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Coble/Riley Projects: IASPIS Residency
1/2/2012
For the month of February Coble/Riley Projects will be on the IASPIS Residency Program in Umeå, Sweden. IASPIS
(The Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Programme for Visual
Artists) was founded in 1996 as the Swedish Visual Arts Fund’s international
programme commissioned to support international exchange for practitioners in
the areas of visual art, design, craft and architecture. Iaspis’ activities aim
to enable practitioners based in Sweden to develop artistically and improve
their working conditions by establishing international contacts between artists
and institutions, professionals such as curators and critics and others active
in the field.
Artists for the residency are selected by invitation
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and the the committee consists of representatives from:
Bild Museet Umeå Universitet,
Academy of Fine Art, Umeå
University, Museum
Anna Nordlander, Umeå
Kommun , Verkligheten
and
Vita
Kuben, Norrlandsoperan.
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The Danish Arts Council: Production of Works Grant
12/28/2011
I am happy to have received my first grant from the The Danish Arts Council. I plan to use the Production of Works Grant to fund my upcoming exhibition at Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art in Copenhagen, Denmark opening in June 2012.
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Performance: Source (Dublin): Field of Water at the Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
11/30/2011
Saturday, November 3rd at 1:00
Miming the almost Sisyphean acts of collecting water in some parts of the world, Coble will during a one-day performance, transport these samples into a purifying water fountain that will cleanse the water continuously. At the end of the performance water from all over the city, now in this central source, will be available for community consumption the rest of the exhibition period.
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Upcoming Performance as part of "Commitment Issues" curated by Jess Dobkin
9/21/2011
November 16th 2011, 7-10pmOasis Aqualounge, 231 Mutual Street, Toronto
I'll be presenting a new live performance as part of the performance event ""Commitment Issues" curated by Jess Dobkin & organized by the FADO Performance Arts Center.
November 17th 2011, 7:30-9:30 Artists' Panel and reception Studio Theatre, University of Toronto, 4 Glen Morris Street, Toronto
Commitment Issues
Curated by Jess Dobkin Heather Cassils (Montréal/Los Angeles)
Mary Coble (USA/Denmark)
Alicia Grant (Toronto)
Dominic Johnson (UK)
Dana Michel (Montréal)
The Pole Club (Toronto) Commmitment Issues, curated by Toronto performance artist Jess Dobkin, brings together the work of 5 artists and one group, whose work investigates the concept of "commitment" both on a personal level in regards to their own practice and on a large platform of contemporary performance practice. Presenting works by artists who use their bodies as primary source material, the program considers qualities and dimensions of commitment - to ideas, to performance, to audience and to the artists themselves. Here commitment is positioned as a subject and a substance that artists can stretch and subvert in the creation of their work, altering terminology, definitions and associations. Through play, risk, intimacy and sexuality, these artists transcent fixed social, psychological, physical and spirtual notions of commitment. Further confounding the interplay of fixed notions of commitment, Commitment Issues uses as its venue Oasis AquaLounge, formerly Club Toronto and the Pussy Palace, now home to Toronto's preeminent swinger's club. In addition, the artists and curator speak about the work and the event in a panel discussion after the event. Please join us at the Studio Theatre, University of Toronto on November 17 at 7:30pm. The panel discussion is generously sponsored by the Drama Department and the Department of Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto.
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Installation and Performance at part of "SURFACE TENSION: The Future of Water" exhibition at the Science Gallery, Dublin
9/21/2011
Oct. 20th 2011-Feb. 31st 2012 Source (Dublin): Field of Water is the continuation of a project about water quality, accessibility and sustainability that began in Washington, DC in 2010 and is now acted out in Dublin.
With the help of the local community tap water will be gathered from over 100 residential and commercial sites to create an archive of water samples. Miming the almost Sisyphean acts of collecting water in some parts of the world, Coble will during a one-day performance, transport these samples into a purifying water fountain that will cleanse the water continuously. At the end of the performance water from all over the city, now in this central source, will be available for community consumption the rest of the exhibition period.
The project addresses the economic, ecological and health issues related to the commercialization and commoditization of water. Where does your local water come from, and do you trust its reported quality? Who has access to pure water; how long will local and global water supplies last, what are the costs, financially and ethically, of bottling and transporting water?
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Review of "Source" in Sculpture Magazine by Sarah Tanguy
9/20/2011
In September 2011 issue of Sculpture Magazine:
Water and endurance: in Mary Coble’s recent exhibition “Source,” what might have conjured images of torture instead generated an engrossing meditation on purification and renewal. The show embraced three short videos, a wall drawing, a mixed-media installation, and a live performance. Shot from a distance, the videos Stand, Fall, and Swim featured only a platform on an isolated lake, the weather, and the artist. The spare storyline was deceptive. Through extended repetitions of standing, falling, and swimming, simple acts of personal discovery became moving feats of mind over body. Slight variations in action induced a kind of trance and evoked the human potential to overcome seemingly futile and uncertain circumstances.
