OAS Node #1 [10/3]: Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Occupational Art School Node 1 @Bat Haus is pleased to host an evening of conversation with New Media phenom Amelia Winger-Bearskin on Wednesday, October 3 from 7-9PM. She will performing in the OASN1@BH event STARR STREET SLAM. For our Wednesday night discussion with Amelia, we hope to discuss Open Source Performance Art, time-based media, and Winger-Bearskin's continent-hopping artist practice. 

"Flowers," performed in Manila City, Philippines [2010]

[ABOUT AMELIA WINGER-BEARSKIN]:

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is an assistant professor of Art and Film at Vanderbilt University in the area of Time Based Media Arts and Performance. She works with 'models' (as defined by agent-based computer programming) as a conceptual prompt in her performance work. She has developed a concept of Open Source Performance Art (OSPA) and has spoken about OSPA at various academic conferences and performance festivals since 2010. She performed at the 10th Annual OPEN ART Performance Art festival in Beijing, China, The Performance Art Network PANAsia '09 in Seoul, South Korea, and the TAMA TUPADA 2010 Media and Performance festival in the Philippines. Winger-Bearskin recently spent a month in Sao Paulo, Brazil performing at the Verbo Performance Art Festival (the first American performance artist to be invited to do so), through an international scholar exchange sponsored by University of Sao Paulo and Vanderbilt University VIO and Art Department. She was an Artist in residence at the University of Tasmania (Australia) school of Visual and Performing arts. Other recent performance credits include the  Gwangju Biennial [three events: 1) main pavilion; 2) the Lotte Gallery Media and Performance Festival; and 3) the Women's Biennial in Seoul, Korea].

Currently, she is presenting a sound installation throughout the Nashville International Airport, and in Fall 2012 will be speaking about her work and OSPA as a visiting artist at universities in Portland, OR; Chicago, IL; and New York City, NY.

"Crying on Cue;" for the Performance Art Network PAN ASIA Performance Art Festival in Seoul, Korea [2009]

[ABOUT AMELIA'S UPCOMING PERFORMANCE AT STARR STREET SLAM]:

Vocal Performance

Amelia Winger-Bearskin was classically trained at the Eastman Conservatory of Music in Vocal Performance, she has worked in theatre and opera both as a performer and a composer since 1997.  Her pieces are a fusion between punk, electro, opera and dark wave, with a heavy dose of performance art and interactivity as well. This work, Vocal Performance, requires only two things, an audience and darkness (or the absence of any artificial light).