m Burgess “Performing Audience”
Trestle Gallery (at Brooklyn Art Space)
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m Burgess is transforming Trestle Gallery into an imaginary reception space with a focus on a lively audience that is gathered after a fictional artist’s presentation. Burgess will also install photographs and videos in an evolving homage to the art forms produced by this unreal group. The exhibition will feature work from m’s ongoing project “Say This.” as well as her evolving documentations of “Performing Audience.”
For the opening, imagine that you have just attended an artist’s lecture in the auditorium of a non-profit venue. Afterwards, during the reception in the lobby, you — the audience — mingle, enjoy refreshments and generate your own art forms by performing. Many of you will perform as yourselves, grounded in who you are and simply living in the moment. Others may display another version of themselves, cavorting about, playing pranks, wearing party hats or masks and assuming altered personas. Still others may approach the microphone and – perform. Please contact the gallery if you would like to perform. Expect to be photographed and filmed!
m Burgess has participated as a Guggenheim Fellow, Macdowell Colony Fellow, New York foundation For the Arts Fellow, Jerome Foundation Media Arts Grantee, and is currently in the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program. She has currently a part-time Associate Professor at the Parsons School of Art, Media and Technology (1998-present), and has had solo exhibitions at the Tatinsian Gallery (Chelsea) and Rice University Art Gallery (Houston), the Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD, local non-profit spaces including Exit Art, White Columns, Artists Space, Franklin Furnace and P.S. 1 Lectures/Panels: Yale University, WGSS/GLBT 25th Anniversary, SUNY/Albany, University of Connecticut, New York University, Montclair State University, and College Art Association.
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Schedule
from February 28, 2014 to April 04, 2014
Special Event : Friday, March 7th, 19:00-21:00 m Burgess will host a cake sit photo shoot. Please contact the gallery if you are interested in bringing a cake!
Opening Reception on 2014-02-28 from 19:00 to 21:00