Marriage
Marriage was a solo dance work within a larger performing installation entitled Domestic Matters: Distilling Geographies, Identities, and Boundaries. The piece was an adaptation of an earlier work choreographed by Mair Culbreth, re-interpreted and re-conceived with Culbreth for this installation. It was presented in March 2011 at the Urban Arts Space in Columbus, OH.
The solo was re-staged in 2012 at the “Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance” Congress on Research in Dance Special Topics Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
About Domestic Matters:
"Domestic Matters explores the intimate geographies and everyday life practices in the Agrarian South. Combining mixed media, moving bodies and constructions of recycled materials and familiar spaces, the company entertains questions of art as a necessity and the embodiment of socio-cultural norms, socio-economics and constructions of identity. Using materials (tar, reclaimed wood, corrugated metal, house paint, photographs), dancing bodies, stories and recipes of the South, Domestic Matters works with memory, displacement, concepts of home, and the complexities of gender, race and sexuality.
Working with collected materials of the geographical location, Domestic Matters' Nicole Bauguss and Mair Culbreth investigate the ways in which the stories and material culture are reflected and created through repurposing. Seeking to create a multisensory experience through installation and audience engagement, Bauguss and Culbreth contemplate the value of everyday rituals and materials in a gallery setting encouraging the audience to occupy the space in familiar and unfamiliar ways. Familiarity through multiple senses elicits the power of memory, personal stories and re-connection, engaging seemingly disparate groups in diverse commonalities.
With process and product revealed simultaneously, the project explores the process of creating, constructing and deconstructing as an engaged, critical frame for articulating assumptions, perspectives and power dynamics; how we reflect and also create society. Domestic Matters engages with a spectrum of sensory experience (sight, smell, taste and touch) through the textures of the structure, installation, sound, and movement components. Interaction with the space and objects installed is encouraged to offer a deeply considered, connected experience with art. The elements of this installation are accessible to multiple modes of experience such as the touch tour offered by the OSU Urban Arts Space.
Throughout the course of the exhibition the Space will be inhabited by a choreographed performance of old and new dances with local artists-performers from the OSU Department of Dance and professional artists in Columbus."
-http://uas.osu.edu/exhibitions/domestic-matters
The solo was re-staged in 2012 at the “Meanings and Makings of Queer Dance” Congress on Research in Dance Special Topics Conference in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
About Domestic Matters:
"Domestic Matters explores the intimate geographies and everyday life practices in the Agrarian South. Combining mixed media, moving bodies and constructions of recycled materials and familiar spaces, the company entertains questions of art as a necessity and the embodiment of socio-cultural norms, socio-economics and constructions of identity. Using materials (tar, reclaimed wood, corrugated metal, house paint, photographs), dancing bodies, stories and recipes of the South, Domestic Matters works with memory, displacement, concepts of home, and the complexities of gender, race and sexuality.
Working with collected materials of the geographical location, Domestic Matters' Nicole Bauguss and Mair Culbreth investigate the ways in which the stories and material culture are reflected and created through repurposing. Seeking to create a multisensory experience through installation and audience engagement, Bauguss and Culbreth contemplate the value of everyday rituals and materials in a gallery setting encouraging the audience to occupy the space in familiar and unfamiliar ways. Familiarity through multiple senses elicits the power of memory, personal stories and re-connection, engaging seemingly disparate groups in diverse commonalities.
With process and product revealed simultaneously, the project explores the process of creating, constructing and deconstructing as an engaged, critical frame for articulating assumptions, perspectives and power dynamics; how we reflect and also create society. Domestic Matters engages with a spectrum of sensory experience (sight, smell, taste and touch) through the textures of the structure, installation, sound, and movement components. Interaction with the space and objects installed is encouraged to offer a deeply considered, connected experience with art. The elements of this installation are accessible to multiple modes of experience such as the touch tour offered by the OSU Urban Arts Space.
Throughout the course of the exhibition the Space will be inhabited by a choreographed performance of old and new dances with local artists-performers from the OSU Department of Dance and professional artists in Columbus."
-http://uas.osu.edu/exhibitions/domestic-matters