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OPENPORT:
Realtime Performance, Sound, & Language
www.openportchicago.com
Week Three: February 16-18
Each program: $12 ($10 students, seniors,
unemployed)
Friday February 16
Donna Rutherford (UK) - Ochone Ochone *
TNWK (UK) - Nurse Trash *
Talan Memmott (US) - Twittering
Tyne Dogger Panel Discussion
Saturday February
17
Dana Vinger & Robyn Okrant (US) - (nervous) system
Goat Island (US) - Lasting,
part one
Wilton Azevedo (BR) - Po e-Machine
TNWK (UK) - Nurse Trash *
Sunday February 18
Donna Rutherford (UK) - Ochone Ochone*
Talan Memmot (US) - Twittering
Wilton Azevedo (BR) - Po e-Machine
Marina Peterson (US) - Solo
cello
* Tyne Dogger artist
Tyne
Dogger artist
Donna Rutherford (UK) - Ochone Ochone
Friday,
February 16, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 18, 7:30pm
Glasgow-based solo performance artist Donna Rutherford looks at how
people overcome and move on from tragedy, or, when pushed to extremes,
the effects of avoidance and repression. Ochone refers to “sorrows
from before that are still with us,” and this emotional work
reveals complex layers of personal memory, with specific reference
to the Kurdish Iraqi community in Glasgow.
Prompted by an interest in the fine line between what is personal
and interesting, and what is personal and self-indulgent, Donna Rutherford
recently completed a three year Research Fellowship Taking the Personal
Out of Itself, including a collaboration with Stirling University’s
Psychology Department – Memory Lab, and the creation of a DVD
of interviews with other artists transforming personal memory into
completed art work. www.donnarutherford.org
“Ochone Ochone is more than an engagingly delivered series of
quirky confidences... dealing with the ongoing grief and the moral
dilemmas that are Iraq, I doubt there are many shows that touch on
that territory so tenderly and with such humanity." The Herald
(Scotland) Tyne
Dogger artist
TNWK (UK) - Nurse Trash
Friday, February 16, 7:30pm
Saturday, February 17, 7:30pm
In 1999, TNWK "destroyed" 100 books; they have been working
with the "remains" ever since, creating an ongoing series
of thought-provoking and visually seductive performances that combine
film, text, and spoken word.
TNWK (things not worth keeping) is a collaboration between Kirsten
Lavers (a multidisciplinary artist based in Cambridge, UK) and cris
cheek (a British performance poet currently based in Ohio). Their
work addresses issues of co-authorship, site-responsiveness, and
participation. www.tnwk.net
"TNWK's process releases value -- variously coded as commodity,
memory, connoisseurship, etc -- into the intensity of shared work."
Sandy Baldwin
Talan
Memmott (US) - Twittering
Friday, February 16, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 18, 7:30pm
Twittering is a hypermedia performance based on a paper-based work
of the same name: the phrases of Memmott’s written text, represented
as images, audio, and animations, are recombined
in realtime. The algorithmic composition is coupled with a live
reading of excerpts from the appendix of Memmott’s original
text.
Talan Memmott is a hypermedia writer/artist originally from San
Francisco, and now based in Monterey Bay, CA. He is the Creative
Director and Editor of the online hypermedia literary journal BeeHive.
His work Lexia to Perplexia has won numerous awards and is one of
the primary subjects of N. Katherine Hayles' Writing Machines. His
hypermedia work is generally web-based and freely accessible on
the Internet. Memmott is Assistant Professor of New Media in the
Teledramatic Arts and Technology Department at California State
University Monterey Bay, and he has taught new media and electronic
writing at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola in Karlskrona Sweden,
University of Colorado Boulder, Georgia Institute of Technology,
and the Rhode Island School of Design. He holds a MFA in Literary
Arts/Electronic Writing from Brown University. www.memmott.org
Dana Vinger
& Robyn Okrant (US) - (nervous) system
Saturday, February 17, 7:30pm
Separated by geography and time zones, theater and performance artists
Dana Vinger (Portland) and Robyn Okrant (Chicago) find commonality
in the systems that overwhelm their lives. They weave a tapestry
of spoken language from original and found texts that address both
personal and public concerns, including the corporate ideology that
shapes and fuels America’s urban public education system,
and a patient’s struggles in a sea of red tape, chronic pain,
and stifling amounts of conflicting medical advice.
