tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92014343174691437452024-02-18T20:15:47.990-08:00Martha L. McdonaldMarthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-27306489609541235872022-03-10T08:34:00.001-08:002022-03-16T08:38:11.596-07:00I have a new website!<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0Vw2Ftik0FtbExb4lLcFC3NTjTHStyArGShhUdGPYEKCigcUIVDC-oQrFPe9VsSr7Sor_CRU56dkTkwsFdcAGDQwwEnX6_TceJPT2Cjv1uWWuc0SOGb_xqmObX1krzh-zHJKw9OvXoSx11eBRFqxInMak5PprPOxJpm498KULBla0Gv9gEmmg4Hi7=s2568" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1774" data-original-width="2568" height="294" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg0Vw2Ftik0FtbExb4lLcFC3NTjTHStyArGShhUdGPYEKCigcUIVDC-oQrFPe9VsSr7Sor_CRU56dkTkwsFdcAGDQwwEnX6_TceJPT2Cjv1uWWuc0SOGb_xqmObX1krzh-zHJKw9OvXoSx11eBRFqxInMak5PprPOxJpm498KULBla0Gv9gEmmg4Hi7=w409-h294" width="409" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Please visit my new website <a href="https://www.marthamcdonald.com/">marthamcdonald.com</a><br /></div><p></p>Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-80266259089179371912020-03-09T15:07:00.000-07:002020-03-10T09:03:31.482-07:00Phantom Frequencies<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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WheatonArts<br />
Millville, NJ<br />
June 2, 2019<br />
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in collaboration with Laura Baird <br />
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<i>Phantom Frequencies </i>was a site-specific installation and performance featuring glass instruments made with the WheatonArts glass artists. The project riffed off Wheaton's origins in the 1970s as a fake Victorian village. Sited in the museum's lobby, a simulated Victorian parlor, the piece channeled the spirit of parlor music played by amateurs in their living rooms during the 19th century. Composer/multi-instrumentalist Laura Baird and I designed the instruments inspired by historic glass objects in Wheaton's collection and composed an original score that mined the history of glassmaking in South Jersey and TC Wheaton's rise from seasick sailor to pharmacist to glass factory owner. The piece explored the myriad ways glass can speak in a dialogue between the ghosts of Wheaton's past and the glass of some imagined future.<br />
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Part of the group show <i>Emanation 2019</i>, curated by Julie Courtney.<br />
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<br />Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-69547820576385318782018-07-30T16:43:00.001-07:002020-03-09T14:28:46.787-07:00Music for Modernist Shapes: Reimagining Spectodrama<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center<br />
Asheville, NC<br />
November 18, 2017<br />
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with original score by Laura Baird<br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Music for Modernist Shapes</i> was a site-specific
installation and performance that reimagined a 1936 theater piece Bauhaus alum Xanti Schawinsky made at Black Mountain College. The historic
performance, <i>Spectodrama</i>, included folded paper costumes, light projections and live music.
Composer/multi-instrumentalist Laura Baird wrote an original score drawing
on archival scores from Schawinsky’s performance collaborations with Black
Mountain College music teacher John Evarts, 1930s avant garde music and
Appalachian folk songs from the Black Mountain region. Laura and I activated my objects and costumes, conjuring the memory of
this little-known piece from the experimental college’s rich performance
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>C</i>ommissioned by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center as part of <i>ACTIVE ARCHIVE: Martha McDonald</i>, an exhibition I curated from the museum's permanent collection and an installation and performance made in response to the collection. </span><br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="281" mozallowfullscreen="" src="https://player.vimeo.com/video/281352402" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="500"></iframe>Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-18125247913071716192016-11-20T12:49:00.000-08:002018-07-31T10:33:49.677-07:00Songs of Memory and Forgetting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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RAIR (Recycled Artist in Residency)<br />
Philadelphia, PA<br />
June 25, 2016<br />
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Music in collaboration with Billy Dufala<br />
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<i>Songs of Memory and Forgetting</i> was a site-specific performance at Revolution Recovery, a
construction-waste recycling facility in Northeast Philadelphia. As artist in residence, I spent six months sifting
through the mountains of rubble to collect personal items that arrived
from house clean outs, often after an elderly person died or moved into a
care home. The performance took audiences on an intimate song tour of
the site, navigating the sorting piles to explore the fragile nature of
memory. I collaborated with RAIR co-founder Billy Dufala on the
music, which we performed on instruments found in the dump. Inspired
by the collecting and sorting done on a massive scale by excavators and
front-end loaders, I activated objects made from thousands of
photos and garments rescued from the dump.<br />
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The project was supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.<br />
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Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery<br />
Washington, DC<br />
October 17, 2015
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<i><br i="" />Hospital Hymn</i> was a site-specific installation and performance that conjured the National Portrait Gallery’s history as a temporary hospital for soldiers during the American Civil War, where Walt Whitman worked as a nurse. Inspired by Whitman’s notebooks from the period, the piece memorialized the war’s quarter million unknown dead. Whitman suggests that their bodies became the compost of the nation—their spirits imbued in every stalk of wheat, blade of grass and flower that sprung from the dark fields of battle.
I enacted a ritual releasing thousands of handmade felt flowers, referencing Whitman's compost imagery and drawing on the language of Victorian mourning handcrafts to suggest the enormity of loss. Accompanied by Craig Woodward on fiddle and concertina, I sang 19th-century hymns that Whitman recalled hearing nurses sing to dying soldiers.