By contrast, Coble’s opening-day public performance explored our communal relationship with water and posed troubling questions about water purity and availability. Staged in the gallery courtyard, the installation had three main components: a water “library” consisting of plastic water containers hooked to a gridded steel wall, a mixed-media water purifier, and two steel ladders. Not an object-maker, Coble worked with an engineer to create a tri-level device that resembled a fountain with alchemical overtones. As background, she went door-to-door to selected locations in Washington, DC, and collected 200 samples in 2.5-gallon containers. Taken from 127 neighborhoods of varying wealth across the city’s eight wards, the containers listed addresses only. Inside the gallery, a large drawing documented the entire process. Pencil marks mapped the city’s boundary lines, key roads, and water sources, while pins indicated the collection points...
see the entire review in the print version of September's magazine.
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“Dansk for hele verden” (Danish for the Whole World) zine edited by Louise Wolthers and Mary Coble with contributions from 7 artists to debut at "tilVALG"!
9/14/2011
The "Dansk for hele verden" zine is a collaborative response to not only a Danish language book but also to Denmark's current self image and attitudes towards foreigners. Contributors include:
Anne Bennike
Eva la Cour
Henriette Heise
Ulla Hvejsel
Frans Jacobi
Tanja Nellemann Poulsen
Sarah Rathje
Louise Wolthers
Mary Coble The Zine will debut at:
OPTIONS! focus on what we want now and in the future and relate to political events and election 2011 in the public space of Copenhagen and Aarhus. Approximately 30 artists have created posters that relate to the event. From Monday 12th posters can be seen in the exhibition spaces, Rum46, Aarhus and press the push press, Copenhagen, if you do not encounter them in urban spaces.
OPTIONS! is not a partisan project, but a dialogic and exploratory project on democratic terms, the people's voice and our desire for positive change.
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Pressemeddelelse:
rum46 inviterer til tilVALG!
Finissage i rum46 med plakater, digtoplæsning, performance, TV, valgmad og vin!
Danmark står for valg torsdag d.15 september 2011 - og den politiske valgplakat er på dagsordenen. En kamp om vælger – taletid og ‘nyhedsværdi’. tilVALG! fokuserer på det vi ønsker os nu og i fremtiden samt forholder sig til den politiske begivenhed, Valget 2011 i det offentlige rum i København og Århus. Ca. 30 kunstnere har lavet plakater, der forholder sig til begivenheden. Fra mandag d.12 kan plakaterne ses i Udstillingsrummene, rum46, Århus og TrykTrykTryk, København, hvis du ikke støder på dem i byrummene.
tilVALG! er ikke et partipolitisk projekt, men et dialogisk og undersøgende projekt om demokratiets betingelser, folkets stemme(-r)
og vores ønske for positiv forandring.
Vi starter på valgdagen kl.18.00 d. 15 sep. og fortsætter så længe vi har lyst og valgresultatet forelægger.
KOM OG FEST!
Aftenens program:
Performance ved Claus Ejner,
Oplæsning ved Mads Mygind
Oplæsning ved Tomas Lagermand Lundme
Samtidig vises:
Frans Jakobis video; Meditation on a current political subject: THE ELECTION
Lise Skous video "A Collective Arrangement Of 18 Minutes"
“Dansk for hele verden”, en udgivelse af Louise Wolters og Mary Coble
Videodokumentation af den kollektive oplæsning " Jeg vil have en statsminister ..."
rum46 har en åben last minut workshop, hvor man kan komme med sit umiddelbare tilråb til tilVALG! og valgkampen generelt på A3.
På AltCph fra d. 16 -18 sep vises valgplakaterne og aktionen “Eftertryk” plakater kan (kartoffel)trykkes, producers og skrives efter valgets udfald! |
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Sept. 16th, 17th and 18th: Performance at "Alt_cph11 Encounters"
8/26/2011
Asylum is a live
performance that references the past and current histories of the Sundholm
community in which The Factory for Art and Design is situated in Copenhagen,
Denmark.
These histories are explored in a series of narratives that
gradually form a vernacular archive.
The lines of fact and fiction are blurred, as traces of various
characters materialize during the performance via objects allegedly discovered
in the dark ceiling tunnels above the floor of the exhibition hall.
Serving as a kind of archeologist, Coble excavates artifacts
from people who have played a crucial role throughout the many states of change
and development that the Sundholm community has experienced.
Over the three day span of the performance Coble carefully
lowers the ‘authentic’ objects from the ceiling tunnels down to be examined by
the public. The continuously changing of the objects’ configuration incites
viewers to question the archeologist’s representation of the histories and
create their own narratives.
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