ALEXIS DISSELKOEN

BRIAN GETNICK

PAUL PESCADOR

Organized by Paul Pescador

Crying Over Spilled Milk, is a one night performance event featuring the work of Alexis Disselkoen, Brian Getnick, and Paul Pescador, Crying Over Spilled Milk, will focus on site-specific situational and interactive performances. The event will examine the creation of performative objects as a means to develop live performance. Whether its costumes, props, or even photographs, the event will focus on the power of an object to provoke and encourage performativity.

Human Resources will be divided into three separate spaces: hallway, gallery, and back courtyard. Each performers will separate their piece into one of these location. As the event unfolds varying parts of each performance will begin to move, by the end of the event: performers, objects, and audience will begin to blur into one another.

The two hour performance will be begin at 7PM.

ALEXIS DISSELKOEN

Through the use of group activities and event based situations Alexis Disselkoen strives to connect contemporary issues of identity and the scholarship of interpersonal relations. She works around constructions of power that inform art production, viewership and participation by creating encounters that are participatory and directed by the people that are involved. Simple devices and material become the atmosphere and space that viewers must negotiate with when experiencing the work.

BRIAN GETNICK

Brian Getnick is a Los Angeles based artist and the director of THE BALLET, a performance troupe of hand made costumes. These costumes, with their sculptural details, are the primary text for each performance. Through collaborate, Getnick explores how materials can translate subconscious desires from creator to performer. Getnick develops his performances with local dancers, actors, musicians and artists. These collaborations open up beyond a singular pathology and into an arena in which the interactions between performer, object, context and audience merge.

PAUL PESCADOR

Paul Pescador conducts small-scale gestures and performances that occur in both social and private environments, such as homes, sidewalks, and galleries. The actions are small and lend themselves to repetition as a means to understand, activate, and disrupt a surrounding environment. Whether these events occur in front of an audience in a gallery or alone in a park, they are documented with a camera. The camera becomes the primary witness to the event. The event wouldn’t occur if it wasn’t recorded and the photograph without the action. They are linked and rely on one another to exist.