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<i>Hospital Hymn: Elegy for Lost Soldiers</i> was a companion piece to the exhibition <i>Dark Fields of the Republic: Alexander Gardner Photographs, 1859-1872.</i> It was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery as part of its <i>Identify: Performance Art as Portraiture</i> series.<br />
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Thank you to Byer of Maine for in-kind support.<br />
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Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-75579433349060954912015-03-27T12:56:00.001-07:002015-03-31T06:02:32.777-07:00Martha McDonald featured on WHYY-TV's Friday Arts program<a href="http://whyy.org/cms/fridayarts/martha-and-the-lost/">Martha and the Lost</a>
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The Woodlands<br />
Philadelphia, PA<br />
September 26 - October 18, 2014<br />
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<i>The Lost Garden</i> was a site-specific installation and performance exploring impermanence and the fragile nature of memory. In the 18th century, The
Woodlands was William Hamilton's spectacular botanic garden and
greenhouse but it nearly disappeared in the rapid urbanization of the
early 19th century. The garden was saved from extinction by transforming
it into a Victorian cemetery, or "memory garden." Drawing on the
language of Victorian handcrafts like wax flowers under domes and
jewelry made from human hair, my installation of knitted flowers
memorialized the lost plants from Hamilton's garden. The performance
took audiences on an intimate song tour of the cemetery and into my
installation in Hamilton's 18th-century mansion to conjure the dream of
the lost garden.<br />
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The knitted specimens are based on plants Hamilton collected and wrote about in letters and journals. I researched patterns for botanically-accurate knitted flowers in Victorian ladies magazines and taught myself to make them. Then I developed my own.</div>
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<i>The Weeping Dress</i> was a performance and installation arising from research of Victorian mourning rituals. During a woman's first year of mourning, nothing she wore could reflect the light. That meant wearing wool bombazine or crepe, which didn't hold plant-based dyes so color ran from the fabric in the rain and heat, staining her body. I am fascinated by how this public performance of grief was experienced in such a private and corporeal way. I made a period mourning dress out of black crepe paper that I activated in performance to release the fugitive dye and leave a stain, or trace behind. </div>
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This installation grew out of investigations into how Victorian women gave presence to absence through domestic handcrafts and the ritual of wearing black. The fugitive dyes used in mourning dresses ran color and often stained women's bodies, transferring the symbol of the absent loved one from the dress to the body. I made a Victorian mourning dress out of crepe paper and cried on
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Death Be Kind gallery is located in the bedrooms of a Victorian-era house. It reminded me of homes where Victorian women
would have endured years of lonely mourning. In response to this sense
of domestic isolation, I embroidered in white floss on black crepe paper several verses of an American folk song about a woman who, having been abandoned by her lover, vows to "eat nothing but green willow" and "drink nothing but my tears." I dripped saline solution on the embroideries to mimic my tears, causing the black ink of the paper to "erase" the white floss. </div>
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I recorded my voice humming the embroidered folk song and hid the
recording inside an empty wood box which the viewer had to open up to hear. Placing their hands on
the box, they could feel the vibration of my voice resonating in the
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Photos by Matthew StantonMarthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-7536421431177829182010-01-10T20:42:00.000-08:002015-03-27T20:03:27.695-07:00The Further the Distance, the Tighter the Knot<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtTHeLr9BKUl4xEZcplJT38-DjwzPbmb1prw7RClsJpq-wt8qa8cONHKMci0w0mPA2m7vQRvmMvXwLjpMTgly1L1nITHvZbpy_1dQxOhH2zg9ZIrEAf5lvIZtouhCWWhXqk3KTTqCuME/s1600-h/McD_Linden09_perf_16.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdtTHeLr9BKUl4xEZcplJT38-DjwzPbmb1prw7RClsJpq-wt8qa8cONHKMci0w0mPA2m7vQRvmMvXwLjpMTgly1L1nITHvZbpy_1dQxOhH2zg9ZIrEAf5lvIZtouhCWWhXqk3KTTqCuME/s320/McD_Linden09_perf_16.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425668760152571698" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 284px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 418px;" /></a>Linden Centre for Contemporary Art<br />
Melbourne, Australia<br />
October 31 - November 8, 2009<br />
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Featuring Craig Woodward on fiddle, banjo and mandolin<br />
Project Coordinator Cheryl Adam<br />
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<span style="font-style: italic;">The Further the Distance, the Tighter the Knot</span> was a performance installation that used Victorian mourning rituals, Old Time American folk songs and knitting to explore my longing for home as a recent transplant to Australia.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs5uD4qiUA6v-WLwAUGP4ZUBRbOV9z_7NdJMEypCiWanlvlZ113lCYX2QFWQh06G5czvfZ0Wg0KQKZyDfVCWlt2-LDjWZAZ7Wp7vaJ-SzCKPpsXTsJtpius8gQRsWDcSH0qGHTqeDuksI/s1600-h/McD_Linden09_perf_3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs5uD4qiUA6v-WLwAUGP4ZUBRbOV9z_7NdJMEypCiWanlvlZ113lCYX2QFWQh06G5czvfZ0Wg0KQKZyDfVCWlt2-LDjWZAZ7Wp7vaJ-SzCKPpsXTsJtpius8gQRsWDcSH0qGHTqeDuksI/s320/McD_Linden09_perf_3.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425359273881529650" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 280px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 417px;" /></a>I filled the exhibition spaces with hand-knit <span style="font-style: italic;">memento mori</span>, riffing off the domestic crafts Victorian women made to memorialize loved ones (such as jewelry made from human hair) while they were sequestered in their homes during long periods of mourning.<br />
