WILD GIRLS
Saturday July 15, 8-10 pm
Saturday July 29, 8-10 pm
Saturday August 5, 8-10 pm
Performances by Trickster Theater
Directed and conceived by Papo Colo
A video of Wild Girls is available on our podcast page.
Exit Art, an experimental cultural center, explores ideas concerning
contemporary feminism and gender identity with its performance
series Wild Girls. The performances will function collectively as one theatrical presentation,
although each artist will addresses a specific topic in his/her own
unique piece.
ARTISTS
Ogechi Chieke, Mayumi Ishino, Saeri Kiritani, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, Oleg Mavromatti, Wanda Ortiz, Jolie Pichardo, Boryana Rossa, Akiko Sasamoto with Jeffrey Schiff, and Traci Tullius
DIRECTOR
Papo Colo
“The Trickster performance theatre is an experimental approach to
presenting performance art in which unique individual voices make up a
collective work. The artists develop a specific shared subject. The
group performs simultaneously inside an exhibition of the same subject.
The curve of performance art is the collective theatre”.
Papo Colo, Director
PERFORMANCE DESCRIPTIONS
OGECHI CHIEKE the black man is god. The voice and the
heartbeat (drum) are the original instruments. Referencing the ancient
indigenous tradition of chanting over drums, Ogechi performs a 2-hour
freestyle rap on the mystic origins of the black man in the
U-N-I-verse. Through this action, Ogechi enacts what, in our modern
context, is a live hip-hop music video. The beat is produced by
Caledon. (www.jabarihallsmith.com)
MAYUMI ISHINO Mirror. Exposing the tension between
internal and external images of the self, Ishino repeatedly confronts
and destroys images of her reflected physical self in a series of
mirrors. "Shattering is not about rejection. The self image is accepted
while it is drawn. once it is given form, I depart from it - a
detachment from the self image that is just created. Then, in†the next
moment, there is another self.† We are constantly changing outside the
given idea of what we think we are. Mayumi Ishino, born in Tokyo,
Japan, lives and works in New York City. She sculpts, draws, and
performs in various mediums. She has shown her works in and around NY
and has received various grants, residencies, and fellowship awards.
She performed "see-saw" in the prayingproject in April 2005 and "60% -
drawing with water" in June 2006 at Exit Art.Ogechi's work examines the
multi-faceted experience of Black identity in global America. Growing
up multi-culturally, she learned early to recognize and seek out
retained elements of African culture and spirituality. She uses these
insights as a window to the indigenous earth-centered consciousness.
Ogechi creates and documents personal rituals that involve body
adornment, sacred movement, and chanting. Aesthetically, her work
exhibits a range of stylistic filters from hip-hop vernacular to
science fiction. †She lives and works in New York City. Check her out
on www.ogechi.com
Saeri Kiritani will perform "White Eyes," a piece whose
title refers to the Japanese term for 'looking down on' or 'giving the
evil eye.' She will dress entirely in white, transforming herself into
a set of 'white eyes'. She will then write various insults and curses
in red calligraphy on rice paper which she will burn at the end of the
performance. Saeri Kiritani received her M.F.A from University of
Pennsylvania in Painting and Drawing on 1997. She has had solo
exhibitions of her work at The International Center in New York (2006),
Inform Gallery in Kanazawa-City, Japan, and at the Live Art Gallery in
San Francisco, CA. Her work has been included in numerous international
group exhibitions including “Unjustified” curated by Kerry James
Marshall (apexart, NY 2002) and “BoundLess” curated by Jan Christensen
and Henry Meyric Hughes (Stenersenmuseet, Oslo 2005). She lives and
works in Brooklyn.
