Photo credit: Retour à la terre (2024), durational performance by Marilyn Arsem, Rencontre International d'Art Performance de Québec (RiAP), photo by Charles Frederick Ouellet, courtesy of the artist

TIME WITH TREES

An Open Studio with Marilyn Arsem

Saturday, November 16, 1-5p

Glasshouse Project, 251 Springtown Rd, New Paltz

What is a week to a tree?  In my residency at Glasshouse, I will focus on the trees that surround the studio.  It is a time of increasing dormancy as winter approaches. Will they speak to me?  What changes might I detect? How will the odors of the leaves and bark transform? What might I hear?  I will report on what I have learned during the open studio on Saturday, November 16th. How that presentation is manifested depends on what I discover during the week.

Performance artist Marilyn Arsem has been creating and performing live events for more than forty years and has presented her work in thirty countries around the globe. Many of her works are durational in nature, minimal in actions and materials, and have been created in response to specific sites, engaging with the immediate landscape and materiality of the location and its history. Based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, she also teaches performance art workshops internationally. Arsem taught performance art for 27 years at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, establishing an extensive curriculum in visually based performance.  In 1975 Arsem founded an artist collaborative for experimentation, now known as Mobius Artists Group, of which she is still a member. A book on her work, Responding to Site: The Performance Work of Marilyn Arsem, edited by Jennie Klein and Natalie Loveless, was published in 2020 by Intellect Books of the UK. Her website is https://marilynarsem.net

This project is part of the AIR program at Glasshouse,  a program made possible by the generous support of New York State Council on the Arts