CHPAC Commissioners,
Below is a link to a front page article in
the Chapel Hill news about the Local Histories
exhibition. Dave hart, the reviewer made many thoughtful observations. Also
attached is the schedule of performance that will take place on March 18th
at 523 E. Franklin.
p.s. Steve, please see that the
performance schedule is on the web site. Thank you. jy
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Jeffrey J. York
Cultural & Public Arts Administrator
Cultural Arts Division
Parks & Recreaction
Department
Town of Chapel Hill
405 Martin
Luther King Jr Blvd
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-5705
Phone: (919)
968-2750
Fax: (919) 969-2063
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From: elin o'Hara
slavick [mailto:eoslavic AT gmail.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 13, 2011 8:17
PM
To: Alexis Bravos; allyson packer;
Amy White; andrew johnson; Ann Chwatsky; Ann Pegelow Kaplan; Ashley Florence;
brett hunter; Carol Magee; Cathy McLaurin; cathy weiss; cici stevens; dave
alsobooks; Dave Alsobrooks; Denis Wood; elizabeth hull; Erik Benjamins; Gail
Goers; Heather Gordon; ian brownlee; Jeff York; Jeffrey Waites; jessica pagan;
jody servon; john powers; Jordan Essoe; Josh MacPhee; joshua bienko; Julie
Thomson; lance winn; lauren adams; lauren frances adams; Lauren Michelle Heath;
leah sobsey; LEE DELEGARD; lynn bergman blass; Maria DeGuzman; Mario Marzan;
Mary Carter Taub; Matthew Garcia; Michael E. Gurganus; Michael Itkoff; michael
webster; michelle illuminato; Molly B; montana torrey; morgan muhs; Neill Prewitt; patricia bellan gillen; Paul Valadez;
Ripley Whiteside; Shaw Osha; sophia allison; Susan Alta Martin; Susanne M
Slavick; Susanne Slavick; tracy spencer; travis donovan
Subject: Press Release for
Friday's Performance Night
Please find below + attached the press release for this Friday Night's
perfomrance night at the Local Histories show, 7pm, March 18.
Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On
PERFORMANCE NIGHT
Friday, March 18, 7pm, Performances by:
Cathy McLaurin, Where the arms hook onto the body
Neill Prewitt, Untitled
Lance Winn, Full Body Scan
Where the arms hook onto the body is inspired by the bread that McLaurin's
grandmother made the last twenty some years of her life. This bread is a
living culture that must be regularly fed and baked with in order to keep it
alive. McLaurin's grandmother shared the culture with others in Silk Hope
and descendants of her culture are still being used to make bread today.
McLaurin invites people to share memories of someone or something that is no
longer. In exchange, she offers bread and her own memories. Through the
sharing of bread and memories, this project creates an exchange of histories of
the people who participate in it.
Full Body Scan coincides with the recent debate over the full-body scanners.
Shortly after 9/11, and the debate about greater transparency (which is
directly tied to the continued threat from terrorists and the new full-body
scanners), Winn was invited to participate in "the 8 hour drawing
show" where each artist was given a wall and the day to produce/perform a
work that remain up for the duration of the show. Winn searched the wall
for bombs (luckily finding none) with a metal detector and headphones; making a
sound drawing of the interior of the wall with a pencil. Winn will scan
the kitchen wall in 523 East Franklin
with a thermal imaging camera, leaving visual traces of what is hidden (real or
fictional...) on the surface of the wall.
Neill Prewitt is a multimedia artist
from Raleigh and is currently in the MFA program
at UNC, Chapel Hill. His performance
grows out of ongoing research into instant media, and is an experiment in
playing out themes of popular international news in local stories.
Local Histories: The Ground We Walk On is an exhibition of over 50 artists from
across the U.S. exploring Alfredo Jaar’s idea that “place can not be
global,” curated by artist elin o’Hara slavick + art historian Carol Magee,
Professors in the Art Department at the University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill.
