Exhibit A:
Evidence of an art occurrence
A FITTING FINALE FOR VOCA’S HARNEY STREET ART SPACE, SPEAKING TO TRANSITION, CHANGE AND TO NEW WAYS OF THINKING ABOUT ART. — K.C. MADSEN
his was a collaboration involving Vancouver School of Arts and Academics (VSAA) fine arts, music, dance and film students and art teacher Crystal Zeller and family—all under the direction of artist K.C. Madsen, who “conducted” the performance on Saturday March 29, 2014. There was no audience present, only performers and documenters.
Everyone wore white Tyvek coveralls. Pots of paint from a specific color palette along with various widths of brushes were provided. Plastic sheeting covered the floor of the VOCA art space and two long rolls of white paper were laid out to capture the evidence.
At Madsen’s prompt, music played and the visual arts students started to paint the dancers’ coveralls. The dancers were encouraged to respond to the music being played and use the paper as their stage to step on, roll on, or paint with movements of their bodies and feet.
The art students also painted each other. Madsen “conducted” with the use of visible cards showing prompts for both the dancers and the visual artists to respond to.
The performance was video-recorded and photographed by participating students. Documentation of the performance was then shared with the public as a part of downtown Vancouver’s First Friday Art Walk, April 4, 2014.
Collaborators/performers:
Alexandra Cammack, photography
Samantha Hutton, painter
Kasia Lindgren, dancer
Yesenia Garcia Maughan, dancer
Calla Mavros, painter
Micah Pletsch, video
Alexander Ovall, painter
Bethany Pritchard, painter
Isabel Salinas, painter
Ana Stroumbos, painter, dancer
Eva Stroumbos, painter
Crystal Zeller, dancer
Elena Zeller, dancer
Joe Zeller, painter
GALLERY
