Are you going to sweat on my face?, 2007
Are you going to sweat on my face?
November 9, 2007
Performance by Holly Faurot & Sarah H. Paulson
NURTUREart, Brooklyn, NY
2-hour performance during the opening of "Bodies Of/At Work" curated by Brian Balderston*
Performers: Joseph Barone, Holly Faurot, Sarah H. Paulson
Featured artists in the exhibition include: Hilary Basing, Nell Breyer, Andrea Cote, Peter Dobill, Holly Faurot & Sarah H. Paulson, Joshua Eggleton, Marshall Marice and Jose Ruiz.
From the group exhibition press release:
A man explains the triumph of conceptual art over craftsmanship to a stuffed octopus, another inexplicably flies through the door of his suburban garage, and another dances with his projected alter ego to ward off loneliness. Add to this spectacle aerobics videos, sand-swallowers, discombobulating camera tricks and trained dancers, and you have "Bodies of/at Work." An exhibition of both new and old media, performance, and self-redefining ideas, curator Brian Balderston highlights the work of nine emerging artists who move beyond generic body-politics to find new, personal statements of the self. Here, the artists are no longer preoccupied with classical concerns of depictive figuration. Rather, they transform living, breathing bodies literally and metaphorically into sites and tools of art making by addressing elements of self-portraiture, performance, identity politics and location in time and space, which in turn, redefines the contemporary, conceptual understanding of the self.
