TEN DAY THAT SHOOK THE WORLD SCHEDULE
INSTALLATIONS
Anatomy & Architecture
Tim Winn & Zehra Khan, Provincetown
Women’s & Men’s Changing Rooms
Four reinforced paper giraffes are mounted on movable wooden casters and placed inside the ceiling openings of the male and female changing rooms. The giraffe heads protrude over the building, visible from the outside. Separation is the surreal glimpse of four giraffes trapped in the bathhouse, unable to reach one another. They exist within the limitations provided to them.
Tim and Zehra create multi-media installations and performances, but consider drawing to be their primary medium. They exploit and subvert the limitations of two-dimensional drawing as they fabricate primitive three-dimensional buildings, furniture, masks and costumes from paper. Photography and film document the costumed performers - usually themselves - as they interact in a surreal world where real objects and a paper reality collide. There is no photographic manipulation of images, as they share a love of the handmade. A collaborative team since 2008, Tim and Zehra create site-specific installations and projects inventing fictional narratives. Their subject matter often targets house vs. home, domesticity vs. wildness, and the natural vs. unnatural. Their work can be found at www.zehrakhan.com
Mud Bath
Wendelin Glatzel, Provincetown
on the beach
This seaside structure is made from recycled pallets and resembles a small translucent building. Inside the structure will be a pool filled with clay from the eroding cliffs along the ocean shore. Rituals around bathing, covering oneself with mud, letting it dry and washing it off, have been an age old practice to rejuvenate the body and simply to have fun.
As an artist I work in the mediums of painting, installation and video. With the bathhouse I feel that the medium of installation would be most suited, since it goes beyond the notion of decorating a building, but rather interacts with it by altering the structure through deduction or addition.
Palace of Shadows
Kevin Cotter, Provincetown, MA
Men’s Changing Room
I learned to swim at Herring Cove as a 5 year-old boy. My uncles were the lifeguards there and the bathhouse and food stand are among my earliest memories of what this place, Provincetown, means.
The simple, organic character, the patinas and unadorned formality of the buildings informed my later architectural aesthetic, beyond simple fondness.
This installation attempts to show a voice, a ghost of sorts who meshes with and has grown weathered as has the building. The media is traditional black and white film photography, enlarged and printed in a 1950's circus poster medium, impressed and applied into the wall textures and meant to be demolished with and referenced as the building is, with pieces seen in the rubble, arbitrary as a soul of the architecture.
Kevin has been art director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Time Magazine’s US tour of person of the year exhibits, ESPN’s Superbowl broadcast centers and European Football Championships. He has had painting/photo studios in New York City and Provincetown since 1991.
Roost
Jennifer Hicks, Boston
off Centennial Hall
Every year the Tree Swallow arrives on Cape Cod for a few days in a cloud of commotion and spectacle that marks their migration. Thousands of birds fill the sky with a sweeping mass of black spots, which swirl and swoop. They rest and feed then continue on their way. This installation of a giant nest and images of birds is to commemorate their birth, roosts, long migration and death. It commemorates their brief visit every year to the shores of Cape Cod and those lucky enough to witness it. To witness the roost in birds, as well as could be said of man, is to be blessed with the wonder of nature. And to experience the empty nest is to remember the path of life, home and its constant transformation.
Jennifer has been performing and teaching for over 25 years. She has been studying Butoh with some of the great Butoh teachers since the early 1990’s. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from Naropa University in Contemporary Performance, her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Tufts University and Degree in Fine Arts from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston and 5th Year Traveling Scholars Award recipient. Her dance company CHIMERAlab will be performing this winter in Boston so stay tuned. www.chimeralabtheatre.com,
www.jenniferhicks.org
Water Feature
Nathan Butera and Frank Vasello
Men's Changing Room
This piece is about transforming a utilitarian and often unpleasant space into a place of beauty and peace. As fountains and falling water often figure prominently in notable destinations such as the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Niagara Falls, Falling Water, or the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the artists hope to bring a similar kind of pleasing experience to an unlikely room.
Usually noted for distasteful smells, sounds of flatulence, hacking, and spitting, where one does not linger any longer than necessary, the artists instead draw one's attention to the inherent beauty of smooth, white porcelain and shiny chrome. The water falls cleanly over rounded edges and makes a pleasant splashing sound that echoes off the hard walls like an underground stream in a cave.
Further, the zen-like quality of contemplation these fountains can induce emphasizes the reality that a visit to the bathroom can often be the only time one may have for a brief moment of solitude amid a day busy tending to family, work, or socializing with others. The familiarity of watching fluids fall down the drains of these urinals and sinks is turned on its head as the water bubbles up from the drains, filling the basins and falling out into the world, as if the ocean nearby is beginning to reclaim this space for itself.
I Am Now. I Am Provincetown: Homage to ‘Art-Breaking’ Works of Staggering Genius by Provincetown Artists
Joe Davis & Johnny Kapple, Kingston, MA
off Centennial Hall
This work explores the themes of impermanence, time, and Provincetown’s cultural legacy. It was Eugene O’Neill who pointed out that, “The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.” The goal of this installation is to lead the viewer to an appreciation of the idea of the cultural life of Provincetown throughout the past century. Incorporating hand-blown glass art sculptures, graffiti art, sound art and a final performance piece which all serve as metaphors for impermanence and shared experience, the installation gives the viewer the opportunity to see things in it as the viewer’s fancy directs. The contrast between then and now helps the viewer to situate in the past an event which is happening in the present in the final days of the Bathhouse. www.davisandkapple.com
Message on a Bottle
Dorothy Palanza, Provincetown & NYC
Installation Assistants: Paloma Hobart & Ana Ruiz
Centennial Hall
This sight-specific installation transforms Centennial Hall into a sea of floating plastic bottles and objects with labels that give them “ownership” in a multitude of languages.
The accelerated use of plastics in everyday life has caused a detrimental impact on our oceans. Over the last 50 years the use of plastic has risen from negligible amounts at the beginning of the 50’s when this structure was built to massive usage in modern day life.
