Last. Most recent. Final. Resilient. L A S T I N G extends an invitation to participate in a six hour voyage that launches into dialogues of existence and persistence as experienced through works in SAIC’s MFA Show 2017.

This prolonged evening seeks to cultivate a thoughtful, decelerated viewership for performances and programs to take you through the cycles of resistance, patient weathering, and restoration. L A S T I N G culminates in a final euphoric celebration with a one hour dance party in the gallery for this last day of the exhibition.

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Register with a guide - Joey Asal, Marcela Torres or Anna Wolfe-Pauly - as they help audiences to navigate forms of endurance through a series of simultaneous, durational and iterative performances, workshops, artist panels and more.

Dinner and “endurance kit” will be provided to all participants that register to complete the six-hour experience of endurance!

Choose your preferred guide and register!

JOEY ASAL

Joey is an Artist, Perfumer and Awareness designer investigating the slippage between brain and body. His work wonders: Can the body be the translator for transformations between brain and mind? What are we conditioned to ignore, and can exposing this conditioning generate more meaningful and integrated wellbeing?
Through experiences and encounters, Joey hopes to invite attention to awareness and renovate the demands of a hypervisual environment. This practice holds logic to account, and explores in-built liminal spaces of discursive scaffolding. Will we utilize what we don’t know we know, to share what we don’t know we don’t know?

MARCELA TORRES

Marcela's practice attempts to repair, transform and destabilize cultural ideologies that target and oppress “the other.” Enmeshing the physicality of martial arts with bastardized political encounters to create modes of collaborative healing; she utilizes these strategies to set up performative situations that uncover the reality of the varied and differentially weighted interpellations we reside in.

ANNA WOLFE-PAULY

Anna makes embodied thinking practices that attend to natural materials as sites. A windsock becomes a prosthetic for the human body. Twenty citizens float in the Atlantic at the convergence of two currents. The first ever Weather Shopping Network launches. Anna’s work is site-specific and action-based. She makes instruments out of fabric, plaster, and jello that emphasize the condition of being beside forces of weather.

* photo by Anna Wolfe-Pauly, Windroom, Northerly Island, 2016

Participating artists include: Angela Azmitia, Adam Bach, Tiana Birrell, Mark Blanchard, Christopher Bleuher, Dalton Carter, Fabienne Elie, Dylan Fish, Joe Houlberg, Chin-Ting Huang, Jennifer Chen-su Huang, Rim Lee, Meredith Leich, Angel Marin, Jordan Miller, Nuria Montiel, Michelle Marie Murphy, George Olken, Máire Witt O'Neill, Alex Peyton-Levine, Michael Powell, Elliott J. Reichert, Emilio Rojas, David Siever, Jacqueline Surdell, Maryam Taghavi, Darryl Terrell, and Raina N. Wodatch.