January 28 – April 29, 2011
523 East Franklin Street,
Chapel Hill, NC
27514 USA
(Formerly the Chapel Hill
Museum)
Hours: Tuesday-Friday 2-7pm; Saturday 12-7pm; closed Sunday + Monday
Other Special Events:
April 4, 7pm: Mildred’s Lane Goes Elsewhere: artist J. Morgan Puett and
Elsewhere, a living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina, (co-sponsored by the
Institute for Arts and Humanities and the James M. Johnston Center for Undergraduate
Excellence at UNC, Chapel Hill)
April 11, 7pm: RAFI-USA: The Rural Advancement Foundation International,
Tobacco Communities Reinvestment Project (Joseph Schroeder, Program Director
and Alix Blair, Information Specialist), SAF: Student Action with Farm workers,
and Andrea Reusing, Chef at Lantern Restaurant
April 18, 6pm: Local Histories panel on Mapping and Community, details TBA
Exhibition and events are free and open to the public.
This inaugural exhibition at Chapel Hill’s new temporary art space at 523 E.
Franklin Street addresses issues of histories and institutions of communities,
family, place; commemorative responses; heroes; folklore and buried truths;
traditions; memory/nostalgia; longing/loss; progress/development; the
intersection of the local and global, and social, legal, political events as
they pertain to, influence and construct local histories.
The exhibition includes: videos about UFOs in Puerto Rico, the artist Barbara
Hepworth and maize-based culture; sculptures utilizing tobacco, chairs, plastic
snakes and a model of Michael Jordan's childhood home; site-responsive and
specific installations with red clay, vinyl window drawings and paint collected
from local home renovations; paintings of the Middle East and surreal funerals;
drawings of plants along the U.S.-Mexico border; interactive performances with
bread and thermal imaging; photographs using gems as the negatives and of small
towns in Germany, places in China, painters in the Hudson River Valley; and
much more.
This exhibition represents a unique collaboration between the Town of Chapel Hill and the UNC Art Department and features current and
former students and faculty of the department as well as others from the region
and across the country. The exhibiting artists were selected from among
over 150 applications. Participating Artists: Alexis Bravos, Lauren F.
Adams, Sophia Allison, Dave Alsobrooks, Patricia Bellan-Gillen, Erik Benjamins,
Joshua Bienko, Lynn Bregman Blass, Molly Brewer, Ian Brownlee, Ann Chwatsky, María
DeGuzmán, Lee Delegard, Travis Donovan, Jordan Essoe, Ashley Florence, Matthew
Garcia, Gail Goers, Heather Gordon, Michael Gurganus, Elizabeth Hull, Brett
Hunter, Michelle Illuminato, Michael Itkoff, Andrew Ellis Johnson, Ann Pegelow
Kaplan, Susan Alta Martin, Mario Marzan, Cathy McLaurin, Morgan Muhs, Shaw
Osha, Lillian Outterbridge, Freddie Outterbridge, Allyson Packer, Jessica
Almy-Pagán, John Douglas Powers, Neill Prewitt,
Jody Servon, Susanne Slavick, Leah Sobsey, Spectres of Liberty, Tracy Spencer,
Cici Stevens, Mary Carter Taub, Julie Thomson, Montana Torrey, Paul Valadez,
Jeff Waites, Michael Webster, Cathy Weiss, Amy White, Ripley Whiteside, Lance
Winn, Denis Wood
For more information, please contact elin o'Hara slavick – eoslavic AT gmail.com
919-923-4550
Or visit Facebook and the exhibition's website:
http://www.facebook.com/LOCAL.HISTORIES.SHOW
http://localhistories.wordpress.com/
Sponsored by The Town of Chapel Hill Department
of Parks and Recreation/Division of Cultural Arts and the Art
Department at UNC, Chapel
Hill
--
elin o'Hara slavick
Distinguished Term Professor of Art
Hanes Art Center
CB# 3405
UNC, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
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