Dorothy Palanza was born in MA in a classic Italian-American family. She maintains both Italian and US citizenship, is fluent in multiple languages, and has traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas. Palanza is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA) and the UMass (MFA), studying painting with Jeremy Foss and John Grillo (thesis advisor, a student of Hans Hoffman), and printmaking with Fred Becker. She has worked as a muralist, fine artist, decorative painter and designer in New Orleans and NYC, where she established a following and works to this day. She apprenticed as a decorative painter with European master Alfred Junke and NYC’s Vincent Inamorata, and in 1992, founded Colorfields Studio, a fine art, decorative painting, restoration and design studio. During 1999, she moved Colorfields Studio to Berlin, living and working there and in NYC. In 2008, Palanza relocated Colorfields Studio to Provincetown, MA, and opened a new studio in NYC. Palanza has always felt passionately about painting and working with color. A rich knowledge of paint chemistry, and effects of color, form and texture on large surfaces, is evident in her work. Resisting thematic conventions, her work reflects the personal, environmental and sociocultural influences from her life experience and extensive history of exploration and collaboration in the arts. In 2010 Palanza founded “APPEARANCES” an annual eco-centric arts festival in Provincetown. She has had numerous group and solo shows and is collected by private patrons internationally. In addition to her fine art, decorative, restorative and design endeavors, she has also co-authored screenplays, animated series, and two popular European children’s books, ‘Helma legt los’ and ‘ Helma legt die Gockel rein’.
Sparky, the Transparent Juvenile Roundbelly Cowfish
Eva Marie Lansberry
East Portico
A delightful inflatable sculpture. Nearly transparent, one can almost see the story of what he had for dinner and how it gave him indigestion. Inspired by a photograph by Chris Newbert for National Geographic.
10'x12'x20' White Ripstop Nylon Inflateable, LED CPU fans, industrial floor fan, and bamboo.
Eva is an architect, set designer and puppet theater artist residing Brooklyn, NY. She has and interest and passion about scale and perception. EvaMarieLansberry.com
The Community Labyrinth and Silent Meditation for Peace Art PlanetOrganized by Bill Docker, Tom Stearns and Connie Hatchon the beach
An offering to the community of the Outer Cape and all visitors during the 10 Days of Art Festival and an opportunity for reflection, quietude and meditation.
Like the Bathhouse itself, the Labyrinth and Art AllTar is a simple reminder of impermanence.
Throughout the week many will walk the Labyrinth creating and building positive energy, which will be honored and released during the final Silent Community Meditation (see Sat, Oct 6).
The Labyrinth was born from the crumbling pieces of tar created by the power of the pounding sea, which swallowed the retaining wall protecting the Herring Cove Beach Bathhouse. The use of the tar and the AllTar in the labyrinth’s center pays recognition to our fragile environment and human’s futile attempts to control and hold back the forces of nature.
The flags are a reminder of the inner and global peace humanity can create in ourself and the world.
The center AllTar is dedicated to the artist in each of us. You are invited to add your own touch of creativity by walking the labyrinth with a sea-polished rock provided at the labyrinth’s entrance and leaving it at the AllTar with your personal message or creative touch. Or walk the labyrinth with a small piece of broken tar. The sea-polished stones and the sea-broken tar are a reminder of the power of nature - to create and to destroy. Namaste.
No Dumping
Greta Ribb and Nathan Stewart
Bathhouse entrance hallway
An installation of sculpture, sound and excavated early 20th century refuse.
Human perception distorts change. You walk through a timeline. In it is a struggle between decay and the romanticized past. Enjoy all the refuse falling apart around you. Do you recognize the smell
Greta is a sculptor and collage artist. She also writes and performs electronic music under the name Codeine Schoolboy. Born and raised in Harwich, she has been involved in many alternative Cape cultural events and organizations and is co-founder and a director of Big Collage Collective.
Life-long Cape resident Nathan Steward is an assemblage sculptor and photographer whose works approach themes of entrapment and psychological ideals.
SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY, Sept 28
GRAND OPENING
6:00-8:00pm
Join us for the Lash Hurrah for this New Beach icon. Reception, ceremony and a toast sponsored by Provincetown Chamber of Commerce.
SATURDAY, SEPT 29
WORKSHOP
11:00am–3:00pm
Images in Transformation: Free Butoh Master Class
with Jennifer Hicks, Boston
(See Sunday for performance event)
Bring warm clothes, lunch/snack and water. No dance experience required.
All welcome (best suited for those over the age of 16).
Light rain or shine. Call to confirm 508-241-0273.
Again and again we are reborn. It is not enough simply to be born of the mother’s womb. Many births are necessary. Be reborn always and everywhere. Again and again.” -Tatsumi Hijikata
We will explore in movement, image worlds related to nature, memory, disruptions in nature created by man and transformation. Through a kind of deep listening, we become the stories of the land and sea. We dissolve and are reformed only to dissolve again. Using big movements, micro movements, improvisation and quiet seeking we dance. We strip away our daily life to discover the hidden world underneath. It is fun, odd and challenging. Sometimes the hardest part is to just “be”.
*For all those interested, toward the end of the workshop we will create a structured improvisation based on the explorations of the day to be performed for an audience the next day. I will talk more about this at the workshop. Performance is at 1pm on Sunday. Costumes will be provided for the performance.
THEATER
5:30pm
Fog by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by Bragen Thaomas., Provincetown
Henry & Ada by Bragen ThomasDirected by Bragen ThomasFog, suggested by Susan Rand Brown, is one of O’Neill’s earliest one act plays.
Henry & Ada. In Provincetown, 1931, famed artist Henry Hensche unexpectedly meets his match when a shy English girl becomes his latest model. Based on the unpublished memoir of Ada Rayner Hensche and adapted for the stage by Bragan Thomas, with Braunwyn Jackett, Anna Henning, Bragan Thomas, and Andrew Clemons.
PANEL
7:30pm
Provincetown’s Centennial Legacy: State of the Art ColonyModerator: Jay Critchley, Provincetown, Bathhouse Project Creator
Linking the culturally fertile Provincetown decade of 1910 to the present decade, this discussion will reflect on time, climate, impermanence and Provincetown’s cultural legacy, past, present and future. Panelists include: Susan Rand Brown and other TBA.
SUNDAY, Sept 30
PERFORMANCE
1:00pm
UnNaming the UnKnown
Jennifer Hicks, Boston
Participants who took part in the workshop in Saturday have created this event for you. Please come and experience with us human beings as an element of deep nature. There are those who try to control nature, those who live in harmony with it and those who are overwhelmed by it. Then there are those who try to ignore it. But time keeps marching on. Our theme is impermanence. Let us know what you see in this surreal dance technique called Butoh.
