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Esa Nickle of Performa on 8/9 and Kathryn Cornelius's Save the Date on 8/11
 Public Talk with Esa Nickle
Thursday, August 9 at 7pm
Location: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 500 17th St, NW, Washington, DC Admission is free but registration is encouraged. Register online.
Esa Nickle, Managing Director/ Producer of Performa discusses new directions in performance art and Performa's work from 2005 to 2011 during a public talk at the Corcoran. Founded by RoseLee Goldberg in 2004, Performa is the leading organization dedicated to exploring the critical role of live performance in the history of twentieth-century art and to encouraging new directions in performance for the twenty-first century. MORE>>
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 Save the Date
A performance by Kathryn Cornelius
Saturday, August 11, 10am-5pm
Save the Date explores the life cycle of marriage and divorce and the wedding ceremony's complex mix of private emotion, public spectacle, social expectation, and state power. Over the course of seven hours, Kathryn Cornelius will exchange vows with seven suitors. Each wedding ceremony will be followed by a champagne toast, cake, a first dance and then, finally, the signing of divorce papers. A legal wedding officiant will perform the ceremonies, while the signing of divorce papers will be overseen by a divorce attorney. Ceremonies will begin on the hour, every hour, and run from 10am through 5pm.
The seven suitors selected to wed the artist include performance artists Eames Armstrong, Holly Bass, and Andrew Bucket, writer and filmmaker Stephen Mack, art collector and physician, Dr. Fred Ognibene, research scientist Dr. John Royer, and software engineer Antowne Walters. Cornelius invited proposals through the project website and personally selected six suitors. The seventh suitor was selected by a public vote, through the project's Facebook page.
For more on Save the Date, read the Washington Post article, visithttp://savethedatedc.tumblr.com and follow the project on Twitter @SaveTheDateDC.
See the full Take it to the Bridge schedule below and more information online at Corcoran.org and at wpadc.org
July 18 - July 22: Ubuntu, Maya Freelon Asante Saturday, July 28, 10 am - 5 pm: Sleep, Chajana denHarder August 1 - August 5, all museum hours: Canaries in McMansionland, Jennifer Coster Thursday, August 9, 7 pm: Public Talk with Esa Nickle, Managing Director/Producer of Performa Friday, August 10: WPA Member meetings with Esa Nickle@WPA Saturday, August 11, 10 am - 5 pm: Save the Date, Kathryn Cornelius Saturday, August 18, 12 pm - 5 pm): Procedures for Ground Safety Loss, Sarah Levitt August 22 - August 26, all museum hours: The Airborne Leaflet Campaign, COLON:Y (Chukwuma Agubokwu and Wilmer Wilson IV) Saturday, September 1, 10 am - 5 pm: Maid in the USA, Carolina Mayorga Saturday, September 5 - September 9, all museum hours: Bridging the Light, Annie Albagli Saturday, September 15, 10 am - 5 pm: This Space Occupied (by Maida), Maida Withers with composer Steve Hilmy |
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