O U I Performance Group are arriving on our shores!
Hector Canonge will be in the house!
and we need to alert everyone!
Shout it on the streets!
and from rooftops!
O U I Performance is Victoria Gray and Nathan Walker
Victoria & Nathan are co-directors of O U I Performance, a not-for-profit, artist-led organization curating live time-based performance in York, North Yorkshire, UK. Founded in 2010, O U I Performance aims to create a physical and conceptual space for new live work in the city through the curation of regular performance events.
O U I Performance commissions new work by local, national and international artists, committed to developing live performance practice on a local level that is represented nationally and internationally.
Responding to a lack of sustainable infrastructure for contemporary time-based practice, O U I Performance supports non-commercial, experimental arts practice. Fostering a culture of criticality and discourse.
>From October 2011 to June 2012, O U I Performance are presenting the programme Action Art Now including work by over 25 national and international action artists. www.ouiperformance.org.uk
www.ouiperformance.org.uk/about/
Victoria Gray:
Victoria Gray makes performances that are sculptures and sculptures that are performances. Using minimal materials, primarily the body, her work explores the politics of movement and ways in which sociocultural factors inscribe and exert control over the body. Through performance actions, her work considers how the body might be antagonistic and resistant to dominant techniques of corporeal inscription, silencing and subordination.
Victoria has shown work nationally and internationally, including solo performances at: ]Performance S p a c e[ (London), ArtEvict (London), Sideshow 2010, British Art Show 7 (Nottingham), Elevator Gallery (London) and Chisenhale Studios (London). Victoria has developed work on international residencies including Performing Arts Forum (France) and Es.Terni Festival (Italy).
Victoria Gray:
www.victoriagray.co.uk
Nathan Walker:
Nathan Walker makes sculptural work using collage, video and live performance and has shown nationally and internationally. He has shown work in the UK and Europe including Plymouth Arts Center, PSL Project Space Leeds, The Tramway (Glasgow), Spill Festival (London), ]Performance S p a c e[ (London) and Live Art Falmouth (Cornwall).
His work explores arrangement and organisation, experimental writing practices and the relationship between text and image. Using sculptural arrangements of domestic objects and paper-based materials as language-based experiments often manifesting as action art, poetics and installation.
Nathan Walker:
www.nathan-walker.co.uk
HECTOR CANONGE
My work integrates various means of communication and artistic production using virtual spaces, physical environments, and new technologies to establish connections between human (inter)actions, social networks, and technological adaptability. Based on notions of geographies, identity, gender roles, image appropriation, and the politics of migration, I explore contemporary issues affecting diverse communities in New York City. Over the years, I’ve developed new models of expression to mediate new projects and concepts. In analog form, I present tangible visual experiments where audiences manipulate and review the object(s) at will. In digital format, and whether I’m working for the Web, CD/DVD-Rom technology, and/or interactive installations, audience participation is important. From print to video, from Web based environments to multimedia installations, and from written to performance art narratives, I work with issues related to constructions of Self, social (re)presentations, and (re)constructions of public spheres incorporating historical, literary, and theoretical references. I see technology as the means and not the end of what I conceptualize, develop, and present.
Short Biography:
Recently featured in Hispanic Magazine, Hector Canonge is an artist who lives and works in New York City. His work incorporates the use of various media, commercial technologies, physical environments, cinematic, and performance narratives. He has been selected as an artist in residence for LMCC 2011 Swing Space at Governor’s Island, and has been invited to participate in the upcoming exhibition at Flux Factory. He is the recipient of NoMAA's 2011 Regrant Program Award, made possible by the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone Development Corporation. Canonge has been awarded scholarships and fellowships from Harvestworks, New Jersey City University, and has been resident artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Artists In The Marketplace, AIM 27 at the Bronx Museum of Art, Newark New Media at City Without Walls, Dyson College of Arts and Sciences at Pace University, and at The Wassaic Project. Canonge’s work has been featured at the Queens Museum of Art, Jersey City Museum, NY Studio Gallery, Exit Art, Gallery Aferro, Topaz Arts, Y Gallery, Art for Change, and other art spaces in the city and abroad. He’s been commissioned by the NYC Department of Transportation, The Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Museum of Art, Artists Unite, Association of Hispanic Arts (AHA), and has received funding awards from NYSCA, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council -MCAF Program, and JP Morgan Chase. His work has been reviewed by the The New York Times, ART FORUM, New York Daily News, Manhattan Times, El Diario, Queens Chronicle, and on online publications such as NYRemezcla, Turbulence, and ART CARDS Review among others.
Hector Canonge:
www.hectorcanonge.net/
PLEASE JOIN US FOR ALL OF OUR FALL PROGRAM:
TUESDAYS, 7-9 PM
NEW! WORKSHOP/CLASS: MAKING FLUXUS ACTIONS!
FRIDAYS 9-11 PM $5 DONATION
LIVE PERFORMANCE ART SERIES
NEXT: Paris Biennale Workshops
SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS 1-5 PM
EXHIBITION OF ARTIFACTS AND DOCUMENTATION
at GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE 840 Broadway, 2nd Floor Brooklyn 11206
SATURDAYS 6:30-8:30 PM
BARSIDE CHATS WITH GRACE SPACE at ZEBULON bar/cafe in Williamsburg
Informal discussions about the Friday night performances, and performance art in general. We can also screen work, so if you have a piece you want to show/discuss/chat about, please bring
ZEBULON: 258 Wythe Avenue. Brooklyn, NY 11211 (between Metropolitan Ave & North 3rd St) www.zebuloncafeconcert.com
ZEBULON BAR/CAFE:
www.zebuloncafeconcert.com/
ABOUT GRACE EXHIBITION SPACE IN BROOKLYN, NYC
Grace Exhibition Space, since 2006, is the only gallery in New York City devoted exclusively to Performance Art. We exhibit performance artists from around the world, whether emerging, mid career or established.
Being a Brooklyn loft, our events are presented on the floor, not on a stage, dissolving the boundary between artist and viewer. This is how performance art is meant to be experienced, and our mission is the glorification of performance art.
“Grace Exhibition Space is the sole gallery in this city that shows specifically, in its most intentionally narrow definition, Performance Art.” Patricia Milder, The Brooklyn Rail (May, 2011)
“Through such intimate encounters between performance groups and their guests, they could follow in the spirit of Yoko Ono’s Chamber Street loft or the Surrealist soirees of Paris” - Warren Fry, The Brooklyn Rail (August, 2007)
DIRECTIONS:
J-M-Z train to Flushing or Myrtle
& walk 3 blocks east from Flushing,
or 3 blocks west from Myrtle
to
#840 Broadway, 2nd Floor (btwn. Ellery St. & Park Ave.)
entrance left of liquor store - ring top buzzer
call for more directions: (646) 578-3402
Our mission is the glorification of performance art.
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