Please email for questions: [email protected]
MONDAY, Oct 1
10:30am to 12:30 pm.
Provincetown School will tour the exhibition, meet with Marian Roth with her pinhole camera, and have lunch. Organized by Lisa Fox.
TUESDAY, Oct 2
10:00am
Provincetown Council on Aging will gather to tour the exhibitions and discuss memories and stories about the bathhouse.
PRESENTATION
2:00pm
Herring Cove Beach Bathhouse: What’s Next?
Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George Price
A look at the planning process and plans for the new bathhouse complex.
WEDNESDAY, Oct 3
EVENT: PAINTING DEMONSTRATION
10:00am to Noon
The Last Painting Demo
John Clayton, Provincetown artist
Open to the public.
http://www.johnclaytonstudio.com/bio.html
PERFORMANCE
6:30pm
Open Mic
Sponsored by Provincetown Public Library
Organized by Matt Clark
Contact: [email protected]
PRESENTATION
2:00PM
Geologic Studies of Herring Cove: Past, Present, Future
Dr. Graham Giese
Graham will reference the important 19th Century scientific studies covering the Herring Cove area, such as those by William Morris Davis, Henry Marindin, James D. Graham, H.S. Srellwagen and Henry L. Whiting. Their work is tied to more recent studies, and new studies just getting of the ground.
Graham is co-founder and a Senior Scientist at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Department of Marine Geology, where he currently serves as Director of the Land and Sea Interaction Program. Dr. Giese is also an Oceanographer Emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and has over 50 years experience in the fields of coastal geology and coastal oceanography.
THURSDAY, Oct 4
VIDEOTime TBA (evening)
HATERS WATCH what leaders do
Tim McCarthy, Director, Truro
The Provincetown Police Department’s No Place for Hate Committee held a public hearing on the hate crime that occurred in Provincetown in May 2009. This hearing included their newest student representative, Luke Hadley. His statement is the inspiration for this film. He really didn’t know what a hate crime was but he wanted to know and be involved in projects that could stop hate crimes. This is that project. The team is a diverse group from race and age to sexual orientation and gender. We follow the local hate crime thru the state and local systems and track the national hate crimes legislation thru congress in 2009. This film is intended to inspire youth to stand up to hate incidents in order to prevent them from escalating into hate crimes.
The Team: Luke Hadley – a 16 year old straight man adopted from Ecuador at age one by Americans; Pru Hinxman – a 21 year old transwoman; Tyler Periera – a 19 year old gay man, survivor of attempted suicide; Jeff Chapman – a 19 year old gay man with Juvenile diabetes; Tim McCarthy – a 53 year old gay video historian who has cohabited with HIV for over 23 years.
The Mission: What is a hate crime and why do people perpetrate them? What can anyone one of us do about them? These are some of the questions the investigative team try to answer in this motivational training film aimed at high schoolers. We follow a hate crime thru the judicial system as the national hate crimes legislation goes thru congress. www.liptv.us
FRIDAY, Oct 5
EVENT/READING/VIDEO
Poems for Grace/Poemas para Graçietta
Directed by Oona Patrick, Provincetown & NYC
Local Portuguese-American writers and others read poems from Provincetown and Portugal in a sunset literary reading dedicated to Grace Gouveia Collinson. Followed by a short film by Jay Critchley: Grace Gouvaia—Smoking Bomb.
This sunset reading honors the memory of Provincetown teacher, poet, and activist Grace (Graciette) Gouveia Collinson while recognizing that the years 1912–2012 in Provincetown witnessed the dispersal of much of the town’s Portuguese community. Writers include local members of the Portuguese-American writers’ collective Presence/Presença and others. In a format inspired by the “Favorite Poem Project,” readers will introduce the audience to a well known Portuguese or Luso-American poem in English, followed by poetry or prose of their own. The evening will also include a 12-minute film by Jay Critchley about the life of Grace Gouveia Collinson. Writers include: Jarita Davis (reading poems of Cape Verde); Yvonne DeSousa (reading Frank X. Gaspar); Joe Gouveia (reading Grace Gouveia); Barry Hellman (reading Fernando Pessoa); Oona Patrick (reading Sophia de Mello Breyner), and others. Q&A and refreshments.
SATURDAY, Oct 6
EVENT/PERFORaMANCE
SILENT COMMUNITY MEDITATION
The Community Labyrinth and Silent Meditation for Peace Art Planet
Organized by Bill Docker, Tom Stearns and Connie Hatch
An offering to the community of the Outer Cape and all visitors during the 10 Days of Art Festival and an opportunity for reflection, quietude and meditation.
For this ten-minute Silent Community Meditation for Peace Art Planet , all are invited to participate. We will enter the Labyrinth (see Installations) together and collectively release the powerful collective energy of the 10 Days of Art Festival. Like the Bathhouse itself, the Labyrinth and Art AllTar is a simple reminder of impermanence.
Throughout the week many will walk the Labyrinth creating and building positive energy, which will be honored and released during the final Silent Community Meditation.
PERFORMANCENoon-4:00pm+
Salt-h(e/a)ir: Scorpio Sun, Cancer Moon, Pisces RisingBailey Nolan, Director, Ridgewood, NY
She is a false civilization without history or context, a country who travels by whale. Salt-h(e/a)ir will find Herring Cove roots on the afternoon of the autumn equinox. You will never find her without the sea and you will never find her again. Do not miss the beaching, the unpacking, and the drowning.
BabySkinGlove is a performance collective of energy-altering force based out of Brooklyn, NY and directed by Bailey Nolan which emphasizes social, spatial, and historical manipulation. www.babyskinglove.com
PERFORMANCE
3-6:00pm
Heather Kapplow, New York City
Concessions
A site-specific conceptual/performance piece at the Concessions Stand .
It interweaves two themes: Reed's "Ten Days That Shook The World", and my personal quest for a true vocation, which I have been exploring through a series of conceptual, performance, and interactive installation projects since 2004.
Each piece in the series has involved my creating an unusual interpretation of a vocational activity in a site- or context-specific way. The most recent (2012) pieces were "Seeing Red" performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; "Maintenance" a weekly guerilla performance at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (July/ August); and "The Crevice Gallery", Art Market Provincetown (through Nov 4).
