FRESH MILK III – Sunday, January 15th 2012 – MFA Experiences and Memoir Moments
Fresh Milk III
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Join us on January 15th 2012 at 5pm, at the Milking Parlour Studio, Walkers Dairy, St. George in welcoming visual artists and writers to the FRESH MILK platform. (For directions visit http://www.annaleedavis.com/contact/index.html) The Programme Part One of the programme: , ‘The MFA Experience: Two Perspectives’ Alberta Whittle and Harriet Rollitt, (two Barbadian Visual Artists who have just graduated with MFA degrees from the UK) kick off the event by sharing their Graduate school experiences and discuss how the Masters programme has impacted on their practice. Part Two of the programme: ‘MEMOIR MOMENTS: ABROAD – A life stories event’. In this life stories event emcee’d by Dorothea Smartt – Linda Deane, Adrian Green, Harriet Rollitt, Alberta Whittle and Dorothea Smartt – with only twenty images in ten minutes, will convey their memoir moments related to our chosen theme: “Abroad”. Each interpretation will be unique to each presenter. They may confound or confirm your expectations, with their personal take on the theme. This ‘pecha kucha’ inspired format, was founded by London’s Woolfson & Tay Bookshop for their pioneering ‘Life Stories Cafe’. Dorothea Smartt, the events’ Emcee and co-curator, together with Fresh Milk, will introduce the format to a new audience here in Barbados. Come watch & listen, discover how each uses the constraints and possibilities of ‘twenty images: ten minutes’. |
Call for Artists to Participate in a Local Residency
FRESH MILK is providing a unique opportunity for Barbadian artists to participate in a local residency at the Milking Parlour in March 2012. The format will be a daytime residency, for a week long, two artists residing simultaneously, with an open evening at the completion to present the work created during the artists’ time here. It is open to contemporary creatives across all areas of the arts, and is a great chance to expand your networks and the range of work you produce!
To be eligible, please submit an application (maximum 2 pages) outlining a little bit about yourselves, why you would like to participate in a FRESH MILK residency, and what type of work you would like to produce at the residency. Attach up to five images of recent work. FRESH MILK is particularly keen to support young artists resident in Barbados who are interested in making work in dialogue or in collaboration with another contemporary practitioner. Applications can be sent to annaleedavis@gmail.com, no later that February 3rd 2012.
To learn more about residencies and the benefits they provide, you can refer to this article by Natalie McGuire: https://freshmilkbarbados.com/2011/10/12/artist-residencies-and-barbados/
Photographs from FRESH MILK II Performance Workshop
Some stills from the amazing range of work done by the participants of the Performance Workshop last month
Performance Art @ Fresh Milk II St. George Barbados by Yasmine Espert
Fullbright Scholar Yasmine Espert shares her thoughts on the Fresh Milk II event:
Performance Art @ Fresh Milk II
St. George, BARBADOS.
This is Sandra Vivas. And believe it or not, this (was) performance art. The only thing missing from this image is the elegy she belted out as she bathed herself in fresh, uncooked eggs.
I tried to put the protein aside and focus on the poem she laced with resentment but…
1. I was confounded by the use of eggs. During the performance, I kept asking myself: is she really going to use the whole dozen?
2. She chose to speak in Spanish. I was able to grasp a line here and there (thank you high school/college español), but for the most part, I was lost between her garbled words and the occasional egg yolk that landed in her mouth.
Did she plan this? Why aim for the grotesque?
Vivas’ performance did result in a few chuckles from the audience. I’m not sure if that was her intention — but I am sure that she got my attention. Later that night I came across an English translation of her piece. Like many of her works, it gave a fascinating, albeit bizarre, unveiling of the issues women face today (take a look at her YouTube page for more)
Leandro Soto, a contemporary Cuban performance artist (aka “the first performance artist de Cuba) told me that performance art is about the now…”you never choreograph. You always trust in the moment.”
No matter what your (political) message is, you have to confide in improvisation. Even if it means you have to bathe in raw eggs.
Imagine if we all approached life that way.
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