Peter Baren, Mongkol Plienbangchang, Erik Hokanson, Sebastian Hau-Walker October 14, 2010

Peter Baren, Mongkol Plienbangchang, Erik Hokanson, Sebastian Hau-Walker
[Netherlands, Thailand, USA, NewWorld]

"The Best Ever"

Friday, October 15
9:00 - 11:00 pm
$5.00 Donation
Peter Baren, Mongkol Plienbangchang, Erik Hokanson, Sebastian Hau-Walker
Peter Baren [The Netherlands] Mongkol Plienbangchang [Tailand] Erik Hokanson [USA] Sebastian Hau-Walker [NewWorld]

PETER BAREN

During “Currency 2004, an International Festival of Contemporary Performance” in New York, Peter BAREN started an ongoing series of performances entitled ARK ( ), that has continued to evolve and change shape over time. The DISCOVER HEAVEN performances in Sète are part of this series. A multi-sensory work, ARK performances include fog, saran-wrapped performers, circling satellites, orphaned whisperings, molasses, written and spoken texts, boomerangs and more. Baren's practice uses the public assumptions of performance – the promise of drama, duration and theatricality – to evoke a disquieting sense of primordial mystery, public yearning, fear and cultural reformation. Blending props common to show business (fog machines, aural moodscapes and nearly nude performers) with cross-cultural signifiers (Aboriginal boomerangs, Palestinian scarves, Japanese toys), Baren's work creates a site of what photographer and art critic Kristoff Steinruck dubbed ‘radical mystical fundamentalism’ (LIVE Biennial, Vancouver 2005- Helen Pitt Gallery) – Lance Blomgren

Peter Baren c/o Infr'action Festival http://www.infraction.info/en/infraction-010/artistes/peter-baren-pays-bas.html

ERIK HOKANSON

The most common, stable, and reliable states of the universe are the qualities of darkness and cold. 
We live in a very unusual condition of relative warmth and light. 
 We are living here (earth) -humans, spiders, grass, fish, carrots, bacteria, mice, viruses. We are all related. We need to eat each other. It’s the price of peace, beauty, security, humor, love, and hope. Our bodies, like those of all other organisms here, are communities of cells working together essentially for their own preservation. 
We will all become food for something someday. The sun will make our place food for itself someday. I don’t know what will eat the sun. Then it will likely become cold and dark. I take comfort in this. I like natural states.
Erik Hokanson came to performance Art in 2008 and has quickly become an international force in international Performance Art Festivals around the globe

Erik Hokanson: www.hokadelic.wordpress.com