Heather Kapplow is a self-taught, American conceptual artist using writing, interactive performance, installation, audio and video. Her artistic focus is on exploring very simple philosophical questions about the workings of daily life. These investigations are generally playful, and require audiences to be active agents in the process. Her work has received government and private grants, and has been included in galleries, film and performance festivals in the US and internationally.
PERFORMANCE
Swimming In-Depth
Joe Joe Orangias, Boston
Perfromance installation, shower room
This performative installation consists of a contained body of water in the changing room shower. I will be on an underwater exploration within the sculpture to consider the physical mediation and transition space between my body and the bath house, myself and people inhabiting the bath house, and my body with the history of the bath house. I ask the audience to throw a penny in the pool with me and make a wish. The pennies will be dispersed at the end of the performance, and new connections will be made through an induced environmental catastrophe.
Joe Joe is a multi-media artist based in Boston. His work merges architecture, objects, and the landscape with ideas of the body and different social groups. Through the studio, research, and working with local people his projects find form. Orangias was a recent artist-in-residence at Art342 Foundation in Fort Collins, Colorado and will soon be in residence at the HFBK in Hamburg, Germany. He is an MFA Studio Art Candidate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in affiliation with Tufts University. www.joejoeorangias.com
THEATER
Marilyn Monroe Communist
Written and performed by Marilyn Nussbaum Freeman
Directed by David Drake, Provincetown
This one-woman show brings to life the enduring Hollywood icon, along with 12 other characters, in a wild weave of Marilyn's words with Melissa's own story of being a "red-diaper baby" (child of communist parents). New light is shed on our collective history, as Monroe says: "being brought up differently from the Average American child". After 50 years, is she...was she...who was she?
Melissa is a graduate of El Centro Morelense de las Artes en Teatro; Mass Cultural Council grantee for her piece "La Doña of Santa Cruz"; featured this summer in the film "The Spirits of Salem". Melissa is looking forward to a second off-season of writing, starring, assistant directing the indie TV show OFFSEASON here in Provincetown. http://provincetownmagazine.org/Theatre/review-marilyn-monroe-communist
SUNDAY, Oct 7
PERFORMANCE
Heather Kapplow, NYC
Concessions
A site-specific conceptual/performance piece at the Concessions Stand. (See Oct 6).
PERFORMANCE
Joanna Tam and Leah Craig, Jamaica Plain, MA
Public bathhouses have long been places for people to talk, gossip and share stories,
showers as a site of conversation and reflection. Joanna and Craig will shower in adjacent stalls while talking with each otherabout their experience in the cities where they have lived in the past. Leah will discuss LasVegas, a city that exists in a state of ceaseless transition, death and rebirth. Joanna will talk about Hong Kong, a city that is a site of many converging identities.
Their conversations will center on the nature of permanence, expansion and collapse, and the relationship between economy, environment, and social identity within their respective hometowns. Through this dialogue, they hope to ignite thoughtful examination in viewers about how such topics have come to affect and mold the multifaceted identity of Provincetown.
Throughout the performance, in their robes and bathing suits, they will lather and bathe in soaps that they made using essences local to Provincetown to create a space that is olfactorily familiar or nostalgic. After the performance, they will leave a bowl of the soaps in the shower.
Leah is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boston. Employing reciprocity and
interpersonal exchange as her art-making process, and interactive performance as her mode of production, Leah invites participants to deepen their understanding of place.
Joanna is a Boston based visual artist. Her interdisciplinary art practice examines
the issues of communication and miscommunication, displacement and social
interaction in our contemporary globalized society. Joanna has used conversation as a medium to examine social relationship in various contexts.
Saturday Oct 6
Sunday, Oct 7
Changes Taking Place
Sally DeAngelis & Ingrid Schorr, Lowell, MA
The spectrum of changes experienced by and influenced by women during the 1910s, such as birth control and the right to vote, is the inspiration for this dance performance. It explores the changing roles of women and is informed by popular dances and modern dances of the times, and the "mud heads" painting style taught by Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown. Performers Sally DeAngelis, Liz Fillipone and Ingrid Schorr investigate the spaces created, shared, and between change and movement in the personal and collective, dramatic and visible, subtle and concealed, inside and outside the changing rooms of the bathhouse.
Sally is a dancer, choreographer and performer based in Lowell, MA. She recently choreographed "Lowell Offerings", a series of outdoor dances inspired by the working women of Lowell. She danced with Back Porch Dance Company. Ingrid Schorr, Ed.M., has performed throughout Massachusetts as an actor and dancer. In 2009 she danced in the premiere of Susan Dibble's dance theater adaptation of "The House of Mirth," for the Brandeis Theater Company. Liz Filippone is a NY-based Performance Artist inspired by butoh, physical theater, yoga, and bodywork. For the past 9 years she has performed and choreographed both solo and group work at the performance series Bare Bones Butoh in San Francisco.
PERFORMANCESonic Architectural Re-imagining of Provincetown
Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Providence, RI
A trio of improvising musicians rearranges the Provincetown Harbor skyline through electronic/experimental music, creating a new virtual Provincetown shaped by musical actions.
Arvid Tomayko-Peters - TOOB, electronics, interactive video projection
Steve Schwartz - drums
Elliot Creager - guitar
This piece explores a world where Provincetown's architecture is like the shifting sands of the dunes - quickly multiplying and twisting in the winds of sound, continuously morphing to a new shape. The visual basis of the piece if a 360 degree panoramic video shot in Provincetown Harbor. As the audience's view rotates slowly to take in the skyline of the harbor, a trio of musicians improvises, using the video as a rough graphical score. Buildings and parts of the landscape in the video are moved, re-shaped and duplicated live in reaction to the musical actions of the performers, each of which has the ability to modify the town in a different manner.
The audience experiences the process of reshaping as it happens, potentially generating new ways to think about the space of the town. I performed a version of this piece using the skyline of Providence in fall 2011. Videos of the two performances:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU_x5pEzUMI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9_MYhw_ZyM
Arvid, born and raised in Truro, is a Providence-based experimental musician, composer and multimedia artist interested in live, improvised, electronic music performance, data or process driven composition, and the intersection of those two worlds. He builds and performs with extended digital instruments, including the TOOB - a wireless hyper-trumpet. He recently studied Computer Music and Multimedia and Geology at Brown University. More information at arvidtp.net.
