Category: Artist

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Jed Speare

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Stacey Sproule

Canada

https://cargocollective.com/staceysproule/

Stacey Sproule is an emerging performance/installation artist.  She has exhibited locally for the last couple of years. Trained as a painter she works with a concern for the formal elements essential in the execution of 2-dimensional work, but working in 3-dimensions. Her work focuses on memory, fictions, and the point where one becomes indistinguishable from the other. Working from a deep pool of somewhat arcane skills, Stacey’s work encompasses her many areas of expertise at once. Past works have put to use her seamstress skills, her cooking skills, and even her musical talents.

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Randa Reda

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Nelda Ramos

Nelda Ramos is the co curator of Zonadearte Gallery, an artist run centre in Quilmes, Argentina. She has performed works in Spain, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Cuba. She teaches at the Art Institute in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Nelda Ramos has a long and extensive practice as an arts educator and a performance artist.


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Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa

Guatemala
www.naufus.com

Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa is a performance and visual artist. Over the past eight years, he has performed and exhibited at various Canadian artist-run centers and in galleries and museums throughout Latin America. Born in Guatemala during the most violent years of war, Ramirez-Figueroa’s work attempts to explore the nature of witnessing and narrating traumatic experience from a Mayan/Mestizo perspective. Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa contextualizes his work within a historically informed framework of subject-focused language and representation. His work questions accepted notions of humanity and the humane, and individual and collective constructs of social responsibility.

Ramirez-Figueroa’s work attempts to create an opening for dialogue around ethics regarding the development of interpersonal relationships embedded in political conflict, colonialism, oral history, ethnic cleansing, economics, and notions of belonging.

This explored dialogue is a re-consideration of the parameters between the self and the “other”, concepts that are currently influenced and defined by political, cultural, religious and scientific ideology. Ramirez-Figueroa utilizes Georges Bataille’s theory of excess to further explore the possibility of excess in relation to potential communication between individuals.

Bataille saw the concept of excess as related to a bleak and abject side of human existence, focusing on that which society has generally refused to recognize. Ramirez-Figueroa questions if this notion of excess could also be applied to an unacknowledged sense of empathy and communication within the commonplace and ordinary human experience. Such investigations reach into the realms of the metaphysical, attempting to describe an opposite end of the spectrum related to Bataille’s theories of excess, while simultaneously utilizing abject images of excess in his work.

Concurrent to this desire for dialogue around the influences on self-individuation in relation to ethics, the artist calls for a reassessment of the way in which semiotics is commonly used within cultural dialogue. Seemingly, the desire to reduce the interpretation of art to its most simplified and immediate meaning pervades the contemporary cultural climate. By not providing work easily read from the viewpoint of semiotics, the artist wishes to present the opportunity of a more contemplative experience of art for the viewer, and a more complex consideration of the meaning of the semantics of the work.

Naufus Ramirez-Figueroa studied at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in the Intermedia program, and has been mentored by Rebecca Belmore in the areas of sculpture and installation. He is currently preparing a Performance Art work for the Vancouver Art Gallery integrating the sculptural pieces of Franz West in relation to the current VAG exhibition.

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Rachel Rosenthal

Rachel Rosenthal was an interdisciplinary and performance artist, teacher, actress, and animal rights activist based in Los Angeles. She was best known for her full-length performance art pieces which offered unique combinations of theatre, dance, creative slides and live music. One of her key ambitions was to help heal the earth through art.

She toured her pieces, with The Rachel Rosenthal Company, to numerous venues both within the United States and abroad. Some of the theatres and festivals she visited include: the Dance Theatre Workshop and Serious Fun! At Lincoln Center in New York City, the Kaaitheater in Brussels, The Internationals Summer Theater Festival in Hamburg, The Performance Space in Sydney and the Festival de Théâtre des Amériques, Théâtre Centaur, Montréal.

