How To Walk in Crayon Shoes Children were invited to draw music while dancing, using their feet rather than their hands. Drawings will revealed their emotional reaction to the sound, fellow participants, and the dynamic structure of the workshop.
Community Introduction Installation at Sugar City 2010 1. Participants from outside of Buffalo where invited to mail materials with detailed instructions of how to build whatever was in the box into the installation. 2. Participants in Buffalo followed the instructions collaborating with strangers and friends over the course of a summer. 3. The installation continued to evolve and at the end of the summer some of it became permanent in the Sugar City.
I have never understood anything 2012 felt on felt installaction in which movement near the piece makes it fall apart.
We Build Bridge Where There are No Words photo by Kevin Kline
Tool for Memorizing Revolutionary War Songs At The Wassaic Project 2012 (detail) Inspired by the revolutionary war kilns in Wassaic NY and the lack of catchy theme songs for the Occupy movement I created a tarp tent and cut patterns in it while memorizing revolutionary war songs.
Perspective Stories This situation specific installation presented audio recorded conversations with Buffalo area seniors at specific viewpoints in Buffalo City Hall. The exhibition explored mapping and what it means to present our subjective experiences as a culturally descriptive map.
Can You See Me? A GPS triggered mediascape made in Collaboration with Necole Zayatz at the HH Richardson Building (the old Buffalo State Asylum.) additional text available at: http://katrinaboemig.tumblr.com/
Can Not Control the Meaning of the Life Process A collaboration with Katrina Boemig, Yang Xin, Lou Wei, & Necole Zayatz. 2010-2011 Made in Beijing China and Buffalo, NY We asked people on the streets of Beijing and Buffalo about the most important things in their lives and translated their answers via drawing and gesture- creating two multi channel video installation with the final documentation. Each of the channels showing a separate collaborators perspective on the project.
Making a Memory from Scratch (Installaction) Copper Plates were placed on the floor and participants danced on top of it wearing "ice walkers" on their feet. Making an immediate impression of their actions on the copper plate, or drawing documentation of the event as it was happening. The music that was played was sourced by asking friends on social networking sites to send me a list of their favorite songs to dance to.
Making a Memory from Scratch (print) This is the print of the copper floor from the piece Making a Memory from Scratch. Each section of the print is 36” x 36” The original installaction happened in the fall of 2010 at ATTN:Artgoers. The piece was printed as a dry point with the help of Jonathan Barcan and Alicia Paolucci in the summer of 2011.
Hue Installaction Anonymous & Anonymous painted every abandoned cigarette butt in the rock garden hot pink. Making obvious what had once been hidden.
Get In/Get Out (1 & 2) Get In/ Get Out was installed at UB Center for the Arts and during Hallwalls' Artist and Models 2010. The piece was a mobile installation of hand cut paper silhouettes attached to floating helium balloons. In its first iteration cake and sherbet was served to those who were willing to walk through the piece. At it's second installation the piece was installed next to a dance floor so that the movements of the dancers might impact the movement of the art.
Cube-alicious We didn't invent cubicles, we just made them edible. A collaborative project with Bonnie Paisley, Sarah Farrahat and Al Larsen. Cube-alious pointed out the flaws in our current work place aesthetic while building up the morale of workers and art viewers alike. A huge amount of additional information is available on the project website, built by Al Larsen. follow the link.
Saving Us From Destruction is a collaborative tool for democratic choreography in action.
The Ducks was an absurdist protest and social interaction tool conceived in collaboration with Alice Alexandrescu, Caitlin Cass, Marc Tomko, Timothy Scaffiddi, and Shasti & Ruby O'Leary-Soundant among others.