INSTALLATIONS
Anatomy & Architecture
Tim Winn & Zehra Khan, Provincetown
Women’s & Men’s Changing Rooms
Four reinforced paper giraffes are mounted on movable wooden casters and placed inside the ceiling openings of the male and female changing rooms. The giraffe heads protrude over the building, visible from the outside. Separation is the surreal glimpse of four giraffes trapped in the bathhouse, unable to reach one another. They exist within the limitations provided to them.
Tim and Zehra create multi-media installations and performances, but consider drawing to be their primary medium. They exploit and subvert the limitations of two-dimensional drawing as they fabricate primitive three-dimensional buildings, furniture, masks and costumes from paper. Photography and film document the costumed performers - usually themselves - as they interact in a surreal world where real objects and a paper reality collide. There is no photographic manipulation of images, as they share a love of the handmade. A collaborative team since 2008, Tim and Zehra create site-specific installations and projects inventing fictional narratives. Their subject matter often targets house vs. home, domesticity vs. wildness, and the natural vs. unnatural. Their work can be found at www.zehrakhan.com
Mud Bath
Wendelin Glatzel, Provincetown
on the beach
This seaside structure is made from recycled pallets and resembles a small translucent building. Inside the structure will be a pool filled with clay from the eroding cliffs along the ocean shore. Rituals around bathing, covering oneself with mud, letting it dry and washing it off, have been an age old practice to rejuvenate the body and simply to have fun.
As an artist I work in the mediums of painting, installation and video. With the bathhouse I feel that the medium of installation would be most suited, since it goes beyond the notion of decorating a building, but rather interacts with it by altering the structure through deduction or addition.
Palace of Shadows
Kevin Cotter, Provincetown, MA
Men’s Changing Room
I learned to swim at Herring Cove as a 5 year-old boy. My uncles were the lifeguards there and the bathhouse and food stand are among my earliest memories of what this place, Provincetown, means.
The simple, organic character, the patinas and unadorned formality of the buildings informed my later architectural aesthetic, beyond simple fondness.
This installation attempts to show a voice, a ghost of sorts who meshes with and has grown weathered as has the building. The media is traditional black and white film photography, enlarged and printed in a 1950's circus poster medium, impressed and applied into the wall textures and meant to be demolished with and referenced as the building is, with pieces seen in the rubble, arbitrary as a soul of the architecture.
Kevin has been art director for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Time Magazine’s US tour of person of the year exhibits, ESPN’s Superbowl broadcast centers and European Football Championships. He has had painting/photo studios in New York City and Provincetown since 1991.
Roost
Jennifer Hicks, Boston
off Centennial Hall
Every year the Tree Swallow arrives on Cape Cod for a few days in a cloud of commotion and spectacle that marks their migration. Thousands of birds fill the sky with a sweeping mass of black spots, which swirl and swoop. They rest and feed then continue on their way. This installation of a giant nest and images of birds is to commemorate their birth, roosts, long migration and death. It commemorates their brief visit every year to the shores of Cape Cod and those lucky enough to witness it. To witness the roost in birds, as well as could be said of man, is to be blessed with the wonder of nature. And to experience the empty nest is to remember the path of life, home and its constant transformation.
Jennifer has been performing and teaching for over 25 years. She has been studying Butoh with some of the great Butoh teachers since the early 1990’s. She received her Masters of Fine Arts from Naropa University in Contemporary Performance, her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Tufts University and Degree in Fine Arts from The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston and 5th Year Traveling Scholars Award recipient. Her dance company CHIMERAlab will be performing this winter in Boston so stay tuned. www.chimeralabtheatre.com,
www.jenniferhicks.org
Water Feature
Nathan Butera and Frank Vasello
Men's Changing Room
This piece is about transforming a utilitarian and often unpleasant space into a place of beauty and peace. As fountains and falling water often figure prominently in notable destinations such as the Trevi Fountain in Rome, Niagara Falls, Falling Water, or the Bellagio in Las Vegas, the artists hope to bring a similar kind of pleasing experience to an unlikely room.
Usually noted for distasteful smells, sounds of flatulence, hacking, and spitting, where one does not linger any longer than necessary, the artists instead draw one's attention to the inherent beauty of smooth, white porcelain and shiny chrome. The water falls cleanly over rounded edges and makes a pleasant splashing sound that echoes off the hard walls like an underground stream in a cave.
Further, the zen-like quality of contemplation these fountains can induce emphasizes the reality that a visit to the bathroom can often be the only time one may have for a brief moment of solitude amid a day busy tending to family, work, or socializing with others. The familiarity of watching fluids fall down the drains of these urinals and sinks is turned on its head as the water bubbles up from the drains, filling the basins and falling out into the world, as if the ocean nearby is beginning to reclaim this space for itself.
I Am Now. I Am Provincetown: Homage to ‘Art-Breaking’ Works of Staggering Genius by Provincetown Artists
Joe Davis & Johnny Kapple, Kingston, MA
off Centennial Hall
This work explores the themes of impermanence, time, and Provincetown’s cultural legacy. It was Eugene O’Neill who pointed out that, “The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.” The goal of this installation is to lead the viewer to an appreciation of the idea of the cultural life of Provincetown throughout the past century. Incorporating hand-blown glass art sculptures, graffiti art, sound art and a final performance piece which all serve as metaphors for impermanence and shared experience, the installation gives the viewer the opportunity to see things in it as the viewer’s fancy directs. The contrast between then and now helps the viewer to situate in the past an event which is happening in the present in the final days of the Bathhouse. www.davisandkapple.com
Message on a Bottle
Dorothy Palanza, Provincetown & NYC
Installation Assistants: Paloma Hobart & Ana Ruiz
Centennial Hall
This sight-specific installation transforms Centennial Hall into a sea of floating plastic bottles and objects with labels that give them “ownership” in a multitude of languages.
The accelerated use of plastics in everyday life has caused a detrimental impact on our oceans. Over the last 50 years the use of plastic has risen from negligible amounts at the beginning of the 50’s when this structure was built to massive usage in modern day life.