TRACI TULLIUS "Since moving to New York 4 years ago, I have yet
to execute a live performance. I have decided to take this Trickster
opportunity to make up for lost time. Adept at the art of chickening
out, of making excuses, of faking stomach cramps, I have let
performance anxiety and fear of failure get the best of me. Despite
having laid eggs in Tulsa, eaten soap in Kansas City, and shaven my ass
crack in Dallas, I cannot bring myself to do a simple soft shoe on the
corner of Lexington and 34th street. To remedy this situation, I will
stage an improvisational monologue discussing performance anxiety,
fear, fragility, fantasy, failure and redemption...while sitting in a
dumpster full of mashed potatoes." Tullius, an Oklahoma native, received
her BFA in painting from the University of Oklahoma in 1998, graduating
Summa Cum Laude, and an MFA in New Genres from the University of Kansas
in 2001. In 1999 she joined a.k.a., a Kansas City–based collective,
performing at venues across the U.S. The group received a Franklin
Furnace Grant in 2000.
nicoykatiushka Between You and Me follows
nicoykatiushka's tendency to expose bits and pieces of this four year
relationship. Now nico is submerged and hidden between the legs of
katiushka in hopes of communicating some hidden secret. katiushka
invites guests to take a seat beside her while she confesses ambiguous
secrets of intimacy. nicoykatiushka are a Brooklyn based audio-visual
and performance art duo. They have been working collaboratively since
their marriage on June 20th, 2003, performing†their own work and the
works of others in several venues in New York City, Boston, Paris,
Chile, and Mexico including Exit Art Gallery, St. Mark's Church, Judson
Church, DTW, Dia Beacon, Dia Chelsea, Visual Arts Gallery and Aqui
Bushwick. They have worked for artists such as Robert Whitman,
Guillermo Gomez PeÒa and Papo Colo. For more information check their
website at www.nicoykatiushka.org.
Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz "My performance is an extension of the
mural featuring Wepa Woman. Becoming that Ghetto bitch, but allowing
her to rant freely to exhaustion, in full makeup. I will be
transforming live and in person. My intent is to give a voice to the
seen but seldom heard - to attach a sound to the unseen female
majority." Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz has grown from illustrator to
interdisciplinary artist, crossing from painting and drawing to
multimedia installation art, including performance and video art in her
repertoire. She is a graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in
NYC, the recipient of the 2001 Bronx Recognizes It’s Own (BRIO) Award
and a recent fellow of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
As her work evolves, the focus of her work remains on her heritage as a
Puerto Rican woman. Her Current exhibitions include, El Museo’s Bienal:
The (S) Files at El Museo del Barrio (Oct’ 2006), a solo show at The
Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College (May 2006), and “Wild
Girls” at Exit Art (June 2006)
Aki Sasamoto is a performer, sculptor, and generally curious
being. She is currently pursuing a master degree in Visual Arts at
Columbia University. She is a member of lower lights collective and has
worked with Jeffrey Schiff in sculpture, Eiko & Koma, Koosil-ja
Hwang, Hari Krishnan, Clarinda Mac Low in dance, Masayo Ishigure in
music, and with Renegade Runner, a Danish feministgroup. In Feedback
two people collaborate in dining with a two-sided fork, whilespeaking
on two different topics. Radio stations they listen to with headphones,
(tuned to different stations) dictate their speech. Feedback is a
metaphor for the absurdity of a formal dining, and how we communicate
at large.
Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow In “Kissing Wall” a part of a wall in the
gallery will be decorated with kisses. With a random order of placement
the kisses will form letters and then words to form a phrase. The
performance becomes a guessing game, revealing the ambiguoua
relationship between fantasy and reality while questioning the subject
,the object and the interplay between the two. Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow was
born in Manchester, Jamaica in 1975. She is a recent MFA graduate in
Combined Media from Hunter College, New York. With a practice that
spans sculpture, performance, drawing and video Lyn-Kee-Chow's work
incorporates aspects of fantasy, desire and the body, which when
combined may seem humorously absurd and yet oddly familiar.
Jolie Pichardo In this performance piece Jolie Pichardo is
against a cot upright on the wall. She will allow the audience to
confess their secrets tied to her and then bind her to the cot with
rope leaving their secrets tied to her body. Each rope is symbolic of
the person who binds - a strand of them - a confession. Jolie Pichardo
was born and raised in New York City. Her artistic background is
multi-faceted, drawing from visual art, performance art, and writing.
She is a trained artist academically and personally through being a
self-described nomad. She first worked with the Trickster Theater in
2000 in the production of M Play. She currently resides in Brooklyn, NY
Wild Girls is produced by Trickster Theatre and Exit Art
and directed by Papo Colo.
The exhibition Wild Girls highlights the work of 30
international women artists who create aggressive and provocative
interdisciplinary works...(more)
A video of Wild Girls is available on our podcast page.
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