only the materials they can carry on their backs, the "homesteaders" create functioning living spaces, explore and utilize found materials, and collaborate and pool resources to create work in the relative isolation of the island environment.
This year, artists will receive a small stipend from the Berwick to help with food and other materials. In addition, a "base camp" will be set up to provide two communal dinners and a space for visitor gatherings. Visitors will take ferries to the island on Saturday, August 30th to view works in progress and again on Sunday and Monday, August 31st and September 1st, to explore projects and participate in artist talks and other presentations.
Stay tuned for a call for proposals in May! To get more information about The Bumpkin Island Art Encampment or to express an interest in volunteering please contact Jed Speare at jed(at)studiosoto.com.
What is this whole Special Projects Business anyway?
The Special Projects Incubator is the Berwick's newest programmatic initiative, coming out of research that we did in previous years under the Public Art Incubator program. What began as an investigation of how public art is produced and supported in the Greater Boston area evolved into an exploration of ideas about social public space and creative strategies to promote dialogue in collaborative art making.
Refining how we best support our constituency of individual artists and creative practitioners working on the fringes of the arts community, the Special Projects Incubator program continues the Berwick's role as a nurturer of work and processes that lie between genre categories and official states of recognition. The new program expands the scope of our fiscal agenting to include three levels of support and widens the Berwick community's base via quarterly Tag & Release events.
The Berwick is currently seeking a very special person to manage the Special Projects Incubator program. To learn more about the program, go here or contact Susan Sakash at susan@berwickinstitute.org.
For more information about the Berwick click here or call 617-606-5552.
Meet The Present Tense, co-presenters of Contaminate 3 (a two-day festival of performance, installation, and video art that's happening this weekend, April 4&5 in Boston) and the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment.
The Present Tense begins development of a physical/virtual archive of 5 years of performance art.
Russell Square/ Shudder by The Present Tense from Contaminate 1The Berwick is pleased to be lend its warm tail feathers to help incubate an analog and web archive of contemporary performance art, compiled by The Present Tense (Sandrine Schaefer and Philip Fryer).
The archive hopes to function as both a physical and virtual space for an international community of performance artists & supporters to experience and share documentation of performance art created within the last five years.
------
Also, work destined for this archive will be on view in the flesh at:
CONTAMINATE 3 A two-day festival of performance, installation and video art
Friday and Saturday, April 4th & 5th 2008-7pm both nights.
TEST and The Present Tense, two Boston based performance art organizations, team up again to produce the 3rd annual Contaminate festival of performance art. Showcasing the work of over 25 artists, the festival takes place at the Midway Studios building, located at 15 Channel Center Street in Boston's Fort Point. The live art works will be presented over the two nights, with a different line up each night; videos will be shown both nights in a screening room.
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For more information :
Contact: The Present Tense at ThePresentTense@hotmail.com
or visit www.Contaminate-Festival.com
Bumpkin Island Art Encampment announces plans for a second season of harbor homesteading on Labor Day Weekend 2008.
The Berwick will also be helping the Bumpkin Island Art Encampment to hatch, in partnership with Island Alliance and Studio Soto, its second season this 2008 Labor Day weekend August 27th - September 1st.
Images from 2007 Art Encampment - Studio Soto
Over Labor Day weekend six to eight artists/artist groups will once again receive "temporary land grants" to live and adapt their artwork to the habitat and history of Bumpkin Island. With only the materials they can carry on their backs, the "homesteaders" create functioning living spaces, explore and utilize found materials, and collaborate and pool resources to create work in the relative isolation of the island environment.
This year, artists will receive a small stipend from the Berwick to help with food and other materials. In addition, a "base camp" will be set up to provide two communal dinners and a space for visitor gatherings. Visitors will take ferries to the island on Saturday, August 30th to view works in progress and again on Sunday and Monday, August 31st and September 1st, to explore projects and participate in artist talks and other presentations.
Stay tuned for a call for proposals in May! To get more information about The Bumpkin Island Art Encampment or to express an interest in volunteering please contact Jed Speare at jed(at)studiosoto.com.
What is this whole Special Projects Business anyway?
The Special Projects Incubator is the Berwick's newest programmatic initiative, coming out of research that we did in previous years under the Public Art Incubator program. What began as an investigation of how public art is produced and supported in the Greater Boston area evolved into an exploration of ideas about social public space and creative strategies to promote dialogue in collaborative art making.
Refining how we best support our constituency of individual artists and creative practitioners working on the fringes of the arts community, the Special Projects Incubator program continues the Berwick's role as a nurturer of work and processes that lie between genre categories and official states of recognition. The new program expands the scope of our fiscal agenting to include three levels of support and widens the Berwick community's base via quarterly Tag & Release events.
The Berwick is currently seeking a very special person to manage the Special Projects Incubator program. To learn more about the program, go here or contact Susan Sakash at susan@berwickinstitute.org.
For more information about the Berwick click here or call 617-606-5552.
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