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As a performance and installation artist, I am compelled by my surroundings—the place, the season, the materials at hand. In fact, I am intrigued by mundane, seemingly ordinary things and common, repetitive tasks. I tend to work site-specifically, allowing the place to serve as both impetus and collaborative partner. By reconfiguring the elements of object, setting, voice and gesture, I create familiar scenes unsettlingly skewed, evoking sorrow, peril, yearning or simply meditative contemplation. These are moody environments, places to explore the delicacy and complexity of relationships, to recall our lineage, to honor the cyclic nature of life.
With my work I attempt to affix the fleeting, to hold place, to suspend time. The performances, especially, make real what is ethereal, seeking grounding through transformation. I conjure a kind of quiet alchemy by imprinting the space, moment by moment, hour after hour, with repetitive and focused deeds. In fact, the viewers themselves often become tacit performers in the work, induced into a subtly altered condition: a slightly hunched posture, a perceptual refocusing, or a personal, and perhaps fervent, investment in the outcome. In my work, in every way, I seek the magic of being richly and intensely present.
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Master of Fine Arts Sculpture (Performance & Installation) |
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University of Connecticut |
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Bachelor of Arts English Literature |
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2004 Lick; 7-hour performance, Wilbur Cross administration building public corridor, Storrs, CT, USA
2003 Red Crest; outdoor performance in an impossibly long red dress, Horsebarn Hill, Storrs, CT, USA
2001 The Sway of Themis; recommissioned performed installation, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1996 Maiden/Mother/Crone, performance for 3 women; Brooklyn Arts Summit, Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1996 blood.line, performed installation; University of Southern Maine Art Gallery, Portland, ME, USA
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SELECTED LISTING:
2007
First, Kiss; The 52nd Biennale of Venice, Teatro alle Tese, Arsenale, Venice, Italy. Curated by Marina Abramovic
2006
The Vaudevillians; a collaborative performance; Wellsville Center for the Arts, Wellsville, NY, USA
Red Woman; “Icons of the 21st Century,†The Lab Gallery, Roger Smith Arts, New York, NY, USA
2005
Red Woman; Williamsburg Celebrates PERFORMA 05, NurtureART Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Maybe This Time; “Gifted Generation,†Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Marina Abramovic
Red Woman; Performance Studies International Conference #11, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
2004
Deosil; “Cleaning the House,†NMAC Foundation, Jerez de la Frontura, Spain. Curated by Marina Abramovic
dress; a performance for video, “Fully Tilted,†Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Red Woman; MFA group exhibition: “Full Tilt,†William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT, USA
2003
Red Woman; MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA, USA
2002
Youei; installation, Visual Arts Resource Center, Mansfield, CT, USA
there, there; installation, Visual Arts Resource Center, Mansfield, CT, USA
2000
Sow, Sew, Reap, Weep; performance for 4 women, “The Judson House Project,†Judson Church House, NYC, USA
1999
La Couturiére; The International Performance Art Festival, Cleveland Public Theatre, Cleveland, OH, USA
1998
Festina Tarde; a performance for 6 women, “Big Art Festival,†CHARAS/El Bohio, New York, NY, USA
1996
The Sway of Themis; “Ambientheatre,†Exit Art/The First World, New York, NY, USA
1995
Fête, performed installation; Collective Unconscious, New York, NY, USA
Maiden/Mother/Crone; “Conflict Resolution,†Brooklyn Arts Council Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1994
installation for performance by Salley May; Performance Space 122, New York, NY, USA
1993
Earth Witch Ritual; interactive sculpture, Fierce Pussy Festival; New York, NY, USA
Table for Two; installation, Performance Space 122, New York, NY, USA
1992
Earthstunned Angels; The Knitting Factory, New York, NY, USA
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Alfred University, Alfred, NY USA |
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Teach sculptural and spacial techniques and conceptual thinking to university art majors. Projects include: fiber sculpture, 3D Design, life drawing and performance art. |
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For complete information, including Honors/Awards, Publications and additional teaching positions, please see
LAURELJAY.COM
Thanks! |
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