For Immediate Release: Mar 18, 2015 Contact: Jessica Borusky 727.247.2020 * [email protected] Contact: Beth Maggard, Communications Manager 816.994.7734 * [email protected] charlottestreet.org Charlotte Street Presents: Yeah, No, I Mean It: Time, Situation, Dexterity A Performance Art Symposium April 16-‐18, 2015 Performances 7-‐9pm (Image: Tim Amundson) Yeah, No, I Mean It: Time, Situation, Dexterity is a three-‐day performance art symposium hosted at Charlotte Street’s la Esquina Gallery on the evenings of April 16th, 17th, and 18th from 7-‐9pm. Each night, local performance artists will generate live work within the gallery, alongside nationally recognized visiting performance artists. These performances will range in aesthetics, concepts, and duration: from the highly visual and loud, to the quiet and contemplative. This symposium is designed to highlight and expand the local and national conversation about contemporary performance art practice, through three days of making and discussing the local and national ecology of emerging performance art. Yeah, No, I Mean It: Time, Situation, Dexterity is curated by Kansas City-‐based artist Jessica Borusky. Symposium Schedule: Performances will occur within and around la Esquina Gallery. Each night there will be a pamphlet of performance titles and times. These performances will occur as events, and not as theatrical staging and seating. However, chairs will be available for viewers at each performance site and throughout the gallery to accommodate particular performance pieces. Yeah, No, I Mean It: Time, Situation, Dexterity A Performance Art Symposium April 16th 7-‐9pm: Performances April 17th 7-‐9pm: Performances April 18th 1-‐2pm: Visiting artist talks at la Esquina Gallery 2-‐3pm: Panel on curating performance at la Esquina Gallery 7-‐9pm: Performances Location: la Esquina, 1000 W. 25th Street, KCMO Admission: Free Kansas City-‐based Artists Andromeda Lynn Becker BOIBOY Tim Brown Brock Bryan Wolfgang Bucher Dominic Burkart C.A.S.H.E.D. Chaz & Linz Angie Hoffman Laura Isaac Wesley Isaac Manion Kuhn Judith Levy Sydney Pursel Lauren Schrader Kiki Serna Christina Silvius Christie Thomason Alexa Di Trolio Visiting Artists Eames Armstrong (Washington, DC) Creighton Baxter (San Francisco, CA) Jason “Tito” Dixon (Chicago, IL) Ryan Hawk (Austin, TX) Sarah Hill (Austin, TX) Hayley Morgenstern (Austin, TX) Philip Fryer (Boston, MA) Laura Reese (Tulsa, OK) More details about participating artists can be found at: performancekc.tumblr.com. ABOUT THE CURATOR Jessica Borusky is an artist, educator, and curator currently residing in Kansas City, MO. Borusky is a resident of the Charlotte Street Foundation, a lecturer at the University of Missouri-‐Kansas City, an Oklahoma Visual Artist Coalition writing and curatorial fellow, the Art in the Loop curator for 2015, and the founder/director of Alt. Lecture KC. Borusky received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and Tufts University. ABOUT LA ESQUINA Yeah, No, I Mean It: Time, Situation, Dexterity is presented at la Esquina, one of three public spaces run by Charlotte Street Foundation for the benefit of the arts in Kansas City. In 2015, these gallery spaces will feature leading-‐edge visual, dramatic, dance, musical, and multi-‐disciplinary works from local artists and curators, selected by a panel of artists and arts professionals in response to an open call process conducted over the summer of 2014. ABOUT CHARLOTTE STREET For more than 17 years, Charlotte Street has challenged, nurtured, and empowered thousands of artists, distributed over $900,000 in awards and grants to artists and their projects, and connected individual artists to each other and to the greater Kansas City community. Charlotte Street–with its community of artists–strives to be a primary catalyst in making Kansas City a vibrant, creative metropolis, alive with collaboration, passion, ideas, and surprise. For more information about Charlotte Street, its awards, programs, and initiatives, visit www.charlottestreet.org ###