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| First, Kiss |
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52nd Biennale of Venice, 2007
Arsenale, Venice, Italy
As a member of the Independent Performance group (founded by Marina Abramovic) Carpenter devised the piece to herald the other works, all considering the theme “The Erotic Body.” She hopes to open each viewer’s tactile awareness, kiss by kiss, before they enter the space.
In requesting a kiss as the admission fee, the artist harkens back to the halcyon days of carnivals and kissing booths, but with the work’s context and duration, she suggests something... |
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| Maybe This Time |
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Site-specific performance
Presented at the Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, Germany, May 20 & 21, 2005
Dressed in a Cabaret-style outfit of faded glamour and heavy theatrical makeup, the artist performs th... |
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Laurel Jay Carpenter |
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As a performance and installation artist, I am compelled by my surroundings—the place, the season, the materials at hand. In fact, I am intrigued by mundane, seemingly ordinary things and common, repetitive tasks. I tend to work site-specifically, allowing the place to serve as both impetus and collaborative partner. By reconfiguring the elements of object, setting, voice and gesture, I create familiar scenes unsettlingly skewed, evoking sorrow, peril, yearning or simply meditative contemplation. These are moody environments, places to explore the delicacy and complexity of relationships,... [Read More]
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