An informal “think tank” composed of highly intelligent, experienced and educated New York-based artists. We strive to create, maintain and sometimes open new public space for site-specific performance and installation artworks. Performance Church was created primarily to help professional artists build profitable relationships with cooperate and community partners. This think tank provides research, ideas and guidance to individuals who are harnessing art to make a noticeable difference!
Monday, April 1, 2013
INTRODUCTIONS
Biographies of Church Membership
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Can you find a picture of yourself during everyday life performance?
G.E. (Gabriel) Washington, PhD Performance Artist and Independent Scholar
What can we learn from our daily routines? How can we capture and use the everyday unnoticed event?
Performance art draws upon the unseen details of the smallest habits in life in order to temporally re-order your personal picture of world. I am a community-based performance artist that twists the arts into a tool to support organizational and community development. Typically, my multi-media happenings use aspects of storytelling, sculpture, and movement theatre to critically investigate patterns in our everyday lives. I often employed the principles of site-specific installation art to stage unusual happenings in unusual public spaces like county fairs, storefronts, lobbies, walking trails, highway bridges, and elementary schools. Interactions is a key aspect of my projects; making the viewer feel directly involved in the work is my ultimate goal.
After receiving a PhD (2005) in art education from Penn State University I have taught courses in art, education, psychology, sociology, and community organizing at (4) universities including The University of Illinois at Chicago and The University of Arizona. I have built performance installation artworks for the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Pennsylvania Arts Fest, as well as a host galleries, nightclubs, and community groups throughout Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York. Organizing arts integration educational research projects has also been one of my passions for more than (15) years. I have been commissioned to create arts integration projects for educational organizations as diverse as West Virginia Very Special Arts, The Lab School of Washington, Chicago Public Schools, Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) of Troy, NY and the Glendale Arts Commission in Phoenix, Arizona. Through community-based performances I hyphenate the line between life and art to investigate everything that we do “as” performance. Using conversation as the primary medium, my projects range: from race relations and the Underground Railroad; to science education, spine cord injury and personal connections to cancer; to “untold stories” and difficult experiences of oppressed communities in our country.
Your life is the starting point when using my artwork to see the world differently.
G.E. (Gabriel) Washington, PhD
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What can we learn from our daily routines? How can we capture and use the everyday unnoticed event?
Performance art draws upon the unseen details of the smallest habits in life in order to temporally re-order your personal picture of world. I am a community-based performance artist that twists the arts into a tool to support organizational and community development. Typically, my multi-media happenings use aspects of storytelling, sculpture, and movement theatre to critically investigate patterns in our everyday lives. I often employed the principles of site-specific installation art to stage unusual happenings in unusual public spaces like county fairs, storefronts, lobbies, walking trails, highway bridges, and elementary schools. Interactions is a key aspect of my projects; making the viewer feel directly involved in the work is my ultimate goal.
After receiving a PhD (2005) in art education from Penn State University I have taught courses in art, education, psychology, sociology, and community organizing at (4) universities including The University of Illinois at Chicago and The University of Arizona. I have built performance installation artworks for the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Pennsylvania Arts Fest, as well as a host galleries, nightclubs, and community groups throughout Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New York. Organizing arts integration educational research projects has also been one of my passions for more than (15) years. I have been commissioned to create arts integration projects for educational organizations as diverse as West Virginia Very Special Arts, The Lab School of Washington, Chicago Public Schools, Pennsylvania Dept. of Agriculture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) of Troy, NY and the Glendale Arts Commission in Phoenix, Arizona. Through community-based performances I hyphenate the line between life and art to investigate everything that we do “as” performance. Using conversation as the primary medium, my projects range: from race relations and the Underground Railroad; to science education, spine cord injury and personal connections to cancer; to “untold stories” and difficult experiences of oppressed communities in our country.
Your life is the starting point when using my artwork to see the world differently.