Dorothy Palanza was born in MA in a classic Italian-American family. She maintains both Italian and US citizenship, is fluent in multiple languages, and has traveled throughout Europe, the Middle East, North Africa and the Americas. Palanza is a graduate of the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (BFA) and the UMass (MFA), studying painting with Jeremy Foss and John Grillo (thesis advisor, a student of Hans Hoffman), and printmaking with Fred Becker. She has worked as a muralist, fine artist, decorative painter and designer in New Orleans and NYC, where she established a following and works to this day. She apprenticed as a decorative painter with European master Alfred Junke and NYC’s Vincent Inamorata, and in 1992, founded Colorfields Studio, a fine art, decorative painting, restoration and design studio. During 1999, she moved Colorfields Studio to Berlin, living and working there and in NYC. In 2008, Palanza relocated Colorfields Studio to Provincetown, MA, and opened a new studio in NYC. Palanza has always felt passionately about painting and working with color. A rich knowledge of paint chemistry, and effects of color, form and texture on large surfaces, is evident in her work. Resisting thematic conventions, her work reflects the personal, environmental and sociocultural influences from her life experience and extensive history of exploration and collaboration in the arts. In 2010 Palanza founded “APPEARANCES” an annual eco-centric arts festival in Provincetown. She has had numerous group and solo shows and is collected by private patrons internationally. In addition to her fine art, decorative, restorative and design endeavors, she has also co-authored screenplays, animated series, and two popular European children’s books, ‘Helma legt los’ and ‘ Helma legt die Gockel rein’.
Sparky, the Transparent Juvenile Roundbelly Cowfish
Eva Marie Lansberry
East Portico
A delightful inflatable sculpture. Nearly transparent, one can almost see the story of what he had for dinner and how it gave him indigestion. Inspired by a photograph by Chris Newbert for National Geographic.
10'x12'x20' White Ripstop Nylon Inflateable, LED CPU fans, industrial floor fan, and bamboo.
Eva is an architect, set designer and puppet theater artist residing Brooklyn, NY. She has and interest and passion about scale and perception. EvaMarieLansberry.com
The Community Labyrinth and Silent Meditation for Peace Art PlanetOrganized by Bill Docker, Tom Stearns and Connie Hatchon the beach
An offering to the community of the Outer Cape and all visitors during the 10 Days of Art Festival and an opportunity for reflection, quietude and meditation.
Like the Bathhouse itself, the Labyrinth and Art AllTar is a simple reminder of impermanence.
Throughout the week many will walk the Labyrinth creating and building positive energy, which will be honored and released during the final Silent Community Meditation (see Sat, Oct 6).
The Labyrinth was born from the crumbling pieces of tar created by the power of the pounding sea, which swallowed the retaining wall protecting the Herring Cove Beach Bathhouse. The use of the tar and the AllTar in the labyrinth’s center pays recognition to our fragile environment and human’s futile attempts to control and hold back the forces of nature.
The flags are a reminder of the inner and global peace humanity can create in ourself and the world.
The center AllTar is dedicated to the artist in each of us. You are invited to add your own touch of creativity by walking the labyrinth with a sea-polished rock provided at the labyrinth’s entrance and leaving it at the AllTar with your personal message or creative touch. Or walk the labyrinth with a small piece of broken tar. The sea-polished stones and the sea-broken tar are a reminder of the power of nature - to create and to destroy. Namaste.
No Dumping
Greta Ribb and Nathan Stewart
Bathhouse entrance hallway
An installation of sculpture, sound and excavated early 20th century refuse.
Human perception distorts change. You walk through a timeline. In it is a struggle between decay and the romanticized past. Enjoy all the refuse falling apart around you. Do you recognize the smell
Greta is a sculptor and collage artist. She also writes and performs electronic music under the name Codeine Schoolboy. Born and raised in Harwich, she has been involved in many alternative Cape cultural events and organizations and is co-founder and a director of Big Collage Collective.
Life-long Cape resident Nathan Steward is an assemblage sculptor and photographer whose works approach themes of entrapment and psychological ideals.
SCHEDULE:
FRIDAY, Sept 28
GRAND OPENING
6:00-8:00pm
Join us for the Lash Hurrah for this New Beach icon. Reception, ceremony and a toast sponsored by Provincetown Chamber of Commerce.
SATURDAY, SEPT 29
WORKSHOP
11:00am–3:00pm
Images in Transformation: Free Butoh Master Class
with Jennifer Hicks, Boston
(See Sunday for performance event)
Bring warm clothes, lunch/snack and water. No dance experience required.
All welcome (best suited for those over the age of 16).
Light rain or shine. Call to confirm 508-241-0273.
Again and again we are reborn. It is not enough simply to be born of the mother’s womb. Many births are necessary. Be reborn always and everywhere. Again and again.” -Tatsumi Hijikata
We will explore in movement, image worlds related to nature, memory, disruptions in nature created by man and transformation. Through a kind of deep listening, we become the stories of the land and sea. We dissolve and are reformed only to dissolve again. Using big movements, micro movements, improvisation and quiet seeking we dance. We strip away our daily life to discover the hidden world underneath. It is fun, odd and challenging. Sometimes the hardest part is to just “be”.
*For all those interested, toward the end of the workshop we will create a structured improvisation based on the explorations of the day to be performed for an audience the next day. I will talk more about this at the workshop. Performance is at 1pm on Sunday. Costumes will be provided for the performance.
THEATER
5:30pm
Fog by Eugene O’Neill
Directed by Bragen Thaomas., Provincetown
Henry & Ada by Bragen ThomasDirected by Bragen ThomasFog, suggested by Susan Rand Brown, is one of O’Neill’s earliest one act plays.
Henry & Ada. In Provincetown, 1931, famed artist Henry Hensche unexpectedly meets his match when a shy English girl becomes his latest model. Based on the unpublished memoir of Ada Rayner Hensche and adapted for the stage by Bragan Thomas, with Braunwyn Jackett, Anna Henning, Bragan Thomas, and Andrew Clemons.
PANEL
7:30pm
Provincetown’s Centennial Legacy: State of the Art ColonyModerator: Jay Critchley, Provincetown, Bathhouse Project Creator
Linking the culturally fertile Provincetown decade of 1910 to the present decade, this discussion will reflect on time, climate, impermanence and Provincetown’s cultural legacy, past, present and future. Panelists include: Susan Rand Brown and other TBA.
SUNDAY, Sept 30
PERFORMANCE
1:00pm
UnNaming the UnKnown
Jennifer Hicks, Boston
Participants who took part in the workshop in Saturday have created this event for you. Please come and experience with us human beings as an element of deep nature. There are those who try to control nature, those who live in harmony with it and those who are overwhelmed by it. Then there are those who try to ignore it. But time keeps marching on. Our theme is impermanence. Let us know what you see in this surreal dance technique called Butoh.