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Dressed in a Victorian-inspired costume that I designed and hand knit, I led the audience on a "tour" of my installation. Playing with the convention of the didactic tour guide you might encounter at a house museum, I slipped back and forth between historic narrative on 19th-century mourning rituals and personal confessionals about my yearning for the home and garden I left behind in America and how my memories of that home were being clouded by nostalgia. Singing folk laments about lost loves and longing for home, I knit and unraveled love tokens for the audience as polite Victorian mourning customs gave way to more cathartic expressions of loss.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaHdKe4teHzQd1LGD_05mohc644tv1DX2i3ENnPYWv0NUhH_3FIZOBpIsX2VpkIgx5r1cIC0RVz-M_HDMC_GurTu2pEPGdIrs6krg3M9L6McH0qZneIDQ_DVZUYWG4xbRN9NZFo58ARNs/s1600-h/McD_Linden09_perf_4.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaHdKe4teHzQd1LGD_05mohc644tv1DX2i3ENnPYWv0NUhH_3FIZOBpIsX2VpkIgx5r1cIC0RVz-M_HDMC_GurTu2pEPGdIrs6krg3M9L6McH0qZneIDQ_DVZUYWG4xbRN9NZFo58ARNs/s320/McD_Linden09_perf_4.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425358605182616130" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 255px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 382px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Pn8RJ3aNoXie07R_CIEAnEF_-QR79aPhM7m2ZxW4F6FnqhItneF8-0hnDe0Nbp-EYNFH4-PNR8blNyKmcGD7CX65r2SzxwvvX2o-y906A6Rcsh4lFmuTjoVQxEKELRt2k0I-TFW-7BA/s1600-h/McD_Linden09_perf_19.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9Pn8RJ3aNoXie07R_CIEAnEF_-QR79aPhM7m2ZxW4F6FnqhItneF8-0hnDe0Nbp-EYNFH4-PNR8blNyKmcGD7CX65r2SzxwvvX2o-y906A6Rcsh4lFmuTjoVQxEKELRt2k0I-TFW-7BA/s320/McD_Linden09_perf_19.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425769146012100386" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 392px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 268px;" /></a>I was interested in how labor-intensive hair work and embroidery helped 19th-century women cope with loss and survive their forced isolation but also in how the obsessive nature of these craft projects must have driven them a bit crazy. I spent 8 months in my studio hand knitting the costume and the objects, including a 35-foot banister cozy, and found the work at turns deeply comforting and totally maddening.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhndQvnoWzdIv4O2sU-yRrdgy2tEf1ElFrksgBntK9uWOnDU6VrVDGHgS1HeE6QjAsGM9tUKrt-JgVi3L9rW0HQYSw7gp9RUzgYkKgo2R2LLm7JTbNdjmXEy6k0OKo3Bm4gpz2fxWxM_6Q/s1600-h/McD_Linden09_perf_7.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhndQvnoWzdIv4O2sU-yRrdgy2tEf1ElFrksgBntK9uWOnDU6VrVDGHgS1HeE6QjAsGM9tUKrt-JgVi3L9rW0HQYSw7gp9RUzgYkKgo2R2LLm7JTbNdjmXEy6k0OKo3Bm4gpz2fxWxM_6Q/s320/McD_Linden09_perf_7.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425358598410837618" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 256px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 384px;" /></a>I was also interested in how these painstaking crafts forced me to slow down and reflect on the passing of time. I wanted to audience to experience that so at one point in the piece, I spent nearly 10-minutes unraveling a 12-foot-long knitted panel to the accompaniment of a solo fiddle.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsskYRuRLFjTuqfbWxQv2gqI1ReszXg6d1065hwrt63tp8VcUhKOns8iFJcm8vEVj_DMg2okPvA9fDoqEHobF4nTMTyRygo8u9YhcrcBOXuVkDQvUvJ6sdZAqI12tuseihDvvLy_O4B10/s1600-h/McD_Linden09_install_1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsskYRuRLFjTuqfbWxQv2gqI1ReszXg6d1065hwrt63tp8VcUhKOns8iFJcm8vEVj_DMg2okPvA9fDoqEHobF4nTMTyRygo8u9YhcrcBOXuVkDQvUvJ6sdZAqI12tuseihDvvLy_O4B10/s320/McD_Linden09_install_1.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425357673611037842" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 287px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 389px;" /></a>...and this period hair wreath and bouquet...<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtRQ35vaF6_c0_TgCGhLUaZ-qYDVYmhc9OrRnZxQSY_ALant3yDYX4LEV541Hx39T6hyphenhyphensH5I31TBF8t-MTOiNNDHA1WrxYbkPyDWljq0ZymwkubFkvfTQzCW-vynITUOPkuKnhX5mGLjM/s1600-h/i-cord+fronds.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtRQ35vaF6_c0_TgCGhLUaZ-qYDVYmhc9OrRnZxQSY_ALant3yDYX4LEV541Hx39T6hyphenhyphensH5I31TBF8t-MTOiNNDHA1WrxYbkPyDWljq0ZymwkubFkvfTQzCW-vynITUOPkuKnhX5mGLjM/s320/i-cord+fronds.JPG" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425357659795985682" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 349px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 262px;" /></a>…to more psychological environments where I performed a series of gestures in real time to reflect the isolation women endured during mourning and to meditate on the passage of time and the unstable nature of memory.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrQTll6i4lulzdehbk0Z0sR6_-LI2oFVTsNatK3l_ys4BaEolR4mcVHqSs42EnBEcooYTH5zUbr4b6u9C2exyIiscEpqFr3Vb1BnRP0Gm8qsjeDcjdEAI-k7eb0H73pwwK5T6rOVhYD8/s1600-h/McD_Linden09_install_9.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZrQTll6i4lulzdehbk0Z0sR6_-LI2oFVTsNatK3l_ys4BaEolR4mcVHqSs42EnBEcooYTH5zUbr4b6u9C2exyIiscEpqFr3Vb1BnRP0Gm8qsjeDcjdEAI-k7eb0H73pwwK5T6rOVhYD8/s320/McD_Linden09_install_9.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425356420557018690" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 253px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 388px;" /></a>The piece began with me on the balcony and the audience on the front lawn. At the end of the performance, I led them out onto the balcony.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8iwfU9yz11DbtcASf9T-0v18F1LJkmLedpXKNq_wZD9R9ybXeohpYvk-SZPbwxJaxLeJUTjLc3z5jRQgKvcQepiPcbjA_qsuls-vY-wTzj5jlK4DWXmKYesQdQk9wAVU1sfoAl6CiAw/s1600-h/McD_Linden09_perf_23.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgR8iwfU9yz11DbtcASf9T-0v18F1LJkmLedpXKNq_wZD9R9ybXeohpYvk-SZPbwxJaxLeJUTjLc3z5jRQgKvcQepiPcbjA_qsuls-vY-wTzj5jlK4DWXmKYesQdQk9wAVU1sfoAl6CiAw/s320/McD_Linden09_perf_23.jpg" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425354534654990034" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 252px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 379px;" /></a>Then, like a bad tour guide, I snuck down the fire escape and out onto the lawn, abandoning the audience on the balcony. With our positions were switched, they were trapped in the house and I was free to leave. I removed my “widow’s weeds” and exited the property singing, my mourning complete.<br />
