Evaporate: Performance Art From Boston and Bergen

As part of our exhibition, "Reservoir: What the Water Knows," curated by Arlinda Shtuni, Boston’s Mobius Artist Group presents "Evaporate," a weekend’s worth of live art programming. Evaporate responds to the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum’s unique setting and the special sensitivity of artists who work in ephemeral ways, and whose practices are deeply informed by water. Featuring artists from Performance Art Bergen in Norway and from Boston’s own Mobius Artist Group and organized by Mobius member Heather Kapplow along with PAB member Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Evaporate consists of two days of performances that will activate the museums’ exhibition halls, grounds, and the nearby reservoir, flowing through these spaces in a quick rush, as the city’s water once flowed through them, and then dissipating just as quickly. Participating Artists : Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Bjørn Venø, El Putnam, Forbes Graham, Jan-Egil Finne, Jeff Huckleberry, Jimena Bermejo, Joanna Tam, Heather Kapplow, Kurt Johannessen, Kledia Spiro, Lani Asuncion, Marcel Marcel, Margaret Bellafiore, Max Lord, Mia Øquist, Nayara Leite, Nife Brzoza, Pavana Reid, Philip Fryer, Sandy Huckleberry, Sara June, Serena Gabriels, Tom Mackie. Festival Program Saturday Daytime Program (throughout museum opening hours; 10 am-3 pm; free) Open Session, a signature style of PAB’s, is a large group improvisation spanning three hours. The concept is inclusive and open, so performance artists can have an arena to test new ideas and freely work with their intuition and with each other. Featuring strong imagery and exchange between different fields and disciplines, this water-themed Open Session will be international, interdisciplinary and interpersonal. The theme of this Open Session will be water. Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Bjørn Venø, Forbes Graham, Jan-Egil Finne, Jimena Bermejo, Joanna Tam, Kurt Johannessen, Kledia Spiro, Margaret Bellafiore, Mia Øquist, Nayara Leite, Pavana Reid, Sandy Huckleberry, and Serena Gabriels. Audiences are also invited to participate in the improvisation. Saturday Evening Program (7pm-9pm,tickets are $15 at the door, cash, cards, venmo, paypal accepted) Curated by Mobius member Forbes Graham, this evening’s program features three artists from Bergen, Norway: Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Bjørn Venø and Jan-Egil Finne; and solo performances by two Boston-based Mobius members Lani Asuncion and Marcel Marcel. All performances are water-themed. Sunday Daytime Program (throughout museum opening hours; 11am-4pm; free) Staggered around the museum and its grounds often in overlapping ways, Anette Friedrich Johannessen, Bjørn Venø, El Putnam, Jeff Huckleberry, Jimena Bermejo, Heather Kapplow, Kurt Johannessen, Mia Øquist, and Nayara Leite will showcase individual works related to water and the site throughout the day. Sunday Evening Program (7pm-9pm, tickets are $15 at the door, cash, cards, venmo, paypal accepted) Curated by Mobius member Jeff Huckleberry, this evening’s watery performances will feature Kurt Johannessen, and local artists Sara June with Nife Brzoza and Max Lord, Philip Fryer, and Tom Mackie. Please see <a href="https://performanceartbergen.no/en/members/">https://performanceartbergen.no/en/members/</a> for more information about the artists from Bergen Norway who will be performing and <a href="https://www.mobius.org/mobius-artists">https://www.mobius.org/mobius-artists</a> for bios of Mobius artists. As parking is very limited at the museum, we strongly encourage taking public transit to the festival. Directions can be found here: <a href="https://waterworksmuseum.org/visit/#directions">https://waterworksmuseum.org/visit/#directions</a>

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