Nad猫ge Grebmeier Forget: Echo Figures for Pending Spaces鈥擮ccupations for Camera
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nad猫ge Grebmeier Forget’s distinguished interdisciplinary聽practice unfolds via durational, live, live-streamed, and private聽performances at times resulting in drawings,聽photographs聽or聽installations. In these performances, she models and hybridizes herself to defuse expectations of beauty and explore the effects (and affects) of the concerned gaze on an unfolding identity as it is observed and analyzed by herself and others. Seeking to confront desires and ideals (aesthetic, commercial, sexual, etc.) through an empowered and performative manipulation of her own image, she intrinsically questions the labour of making and becoming; including the ways in which performance (of the self or art-making) can be documented, disseminated or exhibited.
Circulating聽within Montreal鈥檚 visual and performing arts communities as an interdisciplinary artist,聽project coordinator, curator, and cultural worker,聽Nad猫ge Grebmeier Forget has participated in numerous events, festivals, conferences and residencies in Canada, Europe and the United States.聽In 2019, she was the first performance artist to receive the City of Montreal鈥檚 Prix Pierre-Ayot.聽 She will have solo exhibitions at AXENEO7 in Gatineau (Fall, 2021) and Le Mus茅e d鈥檃rt de Joliette (Winter, 2022). Born in 1985, the first daughter of a 1950鈥檚 California Beauty Queen contender, she lives and works in Tio鈥檛ia:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal.
PROJECT STATEMENT
I鈥檝e always used the architecture of places as starting points, my body moving according to space and the situation/ambiance imposed or created. Mainly working and performing from home, my body/image work often seeks to reproduce or reveal some sort of uncomfortable intimacy. Considering the context of this residency at an educational institution during this sequestered pandemic era we inhabit, I鈥檓 interested in the idea of imposing a sort of domesticity that would feel like a space of limbo, a non-space with non-time, reflected in the extensive use of beige in the gallery.
With this project, I would like to create a series of unfolding actions and images that would function through indirect or subjective viewing of the body in action. Simultaneously, I envision the space as a sort of canvas that will bear witness to an inner chaos or failure to resolve. The structure, actual actions and mechanism (camera work, live feed, role of documentation) will be revealed gradually through self-isolation within the space.
Echo Figures for Pending Spaces: Occupations for Camera is an experiment, an abstract extension of my current drawings with makeup on magazine pages, as well as several other threads through my practice over the years. NGF
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Videos
Video 1
ECHO FIGURES FOR PENDING SPACES鈥擮CCUPATIONS FOR CAMERA (FIRST DECOR)
Selected captions were recorded during Nad猫ge Grebmeier Forget's performance residency ECHO FIGURES FOR PENDING SPACES: OCCUPATIONS FOR CAMERA 鈥� produced at the Warren G Flowers Art Gallery, 成人黑料, between March 1st and April 1st, 2021.
This footage was created during the first week of the residency and presented, looping, on a TV monitor placed in the gallery's exterior display case. All actions built up to the last take of this montage [Curtains] serving as proof of an active bodily presence in the gallery, documenting the production of a live drawing, finger-painted onto the gallery's entrance doors with foundation makeup.
Duration: 59 min 33 sec
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Time breakdown:
1 [00:00:00-00:01:24] Floor
2 [00:01:25-00:02:18] Ceiling
3 [00:02:19-00:14:29] Walls
4 [00:14:30-00:21:36] Rooms
5 [00:21:37-00:23:27] Left Corner
6 [00:23:28-00:25:19] Right Corner
7 [00:25:20-00:27:05] Body
8 [00:27:06-00:44:13] Windows
9 [00:44:14-00:59:33] Curtains
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Video 2
ECHO FIGURES FOR PENDING SPACES鈥擮CCUPATIONS FOR CAMERA (SECOND DECOR)
Selected captions were recorded during Nad猫ge Grebmeier Forget's performance residency ECHO FIGURES FOR PENDING SPACES: OCCUPATIONS FOR CAMERA 鈥� Produced at the Warren G Flowers Art Gallery, 成人黑料, between March 1st and April 1st, 2021,
In dialogue with works and interventions created during the residency, this footage was used as materials/imageries during the Facebook Live broadcast presented on March 28, 2021:
Duration: 50 min 45 sec
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Time breakdown:
1 [00:00:00-00:23:24] Veiling
2 [00:23:25-00:30:03] Motifs for a looking glass
3 [00:33:04-00:33:00] Shimmering light
4 [00:33:01-00:38:02] Reflecting ambiance
5 [00:38:02-00:50:45] Matching techniques
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Video 3
Recorded Live from Warren G Flowers Art Gallery 鈥擣acebook, March 28 at 5:33 PM.
Duration: 2 h 39 min 57 sec
"I鈥檝e been occupying the Warren G. Flowers Gallery for almost 4 weeks now. I鈥檝e been creating situations, sets for potential performances that are not actually happening or being seen. There are neither beginnings nor endings to everything I鈥檝e been producing. I鈥檝e been performing for myself鈥搒ecluded from the College's student body鈥揳nd wondering what the significance of this is. I鈥檝e been meandering around the gallery, accumulating thoughts, ideas, and a tone. Till now, I鈥檝e failed to share my documentation. Some sort of modesty, some sort of desire of privacy, hijacked my volition, my contract. I鈥檝e been turning multiple cameras on and off, and on and off again. Actions from the inside, to the outside, for the inside. If Liveness is dematerialized, simply imagined, can the accumulation of this self-viewing build a space of being, of meaning, strong enough to make the need for the Other disappear?聽 Here is an attempt to resolve some displacements for the sake of breaking away from this idea."聽 NGF, March 28, 2021
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漏 2021 Nad猫ge Grebmeier Forget |聽
Video 4
ECHO FIGURES FOR PENDING SPACES鈥擮CCUPATIONS FOR CAMERA (FOLDED INTERLUDES)
Selected captions were recorded during Nad猫ge Grebmeier Forget's performance residency ECHO FIGURES FOR PENDING SPACES: OCCUPATIONS FOR CAMERA 鈥� Produced at the Warren G Flowers Art Gallery, 成人黑料, between March 1st and April 1st, 2021.
Duration: 47 min 56 sec
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Time breakdown:
1 [00:00:00-00:36:29] The paper blind
2 [00:36:30-00:43:18] Ribboning
3 [00:43:19-00:47:56] Attention
漏 2021 Nad猫ge Grebmeier Forget |
