Curator / Juniper Shuey

Doggie Bag: A Participatory Experimental Art Show

Peter Bill
Annette Foster
Foundation Ki with D.K. Pan
Rebeccah Kardong
Doug Jeck
Shio Kusaka
Michael O'Malley
Debbie Reichard
Juniper Shuey
Norma Straw
Angie Harrison

December 8 – 10, 2001
December 15 – 17, 2001

Doggie Bag is a series of experiential exercises treading the boundaries between performance and installation. Formatted as two-hour site-particular works, they aim at engaging the viewing public in an active dialogue with the performer, encouraging participation and interaction. These experiences will occur only on these dates, at the listed location.

Weekend 1 /

Peter Bill will use the sloping entrance to the gallery for his video installation, Main train station. Lost in the train station, trains coming and going, a language not understood. The light, shattered, shimmering down; the conductor whistling a train off; arivval, departure.

Norma Straw and Angie Harrison are creating a participatory installation.  Product? is a two part interactive installation exploring the commoditization of culture. By creating a workshop environment where viewers are the creators and consumers of their own products, we are confronted with the blurring lines between art and design, commodity and creative process.

Juniper Shuey is creating an environment of wind and sound. Using video and performance he is interacting with an image of himself. The physical form and the video connect and disengage from each other, commenting on the interaction of self.

Weekend 2 /

Doug Jeck's Geppetto Stupor is a multi-media installation that combines actual and implied human presence and seeks to explore and diffuse the separations between artist and object, father and sons, man and boy.

Shio Kusaka: An artmaker decides to experiment with how the activity of painting works in a gallery. The backside of canvas, where all the beyond the surface is, will be revealed to the viewers as something to look at, while an artist paints inside the canvas to see if something transmits.

Foundation Kiand D.K. Pan will collaborate to create a performance and installation. Using sensors, sounds, and computer programming they will manipulate the environment that Pan will perform in and viewers will walk through.