Saturday, September 1, 2012

EcoDance/Raw Art Tour at Artprize

September 19 - October 7, EcoDance/Raw Art Tour will be at Artprize in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is the first time that I will include the structure I built through EcoDance as an art component of my work. EcoDance is about building the structures, but at Artprize the Mobile Performance Dwelling will be viewed as an installation piece. This event is free and open to the public. For more information and a schedule of events, please visit: http://rawarttour.blogspot.com.

Here is a video link for EcoDance/Raw Art Tour at Artprize:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od7UoFy1Q0A

For the curious who do not have the best internet capability, I have included a lengthy bit about the work below. Thanks for reading and hope to see some of you there:)


Best, Sarah:)


Title of work:
EcoDance/Raw Art Tour

Artist Statement:
EcoDance/Raw Art Tour is a mostly reclaimed installation piece with performance components. The mobile stage, which transforms from an insular, compact design to an open, public venue, opens at designated times to offer the following: performances, discussions, rehearsals, installations, and workshops. The artist who built this structure engages with her own art/work and also invites people to use the space as a platform. Creations can take the form of movement studies, sculptures, paintings, photographs, installations, etc.

History:
EcoDance/Raw Art Tour is a two-fold project. Co-founded January 2011 by Sarah Haas and Hallie Aldrich, EcoDance encompasses the building process and design of the mobile installation piece. Inspired by the tiny house movement and motivated to create low-cost artist live/work spaces, the two joined forces to research, design, and build artist-specific, eco-friendly mobile performance dwellings (Eco-Mobiles). Addressing practical issues in performance, architecture, and ecology, each artist builds her own structure with the help of volunteers. Haas’s structure was built with approximately 10% volunteer labor and 90% owner energy, and 75% reclaimed materials.

Raw Art Tour is the traveling collaborative project that Haas is currently engaged in with her Eco-Mobile. Haas travels from town to town, creates work and performs, while providing a platform for people of diverse skills, passions, and interests. Her art and work events bring folks of all kinds together to share experiences, dreams, and stories. Within her process is a desire to merge work and play, to navigate and record the body as a cultural landscape, and to become a self-sustained, eco-conscious, yet collaborative entity, while garnering a sense of freedom within a rapidly corporatized world. Utilizing her space as a gathering site for lectures, workshops, brainstorming sessions, rehearsals, and performances, she continues to build upon and investigate the multifarious possibilities inherent in an ever-expanding mobile lifestyle.

EcoDance/Raw Art Tour is being hosted by the City of Grand Rapids through ADORATION.