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what's been happening since august 2018

4/21/2019

 
Yesterday when prompted to update my WHOIS info for this website I realized it’s been too long since I posted news. Art took somewhat a backseat in September when I fell on a freshly mopped floor and broke my patella in half.  At first I thought I would be able to create MORE art since i would not be commuting into a job, but the immobility and depression was more than I expected and I got LESS work done. 
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• I did manage to make it to the Day de Dada “Dress-Up, Show-Off” event at Westbeth (Manhattan) at the end of October when I was starting to move around more on my feet, and performed the crow piece that had been percolating in my brain for a few years. Video of that is on YouTube.
• And I got back into the cre-a-tion dance collective practices, and we performed the Pina Bausch Nelken Line Dance on the Staten Island Ferry. Video of that is on Vimeo. 

• Day de Dada had a successful show from our “What Does Your Dragon Look Like?” call, exhibited at ETG Book Cafe, with all work for sale to support the 2019 St. George Day Festival.

And I sent out a piece for Chuck Welch’s mail art show “Errors, Fakes, and Oddities” (March 8-April 14, 2019) at Sharon Arts Gallery, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, Peterborough, NH. Some of the show has been selected for permanent acquisition by the Smithsonian and my “Mona Lisa” painting with installation score will be going there!

So I’m back to doing stuff, going to Toronto Fluxest in June and getting ready for a group show at Snug Harbor in July, and Day de Dada Performance Art Collective at Le Petit Versaille in August. 

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Summertide Choreography Festival

8/11/2018

 
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In June 2018 the Day de Dada art nurses performed in the Summertide Choreography Festival, (BeYoga, Staten Island)
our first event that explored a movement based presentation. We did three pieces-

"Rapid Expressive Movement Assessment" Sean Thomas Boyt, choreographer (Philadelphia}
"Fluxus Ballet" Melissa McCarthy, choreographer (New Hampshire)
"Art Nurses Quadrille" Mary Campbell, choreographer (Staten Island)
Day de Dada Art Nurses dancing included Barbara Lubliner, Milenka Berengolc, Margaret Chase, Mary Campbell and Viv de Dada
See Video of the “Fluxus Ballet” on YouTube

New collage series

5/22/2018

 
As I was creating a score* book for the Day de Dada Art Nurse performances in Boston, I started thinking about visual art health care scores and creating them using the chance haiku technique I had employed to make collage in the past. 

My process is to go through magazines and books and collect phrases that are 5 and 7 syllables long, then arranged them in the 5-7-5 format of haiku poetry. When I have an arrangement that I like I add an image to use as background. As often is the case I am amazed at the interesting ideas that occur with the connecting of the phrases.

Phylis Forman asked me for artwork to include in her exhibit that was part of the Staten Island Divine Women events. Their goal is to foster “female empowerment through art, music, dance, spoken word, and comedic performance.” So the new collages went on the wall at Art On the Terrace Gallery (May 19-27, 2018). 

Then I ran into Randee Silv and she told me to send some work to her for her new publication “swifts & slows: a quarterly of crisscrossings” and so I sent her some of the collages.

And Jane Wang of The Mobius Artists Group is creating a “Dadabloge”, a contemporary online version of the “Dadaglobe” which was intended as an anthology of the Dada movement in 1920 edited by Tristan Tzara. So some of these will also become part of her project.

And I am sure they will be popping up in other places too…

* performance art scores- a way of sharing, documenting, developing and archiving performance works.
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My wall of collage at Art On the Terrace and one of the chance haiku collages
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