A graduate of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s
Writing Program, Dana Vinger has had works produced in a variety
of small theaters along the West Coast, including Berkeley’s
Shotgun Theatre Lab and Oakland’s The Oakland Playhouse. She
was a 2006 finalist for Risk is This, The Cutting Ball Theatre’s
experimental play festival in San Francisco, and was a selected
participant for Clubbed Thumb Theatre’s Springworks Festival
in New York City. In Chicago, Vinger has had work produced for Performing
Arts Chicago’s PAC/edge Performance Festival, and she has
participated in a number of anything-and-everything pieces, such
as John Cage’s Musicircus at The Museum of Contemporary Art.
She has studied with playwright Mac Wellman, director Eugenio Barba,
and the members of Odin Teatret at the 12th International Session
of the International School of Theatre Anthropology, Germany. She
currently teaches in Portland, Oregon.
Robyn Okrant is a writer, director and performer,
based in Chicago for over a decade. Her solo and ensemble work has
been seen in theatres, galleries, and installation sites around
the country, as well as Chicago festivals, such as The Women's Performing
Arts Festival and Around The Coyote (where her solo work, Buddhism
for Beginners, was cited as Curator's Choice). She is currently
working on a project that interweaves live performance and online
streaming video. Robyn is a MFA candidate at The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago.
Goat Island
(US) - Lasting, part one
Saturday, February 17, 7:30pm
Goat Island Performance Group, the art students of Northside College
Preparatory High School, and special musical guest Smokey Hormel,
present a multi-media collaborative performance in celebration of
lastness. This event inaugurates a new web project, which responds
to Goat Island’s recent decision to make their last performance
together: www.thelastperformance.org; www.goatislandperformance.org
Goat Island began in 1987. They have created eight performances,
and have toured nationally and internationally. Their most recent
work When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a
comedy was selected for the 37th Annual Venice Biennale International
Theater Festival. They have collaborated on educational projects
with art teacher Jorge Lucero and the students of Chicago’s
Northside College Preparatory High School since 2003.
Smokey Hormel has played guitar with Beck, Johnny Cash, Dixie Chicks,
and Neil Diamond.
Wilton
Azevedo (BR) - Po e-Machine
Saturday, February 17, 7:30pm
Sunday, February 18, 7:30pm
Wilton Avezedo presents a performance of ‘sonorous expanded
writing’ generated in realtime from a mix of live voices and
virtual instruments. Po e-Machine, a project more than ten years
in the making, is a computer program designed to respond in unpredictable
ways to changes in its poetic labyrinth.
Wilton Azevedo was born in São Paulo, Brazil. He is an artist,
a graphic designer, poet and musician and a Doctor of Communication
and Semiotics. He has published O que é Design (Brasiliense),
and Os Signos do Design (Global). Interpoesia (CD-rom 2000) and
Looppoesia (CD-rom 2004) will soon be released together with Intertechnopoesia,
(sound CD) and Quando Assim Termino O Nunca (DVD 2005). Azevedo
is a professor and academic advisor for the postgraduate course
Educaçao, Arte e Historia da Cultura at Universidade Presbiteriana
Mackenzie. He has taken part in exhibitions in museums and art galleries
in Brazil, USA, Cuba, México, France, Italy, Holland, Germany,
England, France, Italy, Spain and Argentina. As a member of Transitoire
Observable group in 2004, he showed interactive works at Centre
George Pompidou. www.estudiounderlab.com
Marina Peterson
(US) - Solo cello
Marina Peterson presents improvised sonic explorations on the cello;
sometimes acoustic, sometimes amplified.
Marina Peterson, cello, plays primarily new and improvised music.
She is currently a member of Ensemble Noamnesia and Neme. Composers
and musicians with whom she has worked include Jonathon Chen, Gene
Coleman, Mike Cooper, Luc Ferrari, Geoff Gallegos ("GG"),
David Grubbs, Charlotte Hug, Jonathon Kirk, Wade Matthews, Rahzel,
Jane Rigler, Jesse Ronneau, Domenico Sciajno, Sharif and Christine
Sehnaoui, Fabrizio Spera, and Chao-Ming Tung. She has a PhD in Anthropology
from the University of Chicago and a Performer's Certificate from
Northern Illinois University. She is Assistant Professor of Performance
Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts at Ohio University
in Athens, OH.
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