Second Saturday is a new monthly performance series that highlights emerging practices in performance and media based arts. Please join us at AUX every second saturday of the month for performance, film, video, and sound works by national and international emerging and established artists.
February 9, 2013 – 8pm
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Garbage World is a performance series that began in Chicago during 2009, and developed over the course of a year with four events. Garbage World 4 was a three day festival with twenty-four performances. It is now re-beginning in Philadelphia after a two year hiatus. This fifth iteration features visiting Chicago artists Jose Hernandez and Sofia Moreno.
In seeking artists, Garbage World focuses on those who are committed to an intentional use of the body and self as their primary medium. Video is included in this iteration of Garbage World because of the way it can alter/edit the body and present private/dangerous situations in a public context.
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EILEEN LILLIAN DOYLE
Eileen Lillian Doyle began Garbage World from the urge to see artists perform in a situation with more allowances than limitations. Messes, grotesqueness, cleanliness, and joy happen in life; therefore, they are not excluded from this event.
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SOFIA MORENO
Sofia Moreno was born and raised in Coahuila, Mexico. In 1994, she immigrated to the United States, where she currently lives and works. Prior to moving to Chicago, Sofia lived in Texas. Sofia is a mixed media artist and her subjects include expressions of the divine and profane, exploring the body, sensuality, religion and culture. Her credits include working in curatorial projects along side s+s project from 2009 to present: Within the Body, From Diva to Mundane, Elektro-Sexual and Fill-In, as well as co-curatorial projects such as Heaven Knows, Scented Illusions: Avon, and Art and the Homoccult Show.
Sound artist laspacer.com work is also featured in the piece
*UNTITLED – VOMIT OF SOUNDWAVES*
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JOSE HERNANDEZ
Jose Hernandez is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer, and witch. His work explores apocalyptic futures and its affect on the human conditions, faith, fantasy and sexual desires. The performances often blur the lines between ceremony, ritual, dance, theater, and butoh. Jose often performs as his shamanic doppelganger Ishtar Bukkake.His name is derived from the Babylonian goddess of sex/death and a Japanese ritual sex act. As Ishtar s/he can be seen performing in clubs, muddy basements, and various underground venues throughout America.
Jose has worked with artist Ginger Krebs in both Myth & Continent, and Rehearsals for Becoming Gods. He is a member of Antibody Corporation where he has worked with choreographer Adam Rose in Antitrust Circus and Holocene Overkill (Phase One)/(Phase Two). Other collaborations include Pure Magical Love (Heather Lynn), Natalie Murillo (Spacerwoman), and Gel Set. Currently he is working with artist Jonathan Sommer, B!TCH3Z Drinking Project. He has earned his BFA in Performance at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2008 and will be an Artist-in-Residence at Links Hall in the Fall of 2013.
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KNIFE FIGHT
Beth Heinly and Maureen Cummings offer a macabre interlude for Garbage World viewers. A choreographed knife fight influenced by Actionism for snuff consumers with an underlining narrative of girls and friendship.
Beth Heinly is a performance artist from Philadelphia. Her work uses dry dark humor as means to discover the meaning of life. She has performed at spaces throughout Philadelphia including Bodega, Extra Extra, Space1026 and Vox Populi.
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Maureen Cummings lives in Media, PA and works for the Delaware County SPCA where she spends time acclimating adult cats to new environments. She has collaborated with Beth Heinly in a number of performances through their comic book series The 3:00 Book.
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