6, 7, 8 Three RISD alumni present a week-long series of developing installation and performance work
Mobius presents “6.7.8”, a week-long interactive exhibition featuring ongoing performances by three alumni of the Rhode Island School of Design from Friday, May 14th through Thursday, May 20th. An opening reception and performance on May 14th from 8-10 pm heralds the beginning of a week-long series of developing installation and performance works by artists Kristina Bell DiTullo, Sara June, and Burns Maxey.
DiTullo, June, and Maxey graduated from RISD in 1996, 1997, and 1998, respectively and live and work in the Boston area. Brought together by Mobius Artist Group member, Sara June, the three will exhibit and perform works that explore themes of conditioning, psychology, and fate via robotics, movement, balloons, video, photography, bandages, and more. The work precludes the active interaction of audience members. Visitors are invited to become participants in the evolving works.
Kristina Bell DiTullo’s installation for 6.7.8 is about the dichotomy of nurturance and pain that occurs within our relationships. DiTullo creates a graphical representation of the complex interconnectedness of our interpersonal relationships by precisely layering sheer and clear bandages into intricate geometric patterns. These patterns appear on a massive scale on clear plastic sheets and within a smaller scale on swollen red balloons hung within the installation. The balloons will progressively multiply over the course of the exhibition and alter in response to visitor interaction. “The bandages serve to represent individuals, the weaving of our personal community and the protective layers we build,” says DiTullo.
Sara June will be showing a series of movement works, photographs, and video that document her relationship with Pleo, a robotic dinosaur. Pleo is an autonomous entity equipped with technology that aids its 'development' from hatchling to infant to juvenile based on the interactions it receives from its external environment. June is exploring the infant-mother attachment relationship via complex inter-relational responses to mutual touching, cooing, and cuddling, neglecting and ignoring. Concepts are based on the work of developmental psychologists Mary Ainsworth and her 'Strange Situation', and Harry Harlow who studied infant-mother attachment in rhesus monkeys. “Pleo displays a variety of reflexive behaviors to signal attention from caregivers. It screams, cries, sings, sleeps, coos, and cuddles. When left alone, Pleo searches for warmth and nurturance,” says June.
Burns Maxey’s installation presents an entertaining game of chance. Three large gifts, complete with bows, will be opened daily based on the selection by the previous day’s visitors. With cards, instructions, and video, the installation will rotate content exploring the random process of selection, free will and determinism, and the unpredictability of the outcome.
Fri May 14, 2010 - Thu May 20, 2010
Opening Reception and Performance
Friday, May 14th 8:00-10:00pm
Closing Reception and Performance
Thursday, May 20th, 8:00-10:00pm
Installation and Performance Viewing Hours
May 15 & 16 11:00am 6:00pm during SOWA Art Walk
May 17-19 4:00-6:00pm
DONATIONS ARE ACCEPTED FOR ALL PERFORMANCES
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Artist Bios
Kristina Bell DiTullo is an interdisciplinary visual artist who currently lives and works in Cambridge, MA. Kristina earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1996 and an MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. Her work has been shown nationally in exhibitions at various locations including the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; the Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; the New American Art Union, Portland, OR. The themes in her current work explore psychological states and relationships through precise technique with unique materials. She examines issues such as trauma, despair and isolation combined with the mind’s capacity to transform these states.
Sara June is an experimental movement maker based in Boston, MA. Her artistic influences derive from the study of Japanese avant-garde dance and theater forms, primarily the butoh dances of the 1960's created by Kazuo Ohno and Tatsumi Hijikata. Her recent work has focused on the relationships between human, proto-human, and machine movement as a method for studying human development. Recent solo and collaborative works have been quests to define these relationships through the use of primitive, robotic entities in performance. Since 1998, she has performed work in venues throughout the United States. She holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Studio Painting (1997), and a M.Ed. in Human Development and Psychology from Harvard University (2005).
Burns Maxey is an intermedia artist who lives and works in Western Massachusetts and has exhibited in Boston, San Francisco, New York, and throughout the New England area. Her work combines new and old technologies and media in innovative exhibition spaces outside of the gallery confines. Most recently she presented the first installment of the four-part site-specific endeavor Project Elements Easthampton, incorporating history, sound, living sculptures, audio walking tours and installation in a project about the city of Easthampton and how it relates to the four elements. In 2010, Maxey was awarded two grants from the Easthampton Cultural Council, a local agency that is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and she became a Mobius Artist Group member.
Donations are accepted for all performances
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