Transient Shelters

Two Durational Performances at Glasshouse by Lital Dotan & Emilie Houssart

new rain date!

Sunday October 17, 2021 5-8pm

From the Electric Dress of Atsuko Tanaka (1957) through Yoko Onos’s ‘Cut Piece’ (1964) to Tania Bruguera’s mud suit in ‘Displacement’ (1998)- The Dress has long played an active role in performance art’s history, serving a contextualizing agent and a performative vocabulary.

'Transient Shelters' is a durational performance evening focusing on the performativity of objects that are worn- allowing them to activate, orchestrate and disintegrate through the time and space of performance.

The performances will be intertwining through the outdoors of Glasshouse- negotiating the outskirts of a house and its mapped deed or unmarked territories.

Emilie Houssart is a Dutch American artist and curator based in upstate New York. Through multidisciplinary projects, she addresses normalized symptoms of human-ecological dissociation, and related violence against ancient, interspecies models of collaboration. Her performative works play at the boundaries of the absurd, questioning our desires for control, how we evaluate intelligence, and our relationships with the earth itself.​  Recent shows include Owning Earth at Unison Art Center and Rooted: Art + Land with the Dorsky Museum/Walkill Valley Land Trust. She has held residencies at the Frans Masereel Centrum, Belgium, and the Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY. More information is at emiliehoussart.com .

Lital Dotan is an artist working with performance, video and installation art. Her works have been exhibited internationally in venues such as the Israel Museum, National Museum Cracow, Queens Museum, Haifa Museum, The Kitchen, Jewish Contemporary SF among others and was featured in magazines such as NY Times, Hyperallergic, NY Mag, White-hot Magazine, Paper Mag, ArtSlant, Haaretz, Huffington Post, VISION China, TAR Magazine to name a few. She is the co-founder of Glasshouse art-house and founder of Que sal mah performance-fashion brand. She wrote 3 stage plays, the first of which, 'Second Floor' is planned to premiere next year.