Round in Circles
Closing Reception with Performances and Video Screenings
with Mary Anderson, The ManosBuckius Cooperative, Augusta Morrison, Ryan Standfest, and Todd Stovall.
SATURDAY AUGUST 26, 2017 | 3 – 6PM
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Join us for an afternoon of performance and video that explores the formal and metaphorical implications of the circular; employs some form or manifestation of a circle, loop, spiral, cycle, spin, circuit or hole; or reflects on a broader, collective feeling of the times, that of moving without getting anywhere, ending at the beginning, of literally going round and “round in circles”.
August 26, 3:00 – 6:00PM
Program begins at 3:15PM
Reception to follow, around 5:00PM
ABOUT THE ARTISTS:
MARY ANDERSON writes about performance and place and teaches at Wayne State University.
SARAH BUCKIUS AND MELANIE MANOS: THE MANOSBUCKIUS COOPERATIVE (THE MBC) has produced ten videos which have toured the globe in video, new media and electronic art festivals, most recently in Kalamata, Greece and Marseille, France. The MBC has created two site-specific live-to-feed performance interventions (Ohio State University; Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit), two live performances (Performance Studies International, New York University; ArtPrize, Grand Rapids), two solo shows (InSpace Gallery, Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids; The MBC, The Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, MI) and participated in the group exhibition Primary, at Kendall College of Art & Design. Now separated by distance, Manos and Buckius are addressing absurdities involving video calling technology, travel, and familial responsibilities.
AUGUSTA MORRISON is a musician and arts educator based in Detroit. She attended Michigan State and studied Arts and Humanities and Art Education. As the Education Associate at MOCAD she assists the Education and Public Program departments with events, tours, workshops and youth and adult orientated programs. In her spare time, she organizes music and social justice programs with Seraphine Collective, plays in Double Winter, a psychedelic rock band and has an experimental performance project called Bigabite.
RYAN STANDFEST is a Detroit artist. He is the editor and publisher of ROTLAND PRESS, presenting satirical publications of a culturally relevant nature, and founded the performance group Cabaret BLACK EYE, a hybrid of vaudeville and Absurdist theatrical tendencies. He is also a curator, assembling exhibitions that focus on different forms of humor in the visual arts. Standfest holds an MFA in Printmaking from The University of Iowa.
TODD STOVALL (b. 1980 in Detroit, lives and works in Detroit) has been, since century’s shift, involved with and working at the edges of avant movements across the city. The artist’s practice has spanned the Detroit electronic techno/house/underground hip-hop, music scenes, as well as public sculpture, and public performance. He is interested in the ambient poetics of line and form; in the space between silence, text, and soul.