Artist Angela Zammarelli will be creating her own private island with the use of a toaster oven, some frozen french fries, ketchup, tinfoil, a bathrobe, video, and cardboard during this 72-hour continuous performance. Zammarelli will be further developing characters that she has been cultivating this past year. She says, "Many of them (the characters) ... are combined with characteristics found in myself magnified. They are living in a space separate from that which I live everyday. Their function and formation are shifting, maybe becoming less fantastical and more pathetic."

The work exudes a playful childlike aesthetic but upon closer look they conceal an idiosyncratic and sometimes ambivalent world.Zammarelli has previously created self-imposed spaces with cardboard and hand-sewn stuffed figures. Her performances within these created spaces have a dual sense of being simultaneously extraordinary and familiar.

Angela Zammarelli creates fantastical installations, videos, and performances using found objects, cardboard, textiles, and domestic imagery. She has been a participant in the Art Shanty Projects held in Plymouth, MN, and a resident/journey person at Elsewhere Artist Collaborative in Greensboro, NC. She has participated in several residency programs, most recently at The Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in 2010. Angela Zammarelli earned her MFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design in 2007.

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Language Generator -

As a visual artist and a performer, I often rely on developments of motifs and the idea that a piece is not repeatable, but may have a long life of variations. In this regard, i have a several such pieces. I am always developing new work as well, but these pieces may all have a life in variation. I have accumulated a number of such distinct works. "Language Generator" falls into this category. I began this piece in 1983. It was a solo piece, a duet, and ensemble piece, as well as a public workshop project.  It had a duration of anywhere from 6 hours to one week. This is what is done. I enter a gallery space with newsprint paper, markers, scotch tape, and a box of objects. For the duration of the piece, I examine the objects, one at a time, and make a noise to go with it, then, a line or symbol on the paper.  I then post the result on the walls. I move on to the next object, play with it, etc. Other words develop, for them and things to do with them. I use no previous language in this process, so this is a new language. Over the duration of the piece, the gallery turns into a dictionary of the language as it is established. Each performance/ installation of this piece always has its own dynamic and contours. That is why i have done it perhaps 20 or more times. The last time of performed it was in 2003, but recent events in my personal life, specifically a move to Taiwan, and the cultural and language difference i experience there gave me new thought on this project, and made me again curious about the origins of language, and what language is. This project is a means of addressing questions in a simple, unscientific way. I will perform it as solo, but if anyone wishes to join in, it is open to that - it is after all, about communication.

bio: Lewis Gesner has been a performance and visual artist for several decades, and has presented work internationally for some years. He presently lives in the US and Taiwan, and is a Mobius Artist Group member, presently on leave.

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Sao Paulo, Brasil: International Exhibition

January 15th - 30th, 2011

@ Museu Brasileiro da Escultura

TROYART International Exhibition    Featuring bots by Mobius Artist Group Members James Ellis Coleman,

Cathy Nolan Vincevic & Jane Wang

TROYARTS Bot by James Ellis Coleman

Museu Brasileiro da Escultura

Rua Alemanha, 221, Jd. Europa

São Paulo - SP - Brasil

CEP 01448-010

curated by Angela Ferrara

 
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