Please email for questions: [email protected]
MONDAY, Oct 1
10:30am to 12:30 pm.
Provincetown School will tour the exhibition, meet with Marian Roth with her pinhole camera, and have lunch. Organized by Lisa Fox.
TUESDAY, Oct 2
10:00am
Provincetown Council on Aging will gather to tour the exhibitions and discuss memories and stories about the bathhouse.
PRESENTATION
2:00pm
Herring Cove Beach Bathhouse: What’s Next?
Cape Cod National Seashore Superintendent George Price
A look at the planning process and plans for the new bathhouse complex.
WEDNESDAY, Oct 3
EVENT: PAINTING DEMONSTRATION
10:00am to Noon
The Last Painting Demo
John Clayton, Provincetown artist
Open to the public.
http://www.johnclaytonstudio.com/bio.html
PERFORMANCE
6:30pm
Open Mic
Sponsored by Provincetown Public Library
Organized by Matt Clark
Contact: [email protected]
PRESENTATION
2:00PM
Geologic Studies of Herring Cove: Past, Present, Future
Dr. Graham Giese
Graham will reference the important 19th Century scientific studies covering the Herring Cove area, such as those by William Morris Davis, Henry Marindin, James D. Graham, H.S. Srellwagen and Henry L. Whiting. Their work is tied to more recent studies, and new studies just getting of the ground.
Graham is co-founder and a Senior Scientist at the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies, Department of Marine Geology, where he currently serves as Director of the Land and Sea Interaction Program. Dr. Giese is also an Oceanographer Emeritus at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and has over 50 years experience in the fields of coastal geology and coastal oceanography.
THURSDAY, Oct 4
VIDEOTime TBA (evening)
HATERS WATCH what leaders do
Tim McCarthy, Director, Truro
The Provincetown Police Department’s No Place for Hate Committee held a public hearing on the hate crime that occurred in Provincetown in May 2009. This hearing included their newest student representative, Luke Hadley. His statement is the inspiration for this film. He really didn’t know what a hate crime was but he wanted to know and be involved in projects that could stop hate crimes. This is that project. The team is a diverse group from race and age to sexual orientation and gender. We follow the local hate crime thru the state and local systems and track the national hate crimes legislation thru congress in 2009. This film is intended to inspire youth to stand up to hate incidents in order to prevent them from escalating into hate crimes.
The Team: Luke Hadley – a 16 year old straight man adopted from Ecuador at age one by Americans; Pru Hinxman – a 21 year old transwoman; Tyler Periera – a 19 year old gay man, survivor of attempted suicide; Jeff Chapman – a 19 year old gay man with Juvenile diabetes; Tim McCarthy – a 53 year old gay video historian who has cohabited with HIV for over 23 years.
The Mission: What is a hate crime and why do people perpetrate them? What can anyone one of us do about them? These are some of the questions the investigative team try to answer in this motivational training film aimed at high schoolers. We follow a hate crime thru the judicial system as the national hate crimes legislation goes thru congress. www.liptv.us
FRIDAY, Oct 5
EVENT/READING/VIDEO
Poems for Grace/Poemas para Graçietta
Directed by Oona Patrick, Provincetown & NYC
Local Portuguese-American writers and others read poems from Provincetown and Portugal in a sunset literary reading dedicated to Grace Gouveia Collinson. Followed by a short film by Jay Critchley: Grace Gouvaia—Smoking Bomb.
This sunset reading honors the memory of Provincetown teacher, poet, and activist Grace (Graciette) Gouveia Collinson while recognizing that the years 1912–2012 in Provincetown witnessed the dispersal of much of the town’s Portuguese community. Writers include local members of the Portuguese-American writers’ collective Presence/Presença and others. In a format inspired by the “Favorite Poem Project,” readers will introduce the audience to a well known Portuguese or Luso-American poem in English, followed by poetry or prose of their own. The evening will also include a 12-minute film by Jay Critchley about the life of Grace Gouveia Collinson. Writers include: Jarita Davis (reading poems of Cape Verde); Yvonne DeSousa (reading Frank X. Gaspar); Joe Gouveia (reading Grace Gouveia); Barry Hellman (reading Fernando Pessoa); Oona Patrick (reading Sophia de Mello Breyner), and others. Q&A and refreshments.
SATURDAY, Oct 6
EVENT/PERFORaMANCE
SILENT COMMUNITY MEDITATION
The Community Labyrinth and Silent Meditation for Peace Art Planet
Organized by Bill Docker, Tom Stearns and Connie Hatch
An offering to the community of the Outer Cape and all visitors during the 10 Days of Art Festival and an opportunity for reflection, quietude and meditation.
For this ten-minute Silent Community Meditation for Peace Art Planet , all are invited to participate. We will enter the Labyrinth (see Installations) together and collectively release the powerful collective energy of the 10 Days of Art Festival. Like the Bathhouse itself, the Labyrinth and Art AllTar is a simple reminder of impermanence.
Throughout the week many will walk the Labyrinth creating and building positive energy, which will be honored and released during the final Silent Community Meditation.
PERFORMANCENoon-4:00pm+
Salt-h(e/a)ir: Scorpio Sun, Cancer Moon, Pisces RisingBailey Nolan, Director, Ridgewood, NY
She is a false civilization without history or context, a country who travels by whale. Salt-h(e/a)ir will find Herring Cove roots on the afternoon of the autumn equinox. You will never find her without the sea and you will never find her again. Do not miss the beaching, the unpacking, and the drowning.
BabySkinGlove is a performance collective of energy-altering force based out of Brooklyn, NY and directed by Bailey Nolan which emphasizes social, spatial, and historical manipulation. www.babyskinglove.com
PERFORMANCE
3-6:00pm
Heather Kapplow, New York City
Concessions
A site-specific conceptual/performance piece at the Concessions Stand .
It interweaves two themes: Reed's "Ten Days That Shook The World", and my personal quest for a true vocation, which I have been exploring through a series of conceptual, performance, and interactive installation projects since 2004.
Each piece in the series has involved my creating an unusual interpretation of a vocational activity in a site- or context-specific way. The most recent (2012) pieces were "Seeing Red" performed at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; "Maintenance" a weekly guerilla performance at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (July/ August); and "The Crevice Gallery", Art Market Provincetown (through Nov 4).
