Fusion Arts at Space Womb Gallery: Bonny Finberg Read; Rebecca Cunningham performed

3/24/2012
Space Womb Gallery
Jackson Ave., LIC, NY

The plan was for several of the Unbearables to read between performance artists. David Rodgers finished up and while Rebecca Cunningham set up Bonny Finberg read some poems.

Ms. Cunningham's performance was intense. It began with her hanging several wreath-like objects from fishing line dangling from the ceiling: roses; large metal washers bound with yarn; bricks and stones bound with wire; a half dozen or so loops of razor wire held together with a red cloth. 

The audience was intrigued.

She took the roses down, circled the audience, passing out a few of them.

The audience was amused.

Then she took down the other wreaths, stripped off her dress and her shoes - she was wearing an under-dress - and sewed the wreaths together, placed them around her neck and then wildly started to swing them and crash them into the floor. The audience was - well - you can see for yourself.


After is was over, at least one person asked me if I thought it would go on until someone stopped it, or if the woman who interrupted Ms. Cunningham was part of the act.

I don't know.


 I believe the work is titled "A Study in Red Weight."

I am always as interested in the audience as I am the performance. The audience is theater, too.

Fusion Arts - Look Again: David Rodgers performs

3/24/2012
Space Womb Gallery
Jackson Ave., LIC, NY


David Rodgers performed a piece in which he channels Johann Kepler and his assistant. Dr. Priapus or Platypus, I didn't quite hear the name. This all in anticipation of the transit of Venus that was about to occur. He broke out into the street, giving us a little bit of Street Corner Theater, too.

The audience was amused, sometimes captivated, occasionally involved. At an event like this, it isn't always possible to tell who is audience, who is performer, who will be performing, and who is an innocent or accidental bystander. See the first post for the latter.