Artists In Residence
Depicting Action - Glasgow (USA)
The multi-disciplinary approach to contemporary art practice has dominated major exhibitions all over the world for several decades now its appeal and power growing greater every year. As innovative artists seek to find and fill the spaces in between art mediums, incredible discoveries are made and shared with audiences hungry to experience a new form of communication between artist and viewer.
Installation and performance have often intersected, and spaces in between the two genres are vast. There have been explorations of all that lies between that have spawned an incredible multi-generational and international community of artists and educators mixing mediums to create new forms. The immense diversity, international renown and artistic virtuosity of many artists working in installation and performance has challenged and excited art patrons from decades past to present day.
It is the intention of the Depicting Action project to bring the works of such artists to such patrons and to facilitate discussion surrounding the marriage of such mediums in the live context and to better understand the value of the time-based arts experience for both artist and audience.
Depicting Action was created by Los Angeles based artist and organizer Jamie McMurry with its first instalment taking place in 2006. With each subsequent volume of the project, a new group of artists will generate original works and allow the audience to engage their practice in a less than typical timed performance setting. This will mark the first instalment of Depicting Action in Europe and in cooperation with the National Review of Live Art, is also intended to focus American artists working outside the mainstream.
Dan McKereghan is an NEA award-winning performance artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Dan's work has been presented at galleries and festivals in Canada, Chile, Finland, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, UK and across the US. He has also been performing on the streets of New York for the last 13 years and has most recently been focused on works of great duration in the public space. One such example was a seminal project entitled “30 eights” in which Dan performed in a window display for 8 hours per day for 30 consecutive days.
Gertrude Berg lives and works in New York City. She received her Diploma from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 2003. Her work has been shown in the US and internationally in Belarus, Estonia, Romania, Serbia and Canada.
Micol Hebron is a Los Angeles based video and performance artist. She received her MFA in New Genres from UCLA in 2000. Since then she has taught studio art and art history at Art Center College of Design, Chapman University, and UCLA. Micol has exhibited and performed in the US and abroad including the 100 Artists See God exhibition at the ICA, London and in Modern Prometheus LLC in the UCLA Live! programme. Micol is also an editorial board member and contributing writer for X-tra magazine and a member of the L.A. Art Girls collective.
Angela Ellsworth is an interdisciplinary artist traversing the mediums of drawing, installation and performance. Within these disciplines she is interested in art merging with everyday life and public and private experiences colliding in unexpected places. She is Assistant Professor of Intermedia in the Herberger College of the Arts at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, USA. Her work has been cited in Performance Research, X-TRA Magazine, ArtUS and Art News. She is represented by Lisa Sette Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona and loves walking rings on maps with her partner, Tania Katan.
Jeff Huckleberry currently resides in Boston where he teaches and presents work in the field of performance. He is also a Co-Director of the Test Performance organization and a member of the Mobius Artists Group. The John Hopkins Theater Journal described his work as being "focused on the labour behind the making of art, troubling the already nervous nexus where performance art, theatre and the gallery intersect".
Suzanne Lacy is an internationally known artist whose work includes installations, video, and large-scale performances on social themes and urban issues. One of her best-known works to date is The Crystal Quilt (Minneapolis, 1987) a performance with 430 older women, broadcast live on Public Television. During the nineties she worked with teams of artists and youth to create an ambitious series of performances, workshops, and installations on youth and public policy, documented by videos, local and national news broadcasts, and an NBC program. Her work has been funded through numerous American foundations, including the National Endowment for the Arts and The Guggenheim, Rockefeller, Surdna, and Nathan Cummings Foundations.
Also known for her writing, Lacy edited the influential Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art, published in 1995 by Bay Press, a book that prefigures current writing on politically relevant performance art. She has published over 60 articles on public art. She recently initiated a new MFA program on the same subject at Otis College of Art and Design, where she was previously Chair of the Fine Arts Department.
Derek Horton has been creating experimental theatre spectacles and works of performance art for more than 25 years. Horton currently resides in Ingram, Texas where he teaches drama at Schreiner University. He has presented work as a director and performer extensively throughout the US and his appearance in the NRLA 2008 programme marks the first presentation of his work in Europe.
Mariel Carranza is a native of Peru and currently resides in Los Angeles. She has come to recent acclaim in Southern California with incredible depictions of process as performance. In her recent work "Corners", Carranza used wool collected from her South American birthplace to weave an elaborate form that fit both herself and the surrounding architecture of the gallery space. The performance lasted for several consecutive days.
Marilyn Arsem has been creating live events since 1975, ranging from solo performances to large-scale works incorporating installation and performance. She has presented work throughout Europe, Asia, North and South America. In her recent performances, Arsem has focused on creating site-specific works that respond to the history or politics of the country, engaging with the immediate landscape and materiality of the location. Sites have included a former Cold War missile base in the United States, a 15th century Turkish bath in Macedonia, an aluminium factory in Argentina and a fishing harbour in Taiwan. Arsem is the founder of Mobius, Inc., a Boston-based interdisciplinary collaborative of artists. She is a full-time faculty member at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, where she heads the Performance Area and is a Graduate Advisor. She will be teaching one of the Winter School course this year.