OPEN PRACTICE
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Public Performance and Installation by Whitney V. Hunter
April 30 - May 9, 2015
chashama 1351
1351 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY
Open hours:
April 30, May 1-3: Thursday - Sunday from 5-9pm
May 7-9: Thursday - Sunday from 5-9pm
Saturday, May 9
Closing Solo Performance from 5-6pm
Artist Talk and reception from 7-9pm
Open Practice is a 7-day public performance/installation experimenting with presence, process, intention and manifestation as modes of operation. The artist will facilitate the conception and construction of the space through seven days of real time actions between the artist and the public. The artist and the public are the central components to this process of transforming the 1500+ sq ft gallery/art space from a space of neutrality to a active ritual/performance space itself. The artist will prescribe a specific task of the day on the gallery wall which reflects the Shapist core principles and means of production.
As the physical presence evidences genuine experience each day of the performance, the process becomes the work itself. The prior day's work accumulates into the next, creating memory and material residue upon which the artist will, on Day 7, physically engage with all the assembled knowledge acquired of the past 6 days. The work itself is an investigation of body, materiality, collected memories and the performing/understanding of ritual. It instigates the willingness of the public, the fortitude of the space and the surrounding environment to trace the physical origins of belief.
The concept of shapism was conceived from an artistic exchange between myself and artists Preach R Sun and Ken Marcelle based on the primary intention of shaping perception through the art of performance. From that, my concept of the 1st American Shapist House for the Practice of Performance/Ritual was born as a durational performance. The first performance was presented in Chicago at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery. This will be the second installment of the work.
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Artist Biography:
Whitney V. Hunter works in performance, exhibition, curation, and education. He creates and curates for the stage, gallery, and alternative spaces, and directs his performance-theater collective Whitney Hunter[MEDIUM]. His works have been presented at La Mama, Grace Exhibition Space, through Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Itinerant Festival and the Lumen Festival. He has performed with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Reggie Wilson Fist and Heel Performance Group, Rioult Dance, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, and in the works of John Jesurun, Fiona Templeton, Daria Faïn and Robert Kocik, and Martha Clarke. Whitney is a Movement Research Artist in Residence (2013-15), a founding member of Social Health Performance Club, and presently a David Driskell Ph.D. Fellow at Institute for the Doctoral Studies in the Visual Art.
For more information, contact the artist at info@whitneyhunter.com.
Public Performance and Installation by Whitney V. Hunter
April 30 - May 9, 2015
chashama 1351
1351 Amsterdam Avenue
New York, NY
Open hours:
April 30, May 1-3: Thursday - Sunday from 5-9pm
May 7-9: Thursday - Sunday from 5-9pm
Saturday, May 9
Closing Solo Performance from 5-6pm
Artist Talk and reception from 7-9pm
Open Practice is a 7-day public performance/installation experimenting with presence, process, intention and manifestation as modes of operation. The artist will facilitate the conception and construction of the space through seven days of real time actions between the artist and the public. The artist and the public are the central components to this process of transforming the 1500+ sq ft gallery/art space from a space of neutrality to a active ritual/performance space itself. The artist will prescribe a specific task of the day on the gallery wall which reflects the Shapist core principles and means of production.
As the physical presence evidences genuine experience each day of the performance, the process becomes the work itself. The prior day's work accumulates into the next, creating memory and material residue upon which the artist will, on Day 7, physically engage with all the assembled knowledge acquired of the past 6 days. The work itself is an investigation of body, materiality, collected memories and the performing/understanding of ritual. It instigates the willingness of the public, the fortitude of the space and the surrounding environment to trace the physical origins of belief.
The concept of shapism was conceived from an artistic exchange between myself and artists Preach R Sun and Ken Marcelle based on the primary intention of shaping perception through the art of performance. From that, my concept of the 1st American Shapist House for the Practice of Performance/Ritual was born as a durational performance. The first performance was presented in Chicago at Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery. This will be the second installment of the work.
Join the Facebook event here.
Artist Biography:
Whitney V. Hunter works in performance, exhibition, curation, and education. He creates and curates for the stage, gallery, and alternative spaces, and directs his performance-theater collective Whitney Hunter[MEDIUM]. His works have been presented at La Mama, Grace Exhibition Space, through Panoply Performance Laboratory, Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival, Itinerant Festival and the Lumen Festival. He has performed with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Reggie Wilson Fist and Heel Performance Group, Rioult Dance, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, and in the works of John Jesurun, Fiona Templeton, Daria Faïn and Robert Kocik, and Martha Clarke. Whitney is a Movement Research Artist in Residence (2013-15), a founding member of Social Health Performance Club, and presently a David Driskell Ph.D. Fellow at Institute for the Doctoral Studies in the Visual Art.
For more information, contact the artist at info@whitneyhunter.com.