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Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-74464736680340591202007-12-27T12:11:00.000-08:002010-01-13T14:14:25.930-08:00Artist talk at MICA<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTatpaT0Wyo64j0B3krwDHtRQRakoLquw8WawYVHpxyuAG5qzBMPHv_2qnqAeYqxKKMe83wfVKVwFw1TKQT6TPbZt77lzBg_rox3jCWtM1ZGZlEHrT0v7165gmqbP39oinha5lWw-TWeg/s1600-h/marthatalk+-+36.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTatpaT0Wyo64j0B3krwDHtRQRakoLquw8WawYVHpxyuAG5qzBMPHv_2qnqAeYqxKKMe83wfVKVwFw1TKQT6TPbZt77lzBg_rox3jCWtM1ZGZlEHrT0v7165gmqbP39oinha5lWw-TWeg/s320/marthatalk+-+36.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182553864827024546" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidePB_zx_tQb0V5AywKKMi18MmnG4owwg6My-TmzJ5ekg_joTko4Azik5hi_RHY-qUc6NgxepKRMf_3AEVJsCmF8ux__w2kuLLpbTMMKCPNp2z69Ekt_-hGKLNSRFYw206M1CScNGz6gk/s1600-h/marthatalk+-+08.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidePB_zx_tQb0V5AywKKMi18MmnG4owwg6My-TmzJ5ekg_joTko4Azik5hi_RHY-qUc6NgxepKRMf_3AEVJsCmF8ux__w2kuLLpbTMMKCPNp2z69Ekt_-hGKLNSRFYw206M1CScNGz6gk/s320/marthatalk+-+08.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182553869121991858" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUVt0Rij6ef6a-CnxcGxiER3x8P1BP46MI5xyBehW7PXTvNdRI0U8oVtfNwVz7Ljtp9zJhDhgGPkNxEBN_rTZ7s5Mdjy4MR5veY-SO7cSmCSUYprbxR0BQisRKTibQW02XU-hTlZOGwiQ/s1600-h/MICA+3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUVt0Rij6ef6a-CnxcGxiER3x8P1BP46MI5xyBehW7PXTvNdRI0U8oVtfNwVz7Ljtp9zJhDhgGPkNxEBN_rTZ7s5Mdjy4MR5veY-SO7cSmCSUYprbxR0BQisRKTibQW02XU-hTlZOGwiQ/s320/MICA+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182553882006893762" border="0" /></a>On November 9, 2007, I gave an artist talk to Fiber students at Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore, MD. I showed performance videos and discussed my process for making costumes and how I use costumes to transmit stories and ideas in performance. Concurrent with the talk, ten years worth of my costumes were exhibited in the costume gallery. The two aqua costumes on the far left and the baroque undergarments on far right front were made by costume designer Gregory Nelson.Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-25868476331633495802007-09-02T21:34:00.001-07:002012-08-09T09:11:09.935-07:00Dress Me Slow, I'm in a Hurry<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmIthCzcvKZwqTQaCBh6eitG79V1-KThcc9aO5AEvMSDT5CuUQaQkLKkEgG7ZR_cBMWZfYpqNo24aoq4xenlIFNfZeZejblvamXmCWnSsiDPWL6nUfLq-lVnEoDCR2ngoTGk05wjjEoxU/s1600-h/WIG+DANCE.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182312620808975458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmIthCzcvKZwqTQaCBh6eitG79V1-KThcc9aO5AEvMSDT5CuUQaQkLKkEgG7ZR_cBMWZfYpqNo24aoq4xenlIFNfZeZejblvamXmCWnSsiDPWL6nUfLq-lVnEoDCR2ngoTGk05wjjEoxU/s320/WIG+DANCE.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 278px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 416px;" /></a> Evergreen Museum and Library<br />
Baltimore, MD<br />
October 25-27, 2007<br />
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Project Coordinator, Kelly Cobb<br />
featuring Micheal Simmons on flamenco and classical guitars and mandolin<br />
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As the 2007 artist-in-residence at Evergreen Museum and Library, I was invited to make a site-specific work inspired by the house museum, its collection and history. I was fascinated by Evergreen's idiosyncratic patroness Alice Garrett, who, in addition to being an esteemed art patron and high profile wife of a diplomat, sang, danced and staged lavish productions she called <span style="font-style: italic;">Songs in Costume</span> during the 1920s in an in-home theater designed by Ballets Russes set and costume designer Leon Bakst.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLQAN3BdPtv755mVA51_ObbBzTKjlSclcwUZ8vHo-VD6OdKKQJZVfA-3ymkQ8WFh05P5qBG85vcw9z2WQI1xy7WW0Ec-oOTaJKDQS0z137ssqH77GVNaunyjNA0OfsN4nZhmgP4Hn7zE/s1600-h/Alice+on+stage2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426163434551130610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKLQAN3BdPtv755mVA51_ObbBzTKjlSclcwUZ8vHo-VD6OdKKQJZVfA-3ymkQ8WFh05P5qBG85vcw9z2WQI1xy7WW0Ec-oOTaJKDQS0z137ssqH77GVNaunyjNA0OfsN4nZhmgP4Hn7zE/s320/Alice+on+stage2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 328px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 410px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCL2ZCXJGPbvai6r3ALB1woYPNb88fX84oPXd2EfnynZP7Oi3TDBdba0i4sJjMstfN8W2IYG1hnNVRaijhdC_7FeqD9z-Fdo4dV045n419Z1TckP0ifS6s773sZD1nDnkjMwblbRP313Q/s1600-h/baskt+lobby+for+blog.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426160288505936482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCL2ZCXJGPbvai6r3ALB1woYPNb88fX84oPXd2EfnynZP7Oi3TDBdba0i4sJjMstfN8W2IYG1hnNVRaijhdC_7FeqD9z-Fdo4dV045n419Z1TckP0ifS6s773sZD1nDnkjMwblbRP313Q/s320/baskt+lobby+for+blog.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 348px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 277px;" /></a>As I researched Alice's archives, I discovered that while she was a consummate entertainer, Alice was not a very good singer or dancer and was deeply conflicted about her artistic aspirations. As an artist who has developed a performance form based on my passion for the music, obsession with costumes and an untrained stage persona (rather than undisputed vocal talent and acting skills), I felt a powerful affinity with Alice and developed the piece around our similarities and differences.<span style="font-style: italic;"> Dress Me Slow </span>was my own version of <span style="font-style: italic;">Songs in Costume</span>. I sang songs drawn from Alice's repertoire of Irish and Spanish folk songs; wore costumes I designed and handmade inspired by the intensely colored costumes Bakst created for Alice; and shared monologues exploring Alice's conflicted artistic aspirations and my own ambivalence as a artist.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlM14u3K_U52Z8-W9pYSqm_5e3Xwh-WE8VeTd8U3QVIE6_6YIs66Ryq84bLwdW_wzKIQFQKY95ZoRxKIFbmOzKHnumLCys5asiaA_BiSLAAA7QLl-U9feUu0ZMGclZ6gE2GdAHlmFN6Mw/s1600-h/IMG_2131.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425759069052760274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlM14u3K_U52Z8-W9pYSqm_5e3Xwh-WE8VeTd8U3QVIE6_6YIs66Ryq84bLwdW_wzKIQFQKY95ZoRxKIFbmOzKHnumLCys5asiaA_BiSLAAA7QLl-U9feUu0ZMGclZ6gE2GdAHlmFN6Mw/s320/IMG_2131.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 386px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 257px;" /></a>Throughout the piece, I was in a constant state of changing from one costume to another to suggest the multiple identities Alice navigated in her life—ambassadress, socialite, social reformer, art patron and performer.<br />