The Rachel Rosenthal Company is devoted to honoring Rachel’s legacy by redefining the boundaries of theatre; to present thought-provoking experimental works encompassing the visual and performing arts, and to communicating relevant social, environmental, cultural, gender, and spiritual issues to a broad public. The Company workshops offer emerging artists, young and old, an arena in which to create, hone and present original work.  Rachel Rosenthal, whose 50-year theatrical career was distinguished by continual innovation, founded The Rachel Rosenthal Company, a non-profit organization, in 1989 to work collaboratively with artists from all disciplines and to convey the tenets of her pioneering form of spontaneous collaboration (the DbD “Doing by Doing” technique) through her Company’s theatrical productions and performance workshops.

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Dillon Paul

USA

www.dillonpaul.com

Dillon Paul is a New York based artist and art educator with an MFA from School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and an MFA from NYU. Her internationally exhibited performance and media work explores the body in physical, social and political space. Paul shares a home with her partner and collaborator, Lindsey Wolkowicz. Paul’s video projections created for Deborah Slater Dance Company were awarded with the Isadora Duncan Dance Awards for Visual Design (2006).

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Pam Patterson

Canada

www.pampatterson.ca

Pam Patterson (Ph.D., OISE, University of Toronto, Curriculum, Teaching and Learning) has, for 25 years, been active in both the art and movement communities. Her research has focused on embodiment in art practice, the “body” in art and feminist art education with publications in journals such as: Studies in Art Education, Resources for Feminist Research, Matriart, FUSE, Parachute, and presentations in conferences such as: the Feminism and Art Conference (Toronto), History of Art Education Symposium (Penn State), and Moving Bodies, Embodying Movement: Exploring the Rhetoric of the Body (State University of New York, Brockport). She has taught in movement and the arts for various institutions in Toronto and is currently on staff at the Toronto School of Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario. As a performance and visual artist she has exhibited and performed across Canada and the USA.

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Jerzy Onuch

b. 1954, Poland

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerzy_Onuch

Jerzy Onuch has been working as an artist since the late 1970s, presenting performance and installation works in Europe and North America. He has also worked extensively as a gallery director, presenting innovative contemporary art exhibitions in a variety of media. Since 1997 he has served as the director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Kyiv, Ukraine, and has recently been appointed Commissioner/Curator of the first Ukrainian presentation at the next Venice Biennial.

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SR Palm

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Otiose

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Judy Radul

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Carlos Pina

Spain

https://www.carlos-pina.stidna.org/

Carlos Pina’s current work is primarily concerned with memory, informed by a thoughtful observance that in order to prevent the suffering and war we have already lived through, one must preserve and be conscious of the ‘duty of memory’ we have to our children. Using the events of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and working with the concepts of amnesia and reminiscence, Pina’s work aims to investigate histories of power construction, truth, memory and collective silence. Believing that all historical events, though removed, are relatable of one owns concept of a personal history, Pina’s work attempts to slow down or put a stop to the gradual process of forgetfulness we all experience, both individually and as a society, caused by an overabundance of information from the mass media, a society in which the past is discarded in favour of the constant search for the new.

Carlos Pina and Maria Cosmes have collaborated on many works since 1998 under the name Collective Stidna, most notably the series, To Leave The Closet. The works in this series ranged from installation to performance and urban intervention. To Leave The Closet focused on both personal and societal psychotherapeutic imagery, informed by both Carlos and Maria’s’ experiences in treatment, asking the question, “If so many people in our society need medication, who is the ill? The people or the society?” The aim of the Stidna Collective, through these works and others, is to create a forum for the artists to relate to each other and the audience on an intimate, person-to-person basis, not as a nameless faceless collective. This aim was in keeping with the earnest and cathartic nature of the works in the series To Leave The Closet, which sought to unveil and cast light on the shadow of judgment, fear and misunderstanding around madness and taboo. Not only are Pina and Cosmes long standing collaborators, they also work together on eBent International Performance Art Festival which takes place each year in Barcelona and Madrid.

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Artist Orange

Just as a performance artist uses their body as their medium, this is a fragrance composed entirely of the orange tree: fruit, leaves, bark, roots, and flowers. Artist Orange performs itself.

Top Notes

neroli, blood orange

Middle Notes

fresh orange juice, petit grain

Base Notes

orange twig, orange seed


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