Name: Star! Star! Star! Circle!
Start: 2015-06-12T21:00:00-04:00
End: 2015-06-12T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Wayfarers

Star! Star! Star! Circle!

The Front, an artist-run collective and not-for-profit gallery, fosters the development of contemporary art in the city of New Orleans through innovative exhibitions, lectures, screenings, performances, and other arts programming, all of which are free and open to the public. Founded by artists in 2008 amidst the post-Katrina resurgence of New Orleans and committed to a spirit of grassroots DIY determinism, The Front cultivates new and experimental work, in particular from emerging artists, but also from nationally and internationally known artists.George Ferrandi lives and works in Brooklyn, where she is the founder and director of Wayfarers Studio Program in Bushwick/Bedford Stuyvesant. Herwork has been performed/exhibited around the country - at Abrons Arts Center and the Kitchen in New York, Cinders Gallery and DUMBO Arts Center in Brooklyn, the McKinney Contemporary in Dallas, the Wexner Center in Columbus, the Harn Museum in Gainesville, and Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. She has been awarded grants from the Franklin Furnace Fund for Performance Art and the Mid Atlantic Arts Council. She is a 2015 Japan-US Friendship Foundation Fellow and is currently developing the multi-media festival,Jump!Star,with Washington Project for the Arts for 2016.Star!Star!Star!Circle!has been performed at the International House of Japan in Tokyo, and at Wayfarers in Brooklyn. The projectis made possible through the generous support of the Japan-Friendship Commission and the International House of Japan.

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Star! Star! Star! Circle!
A Synchronized Sound Play by George Ferrandi
 
Join us after dark at <A HREF="http://brooklynwayfarers.org" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wayfarers</A> for an experience that is somewhere between a celestial bed-time story and a séance.  Through carefully synchronized headsets, nine participants at a time become both quiet listeners and stellar performers in a 15 minute narrative experiment centered on dramatic changes in the night sky.
<A HREF="http://georgeferrandi.com" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">George Ferrandi</A> is an American artist originally from Baltimore, Maryland whose <SPAN STYLE="font-size: 8.5pt; color: #252525; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">performance, installation and participatory projects address issues of vulnerability, impermanence<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 8.5pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;">,<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 8.5pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> fallibility<SPAN STYLE="font-size: 8.5pt; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"> and spectacle, often through experimental approaches to narrative. Employing a unique humor and a deep sense of humanity, her work stimulates a rethinking of cultural assumptions.
George lives with a small dog and a rooftop garden in Brooklyn, New York. She is the director of Wayfarers Studio Program and Gallery in Bushwick, and was the founding member of the touring performance project Cloud Seeding: Circus of the Performative Object. Her work has been performed/exhibited - at Abrons Arts Center in New York, the Kitchen in New York, Cinders Gallery in Brooklyn, the McKinney Contemporary in Dallas, the Wexner Center in Columbus, the Harn Museum in Gainesville and Fleisher Art Memorial in Philadelphia. She has been awarded grants from the Franklin Furnace Fundwinners for Performance Art, the Mid Atlantic Arts Council. She is a Japan-US Friendship Foundation fellow, and is currently developing a multi-media festival with Washington Project for the Arts. 
George teaches Sculpture and Performance Art periodically at Virginia Commonwealth University and at the Rhode Island School of Design. She also runs a small business specializing in the restoration of statues of saints for churches.
 
Star! Star! Star! Circle! is made possible through the generous support of the Japan-US Friendship Commission and the International House of Japan.

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