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IRISH COSTUME:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZJqF4T0p78Rzm1HVMenMm6wkMvWwiDTUGlEuXdC0nbuPgh7WI_2rePkzOTUGMOI5tvI8is7M0oruubpMSr0mPpd9Ied8p13f2giCQqPPSwck4uoqGR6lSxK76lo7tFnEhas8wXKiLLQ/s1600-h/IRISH+IN+BAKST.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182312625103942770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnZJqF4T0p78Rzm1HVMenMm6wkMvWwiDTUGlEuXdC0nbuPgh7WI_2rePkzOTUGMOI5tvI8is7M0oruubpMSr0mPpd9Ied8p13f2giCQqPPSwck4uoqGR6lSxK76lo7tFnEhas8wXKiLLQ/s320/IRISH+IN+BAKST.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 388px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 259px;" /></a>The Irish costume was inspired by the Irish selkie, or mermaid. The belt suggests the ubiquitous Irish seaweed, with the brown i-cords on the belt, around my neck and in my hair referencing the ropey kind of seaweed. The "gloves" riff off cable-knit Irish fishermen sweaters.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mt-VbMleQMjYFwxo52vFOO6UeI2bjQx3pXOZn4v7s5sZcfgDsKUJwsx4r3YC4W1rGBRLQOh13xY3hpb5u39_COTq_B8LU3yEPlPHDssawmLm_KW2Okgdc8i0ya3ZR3kjdxvqzta-LyM/s1600-h/IMG_2342.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182312625103942786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8mt-VbMleQMjYFwxo52vFOO6UeI2bjQx3pXOZn4v7s5sZcfgDsKUJwsx4r3YC4W1rGBRLQOh13xY3hpb5u39_COTq_B8LU3yEPlPHDssawmLm_KW2Okgdc8i0ya3ZR3kjdxvqzta-LyM/s320/IMG_2342.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 251px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 380px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4gqDQ1ruMqnRr9gmAzq2GzwOS-DkZ6wGjR0AbbdUJRHpEINqJsUAnkdaTC-v9c_n3OoYlSBtS3TaJxYdWe5-U4S6Q2NdhN7Uun3NEVIKhoeV6YwYokLYvLztswQl-BBU-rVCiM0XAHfM/s1600-h/IRISH+DANCE.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182312629398910098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4gqDQ1ruMqnRr9gmAzq2GzwOS-DkZ6wGjR0AbbdUJRHpEINqJsUAnkdaTC-v9c_n3OoYlSBtS3TaJxYdWe5-U4S6Q2NdhN7Uun3NEVIKhoeV6YwYokLYvLztswQl-BBU-rVCiM0XAHfM/s320/IRISH+DANCE.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 377px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 250px;" /></a><br />
SPANISH COSTUME:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi2t7gC80p4f_Ytjo41Dp0N0u0CX835b7nMN4TqVlf2jIhvpHGGHHNKKkyFN4PLaXQ5r2t2oykoS_rJO9U6yuyEagzxpNQaL7Li5GlbxVXhPpQ-nMxTLVOJj-z2IWH48qTE61H-xTLd-k/s1600-h/IMG_2159.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425759055959085474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi2t7gC80p4f_Ytjo41Dp0N0u0CX835b7nMN4TqVlf2jIhvpHGGHHNKKkyFN4PLaXQ5r2t2oykoS_rJO9U6yuyEagzxpNQaL7Li5GlbxVXhPpQ-nMxTLVOJj-z2IWH48qTE61H-xTLd-k/s320/IMG_2159.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 389px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 259px;" /></a>The Spanish costume is a traditional flamenco dress rendered in a confection of red, purple and hot pink. It was inspired by a painting in the house by Miguel Covarrubias depicting Alice dancing the flamenco and a photo of Baltimore opera singer Rosa Ponsel as Carmen. The ruffles were hand died prior to construction and the bodice was hand painted.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu2i_IN224-oprJPnC8XihlDklU5LyZRyNaTMc7wxpV2d3K8fE_AG8UDkxAeBVwcmTZRyME6yHhZO9x0eI0aIhmIR36eu3Epa2McEmrbo32n0hlt8sq-vAfqf4ZCEz10qlXF_JVMOJY5w/s1600-h/RUFFLE+DETAIL.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182312053873292338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu2i_IN224-oprJPnC8XihlDklU5LyZRyNaTMc7wxpV2d3K8fE_AG8UDkxAeBVwcmTZRyME6yHhZO9x0eI0aIhmIR36eu3Epa2McEmrbo32n0hlt8sq-vAfqf4ZCEz10qlXF_JVMOJY5w/s320/RUFFLE+DETAIL.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 368px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 244px;" /></a> I embroidered the lyrics of one of the Spanish folk songs I sang on the ruffles. <br />
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EXOTIC COSTUME:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg29krJrQUMRyVSqbsE7wyCXp0IEAiFDu1gBhpyrQ_0_ekuRPP3BActnmxPeHGAAmk0pDH28bPAQq5xOLbgrmi-LEcci5Ti7lI-1_BMKnUPTgzbmrHXa5iLTUCDC02QqzajL8T7CYCnzRw/s1600-h/Turbin+wrap+live.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425757108262204594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg29krJrQUMRyVSqbsE7wyCXp0IEAiFDu1gBhpyrQ_0_ekuRPP3BActnmxPeHGAAmk0pDH28bPAQq5xOLbgrmi-LEcci5Ti7lI-1_BMKnUPTgzbmrHXa5iLTUCDC02QqzajL8T7CYCnzRw/s320/Turbin+wrap+live.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 284px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 428px;" /></a>The Exotic costume was inspired by Leon Bakst’s boldly colored, wildly patterned designs for the Ballets Russes.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc-ZQA-fk6h4UtXfj7GoF58NaZhP9566EyotQl5jjM0djyGz3UJBy7U23T_jYjOsOpvK-FR68oH2a9rwav40jbsw91QVf0NLGqBmMcCPztm7yUruqIX5fwFIiadPgeb9m_P_9QBnIp2y8/s1600-h/Bakst+for+blog.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426160299166199506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc-ZQA-fk6h4UtXfj7GoF58NaZhP9566EyotQl5jjM0djyGz3UJBy7U23T_jYjOsOpvK-FR68oH2a9rwav40jbsw91QVf0NLGqBmMcCPztm7yUruqIX5fwFIiadPgeb9m_P_9QBnIp2y8/s320/Bakst+for+blog.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 417px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 257px;" /></a>Under the guidance of Kelly Cobb, a Fiber Instructor at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), I designed the fabric from drawings I made of plants and birds on the grounds of Evergreen. Kelly taught me how to hand paint the designs onto silk for the harem pants and Turkish vest in the style of Leon Bakst. MICA Fiber student Hanna Brancato screen printed the sheer scarf as well as a theatrical backdrop in the design. All scarves were hand dyed.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNO5Ny35CcifMWgn6x3q7k9VgyBJT4ovWk1QKD-DSBAxaH-QMVHGnOsCkwS12vwoZI8FA4HxhbQ-MqP-TD5Js_qyyqFUEvnHRU34NT4-V8E5R7iBVEQshEfUf25a8jyaaCGynUxcabKc/s1600-h/IMG_2312.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182312058168259666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBNO5Ny35CcifMWgn6x3q7k9VgyBJT4ovWk1QKD-DSBAxaH-QMVHGnOsCkwS12vwoZI8FA4HxhbQ-MqP-TD5Js_qyyqFUEvnHRU34NT4-V8E5R7iBVEQshEfUf25a8jyaaCGynUxcabKc/s320/IMG_2312.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 235px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 355px;" /></a>(Photos: Aaron Igler)<br />
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PROCESS SHOTS:<br />
Gradation dyeing the Spanish costume at MICA<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0HcQwWtofvNELcegAtaEYk1b9xDOj2jhSMyQBJ6qGV5bUqoP5Wzvofzi_DZNRdoxWO4mP1AhO4Jm3W04ohBxVnDgAR0SF63cgcjJudKrvNilOAfWuEzTP8IOWGJSJH49KaakPL1PyjrQ/s1600-h/martha+-+07.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106382380554236386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0HcQwWtofvNELcegAtaEYk1b9xDOj2jhSMyQBJ6qGV5bUqoP5Wzvofzi_DZNRdoxWO4mP1AhO4Jm3W04ohBxVnDgAR0SF63cgcjJudKrvNilOAfWuEzTP8IOWGJSJH49KaakPL1PyjrQ/s320/martha+-+07.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqxih0efH9YUJ4pLnOtU7nTafv_D8Rxtd7W1laWe5GylIEB8cDpY61MMTfKAfOiTx4NP1xUTpnwkVD8UPogUQQtWnxLP1rzWs3uqyejmwLblOop9ilCsec_OEf1meKrQ5MCY218ypTes/s1600-h/martha+-+26.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106382659727110642" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzqxih0efH9YUJ4pLnOtU7nTafv_D8Rxtd7W1laWe5GylIEB8cDpY61MMTfKAfOiTx4NP1xUTpnwkVD8UPogUQQtWnxLP1rzWs3uqyejmwLblOop9ilCsec_OEf1meKrQ5MCY218ypTes/s320/martha+-+26.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb-_Rt2wXEr7DOIDwr5UF-f0uCVgYHokVGZeJkHp72-NSTOf9j_mcDKvyiX-Dtl21VgRehUU9DY2p_UgyQMywSprBbToZmLNoQD0jrhpStKZqhU_1LkT6s2hTNzYc6hKvZlApXUwjgO_E/s1600-h/martha+-+28.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5106383896677691922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgb-_Rt2wXEr7DOIDwr5UF-f0uCVgYHokVGZeJkHp72-NSTOf9j_mcDKvyiX-Dtl21VgRehUU9DY2p_UgyQMywSprBbToZmLNoQD0jrhpStKZqhU_1LkT6s2hTNzYc6hKvZlApXUwjgO_E/s320/martha+-+28.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;" /></a>(photos: Kelly Cobb)<br />
