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#muscularbonding photo by #lorenebouboushian @livingarts1969 @3dwardsharp #kaiagilje #bethneff @nisabel @adismantle @thefenserf @panoplylab #materialization #performanceart (at Living Arts of Tulsa)

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https://estherneff.wordpress.com/2018/01/25/muscular-bonding/

MUSCULAR BONDING: February 15-March 5

On Thursday, February 15, a group of artists (Esther Neff, Kaia Gilje, Adriana Disman, Nina Isabelle and 3dwardsharp) will leave Brooklyn and drive together to St. Louis, MO.

Between February 15 and 28, we will live in St. Louis, performing construction labor (drywall and flooring, other demo and rehab) of a building that is becoming MARSH (Materializing and Activating Radical Social Habitus). The MARSH project is a liberation lab (including performance space and permaculture site) begun in December, 2017 by Beth Neff in collaboration with her daughter, (MUSCULAR BONDING conceptualizer/coordinator) Esther Neff. During the period of labor at MARSH, the MUSCULAR BONDING team will work, live, and eat together. Through the conflicts and constructivity of such collective life practice, we will devise a durational performance work translating labor actions, interactions, conversations and gestures into scores for building a smaller, semi-permanent sculptural work through movement and action.

On February 28 we will drive to Tulsa, OK to perform this “model” work, with materials sourced from the construction processes at MARSH and an array of actions and building processes to perform across and throughout three days as part of the New Genre Arts Festival at Living Arts Tulsa. The performance at Living Arts begins physically on Friday and continues until Sunday evening.

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Embarrassed of the Whole (EotW) Part III Movement I at Salisbury University (PPL: Esther Neff, Brian McCorkle, Kaia Gilje)

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Not much documentation of this one...four-hour audience-lead performance, a  system of partial scores in envelopes, currency, karaoke, interactions, secret codes, contingent actions, and a treasure hunt for blueberry pie. Embarrassed of the Whole Phase III, Movement III at W.O.R.K Gallery in Salisbury, Maryland

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Prelim exhibition shotz Performances + workshop in Sept&Oct #eotw #interactiveart #iterativedesogn #electronix #operaofoperations @brianmccorkle #kaiagilje @panoplylab (at Salisbury University)

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PPL (Esther, Kaia, Brian) performing at the Bronx Museum as part of ITINERANT curated and documented by Hector Canonge

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Day two of ‘Embarrassed of the Whole:’ 3 operations with 3 users:

“geraldo” (punk band “Grout Pomade,” screenshots from video by Karl Cooney)“

“samuel” (screenshots from video by Karl Cooney)

Nina Isabelle” (bottom two photos by Nina Isabelle)

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Process for PROTAGONISM performed by PPL (Esther Neff and Kaia Gilje) at Diane Dwyer’s space/home Cloying Parlor (alongside processes/gestures by Nabeela Vega and Kuldeep Signh that same evening).  SCORE/PROCESS:  Individuals are invited into a small booth and asked a single question from a red envelope about their “core selves.” One performer takes notes on what they say. The individual is then asked to write a question for the next interviewee that will help inquire into that person’s “core self” (this question is put into a red envelope for the next participant). Meanwhile, the other performer is interviewing all present at the gathering about the individual in the booth and taking notes. The two performers then convene to combine their notes on to a single circular diagram. Then, the individual is given a choice to read or burn (in a fire outside) their diagram-interview. Each individual participant also received a small, cast-brass lobster.  Four interviewees (above) let us document them reading what their friends, lovers, and members of their community present at the event said about them synthesized with what they said about themselves (thank you Image, Jill, Oya, Brian). 

This process was the very first in a research project involving self-construction and “knowing” the self and others, seeing selves (”our” selves and others) as protagonists within narratives, negotiating public/private and internal/external boundaries, and teasing out social construction of meaningful persona(s), im-personations, and selving processes.

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#muscularbonding durational processes materializing participants' structural relationships/relationships w structures + scored devised thru two weeks at #MARSH #relationalart #socialperformance @panoplylab @3dwardsharp @nisabel @thefenserf @adismantle #kaiagilje #bethneff @livingarts1969 #newgenreartsfestival curated by @jborusky (at Living Arts of Tulsa)