{"id":208059,"date":"2019-08-15T14:18:57","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T18:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?p=208059"},"modified":"2019-08-23T11:04:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T15:04:08","slug":"extreme-the-popaction-performance-art-of-elizabeth-streb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2019\/08\/15\/extreme-the-popaction-performance-art-of-elizabeth-streb\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme: The PopAction Performance Art of Elizabeth Streb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Extreme art comes to Montclair State University through the work of Elizabeth Streb, August 27-September 29, 2019.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

PEAK Performances<\/a> World Premiere, FALLING & LOVING
\nSix actors from SITI Company and six dancers from STREB EXTREME ACTION share the stage with a \u201cGuck Machine,\u201d a contraption conceived by Streb featuring rings and buckets armed to continually release a variety of materials in cascades, performing what Streb describes as a \u201csymphony of falling.\u201dStreb explores falling\u2014in such varied forms\u2014as Bogart uses Charles Mee\u2019s Love Sonnets and plays as a springboard for accessing multiform expressions of loving. Artists, ideas, and objects collide in this radical new production.<\/p>\n

The George Segal Gallery<\/a> has organized an exhibition that shows the type of choreography, equipment, and thinking behind Streb\u2019s performance art.\u00a0 Using boxes, harnesses, and an oversized rotating \u201ctuning fork,\u201d photographs and videos, notebooks and sketchbooks, three seminal pieces will be highlighted in the main gallery: Little Ease<\/em> (1980s), Tied<\/em> (2003), and Fly<\/em> (1998).\u00a0 Over time these pieces have evolved, with changes in choreography or equipment.\u00a0 An additional six pieces will be the focus of photographic and sketchbook displays in the Kasser Theater lobby.

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