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Dress Me Slow, I'm in a Hurry (video excerpt)<br />
<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dywpcXSDjXwLbMlJcsgRYkU7sc1W5CoWtqhqYGiS5bWmiWFrSyg6RPDNR924L2iTAjm7-xV8g6IzwyI81mqCw' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-53551754294455174502007-09-02T21:10:00.000-07:002012-07-24T09:38:25.424-07:00Lament<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8h3s_uwodMDqrGSHFCEhwgpetsqg1hYReqcg6BuFg0K_ycO9QHlVE9fD4a2UjIIsDqgUNPDMcGx01AdfBEMwRNljaO5t4qcc63zyAyLooTZmqW6es4qkRubTBxxUVwaFCOzm0UmcSnI/s1600-h/picture-15.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183733129702520338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq8h3s_uwodMDqrGSHFCEhwgpetsqg1hYReqcg6BuFg0K_ycO9QHlVE9fD4a2UjIIsDqgUNPDMcGx01AdfBEMwRNljaO5t4qcc63zyAyLooTZmqW6es4qkRubTBxxUVwaFCOzm0UmcSnI/s320/picture-15.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 367px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 242px;" /></a>Institute of Contemporary Art <span style="font-style: italic;">Soft Sites</span> exhibition at Bartram's Garden<br />
Philadelphia, PA<br />
July 31, 2006<br />
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As I researched John Bartram's garden, I learned that Bartram discovered
a small grove of trees in Georgia in 1765. He gathered the seeds and
propagated them in his Philadelphia garden and gave them to friends back in England. The tree was last seen in
the wild in 1803 and only survives today in cultivation. This story led
me to make this piece as a meditation on the extinction of plants and
the loss we experience when they disappear. <br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5CEZTei0a_H0cmtCiXcaQtKlv64ic9oEMMXz2RbNADzNyg0kt03q6Oss_xKU4NHiM9WK5BB6pLnCOSsatKVeYN9MIqOmEd39vRVb4PdulCvhKFBhmRkkylzSaWtnNZiV1gdaDj6U8B94/s1600-h/picture-3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183733133997487666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5CEZTei0a_H0cmtCiXcaQtKlv64ic9oEMMXz2RbNADzNyg0kt03q6Oss_xKU4NHiM9WK5BB6pLnCOSsatKVeYN9MIqOmEd39vRVb4PdulCvhKFBhmRkkylzSaWtnNZiV1gdaDj6U8B94/s320/picture-3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 228px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 343px;" /></a>I led the audience through the 18th-century botanic garden, telling stories about plants that vanished either because they couldn't survive in the the wild or because they fell out of fashion and people stopped planting them.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwHHlIjC701USS1sHS0V6qCWbMShJogKmI1pet_vCnU8fw0nUYAXLQOX8pwaouu6mSClwOz8GF8QUaB33lT41RND0qBWIuqRi4KoHg-kuADIEH52vYsz4m9KJHm9JReJjv0pSJqzfXiOs/s1600-h/picture-18.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182672066621977922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwHHlIjC701USS1sHS0V6qCWbMShJogKmI1pet_vCnU8fw0nUYAXLQOX8pwaouu6mSClwOz8GF8QUaB33lT41RND0qBWIuqRi4KoHg-kuADIEH52vYsz4m9KJHm9JReJjv0pSJqzfXiOs/s320/picture-18.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 368px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 245px;" /></a>Dropping seeds like Hansel and Gretel, I led the audience into a wooded glen, where I sang a lament at the rivers edge. Then I paddled away in a canoe and disappeared.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgseHq3INXL_19ZNMzWJf5_VVKxhp7xXVvwbU55mn5GKQbYRfiK6qHDHHF7qemLKL88W_34k_dd-IMqwC3chdRqnozvjFHuoptiHgWOB1MKN_wZuIRxDj_ofdyIo-wAz91T6y257nnDmyU/s1600-h/picture-44.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182671478211458274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgseHq3INXL_19ZNMzWJf5_VVKxhp7xXVvwbU55mn5GKQbYRfiK6qHDHHF7qemLKL88W_34k_dd-IMqwC3chdRqnozvjFHuoptiHgWOB1MKN_wZuIRxDj_ofdyIo-wAz91T6y257nnDmyU/s320/picture-44.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 364px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 245px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkezRZ5YPHYgM14i_HnV1mYb824WzrJn32AQKp-DaG6sZkK_jgjL5v5TH62rhEVAeztzQ0Bg0YH3FXbjWvk7D8PXiqITi3rLL9v1bVO9Pqv2AGji0zNpdBaR5lMHm6KCnSA0j18hYuvbw/s1600-h/picture-29.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182671482506425586" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkezRZ5YPHYgM14i_HnV1mYb824WzrJn32AQKp-DaG6sZkK_jgjL5v5TH62rhEVAeztzQ0Bg0YH3FXbjWvk7D8PXiqITi3rLL9v1bVO9Pqv2AGji0zNpdBaR5lMHm6KCnSA0j18hYuvbw/s320/picture-29.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 362px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 245px;" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;">Lament</span> drew on the Victorian language of flowers--a means of communicating through coded messages that allowed people to express feelings they were not free to speak aloud. I shared the symbolic meanings of flowers in Bartram's garden and embroidered them on my costume.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirklWMMqhAmWNAJlIVVQM1neD0-y4t9msMsQpSXXTBFdGEAF9f8LaEmG_wjFtYa-o8fv840IlWeoraqhI5jpqQiXXghLklTBAt0AqdncYQZ1kbXjubRbvuq6L77_3CWDbJMt-uLFCVvoY/s1600-h/Fleisher+Ollman+embroidery+jpg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182671486801392898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirklWMMqhAmWNAJlIVVQM1neD0-y4t9msMsQpSXXTBFdGEAF9f8LaEmG_wjFtYa-o8fv840IlWeoraqhI5jpqQiXXghLklTBAt0AqdncYQZ1kbXjubRbvuq6L77_3CWDbJMt-uLFCVvoY/s320/Fleisher+Ollman+embroidery+jpg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 327px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 248px;" /></a>I wanted to make something that could live on after the performance. Using the same blue floss and white linen of the costume, I embroidered some stories I told in performance and made a book with photos from the performance and the embroideries. The embroideries were inspired by Victorian handkerchiefs, on which women often stitched secret messages for their beloved, and by vintage needlework samplers, which feature blocks of inspirational text or sage advice. Victorian women sewed samplers to record life events, rites of passage or life history. My embroideries record the loss of flowers.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp5e0XH_IFfdhWh3S_sTgOO9rvP5byVNw8_zKJ8rg3yZ70dM7hxZ43Qvt8RcDfBMYQOb4MW8cbpwnnkzmO5Mz8qx9NA9tFrGsp3KQe48kNxoCRTvygvrBQVQNlSJgDIJKWblm0RhlNKNg/s1600-h/la.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105830704889966962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp5e0XH_IFfdhWh3S_sTgOO9rvP5byVNw8_zKJ8rg3yZ70dM7hxZ43Qvt8RcDfBMYQOb4MW8cbpwnnkzmO5Mz8qx9NA9tFrGsp3KQe48kNxoCRTvygvrBQVQNlSJgDIJKWblm0RhlNKNg/s320/la.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 194px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 283px;" /></a>The embroideries were shown at Fleisher-Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia in September 2007 on the occasion of the book release. http://www.fleisher-ollmangallery.com/news.php<br />
