"others will surely follow" and "Caterpillar" performances
Left: image courtesy of Danyel Ferrari and Rachel Higgins, Right: image courtesy of Glendalys MedinaTuesday, July 1, 2014 at 7:00pm
At EFA Project Space, 2nd floor of EFA Center (323 W. 39th St, Manhattan)
others will surely follow, Danyel Ferrari and Rachel Higgins
Rachel Higgins and Danyel Ferrari present a screening and selection of the projects created by both artists and audience using their (mobile structures) over the course of the exhibition. Drawing on the history of the body's performance/labor in Times Square--the street, the stage, and the semi-private pornographic theaters of the pre-gentrification era--Higgins and Ferrari are creating mobile structures to host a variety of projects intended for use by both participating artists and the general audience. Composed of mobile seating arrangements and a cart that falls somewhere between a traveling film unit and a movable stage, these objects are available to arrange for screenings, performances or events. Designed to also maneuver out o the gallery and travel into the street, these components will be activated throughout the run of the exhibition, allowing for multiple functions and configurations, and questioning our understanding of mobility as both freedom and precocity.
Caterpillar, Glendalys Medina
After practicing the rap song "One Mic" by NAS for months to learn how to become an MC, Glendalys Medina realized that vulnerability is her true source of power. So she wrote her own song, "Caterpillar," a song about transformation, which she will perform.
“No longer needing my uniform I disrobe. No longer needing my Mc pumas to feel assertive I place them in an acrylic box becoming my platform.” -Glendalys Medina
The music that accompanies this performance is by Flying Lotus.
These performances are organized in conjunction with Failing to Levitate on view June 6 - July 3, 2014. Please click here for more information about the exhibition and follow the projects as they evolve at failingtolevitate.net.
Danyel Ferrari is a Brooklyn-based artist and writer. Ferrari's work contends with issues of place, publics, and the material and psychological residues of pursuits of transformation. She is interested in working with specific locations to produce performances, choreographed events and installations in relationship to surrounding space and a site's particular histories--be they political, material or personal. She earned her BFA/BA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and an M.F.A. from Hunter College. Ferrari has been included in international exhibitions and has contributed writing to Bootprint, ArtSlant, Triple Canopy. www.danyelferrari.com
Rachel Higgins is a Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist. She creates sit-specific sculpture and participatory events, utilizing salvaged architectural materials and subverting the language of corporate design to re-imagine public space. Her work has been exhibited internationally. She was a recipient of the 2011 Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship and is a current resident in the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's 2013-2014 Workspace Program. Higgins received an MFA from Hunter College in 2010. www.rachelhiggins.com
Glendalys Medina is a New York based artist whose work has been shown at Artists Space, Museum of Contemporary Art in Vigo Spain and the Bronx Museum of Arts. Recently, she was a participant in the MARMA's residency program in Berlin during 2013 and was a resident at Yaddo in 2014. She was awarded the Rome Prize in Visual Arts for '12-'13 from the American Academy, a NYFA Fellowship in Interdisciplinary Art in 2012, a selected participant of NYFA's Boot-Camp Program in 2011 and awarded the Bronx Museum's Artist in the Marketplace(AIM) residency in 2010. glendalysmedina.com
