Glasshouse Project is thrilled to present-
AN EMPTYING
24h Performance Program
Saturday & Sunday July 20-21, 10a-10p
On gathering an aftermath as it unfolds- ‘An Emptying’ is a 24 hour performance art program featuring durational performance works and ephemeral installations. This program is part of Upstate Art Weekend 2024
Free and open to the public. RSVP highly recommended
Participating artists: Millicent Young, Verónica Peña, Alexis Elton, Michael Asbill, Manasa Thimmiya Appaneravanda, Ellen Carpenter, Siralia Foundation and Kyriakos Apostolidis
Organized by Lital Dotan
‘An Emptying’ 24h program is part of a year long theme that looks at the aftermath of performance as part of its becoming. The works presented will be embodying the notion of “emptying” as an ongoing action from various physical, alchemical and gestural perspectives. Durational performances will be exploring submergence, participatory hovering sites, an ongoing weaving of surrealistic matter, a work of endurance and exhaustion, a cyclical micro-healing offering, along gentle participatory actions and activations.
Among the durational live performances happening on the grounds throughout the program, will be three process-based installations around our new site, which was flooded in 2011 and vacant since- Alexis Elton will be activating wicking salt sculptures, Michael Asbill creates an environment of carbonized charcoal and Millicent Young looks at rusting, a process chorus for an ongoing emptying.
The program will be physically engaging the grounds with an emptying, while acknowledging that any process of emptying is always simultaneously, and relationally, filling.
An Emptying is made possible by the generous support of New York State Council on the Arts
Bios:
Manasa Thimmiya Appaneravanda is a San Francisco based Social Practice Artist, born and raised in India. Her works include painting, video/film and performance. Through movement, gesture and elements from her childhood she gently forces discussions on subjects that are usually hushed. Her work evokes emotion, thought and reaction by creating a safe space to feel. Community is at the heart of her art.
www.manasathimmiya.com
Kyriakos Apostolidis is a Chicago-based performance artist and movement director from Greece with a developing practice-based research project in performance titled Morphoplastics. They work with the human body as a primary artistic material and self-referential subject, examining plasticity in the phenomenology of presence within performance art while their performances involve new media in the intersection of art and technology @kyriakos_apostolidis
Michael Asbill weaves arts advocacy, community engagement, environmentalism, and curatorial endeavor into his installation and public art practice. He is an Associate professor at the State University of New York in New Paltz. www.michaelasbill.com
Ellen Carpenter’s multimedia practice explores materials and archetypes that recall the intimacy, banal horror, comfort, and claustrophobia of domestic spaces and the body. Her works seek to condense the often contradictory experiences of living inside a body and home that can simultaneously care for and betray the self. www.ellenfcarpenter.com
Alexis Elton is an artist utilizing site-as-material forming connections with plants, soil, and other living beings. Her work is situated where art and agrarian systems meet to create ephemeral sensory encounters. www.alexiselton.com @alexis_elton_artist
Siralia Foundation (2021-present) is a collaborative project between two Latinx multidisciplinary artists and scholars, Nathalia H. Ochoa (she/her) and siri gurudev (they/them). Through their performance art collective, they explore themes such as trauma, healing, empowerment, witchcraft, rituals, spiritual guidance, and the body.
Verónica Peña is an interdisciplinary artist, independent curator, and international community advocate from Spain based in the US. Her work explores absence, separation, and the search for harmony through performance art, science, and technology. www.veronicapena.com
Millicent Young is a studio artist focusing on sculpture, installation, and projects merging sound, poetry, and movement. Cross cultural childhood experiences, close encounters with poverty and privation, the diversity of her family background, and her immersion in rural lifeways and wilderness were formative influences on Young's social ecological conscience and citizenship. www.millicentyoung.com