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In A Circle painted environment and fabric structure for performance |
| In A Circle is a collaboration that will use the internet and other technologies to link groups of participants in many sites and cities. The core collaboration at this point is the linking of live performances in Buffalo and New York City via the internet I will create fabric installations in multiple sites that will define the structure and framework for performance and art. Artists in Buffalo include composers, poets, video artists, musicians and visual artists. Artists in New York City will provide choreography, dance , theater, video, opera, composers, musicians, visual arts, cyber arts. Teleconferencing and live internet connections will bring interactive possibilities between performers at different sites. ( a dancer in one city will duet and improvise with a dancer in another city or a visual artist and musician might interact with several dancers in other cities). | |
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In A Circle |
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In A Circle |
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In A Circle |
| Performances with the East Buffalo Media Association | |
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Mars 1a |
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Bat 1a |
| In another show at The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y., I created a fabric sculpture installations in collaboration with John Cage and LeJaren Hiller's HPSCHD, with 40 slide projectors, 16 film projectors and 6 harpsichords. | |
HPSCHD 4a |
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HPSCHD 2a |
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Elicot Square 2a |
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Elicot Square 1a |
| In 1989 I had the pleasant experience of meeting dance choreographer Ruby Shang. Ruby saw slides of my stationary fabric installations and thought it would make a good collaboration to have to have her dancers move and manipulate my fabric structures within her dance composition. "TALES OF EXILE" premeired in 1989 at the Lincoln Center "Out-Of-Doors Festival" in New York with Ruby Shang Dance Company and theater performance directed by Gilbert T'sai with music composition by Carman Moore. | |
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Tales of Exile |
Tales of Exile |
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Tales of Exile |
| Tales of Exile Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors Festival Modern Dance |
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| Tales of Exile dancer manipulated fabric sculptures by John Toth |
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| Tales of Exile |
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| Tales of Exile |
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| Tales of Exile |
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| Tales of Exile |
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| Net Web fabric installation |
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Screen
1a installation with bent poplar and white fabric. |
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Earth
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Earth
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| Earth Day Volcano at Earth Day Festivafabric, 72" x 24" cir. |
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| Fabric Is A Structure For Behavior
Perhaps the earliest memories we have of fabric are from the embryonic membrane that first served as our protective shelter. And immediately from the womb we were dressed in furs, blankets and clothes. Later, as a child, I crawled under the quilting frame of my grandmother’s Slavic sewing circle. My back to the damp basement floor, I watched, under the quilting frame, as needles poked through the tightly stretched fabric, stitching remnants from our worn out shirts into brightly colored geometric patterns. Sitting around the perimeter, the husbands occasionally rose to readjust the clamps holding the quilt to the frame, testing the tension, aware of the surface. The lights above lit the fabric, coloring the shapes, as I watched below the patterns grew. I played under fabric landscapes that covered furniture in storage, in the scary part of the attic. Within the quiet moments of hide-and-seek, lying under the fabric protection, I discovered a place that gave refuge and a structure for visual fantasy. In later years, I camped
in dark green resin soaked cotton canvas tents and watched shadowy trees and blistering
light bend on sharp angles across the woven textured
surface that promised, during rain, not to drip unless I touched it. defining links: Installation Art Unlike traditional art works, installation art has no autonomous
existence. It is usually created at the From Margin to Center: The Spaces of Installation Art |
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