Ennoia (Performing Water), 2003;
cast-concrete vessel, water, artist's body, sound, 5-hour
immersion; courtesy of the artist and the Chelsea Art Museum.
Photo: Quyen Tran |
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Monika
Weiss: Vessels
installation,
sculpture, drawing
Chelsea
Art Museum
March
20 - April 17, 2004
Opening
Saturday,
March 20, 2004 , 3-5 PM:
performance
& book signing
556
West 22nd Street, New York City
tel. (212) 255-0719
Tue-Sat
noon to 6 pm, Thu to 8 pm, closed Sun & Mon
$5
adults, $2 students and seniors, children under 12 free
Thursday,
April 8, 6:30 PM
Artist’s
Talk, moderated by Nathalie Anglès,
Director,
International Residency Program, Location One, and independent curator
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drawing, performance, video, and installation, New York-based Polish
artist Monika Weiss creates environments that relate to the body
and to the tension characterizing that peculiar space it inhabits
between biology and culture. In her drawings, an anonymous, alienated
silhouette appears, posturing in undefined states of waiting, or
reacting to the unknown. In her performative installations, the
viewer encounters scenes of repetitions and rituals, counterpoised
by projected videos documenting the action. Such works combine the
qualities of endurance and duration both with symbolic forms reminiscent
of medieval paintings and with the formal simplicity of Minimalism.
Vessels
presents installation, sculpture, and drawing, as well as video
documentation of earlier works. It includes a new multi-media performative
installation, Limen/Meadow (Achea Rheon)
(2004), in collaboration with sound artist Stephen Vitiello;
a video-and-sound sculpture, White Chalice (Ennoia)
(2004); video documentation of three 2003 projects,
Ennoia, Elytron, and Drawing Room; and recent
charcoal and mixed-media drawings. Vessels explores ideas
of containing and being contained, of landscape, body, and surface,
and metaphors of fluidity. Curated by Nina Colosi.
“Monika
Weiss’ way of operating at the edge is to expose her boundary, her
envelope, that is, her skin, to continuous radical feedback and
performative definition.”
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George Quasha, Conceiving Body. Remarks on the Side/Elytron (spirit
and body are only two wings), from the book on Monika Weiss
to be launched on March 20, 2004
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WORKS IN THE EXHIBITION
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ARTIST’S BIOGRAPHY
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BOOK
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ARTIST’S CURRICULUM VITAE
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