Week Three | 7.29.96 - 8.4.96
Invitational Artists
Stefanie Marshall (Toronto)
Stefanie Marshall of Toronto mediates the barriers between public and private
acts with "Through the Looking Glass," sited in a Colonial Arcade
storefront window.
8.1 "Through the Looking Glass." 4-6pm & 8-10pm. Free
8.2 "Through the Looking Glass." noon-2pm, 4-6pm &
8-10pm.Free
Mala Sinha (Toronto)
Mala Sinha of Toronto journeys through ritual layers of dreams, knowledge,
sounds and interactions in "The Lottery."
8.3 "The Sounds of White Colors."
8.4 "The Sounds of White Colors."
Week Four | 8.8.96 - 8.11.96
Invitational Artists
Melissa Mance (Cleveland)
With honey, feathers and eggs, Cleveland performance artist Melissa Mance
transforms and recreates herself in her ethereal performance, "How
To Make An Angel."
8.8 "How To Make An Angel."
8.9 "How To Make An Angel."
Marshall Weber (Madison)
8.9-8.10 "Zarathustra Spake Thus: being a non-stop reading of
Nietzsche's classic text and an open public and free forum for the comfortable
discussion of the relationship between religion and performance art in the
United States of America on the verge of the Millennium," a 24-hour
free performance beginning sundown August 9.
8.11 Short performance "Apocalypse Not."
Julie Patton (New York)
In "Alphabet Soup," New York phoneme(ologist) Julie Patton becomes
a librarian: braiding, twisting, dreading and (mis)reading books that were
illegal for 19th Century African slaves to read.
8.10 "Alphabet Soup."
8.11 "Alphabet Soup."
Week Five | 8.15.96 - 8.18.96
Invitational Artists
Fausto Fernos (Chicago)
With his aluminum-foil costumes, letters from Eartha Kitt, and a melodious
atonal tribute to Karen Carpenter, queer Latino art-diva Fausto Fernos of
Chicago explodes under the pressures of sexual anonymity.
8.15 "Homosexual Personae."
8.16 "Homosexual Personae."
Art Acts (Cleveland)
Art Acts of Cleveland dares the audience to participate with sixteen-foot
surrealist puppets in their larger than life outdoor performance, "Sacred
Misgivings."
8.16 noon and 5pm "Sacred Misgivings," at Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame
Nancy Agabian (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles writer-performer Nancy Agabian's "My Gay Family,"
tells the story of her Armenian-American coming of age in 1970's New England.
8.17 "My Gay Family."
8.18 "My Gay Family."
Week Six | 8.22.96- 8.25.96
Invitational Artists
Nancy Andrews (Chicago)
Nancy Andrews of Chicago tells the story of the world's smallest girl, "An
Epic Falling Between the Cracks," by deconstructing drama, documentary
film, night club act, lecture and travelogue.
8.22 "An Epic Falling Between the Cracks."
8.23 "An Epic Falling Between the Cracks."
Peter Burns (Burlington, VT)
The simple but esoteric style of storyteller Peter Burns of Vermont will
draw the audience into rocking and chanting as he becomes "The Grinning
Idiot."
8.24 "The Grinning Idiot."
8.25 "The Grinning Idiot."
Week Seven | 8.28.96 - 9.1.96
Invitational Artists
Irina Danilova (New York)
Ukrainian emigre Irina Danilova of New York takes 59 passengers on a bus
trip on Rt. 59 thru Kent, Ohio at 59 mph in celebration of the number 59.
Also, an audience member will be selected to shave Danilova's head at midnight
on Aug 31, as she has done every four years since 1976.
8.28 5-9pm bus ride "Trip 59," Free, donation requested:
$.59, $5.90, or $59.00, meet at Colonial Arcade on Prospect Ave. at 5pm.
8.31 "Shaving Performance."
Charles Garoian (State College, PA)
In "Confluence," a performance as medical procedure, interdisciplinary
artist Charles Garoian of State College, PA, uses ultrasound imaging of
his organs to perform a high-tech séance.
8.29 "Dowser."
8.30 "Dowser."
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