In 1970, Oberlin professor and artist Athena Tacha created an exhibition and catalog on conceptual and performance art, called “Art In The Mind.” Well, there was no actual exhibition… just the catalog.
But that catalog has become legendary and has been influencing artists and curators for 43 years. It contained dozens of conceptual art pieces and proposals for performance art works that may have never been realized anywhere but in the mind of the reader.
Now Oberlin Associate Professor of Art Nanette Yannuzzi, who has Tacha’s old job, and Ann Toke, Associate Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts in Boston, are reprising that catalog and inviting artists to respond to the very powerful ideas and concepts and performance proposals in the “Art In The Mind” catalog.
They’re hosting a virtual exhibition called ENACT and inviting more than 50 artists to submit ideas, concepts, proposals and… well, anything. Artist Lyn Goehringer will be scheduled to perform.
Cool Cleveland’s Thomas Mulready proposes to interview the two curators.
ENACT is part of the year-long city-wide celebration Present and Accounted, a celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Cleveland Performance Art Festival (1988-99), which includes performance art activity throughout 2013 at venues such as MOCA, SPACES, The Sculpture Center, Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Institute of Art, Oberlin College and others. http://www.PresentAndAccounted.org
More information can be found at http://www.enact-artinthemind.com. The site goes live Mon 5/6.
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074
One Response to “VIDEO: Nanette Yannuzzi & Ann Torke ENACT Conceptual & Performance Art”
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FYI, the video is listed as private.