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8/2/2002

Green

Mobius, Boston

A multi-media installation and performance art event featuring women artists' response to September 11th and its aftermath; coordinated by Julia Szabo

["Zold a renemy szine"="Green is the color of hope" in Hungarian.] ["GREEN": verdant new plants poking their way through a cracked sidewalk. The meadowed backdrop of a memorial service for a victim of September 11th. The need for a quiet, sheltered spot to retreat from crashing towers and bombs dropped in far off Afghanistan.......]

(Boston) How can an artist respond to the overwhelming events since September 11? Given their sheer magnitude, it may be too premature to fashion a concrete response to this question. Instead, Mobius Artists Group member, Julia Szabo (whose mother is Hungarian), has organized this multifaceted show to provide a forum for formulating an understanding.

"GREEN" will act as a place for a select group of local women artists to let their bodies, images, acts and visions serve as a backdrop for the viewers, who will have an opportunity to frame their insights -- not necessarily their answers -- using imagination. The connecting thread for the group will be the incorporation of the color green into each work and green's relationship to the feminine body. All the art work shown, including painting, drawing, performance, music, film and video, will be for sale as part of the benefit aspect of the show. At the opening on February 9th, both the gallery and black box space will be filled completely with art, both static and live -- an attempt to create a "green" space, a resting space for response.

"GREEN" features the art and performance work of Julia Szabo, Sabrina Zanella Foresi, Jennifer Hicks, Donna Coppola, Hiroko Kikuchi, Anne Dufresne, Shannon Curry Green, Sandy Huckleberry and others.

(Bios.) Julia Szabo is a painter and a puppeteer whose response to events since Sept. 11th has been to simultaneously retreat into the realm of the imagination and to reach out to a community of creative women. These women now want to share their insights with an audience. Hence the creation of the show "GREEN".

Sabrina Zanella Foresi is an independent filmmaker. She will be collaborating with Julia Szabo to create a piece involving projected film loops. Their work together, a projected film piece entitled Apples, has been shown at Harvard's Carpenter Center and at Videospace.

Jennifer Hicks, a movement artist (specializing in Butoh) and a painter, will be creating a drawn/ painted landscape during the opening event.

Donna Coppola will be recreating a piece recently shown at Mobius' "ART RAGES." It is a piece involving a body suspended on a platform above chocolate chips that have been pushed through a very small hole in the platform.

Hiroko Kikuchi, a performance artist, has recently shown pieces at Mobius. She will be creating a new performance piece for the opening event.

"GREEN" will also include Anne Dufresne, landscape painter, Shannon Curry Green, small collage artist, and Sandy Huckleberry, painter and performance artist. Other random performative episodes (artists not yet confirmed) will take place throughout the opening event.

Image: Julia Szabo

Installation, Feb. 9-26: gallery hours, Wed.-Sat., 12-5 pm;
Opening Performative Episodes, Sat., Feb. 9th, 8-10 pm;
Closing artists' tea and gallery talk, Tues., Feb. 26th, 5:30-7:30 pm

Tickets:
The installation and closing artists' tea are free and open to the public. The opening performance event is $20.00 (a portion of proceeds will go to victims of the Sept.11th attacks and victims of U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan); reservations recommended; audiences are encouraged to wear something green; please call (617) 542-7416. Mobius does not turn away audience members based on inability to pay. If you are unable to pay the full admission price, please call the Mobius office in advance to make other arrangements.

Mobius
Boston's Artist-Run Center
for Experimental Work in All Media
354 Congress St.
Boston, MA 02210
phone: 617-542-7416
fax: 617-451-2910

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