Performance Art Night! 3 performers, 2 performances June 18, 2010

WEN YAU, VELA PHELAN + JEFF HUCKLEBERRY
[HONG KONG + BOSTON]

FRIDAY, JUNE 18
9:00 - 11:00
by donation

Tonight we host a political performance by Hong Kong artist Wen Yau,
and a messy performance by Boston artists Jeff Huckleberry and Vela Phelan

WEN YAU

Title of piece: Civil Left/Right.7 – Change We Need! by wen yau

In her I♥HK T-shirt, Hong Kong artist wen yau arrived at the Big Apple with fascination and strangeness. Comparing her T-shirt with the rebus she has seen in the city, she has decided to make change(s) she needs here.
‘I think we’ve all had enough. Enough of the broken promises. Enough of the failed leadership. Enough of the can’t-do, won’t-do, won’t-even-try style of governance.’ – President Barack Hussein Obama
In the latest work of her ‘Civil Left/Right’ series, wen yau invites the audience to join a feast of sweet and salty savor as a homage or confession of her patriotism.
wen yau started the ‘Civil Left/Right’ series in 2007. The series explores her national identity and the kind of nationalism imposed on Hongkongers as Chinese after the transfer of sovereignty from the UK to China. She has put on the I♥HK T-shirt and presented this serial performance project in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and various cities in mainland China.

Wen Yau: www.wenyau.net

JEFF HUCKLEBERRY AND VELA PHELAN

Title of piece: TIME EATERS
by Jeff Huckleberry and Vela Phelan

Jeff Huckleberry and Vela Phelan have been collaborating since 1998. They are connected by a sureal network of intuition, which guides them into the unknown . Jeff and Vela preselect the objects needed to activate the moment and all other is left to chance. Jeff's spirit animal is a chicken crossed with a bear and Vela's is a black deer.

“Their work offers up a raw, unpredictable and destabilizing encounter” Paul Couillard 2006

Jeff Huckleberry and Vela Phelan: http://templeofmessages.com/J_V/

WEN YAU

As a cross-media artist, researcher, curator and writer, wen yau has been concentrating on performance/live art and time-based media in the last few years. Her works often grapple with cultural difference and intimacy in public space. Recent projects include Seeing is Existing (pinhole photographic series, 2008-), Civil Left/Right (video & performance, 2007-), i-(s)wear project (one-to-one performance, 2007-), TengSeWong/Voice-Writer series (media & live art, 2005-), I pledge (not) guilty (live art, 2004-05), etc. Her work has been shown in Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, Philippines, Sweden, Italy, New Zealand, Bolivia, etc. wen yau has finished a 4-week residency at the Vermont Studio Center this Spring and is currently working as Resident Assistant Coordinator at the Franklin Furnace Archive.

Wen Yau: www.wenyau.net

VELA PHELAN

Vela Phelan is a multi disciplinary artist that has been enchanted with myth, nature, shamanism, and transformation for all his life. He was born at 15:23:23 in St. Domingo, Dominican Rep and has lived abroad in Venezuela, Mexico, and United States.

Vela believes in magnifying the energy of objects, sounds and actions, blending subconscious with spirit and allowing the unknown to present it self. His work consists in transforming & altering modern and ancient energy’s into a new unknown universal existence.

Vela has created performances, installations, sound art and assemblages since 1994 and has shown his work extensively in galleries and festivals in the United States as well as Colombia, Mexico and China. He is a founding member of the performance groups Nox 0 and Gang Clan Mafia and has also performed with Jeff Huckleberry since 1999. Vela has been a co curator/producer for over 20 performance events and festivals in the city of Boston. He currently is co-owner and curator of MEME Gallery in Cambridge MA.

Vela Phelan: http://templeofmessages.com/vela/