Aether Art Projects at Lumen8Anacostia

Lumen8Anacostia Festival & Launch Party
April 14, 2012 / Noon to Midnight
At Lightbox, presented by Pink Line Project

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Aether Art Projects is presenting a series of performances and installations at Lightbox, the PinkLine Project warehouse space for the Lumen8Anacostia festival.
Performances by: Chukwuma Agubokwu, Carolyn Becker, and Ian McDermott
Stairwell installation Between Us and Threads, by Eames Armstrong and Renée Regan
Sitewide installation Subtle Force Series, by Carolyn Becker

Performance Schedule

4:30pm Ian McDermott, A Lesson on Imagination A gingerbread man comes to teach the world the wonders of the human imagination.

5:30pm Carolyn Becker, Threads Part 3 A multi-faceted symbolic body sculpture concerning beauty, restraint, resistance, and ritual, extended site-wide through thread installations as a part of the Subtle Force Series.

7pm Ian McDermott, Diptych A musical performance exploring the mobile and sedentary during a changing cultural climate.

8pm Chukwuma Agubokwu, Cuirass Cavus The performer attempts to embody an externally imposed identity.

9:30pm Ian McDermott, A Public Service Enlightenment In the midst of heated political turmoil, one prophet will bring the masses God's true word.

Installations

Aether Art Projects is presenting two separate installations at Lightbox for Lumen8Anacostia. The pink thread and ribbon web interventions installed site-wide are part of the Subtle Force Series by Carolyn Becker. The Subtle Force Series functions as an extension of her performance work, continuing the limits of her physical body and beyond the time of each performance. Carolyn will perform Threads Part 3 at 5:30pm. Between Us and Threads by Eames Armstrong and Renée Regan is a four-flight stairwell installation in response to ideas and questions raised by Carolyn's work. Between Us and Threads takes Carolyn's exploration of space intervention and the relationship of installation to the body and performance as inspiration and moves to collaboration with interest in themes of drawing and painting. Between Us and Threads is a string drawing that incorporates time and travels through space. Each line becomes a subject, creating abstract stories as lines and color interact. The railing is painted white like a blank canvas and the bottom of the stairs melts off into a celebration of wet material. The viewer performs engagement with the work by walking the stairs, activating a functional space in a new way.

Installation Images