Heather Kapplow is a self-taught, American conceptual artist using writing, interactive performance, installation, audio and video. Her artistic focus is on exploring very simple philosophical questions about the workings of daily life. These investigations are generally playful, and require audiences to be active agents in the process. Her work has received government and private grants, and has been included in galleries, film and performance festivals in the US and internationally.
PERFORMANCE
Swimming In-Depth
Joe Joe Orangias, Boston
Perfromance installation, shower room
This performative installation consists of a contained body of water in the changing room shower. I will be on an underwater exploration within the sculpture to consider the physical mediation and transition space between my body and the bath house, myself and people inhabiting the bath house, and my body with the history of the bath house. I ask the audience to throw a penny in the pool with me and make a wish. The pennies will be dispersed at the end of the performance, and new connections will be made through an induced environmental catastrophe.
Joe Joe is a multi-media artist based in Boston. His work merges architecture, objects, and the landscape with ideas of the body and different social groups. Through the studio, research, and working with local people his projects find form. Orangias was a recent artist-in-residence at Art342 Foundation in Fort Collins, Colorado and will soon be in residence at the HFBK in Hamburg, Germany. He is an MFA Studio Art Candidate at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in affiliation with Tufts University. www.joejoeorangias.com
THEATER
Marilyn Monroe Communist
Written and performed by Marilyn Nussbaum Freeman
Directed by David Drake, Provincetown
This one-woman show brings to life the enduring Hollywood icon, along with 12 other characters, in a wild weave of Marilyn's words with Melissa's own story of being a "red-diaper baby" (child of communist parents). New light is shed on our collective history, as Monroe says: "being brought up differently from the Average American child". After 50 years, is she...was she...who was she?
Melissa is a graduate of El Centro Morelense de las Artes en Teatro; Mass Cultural Council grantee for her piece "La Doña of Santa Cruz"; featured this summer in the film "The Spirits of Salem". Melissa is looking forward to a second off-season of writing, starring, assistant directing the indie TV show OFFSEASON here in Provincetown. http://provincetownmagazine.org/Theatre/review-marilyn-monroe-communist
SUNDAY, Oct 7
PERFORMANCE
Heather Kapplow, NYC
Concessions
A site-specific conceptual/performance piece at the Concessions Stand. (See Oct 6).
PERFORMANCE
Joanna Tam and Leah Craig, Jamaica Plain, MA
Public bathhouses have long been places for people to talk, gossip and share stories,
showers as a site of conversation and reflection. Joanna and Craig will shower in adjacent stalls while talking with each otherabout their experience in the cities where they have lived in the past. Leah will discuss LasVegas, a city that exists in a state of ceaseless transition, death and rebirth. Joanna will talk about Hong Kong, a city that is a site of many converging identities.
Their conversations will center on the nature of permanence, expansion and collapse, and the relationship between economy, environment, and social identity within their respective hometowns. Through this dialogue, they hope to ignite thoughtful examination in viewers about how such topics have come to affect and mold the multifaceted identity of Provincetown.
Throughout the performance, in their robes and bathing suits, they will lather and bathe in soaps that they made using essences local to Provincetown to create a space that is olfactorily familiar or nostalgic. After the performance, they will leave a bowl of the soaps in the shower.
Leah is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boston. Employing reciprocity and
interpersonal exchange as her art-making process, and interactive performance as her mode of production, Leah invites participants to deepen their understanding of place.
Joanna is a Boston based visual artist. Her interdisciplinary art practice examines
the issues of communication and miscommunication, displacement and social
interaction in our contemporary globalized society. Joanna has used conversation as a medium to examine social relationship in various contexts.
Saturday Oct 6
Sunday, Oct 7
Changes Taking Place
Sally DeAngelis & Ingrid Schorr, Lowell, MA
The spectrum of changes experienced by and influenced by women during the 1910s, such as birth control and the right to vote, is the inspiration for this dance performance. It explores the changing roles of women and is informed by popular dances and modern dances of the times, and the "mud heads" painting style taught by Charles Hawthorne in Provincetown. Performers Sally DeAngelis, Liz Fillipone and Ingrid Schorr investigate the spaces created, shared, and between change and movement in the personal and collective, dramatic and visible, subtle and concealed, inside and outside the changing rooms of the bathhouse.
Sally is a dancer, choreographer and performer based in Lowell, MA. She recently choreographed "Lowell Offerings", a series of outdoor dances inspired by the working women of Lowell. She danced with Back Porch Dance Company. Ingrid Schorr, Ed.M., has performed throughout Massachusetts as an actor and dancer. In 2009 she danced in the premiere of Susan Dibble's dance theater adaptation of "The House of Mirth," for the Brandeis Theater Company. Liz Filippone is a NY-based Performance Artist inspired by butoh, physical theater, yoga, and bodywork. For the past 9 years she has performed and choreographed both solo and group work at the performance series Bare Bones Butoh in San Francisco.
PERFORMANCESonic Architectural Re-imagining of Provincetown
Arvid Tomayko-Peters, Providence, RI
A trio of improvising musicians rearranges the Provincetown Harbor skyline through electronic/experimental music, creating a new virtual Provincetown shaped by musical actions.
Arvid Tomayko-Peters - TOOB, electronics, interactive video projection
Steve Schwartz - drums
Elliot Creager - guitar
This piece explores a world where Provincetown's architecture is like the shifting sands of the dunes - quickly multiplying and twisting in the winds of sound, continuously morphing to a new shape. The visual basis of the piece if a 360 degree panoramic video shot in Provincetown Harbor. As the audience's view rotates slowly to take in the skyline of the harbor, a trio of musicians improvises, using the video as a rough graphical score. Buildings and parts of the landscape in the video are moved, re-shaped and duplicated live in reaction to the musical actions of the performers, each of which has the ability to modify the town in a different manner.
The audience experiences the process of reshaping as it happens, potentially generating new ways to think about the space of the town. I performed a version of this piece using the skyline of Providence in fall 2011. Videos of the two performances:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU_x5pEzUMI and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9_MYhw_ZyM
Arvid, born and raised in Truro, is a Providence-based experimental musician, composer and multimedia artist interested in live, improvised, electronic music performance, data or process driven composition, and the intersection of those two worlds. He builds and performs with extended digital instruments, including the TOOB - a wireless hyper-trumpet. He recently studied Computer Music and Multimedia and Geology at Brown University. More information at arvidtp.net.