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Photos: Aaron Igler<br />
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A larger version of this video can be viewed at <a href="https://vimeo.com/45660125" target="_blank">https://vimeo.com/45660125</a> <br />
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<iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dymo1ZxF56_CzqkxIAEAXW0bn-eXs_fyn1QxDwVYz67Eu4lJqt5SilPtzliubcUNSAu8CLwJj3IKAKWGzqb' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-57010064844500241592007-09-02T21:03:00.000-07:002010-01-27T13:58:25.564-08:00drown'd in mine own tears<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eJu60qhUQp9_oMOCXo3VosgPZ50KE-sQ7HjH43tWe9kqCdz_AtdHmT38nDdPXQJEwMBNkFG3OFDP7FHejua4Rx0YneKlUeB2gxoVdJf4BZ1gnvH3NfUGVx0kqIZ564pUo4D20IU581M/s1600-h/drown'd+3-low+res+jpg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_eJu60qhUQp9_oMOCXo3VosgPZ50KE-sQ7HjH43tWe9kqCdz_AtdHmT38nDdPXQJEwMBNkFG3OFDP7FHejua4Rx0YneKlUeB2gxoVdJf4BZ1gnvH3NfUGVx0kqIZ564pUo4D20IU581M/s320/drown'd+3-low+res+jpg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182694026789762434" border="0" /></a>Philadelphia Live Arts Festival<br />September 6-11, 2005<br /><br />Directed by Greg Giovanni, video by Nadia Hironaka, design by Jonathan Berger<br />Featuring Elizabeth Boggs (harpsichord), Helena Espvall (cello), and Michael Simmons (classical guitar)<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">drown’d </span>used knitting to explore the pain of waiting and acceptance. The piece was built around the myth of Penelope, wife of Ulysses—champion of the Trojan War and hero of The Odyssey. Penelope endured 20 years of waiting for Ulysses to come home. When he didn’t return after the war, suitors demanded she remarry. She tricked the suitors by telling them she’d pick a new husband when she finished her weaving. For four years, she kept the suitors at bay, weaving by day and unraveling by night. In quiet protest, she spoke thru her handwork.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRQa-xTo3vL_tOahkPifMnX-mFxlTmRTMVuq8r1j1BSE7G1266vetGwheWS_Kd7Kd3lSgPMznCMHpCHtaxN0KOV7kiEwPuoLgI35u_sCQI8_Ps3MgVovQcnmfN3JwuY9gIR5L_3vUiSnY/s1600-h/drown'd+1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRQa-xTo3vL_tOahkPifMnX-mFxlTmRTMVuq8r1j1BSE7G1266vetGwheWS_Kd7Kd3lSgPMznCMHpCHtaxN0KOV7kiEwPuoLgI35u_sCQI8_Ps3MgVovQcnmfN3JwuY9gIR5L_3vUiSnY/s320/drown'd+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182694031084729746" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGCPyhAsLl7BYzbMS7ru5vuW7EHPLHRIWFfJ-4URNfhpSi5DrM8EHwtgK081_ThzeU0ky_QPmzbxTYcVnyCfUrsUBgk_s36H2UUalLdjPO57AoaIA5nHolWs-_XhnRIGaj8NnDt3DG7LI/s1600-h/drown'd+1-detail.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 262px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGCPyhAsLl7BYzbMS7ru5vuW7EHPLHRIWFfJ-4URNfhpSi5DrM8EHwtgK081_ThzeU0ky_QPmzbxTYcVnyCfUrsUBgk_s36H2UUalLdjPO57AoaIA5nHolWs-_XhnRIGaj8NnDt3DG7LI/s320/drown'd+1-detail.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182694035379697058" border="0" /></a><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-style: italic;"></span>drown’d</span> recreated Penelope’s action of creating and destroying through the knitting and unraveling of a giant afghan. The afghan provided a sense of scale—dwarfing my Penelope, who persevered despite the daunting task.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimiOST1tYIaXLb6cYQbwH1X4TlVkhtlI0pCXeKk5V4SZ0nGs6FQnt9FrmzNs39xHvSrb5S3obTvCKI4fxvScuaHoaK80HUd3xuOz_thXdnI_aXNLVm64UTk5jj7zI2PYX51SNqnGDCGQU/s1600-h/drown'd+4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 348px; height: 232px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimiOST1tYIaXLb6cYQbwH1X4TlVkhtlI0pCXeKk5V4SZ0nGs6FQnt9FrmzNs39xHvSrb5S3obTvCKI4fxvScuaHoaK80HUd3xuOz_thXdnI_aXNLVm64UTk5jj7zI2PYX51SNqnGDCGQU/s320/drown'd+4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182694039674664370" border="0" /></a>At three intervals during the performance, I broke from Penelope’s story and stepped in front of the curtain to conduct a knitting demonstration. Dressed in a floor-length hand-knit dress, I shared the rudiments of knitting a scarf, which I was “constantly knitting.” By the third knitting lesson, I emerged with a 40-foot-long scarf.<br /><br />During the knitting lessons, I passed on purls of wisdom, using knitting as a metaphor for accepting your life, mistakes and all, while reflecting on how I used knitting to cope with the recent death of my mother, my first knitting teacher.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUuurs6NigYt3C0-usR9dv5IgJJn_rR7zlks2Z5ppXqhg2czt8ywYCeZREmkg9KiynBVSn8PO7uiUBETSYseqNiBmcC1Yly0NGew5FracdtUadQ-RuU4aea8YVnKUqiAnE6FXZhXu_Vs/s1600-h/20050906a_festival_0140.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 247px; height: 371px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuUuurs6NigYt3C0-usR9dv5IgJJn_rR7zlks2Z5ppXqhg2czt8ywYCeZREmkg9KiynBVSn8PO7uiUBETSYseqNiBmcC1Yly0NGew5FracdtUadQ-RuU4aea8YVnKUqiAnE6FXZhXu_Vs/s320/20050906a_festival_0140.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182693176386237794" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiKZvkweLi6zbLG_QCSp_MTFGZHbnWeTVcofRbLNW9NUvwkY9ChFuicaB52lb7146VCbTBj7xXje8zcoecwWwUNQqwH4hAj5XFz3ZXwxxaP2HoMnJLTIfa9r3JncHS1b11DyySj1E3SsI/s1600-h/20050906a_festival_0170.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 334px; height: 223px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiKZvkweLi6zbLG_QCSp_MTFGZHbnWeTVcofRbLNW9NUvwkY9ChFuicaB52lb7146VCbTBj7xXje8zcoecwWwUNQqwH4hAj5XFz3ZXwxxaP2HoMnJLTIfa9r3JncHS1b11DyySj1E3SsI/s320/20050906a_festival_0170.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182693184976172402" border="0" /></a>I taught myself to knit in order to make this piece and I became obsessed in the process. I knit dozens of hats and scarves. I even knit my husband a surfboard bag. That bag was the basis of the knitting teacher’s dress. I have a hard time following patterns so I knit instinctively, making it up as I go along. I wanted to make the kind of dress that an obsessed knitting teacher would wear—one that screamed “handmade.” Purldrop knitwear designer Erin Weckerly crocheted Penelope’s coat. A crew of knitting friends helped knit the backdrops on size 50 needles.