NATURE FETISH is over…

This past weekend, we closed the NATURE FETISH Exhibition at Grace Space and detached ourselves from the material of the opera, which we imagine we will never perform again. Live performance is as temporary as the weather…

We are sincerely grateful to all of the artists who performed during the Exhibition:
Elinor Thompson, Miles Pflanz , Matthew Silver, Dave Ruder, Lorene Bouboushian, Cory Bracken, Matthew Gantt and Ellen O’Meara (Illegal Dads),  Michael Newton, Natasha Missick, Katie Johnston, Arla Berman,Ivy Castellanos, Felix Morelo, Ryan Hawk, Jason Anastasoff, Lindsey Drury, Kyli Klevan with Steve May, Lillie D’Armon, Anya Liftig, Quinn Dukes, Kikuko Tanaka., Alessandra Eramo with David Grollman, Heather Warren Crow, Valerie Kuehne/Tuba?NoTuba, and Joseph Keckler.

Please visit PPL’S VIMEO for some documentation of these awesome performances as they go up one-by-one…
Here are some photos taken by Ryan Hawk of NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera… These are the PPL: JESSICA BATHURST, ARLA BERMAN,  MATTHEW GANTT, KATIE JOHNSTON, BRIAN MCCORKLE, NATASHA MISSICK, ESTHER NEFF, MICHAEL NEWTON, ELLEN O’MEARA, & DAVE RUDER

NATURE FETISH OPENS!

Are we ready? Are we ready?

Relax, just let it happen naturally.

Tonight, we are thrilled to openNATURE FETISH: A Public Opera, which will play six times, at 8pm Thurs-Saturday July 12-21 and additionally at 4pm on Saturdays.

Come to Grace Exhibition Space. You will not be sorry.

++++++++++++++ THESE ARTISTS AND THEIR FETISHES!!!!!!!

Thursday July 12: The Call of Nature: bodily functions and fluids, embodiment, waste, want, meat, and human impact on natural environments. FEATURING: Elinor Thompson, Miles Pflanz , Matthew Silver, Dave Ruder and Lorene Bouboushian.

Friday July 13: NATURE FETISH: Individuals.  Opera project collaborating artists, poets, composers, and performers show solo works dealing with their own projections of “the nature of nature.” FEATURING (some or all of the following): Jessica Bathurst, Cory Bracken, Matthew Gantt,  Brian McCorkle, Ellen O’Meara, Michael Newton, Natasha Missick, Katie Johnston, Arla Berman, Matthew Gantt, Dave Ruder, and others

Saturday July 14: SIMULTANEOUS: Nature Fetish Edition: Ivy Castellanos of IV Soldiers Gallery works with other performance artists simultaneously as an ecosystem or food chain or other emergent system. FEATURING: Felix Morelo, and others.

Thursday July 19: The Natural Spirit: field recordings, indeterminacy, fluxus, improvisation and the influence of performance art’s  “nature” on music and dance. FEATURING: Jason Anastasoff, Lindsey Drury, and Kyli Klevan

Friday July 20: Rituals and Totems: cultural semiology, feminism, naturalism, post-humanism, and the problematics of performance and anthropology. FEATURING: Lillie D’Armon, Anya Liftig, Quinn Dukes, and Kikuko Tanaka.

Saturday, July 21: Video and the Nature of the Self: Featuring Alessandra Eramo (w/ David Grollman), Heather Warren Crow, Valerie Kuehne/Tuba?NoTuba,  and Joseph Keckler.

 

Full NATURE FETISH Exhibition Artists Announced!

As part of each performance of NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera, artists working in time-based performance will deal directly with the “nature” of performance, operation of “nature” in performance, and conceptions of “nature” as such.   The space will open up into a full exhibition of performance, functioning  as a “natural history museum,” as a zoo, a circus, a farm, a forest, and a living body of research into subjective visions of nature as influenced by conceptual frameworks and performance practices.

Thursday July 12, Friday July 13, Thursday July 19, and Friday July 20
 8pm: NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera
9:30-11pm: NATURE FETISH Exhibition performances

Saturday July 14 and Saturday, July 21
4pm and 8pm: NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera
9:30-11pm: NATURE FETISH Exhibition performances

Grace Exhibition Space
840 Broadway, Floor 2
Brooklyn, NY, 11206
J/M/Z to Flushing Avenue

Individual Exhibition Conceptions and Artists for the NATURE FETISH Exhibitions are:

Matthew Silver

Lorene Bouboushian

Thursday July 12: The Call of Nature: bodily functions and fluids, embodiment, waste, want, meat, and human impact on natural environments. FEATURING: Elinor Thompson, Miles Pflanz , Matthew Silver, Dave Ruder and Lorene Bouboushian.

