THIS is Performance Art Performance art is now. Performance art is live. Performance art reveals itself in the present. The artist engages in the act of creation as s/he performs. Performance art’s manifestation and outcome cannot be known in advance. Re-enactment of historical work is theater, not performance art. Performance art is real. Performance art … Continue reading
“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.” ~ Artaud The performance I’m Fine is deeply concerned with moving the audience into a state of feeling, through anger on the part of the performer. In this way I view my practice as cathartically dialogical. When I say catharsis I mean: To … Continue reading
I perceive the multiple series of prints that have emerged from my studio practice recently to be loosely connected, as if small indirect passages of the same dense poem. Although these works repeat in style and form, I do not intend to create allegiances among them, and yet, my entire body of work seems to … Continue reading
Zev Farber’s recent work takes the form of multimedia installations which present deconstructed, character-driven narratives that address the complexities of various types of systems. Farber produces work primarily utilizing digital technologies – photo, video, interactive media, and sound – in order to complicate notions of authorship and authenticity. Often, his work will emphasize the duality … Continue reading
A new body of work is revealing itself. It’s doing so one action at a time. Mortality has long been the focus of my performances, and it’s still present. Previously, my work explored the concept of a body: what constitutes one and what its limitations are. The focus has now shifted towards its micro-elements, the … Continue reading
My work examines the inadequacy of the senses in deciphering direct experience. Fire in Woods I-IV are inspired by a scene in Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 film, Seven Samurai. The drawings depict the eve of battle, when the underdogs await enemy invasion in a landscape that mirrors their uncertainty. It’s too dark to know what’s really … Continue reading
* * * In case you didn’t figure it out, Erik Benjamins knows how to eat, and eat well. He also happens to be a wonderful writer, and brings that talent to a wide range of experiential pieces. While his work finds its way to far flung corners of the world by way of the … Continue reading
As a figurative painter I am repeatedly confronted with the physical and psychological landscape of the female body. My understanding of my own body is influenced and constructed by the shifting social landscape of the female nude. Through self-portraiture I have questioned and personalized my relationship to this loaded history, placing my own body into … Continue reading
Fascinated by the contradictory fictional nature of history and our part, as humans, in its infinite perpetuation, my work is the marriage of epic storytelling and formal subversion. The ongoing series of paintings, comics, and prose depicts a single sprawling narrative that begins just after a mysterious modern catastrophe: the physical materialization and collapse of … Continue reading
The dreaded “artist’s statement”: that infamous paragraph meant to provide insight into an artwork that strikes fear in many an artist’s heart. How many hours have we art school grads spent agonizing, staring at a blank screen while counting the number of times the cursor blinks without advancing? How many theoretical texts have we scrolled … Continue reading
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