<br /><br />top 3 photos: Aaron Igler<br />bottom 3 photos: J. J. Tiziou<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwjFOGPq1TgAX5zi4yNyGSZzr2s5KCneexOZ2rrqg0quRGdC4371HIQcmFY5nDa7NdljI0MlnU-iv_H_UR9MA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-36145586563589089782007-09-02T20:25:00.000-07:002010-01-27T13:58:51.749-08:00Petals from the Same Flower<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2_pcI-WeIhWClXH4kZ8iHA9SzfcID9vMWMP8GYiEuO0ndMihiK3ViulG-ql7rNc-eexz7xaKy67wv8IWsmylD3k7PmK8pag8BX_ZLizmBwErDG26HNMI_4RE9pflpe0pkE219nQDvS4/s1600-h/rosenbach"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 408px; height: 272px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2_pcI-WeIhWClXH4kZ8iHA9SzfcID9vMWMP8GYiEuO0ndMihiK3ViulG-ql7rNc-eexz7xaKy67wv8IWsmylD3k7PmK8pag8BX_ZLizmBwErDG26HNMI_4RE9pflpe0pkE219nQDvS4/s320/rosenbach" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5105814079071563826" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Rosenbach Museum & Library<br />Philadelphia, PA<br />April 11-May 22, 2001<br /><br />Costume by Gregory Nelson and Candy Depew, installation by Depew<br />With Elizabeth Boggs on harpsichord and Michael Simmons on guitar<br /><br />I was commissioned by the Rosenbach to make a piece in response to their collection of rare books, 18th century furniture and decorative arts. I was fascinated by the way the brothers used their collections to reinvent themselves: They grew up the sons of middle-class Jewish merchants who went bankrupt but as the brothers amassed a fortune from selling rare books in the 1920s, they assumed the lavish lifestyle of English country gentlemen. I took the audience on a tour of the museum, focusing on objects that were pretending to be something else (chinoiserie mirrors, Empire furniture, Shakespeare forgeries) to examine how we use our objects to redefine ourselves. My costume was an exact replica of an 18th-century dress, constructed using a historic pattern but rendered in decidedly contemporary fabric.<br /><br />I combined historic facts about the Rosenbach brothers' idiosyncratic collecting habits with stories about my own collections (ceramic nuns, fiesta ware, vintage bathing suits) to explore the obsessive nature of collecting and the culture of excess.<br /><br />The piece was a collaboration with costume designer Gregory Nelson and installation artist Candy Depew, who designed and printed the fabric of my dress. Depew created a “period room” combining wallpaper and topiary of her design with objects from the brothers' collection where the performance culminated in a recital with harpsichord.<br /><br />Photo: Aaron Igler<br /><br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx2Tp_PVuEa7q8Pvckg6_g13sZTzJx51SGl9n_uRkC7GVQtQSqeirO35u6UkR1JtMypoQzrjLWN3Lp92g33Vg' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe>Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-52610014875448598702007-09-02T20:24:00.000-07:002010-01-27T13:59:10.160-08:00The Garden<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTpr-3Tagu2cZLf-8e5Z2zoiWy-z4A1LvUIkcFofp8hv2JpR-2Fzy7LuXIOUtk3zwPkJQ_bKr86RNMOM0UKhsfuXlgi-JU-N56pGQG8xgIXsEYVrFmlOf_JQqnZc5tqviZZZKu4qwAtkA/s1600-h/Adam+mermaid+jpg_0001.jpg"><br /></a><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dwtYb3N4jHh1F4v4YvxUr6gFR6WCHvKz4n6e9eRjw_ksXS_ERL2YYjj4g-U9dQHMsf_l4KPUrEYbgVfqIMBPA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe><br /><br />The Brick Playhouse<br />Philadelphia, PA<br />June 4-6, 2000<br />Directed by Joe Shahadi<br /><br />This piece combined an Elizabethan folk song about a king who has to "cut his wife open" as she dies in childbirth to save their baby, with stories of my teenage brother's and my mother-in-law's death, and descriptions of my garden each season of the year to explore death and rejuvenation.Marthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9201434317469143745.post-26623648566994684042007-09-02T20:21:00.001-07:002008-11-27T20:33:42.732-08:00Girls on the Rocks<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeZ7_JIQVINn1XFevh9w1-pJEntIh2Gb1UmCTt02JYVd5L-6bGiWg8W5XPh2PRZuchxXQ6jN4wjmexBtm8g0dtPPJCtHbBss0o_33bF2Czq5vlD2JcaimJ7PGgNi86FoorjQI1aa6f0ds/s1600-h/Adam+mermaid+jpg_0001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 394px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeZ7_JIQVINn1XFevh9w1-pJEntIh2Gb1UmCTt02JYVd5L-6bGiWg8W5XPh2PRZuchxXQ6jN4wjmexBtm8g0dtPPJCtHbBss0o_33bF2Czq5vlD2JcaimJ7PGgNi86FoorjQI1aa6f0ds/s320/Adam+mermaid+jpg_0001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273558513544632050" border="0" /></a>HERE Arts Center<br />New York, NY<br />August 2003<br /><br />Directed by Greg Giovanni; Costumes by Gregory Nelson;<br />video by Nathalie Applewhite and Paul Haslett<br />with Michael Simmons on guitar and Lynn Major on cello<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Girls on the Rocks</span> explored my relationship to the lonely mermaid and siren—half-women/half-beasts who are outcasts, not fitting in on land or sea and longing for human companionship they can’t have. The piece was staged as a Zeigfield follies cabaret featuring an insecure mermaid in a leggy showgirl costume desperately trying to win over the audience in silence (the mermaid traded her tongue to get legs); and a smoky torch singer siren with an ostrich feather fan brooding over the loss of Ulysses, the one that got away.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhca-nE0iOa2kkuhdavJLTq1GZqhRyBRxGRzHdUvCZggS2E4dA3RWuDhXToUOtvSsRFEI7sFcNmV6AmriloN-TSh_UxN5gkpQTuKoFgSnlb78EfUJ3QIyqMtnOqscU0O-nfDUDBFe-0Xks/s1600-h/DSCF8486.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 369px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhca-nE0iOa2kkuhdavJLTq1GZqhRyBRxGRzHdUvCZggS2E4dA3RWuDhXToUOtvSsRFEI7sFcNmV6AmriloN-TSh_UxN5gkpQTuKoFgSnlb78EfUJ3QIyqMtnOqscU0O-nfDUDBFe-0Xks/s320/DSCF8486.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273558515945652290" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6sL9CLOuGY7OGFYnJg4ju-_-BTcwXpPP2CgmQmiIn-NrY8dfg5nk_p-wO2Sno69N9VyWQJKIcj1yQBNZb8FOA5lfdjMbmgCQjLKBa-8fkVp6hgCKpgHXyNMZeNeEJKC0WwuefAldq1L0/s1600-h/DSCF8482.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 367px; height: 241px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6sL9CLOuGY7OGFYnJg4ju-_-BTcwXpPP2CgmQmiIn-NrY8dfg5nk_p-wO2Sno69N9VyWQJKIcj1yQBNZb8FOA5lfdjMbmgCQjLKBa-8fkVp6hgCKpgHXyNMZeNeEJKC0WwuefAldq1L0/s320/DSCF8482.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273558512149774146" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqy1whS0bveRpNy33Fjy2MsPVyEHcNgFFfUElVixAI7ePmloXs_2SByclM1rwwDIYvNHaXkFe6kvaaC8jZd-esBx7T7jRbuSf1TMow8EvWj_QEnYLXqA1NqwW3KNzBImmHspr3c4A8mDM/s1600-h/DSCF8496.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 368px; height: 245px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqy1whS0bveRpNy33Fjy2MsPVyEHcNgFFfUElVixAI7ePmloXs_2SByclM1rwwDIYvNHaXkFe6kvaaC8jZd-esBx7T7jRbuSf1TMow8EvWj_QEnYLXqA1NqwW3KNzBImmHspr3c4A8mDM/s320/DSCF8496.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273558507005119858" border="0" /></a>Throughout the piece, I played with ways I seduce an audience with my voice—singing a coquettish duet with myself on video; imitating the terrifying wail of an air raid siren (the modern vestige of the mythological siren); and performing a lush, mournful lament.<br /><br />top photo: Adam Wallacavage<br />bottom 3 photos: Jim RoseMarthahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168728178763117899noreply@blogger.com