Potluck chat with Genesis Project - Aug 25 2009

Chat with Genesis Project (http://www.culturepush.org/?q=node/283) director, Arturo Vidich, and the four artists involved in the month-long residency. The discussion will surround issues and ideas that come up during real-time skype commentary on live performance and video showings of work generated during the residency.

DUET
Meghan Flanigan and Fergus Byrne will perform a drawing duet that traverses wall and floor in an exploration of mark making through full-bodied movement.

VIDEO
Fergus Byrne and Saul Melman will show a work-in-progress video that simultaneouly combines storytelling, drawing and competition through the medium of embroidery.

ARTISTS
Fergus Byrne (Dublin, Ireland)
Meghan Flanigan (Baltimore)
Saul Melman (New York)
Carlos Monroy (Bogota, Colombia)

Genesis Project is an artist’s residency catering to body-based artists who identify as working between disciplines and/or seek to integrate other disciplines into their performance practice through open-source collaboration and horizontal exchange of knowledge, as defined by the resident artists. Genesis Project has occupied the gallery space at Basekamp for the month of August.