Sean Connaughty

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Bigloo v21

Thanks to all who helped build Bigloo v21: Dan Hill, Carol Engstrom, Peter Johnson, Jim
Proctor, David Pitman, Kristen Murray, WACTAC'ers: Mariel, Luke and
Will.

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Bigloo v21
Thanks to all who helped build Bigloo v21: Dan Hill, Carol Engstrom, Peter Johnson, Jim
Proctor, David Pitman, Kristen Murray, WACTAC'ers: Mariel, Luke and
Will.

Statement

photo by Gene Pitman

This work was created by Sean Connaughty at the Walker Art Center in the winter of 2010/11.

Initially created as a collaboration with California based Machine Project. The Bigloo became a site for performance first by Machine Project artists Joshua Beckman, Chris Kallmeyer and Emily Lacy, later by Minneapolis artists Elaine Evans, Comets Ov Cupid, Eclectic Ensemble and The Vortex Navigation Company.

Musicians: Elaine Evans, Tim Donahue, John Vance, Jason Kesselring, Scott Puhl, Sean
Connaughty.

THANKS: Sarah Schultz, Scott Stulen, Abigail Anderson,
Machine Project, Carol Engstrom, David Pitman, Daniel Hill, Jim Proctor,
Kristen Murray, Richard Barlow, Emil, Jenny Jenkins....

videos of 2010/11 performances:

Vortex Navigation Company: http://youtu.be/wica5SAq2Lc

Comets Ov Cupid: http://youtu.be/gIZnQDUclTA

Emily Lacy: http://youtu.be/sS1cIXhXnmc

Elaine Evans: http://youtu.be/bSJsWLJnHYg

Eclectic ENsemble: http://youtu.be/CjxIMn2sxZI

Reviews

http://blogs.walkerart.org/mnartists/2011/01/19/bigloos-amplified-tea-kettles-and-other-activites-for-a-frozen-minnesota-weekend/

A structure has appeared on the snow covered slope behind the
Walker. Technically the structure is a bigloo, an igloo-like structure
built with packed snow, created by artist Sean Connaughty.
Connaughty’s bigloo was specifically built to host performances this
Saturday, January 22 and Sunday, January 23 by a visiting group of
artists from the L.A.-based collective Machine Project. Machine Project will be in artists-in-residence this July as part of the Walker’s Open Field summer. Chris Kallmyer (composer/sound artist), Emily Lacy (folk and electronic sound artist) and Joshua Beckman
(poet/performer) will be joined by special guests for an improvised
afternoon of performances from poems on the topic of summer lawns, to
amplified tea kettles and improvised folk music for one.

Artist Bios:

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He is the author of seven books, including Take It (Wave Books, 2009), Shake and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is an editor at Wave Books and has translated numerous works of poetry and prose, including 5 Meters of Poems by Carlos Oquendo de Amat and Poker by Tomaz Salamun,
which was a finalist for the PEN America Poetry in Translation Award.
He is also the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA
fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.

Chris Kallmyer is a performer/composer/sound artist living in Los Angeles, CA and is the Curator of Sound Programming for the Machine Project. Chris earned his MFA in music from the California Institute of the Arts.where he studied with Thomas Stevens, Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, and Edward Carroll.
He holds a BA in trumpet performance from St. Mary’s College of
Maryland. As a composer and sound artist, he has presented works at the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Hammer Museum, Machine Project, the Goldwell Open Air Museum and various parking lots in LA. His collaboration with cheesemaker, Sue Conley
of Cowgirl Creamery, FERMENT, has led him to his current work
using field recordings, and spatial sound to explore food production in
its complexities and storied traditions.

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