Friday July 13: NATURE FETISH opera project collaborating artists, poets, composers, and performers show solo works dealing with their own projections of “the nature of nature.” FEATURING: (see Public Opera team list below)

Saturday July 14: SIMULTANEOUS: Nature Fetish Edition: Ivy Castellanos of IV Soldiers Gallery works with other performance artists simultaneously as an ecosystem or food chain or other emergent system. FEATURING: Felix Morelo and other special guests.

SIMULTANEOUS I: IV Soldiers Gallery

Thursday July 19: The Natural Spirit: field recordings, indeterminacy, fluxus, improvisation and the influence of performance art’s  “nature” on music and dance. FEATURING: Jason Anastasoff, Lindsey Drury, and Kyli Klevan

Anya Liftig

Friday July 20: Rituals and Totems: cultural semiology, feminism, naturalism, post-humanism, and the problematics of performance and anthropology. FEATURING: Lillie D’Armon, Anya Liftig, Quinn Dukes, and Kikuko Tanaka.

Saturday, July 21: Video and the Nature of the Self: Featuring Alessandra Eramo, Heather Warren Crow, Valerie Kuehne,  and Joseph Keckler.

Alessandra Eramo

NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera: is new opera: a rat-man hybrid thriving across field and street and woods and desert, unaware that he is being watched, eating the scraps that have fallen down onto the tracks, squeaking in extended techniques at the top of his lungs.

Collaborative Team on the creation and production of NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera: Jessica Bathurst, Arla Berman, Cory Bracken, Devlin Goldberg, Katie Johnston, Brian McCorkle, Natasha Missick, Ellen O’Meara, Esther Neff, Michael Newton, and Dave Ruder

We are performing acts dually constructed from the philosophies of “non artists” who wandered into our workshops off the street and from the philosophies of so-called civilization: we are stretched taut across disciplines, we are human animals sniffing transhuman butts, we are anhingas simmering in salty grease, we are attempting to possess/objectify and be possessed by/be objectified by the “nature of nature,” as it all rots and streams in gluey rivulets through our fingers: we set out as scientists and have returned home de-anthropomorphized, clinging to five distinct aural performance theories: each episode embodying a theoretical cluster of senses and nonsenses regarding the “nature of nature.”

Theoretical frameworks for the episodes were built from human “fetishes,” or projected desires for the existence/agency/forms/forces of “nature,” and were sought/defined/constructed through five public workshops at University Settlement. A brief documentary video of this process can be seen at: http://vimeo.com/33440068. We then translated each stream of theory into process-based, often participatory, sometimes theatricalized frameworks and sequences of notated and aleatoric music, text, actions, and images. Lawful and logical natures, ecosystemic natures, chaotic natures, the wilds of conception are as thick with thorns as they are with edible berries.  Saxophone, guitar, violin, turntables, electronics, clarinet, percussion, voices, flute, feet.

The NATURE FETISH project has been developed through performance of the participatory frameworks, graphic scores, text, and music at Bronx Art Space, University Settlement, Center for Performance Research, and the City Reliquary and elsewhere in NYC and at BLO Ateliers, KuLe Theater and Sucked Orange Gallery in Berlin, DE.

NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera excerpt at Center for Performance Research

New Voices in Live Performance Curated by Anya Liftig
Dangling Modifier– After the Comma

June 15-16 @ 8pm

The Center for Performance Research
361 Manhattan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211

Tickets: Free, Donations for CPR encouraged

Artists: Tess Dworman with Kyli Klevan and Cailtin Marz, Panoply Performance Lab (Jessica Bathurst, Arla Berman, Katie Johnston, Devlin Goldberg, Brian McCorkle, Natasha Missick, Esther Neff, Michael Newton, Ellen O’Meara), John Berdel, Stephen Van Dyck

Dangling Modifier brings together east and west coast artists who are helping to define a new avant-garde. Brooklyn based Tess Dworman investigates the sculptural potentials of the face in movement work. Los Angeles artists John Berdel and Stephen van Dyck work with meditation, subtle infiltration into public spaces, and intimate performance scores. New York’s Panoply Performance Lab examines complex systems andtraces epistemic, emotional, and socio-political viewpoints/theories using
music, text, analog electronics, video, participatory elements, and found materials.

Photo by Ivy Castellanos

 

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NATURE FETISH “Open Call of Nature”

Open “Call of Nature” for Performance (NYC)

NATURE FETISH is a public exhibition July 12-21 at Grace Exhibition Space in Brooklyn, NYC.

