Performance and Installation by Sindy Butz
June 5, 1-5pm
As part of our inaugural opening season at Glasshouse Upstate, which includes artist residencies, performance exhibitions, lecture series and a house-wide performance exhibition- we are thrilled to host ‘Alchemy/Ceremony/Coffee’ a performance exhibition by resident artist Sindy Butz (b. Berlin, lives and works in NYC).
Sindy Butz performing at Neo-Domesticities 2017, Glasshouse Brooklyn
House Arrest
Located in New Paltz in an 1850’s former inn turned farmhouse our current outpost includes artist residencies, an exhibitions shed and a house-wide multimedia installation.
The theme we chose for the season is ‘House Arrest’- The term ‘House Arrest’ generally refers to a legal measure confining a person to their residence; most recently domestic confinement became a symbol of our time; yet the motivation behind the theme of ‘House Arrest’ is to embody the historic role of the home in the evolution of the archive, especially that of performance as a social theater, focusing on the performativity of the domestic archive, it’s fluidity in showcasing what is intentionally archived and how life interferes and intertwines with the archive and its keepers. The artists in residence, their work displayed, the audience watching and keeping record are all part of that performative "arrest”.
Due to the constantly changing safety regulations regarding COVID-19 we are required to monitor the amount of audience. Please kindly make a reservation prior to attending the events this season.
Sindy Butz is a German-born interdisciplinary visual artist, Butoh dancer, and somatic movement educator living and working in New York City. She creates conceptual endurance performances, performance-based video art and photography, multisensory sculptural installations, and olfactoric scent projects. She executes her work with a passion for the research on the human body, the body-mind connection, introspection, altered states of consciousness, heightened sensitivity, slow-time perception, and hyper-controlled micro-movement.
In her project-based works, she explores belief systems and ideologies throughout history, socio-political transformation processes, collective memory, the human unconscious, behavior, human sensing, and the notion of time.
Butz holds a Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts from the academy AKI Enschede (Netherlands) and a Master's Degree in Art Science from the University of the Arts Berlin, focusing on coaching through art and Corporate Social and Cultural Responsibility program development (CSR/CCR). She continued her postgraduate research with the renowned DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst) scholarship at the New York University in assistive technology at the Interactive Telecommunication Program. Sindy currently pursues an advanced Dynamic Embodiment™ Somatic Science and Movement Training by renowned Dr. Martha Eddy to further develop her sensory and immersive installations projects.
Butz will use her residency at Glasshouse to develop a new sensory installation and performance series "Alchemy, Ceremony, and Coffee" which is based on her previous social sculpture and scent-based performances with coffee.