3Jan12 Defibrillator

THE PRECESSION: AN 80 FOOT LONG INTERNET ART PERFORMANCE POEM*
3 hour durational live work mapped to Defibrillator Performance Art Gallery

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I forget, in manufactured micro-currents, the stiffness and stillness that is evident when we measure ourselves in arcseconds.

The cadets are trained to understand this. The tumbling of the dryer is an instructive new notation. They do everything just as requested.

The old procession of images hardened their arms as they stretched out ahead of them and down the road.

It was ninety cents for a pack of Marlbolos. Ninety cents, now it's fucking nine dollars.

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Choreography: Mark Jeffery
80 ft. Text Machine: Judd Morrissey
Wings + Floor & Wall Installation: Claire Ashley
Performers: Justin Deschamps, Sam Hertz, Zihan Loo, Joshua Rackliffe, Blake Russell and Isaac Fosl-van Wyke

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I resign from my post as a showgirl
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Artist Bios

Judd Morrissey and Mark Jeffery have presented throughout the US, UK, and Europe with recent venues including Lincoln Cathedral Quarter (UK commissioned performance distributed throughout multiple outdoor sites), Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona, Bergen Art Museum, House of World Cultures Berlin, Chicago Cultural Center, and the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in NYC. Both artists teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and were members of the seminal international performance collective Goat Island.
judisdaid.com/
markjefferyartist.org/

Installation:

Claire Ashley
Claire Ashley is from Edinburgh, Scotland. She received a Masters of Fine Arts in 1995 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been shown in the U.S. at: The Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hyde Park Art Center, The Chicago Cultural Center, The Chicago Public Library, Devening Projects, Spoke, NEIU Fine Arts Gallery, and Brown Triangle, Chicago; SideCar, Hammond, IN; Art Santa Fe and Eggman and Walrus Gallery, Santa Fe, NM; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA; and Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL. And in Scotland at: gallerA1, Edinburgh; and The Highland Institute for Contemporary Art, Inverness. She currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in the Department of Contemporary Practices, and Department of Painting and Drawing.
claireashley.com/
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Performers:

Justin Deschamps
Justin Deschamps has danced with the likes of the Lyric Opera, Lira Polish Folk Ensemble, Ameba Aerial, Hedwig Dances and Momenta here in Chicago. He currently is working on projects with Mark Jeffery and Judd Morrissey and attending school for clinical massage at Soma.

Sam Hertz
Sam Hertz, Chicago-area composer, performer and dancer, is a recent graduate of Beloit College, where he was the founder and director of the school's New Music Ensemble. His compositions and performances include a wide variety of acoustic and electronic media. Sam's music has been heard on WBEZ, and has composed music for a re-staging of two Merce Cunningham pieces in association with members of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, as well as for choreographer Megan Rhyme's Inner Cartography for the Chicago Fringe Festival and Chicago Danztheatre Ensemble's Mirrors.
samhertzsound.tumblr.com/

Zihan Loo
Zihan Loo is a moving-image, performance and installation artist currently based in Singapore. He received his MFA (Film, Video, New
Media and Animation) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in July 2011.
loozihan.com

Joshua Rackliffe
Joshua Rackliffe is a movement-based artist who received his BA in Dancemaking from Columbia College Chicago. His work has been shown throughout the city with Laboratory Dancers; he has since relocated to Atlanta, GA where he serves as Director of Programming for Living Walls Conference and a regular performance contributor to Dodekapus Art Collective.

Blake Russell
Blake Russell is a fill-in-the-blank artist. Since calling Chicago home he has explored performance roles in dance, theatre, film and live exhibitions. Selected experiments include public performance, spoken word, magic, staged combat, modern dance, contact improvisation, live visual art, wheat-pasting, instrumentation, dramaturgy & curating time-based events. A Spring artist-in-residence at High Concept Laboratories, Russell will produce one dozen 12-minute operas in collaboration with 12 local directors, 12 artistic ensembles & Sweet Ape, an underground ice cream parlor.
Link (underconstruction): artatwar.wordpress.com/


*The Precession is a data-feed performance poem that creates visual-poetic arrangements based on inquiries into architecture, the laboring body, and night sky. Instigated by a study of the Hoover Dam and a complex celestial map created to commemorate its completion in 1935, the work integrates original writing, real-time text-mining, and the positions of celestial bodies above the performance to construct a choreographed event in live and virtual space. The piece was previously realized as The Precession: An 80 Foot Internet Art Performance Poem, a large-scale performance and 10-screen installation at Hyde Park Art Center in 2011. The 80 foot version integrated a core group of male dancers with invited interventions from various experts on the topic of 'precession' in different discourses.

The Artists have been in residence at Defibrillator since December 21st to rehabilitate the full version of the work for performances in Phoenix and NYC in 2012.