NATURE FETISH is organized and curated by the Panoply Performance Laboratory (PPL) as part of their 3-year-old performance platform PERFORMANCY FORUM and as a social arts and performance research project. PPL will be performing their 90-minute “participatory performance art opera” (also called ‘NATURE FETISH’) each evening before opening the space into an exhibition featuring experimental performance artists and dance, sound, and video artists dealing with “the nature of nature.”  The exhibition will attempt to present artists current using and/or influenced by performance art’s body-based and conceptual “traditions” which have been variously labeled “naturalist,” “nativist,” or “feminist,” leading us into tangled forests of thought about authenticity, sustainability, embedded ongoing conceptions of femininity, cultural identity, etc.  Through this exhibition, we also hope to collectively test aesthetic and modal ways of dealing with human nature, natures of Being, and “nature”-based conceptions and fetishes/formal projections across social spheres and experimental performance disciplines.

The exhibition will take place over the course of six nights in July, “eco-logizing” clusters of artists into conceptual dealings with the nature of nature. There is some housing available but no fees are currently available. At-the-door donations will be split amongst the performing artists.

To propose a performance, please e-mail Esther Neff at panoplylab@gmail.com by June 18, 2012. Indicate which night interests you and write a little bit on why/how your work is related, and send links to your website/work samples online.

NATURE FETISH in Berlin

May 10-21 Brian McCorkle and Esther Neff, co-directors of PPL took participatory and conceptual frameworks, fragments, props, actions, text, and music from NATURE FETISH: A Public Opera and performed them during MPA-B in Berlin . Here are some images from two of these performances (at KuLe Theater and BLO Ateliers):

ITINERANT at Bronx Art Space

Thank you to Hector Canonge and the Queens Media Arts Development (QMAD) for curating an excerpt of NATURE FETISH into ITINERANT 2012, a borough-wide festival of performance art and interdisciplinary performance.

Photos of University Settlement Work-In-Progress performances

Here are some photos from the first of three work-in-progress performances culminating our residency through the Performance Project @University Settlement.

“the ensemble of PPL takes you warmly into their womb, lovingly, with the spirit of sharing and equalization. No one is singled out or put on the spot. You needn’t be afraid! Indeed, quite to the contrary, this is a uniquely sublime experience, simultaneously startling bizarre and familiarly fitting, like a long forgotten home, or the body from a past life.”

–Catrin Lloyd-Bollard for NYArts

READ THIS  FULL REVIEW OF THESE PERFORMANCES HERE.

 

 

NATURE FETISH full show, work-in-progress culmination of residency!

Thursday, April 26 at 8pm
Friday, April 27 at 8pm
and Saturday, April 28 at 8pm.

Finally, We are thrilled to invite you to 3 performances culminating our development residency through the Performance Project @ University Settlement!

Tickets are available HERE in advance.  University Settlement is at 184 Eldridge Street, NYC (J/M/Z/F to Delancey)

NATURE FETISH  is a hybrid rat-being thriving across field and street and woods and desert, now unaware that it is being watched, now meeting your eyes with a piercing gaze, now munching on the scraps that have fallen down onto the tracks, now squeaking in extended techniques at the top of its creosote-caked lungs.

PPL set out as social scientists and have returned home de-anthropomorphized, clinging to five distinct aural performance theories: each episode in this 5-part opera performs a theoretical cluster of senses and nonsenses regarding the “nature of nature.” These theoretical frameworks were built from human “fetishes,” or projected desires for the existence/agency/forms/forces of “nature,” and were sought/defined/constructed through five public workshops at University Settlement. A brief documentary video of this process can be seen at: http://vimeo.com/33440068. We then translated each stream of theory into process-based, often participatory, sometimes theatricalized frameworks and sequences of notated and aleatoric music, text, actions, and images, stretching ourselves taut across discipline and daily existence, sniffing transhuman butts, we are anhingas simmering in salty grease, we are attempting to possess/objectify and be possessed by/be objectified by the “nature of nature,” as it all rots and streams in gluey rivulets through our fingers. Grand piano, saxophone, guitar, violin, turntables, electronics, clarinet, percussion, voices, flute, feet, fuschia fog, iceberg lettuce.

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Collaborating Performers for the development of this project are: Jessica Bathurst, Arla Berman, Cory Bracken, Katie Johnston, Brian McCorkle, Natasha Missick, Ellen O’Meara, Esther Neff , Michael Newton, and Dave Ruder. The libretto, direction, and design is by Esther Neff, composition is by Brian McCorkle, both were written/notated in collaboration with the developing performers and the public participants in the Focus Workshops.

April 6 at City Reliquary

FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 8PM

PARTY! PARTY! PARTY! The NATURE FETISH  team will share a couple of Episodes from our latest 5-Episode opera at the newly re-opened City Reliquary. The first Episodes are like a mini-play (logical, dramaturgical! We swear!), and we’d love it if you came and gave us some feedback and shared some drinks with us…Short performance, mostly a party, if it’s nice out IN THE BACKYARD! (there is a treehouse!).

370 Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 7pm, FREE