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Video Performance 09.11 Lowell MA, and AWESOME installation.



Hi folks,

I'll be performing video improvisations at 119 Gallery in Lowell as 
part of the series of events described below. I visited the space on 
Monday, and am completely blown away by the environment that Claire 
(working with plants) and Patrick (working  with industrial 
artifacts) have created. I'm looking forward to performing in the 
space and am planning a slowly moving two projector setup,  unlike 
the rapid cutting one projector setup I usually use in performance.

Whether or not you attend a performance, you owe it to yourself to at 
least visit the installation during gallery hours. On a scale from 1 
to 10, this show rates at least a 12!



Claire Elizabeth Barratt -
Video, sound - plus dance/movement, music & spoken word in performance

Patrick Pierce -
Sculpture pieces, poetry - plus movement, music & spoken word in 
performance

Life is Art is Life is...


September 1- 27, 2009, Lowell, MA-

This September Patrick Pierce and Claire Elizabeth Barratt have 
turned 119 Gallery into a fertile garden filled with sculpture, 
video, sound and poetry,
organic and inorganic matter.

Introduced in 2008 by the gallery, Claire, a British movement artist 
and Patrick, a Lowell sculptor, immediately sensed their connection 
and began exploring ideas to combine their talents. Their two week 
residency this August culminates in this immersive multi-part, 
multi-media installation and performance series with wooden and metal 
sculptures, video projections, poetry, sound and music.

Life is Art is Life... is a continuously unfolding installation and 
play of interactions that marries nature and industry, the organic 
and the fabricated, the muse and the workshop. A truly equal 
collaboration between the two artists, Claire says, "The creation of 
the installation itself is a combined effort. We both play quite 
different roles in the elements we bring to the work."

=


We each trust the others artistic integrity and understand our role 
as 'conduits' through which the work unfolds.--Claire Elizabeth 
Barratt

What we did not know we knew is what is revealed.--Patrick Pierce


The installation is free and open Tue - Sat 12noon - 5pm. 
Performances are scheduled by the artists and with guest musicians 
and collaborators throughout the month and during Lowell Open 
Studios. See below and check our website at www.119gallery.org and 
www.cillavee.com.


Opening Performance
Sept 4 - Claire Elizabeth Barratt & Patrick Pierce

Sept 5 - Claire Elizabeth Barratt, movement;
Lou Cohen, laptop; John Voigt, bass, Patrick Pierce

Sept 11 - Claire Elizabeth Barratt, movement;
Jon Glancy, percussion; Emile Tobenfeld , video mix

Sept 12 - Claire Elizabeth Barratt, movement, Andy Fordyce, 
percussion; Chris Gilmore, laptop & electronics

Sept 18 - TBA

Closing Performance
Sept 25 - Claire Elizabeth Barratt & Patrick Pierce

Lowell Open Studios
Sept 26 and Sept 27  - Apocalypso Trio: Joe Burgio, movement;
Shayna Dulberger, double bass; Walter Wright,
analog synths & video + Katt Hernandez, violin

Claire Elizabeth Barratt
a.k.a.  Cilla Vee, has a dance and musical theater background with 
the (British) Royal Academy of Dance, Associated Board of Music, The 
Laban Centre for Movement and Dance and The London Studio Centre. 
She has presented work in The New York Botanical Gardens, PS122, Art 
Basel - Miami and the Black Mountain College Museum + Art Center, NC. 
She specializes in performance, video and installation. She is 
director of Cilla Vee Life Arts, an inter-disciplinary arts 
organization.


Patrick Pierce
is a sculptor and poet of life-long practice who moved his studio to 
Lowell, MA in 2001. He has had multiple one-man and group shows in 
New York including the Denise Bibro Fine Art, with L'Attitude Gallery 
and Larry Powers, and with the Turtle Gallery on Deer Isle, Maine. 
His work is included in collections across the country and has been 
reviewed in The Atlantic Monthly, The Boston Globe, and other 
publications.



                                        119 Chelmsford Street 
Lowell, MA  01851
978.452.8138  http://www.119gallery.org



-- 
My photography can be viewed at 
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22231918@N06/collections/72157603627170351/

My videos can be viewed at
http://www.youtube.com/Tobenfeld

                Emile Tobenfeld, Ph. D.
Video Producer                  Image Processing Specialist
Video for your HEAD!                    Boris FX
http://www.foryourhead.com              http://www.borisfx.com

" Practice makes perfect, imperfect is better."  -- Paul Bley