Gina Pierleoni is a mixed media artist living and working in Baltimore. She earned an MFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and a B.F.A. from the College of New Rochelle (NY)
Individual Artist Awards include grants from :the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts; the Gottlieb Foundation (emergency grant) and three from Maryland State Arts Council.
Physical Arrangement for String Quartet
In Physical Arrangement for String Quartet, musicians perform a new composition created by Benjamin Buchanan while placed in strenuous/precarious positions throughout the designated space. Using custom fabricated furniture, a cellist plays from a 9 ft. tall chair, a violist lays on their back on a bench, and two violinists lay against the floor.
The music composition employs contemporary and experimental genres, as well as cinematic qualities. Buchanan also enacts a plethora of extended techniques, which are unconventional or non-traditional methods of playing musical instruments used to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.
The composition and choreography amplifies each musician’s body in space and in relation to one another while providing a playful and meditative atmosphere where the norms of musical traditions are defied in an absurd fashion. Over time, the musicians learn to adapt and collaborate from their new postures.
Physical Arrangement of String Quartet was performed as part of the collaborative exhibition Symphony of Gestures, created by Dittrich and Buchanan at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art within the context of ArtPrize, an international art competition based in Grand Rapids, MI that attracts over 500,000 visitors in a three week period. Symphony of Gestures was an ArtPrize Seven Public Vote Top 5 Finalist in the Time-based category.
The music composition employs contemporary and experimental genres, as well as cinematic qualities. Buchanan also enacts a plethora of extended techniques, which are unconventional or non-traditional methods of playing musical instruments used to obtain unusual sounds or timbres.
The composition and choreography amplifies each musician’s body in space and in relation to one another while providing a playful and meditative atmosphere where the norms of musical traditions are defied in an absurd fashion. Over time, the musicians learn to adapt and collaborate from their new postures.
Physical Arrangement of String Quartet was performed as part of the collaborative exhibition Symphony of Gestures, created by Dittrich and Buchanan at the Urban Institute of Contemporary Art within the context of ArtPrize, an international art competition based in Grand Rapids, MI that attracts over 500,000 visitors in a three week period. Symphony of Gestures was an ArtPrize Seven Public Vote Top 5 Finalist in the Time-based category.
Medium: A performance choreographed by the artist using 2 violinists, 1 violist, 1 cellist, custom furniture fabricated by the artist, and a custom composition by composer collaborator Benjamin Buchanan.
Year: 2015
Details: Variable, approx. 10 minutes
Perfect
Speaking kid, modified music box, toy glockenspiel. Text: selections from “To Think of Time” by Walt Whitman.
Medium: sound
Year: 2009
Genna Gurvich is a conceptual, multi-disciplinary artist born in Kiev, Ukraine and now based in Baltimore.
He is a graduate of the Kiev Institute of Applied Arts and Design (Ukraine) and has a Master’s degree of Complex Design from the St. Petersburg Academy of Art and Industry (Russia).
Since his arrival to the United States in 1997, he has been exhibited and been commissioned for various projects throughout the country.
Mia Eve is an interdisciplinary artist who creates in site-specific lands of spiritual, social, and cultural resistance. Autónomos globally engaged collectives of artistic practice are formed that create expressions of underground communities and territories through distributed authorship using a magic realist aesthetic. The work reincorporates healing strategies from pre-colonial practices, and delves into the imagination of the psyche.