Update: Oliver Herring | TASK
As announced earlier this week, Art21 artist Oliver Herring (Season 3) concluded his residency at the University of Maryland on April 2nd with a Task performance. Videos such as the one above, titled “Dance Fight,” were created by UMD students and can be viewed on the UMD Task Force blog. Photos from Wednesday’s performance are available on Facebook.
More Task in 2008: In conjunction with the Luminato Festival, Herring will transform an empty outdoor public swimming pool in Regent Park, Toronto into a stage for a Task-party on June 14; Herring will perform Task at the Seattle Public Library on June 28; and on September 6, the artist, in conjunction with FLUXSPACE, will perform Task in Philadelphia for the second time.
Last chance to apply for Oliver Herring | Task
Tuesday, April 1, 2008, is the last day to apply for participation in Task, a recurrent performance by Season 3 artist Oliver Herring. This iteration is organized by the Frye Art Museum, the Tacoma Art Museum, On the Boards, and the Seattle Public Central Library where the performance will be held on Saturday, June 28, 2008. Herring will select 35 applicants of various ages, professions and backgrounds for this day-long interactive. Visit the Frye Museum website to download an application. Selected applicants will be notified by the Frye no later than May 1.
Herring has staged Task at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (2006); Plaza de Toros in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2003), the Former Federal Security Bank in Lake Worth, Fla. (2003); L’Ecole Supérieur National des Beaux Arts, Paris (2002); and the Masonic Temple at the Great Eastern Hotel, London (2003). The Seattle Public Library performance will be the first staged indoors, and involving multiple organizations. The Hirshhorn Museum continues to offer a podcast of their 60 participants discussing the experience.
Herring recently performed Task at the University of Maryland where he is the Spring 2008 Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Art. His residency will conclude on Wednesday, April 2nd with a public performance that coincides with the opening of a video installation titled Basic, a new component of an ongoing series by the same title. A series of playful videos that are the product of collaborations between the artist and strangers, Basic is on display at the University Art Gallery from April 2-26, 2008.
Oliver Herring | Task in Seattle seeks participants
The Frye Museum in Seattle is recruiting 35 participants for Oliver Herring | Task, a dynamic performance by Season 3 artist Oliver Herring and organized by the Frye, The Seattle Public Library, On the Boards, and Tacoma Art Museum. The performance will take place at The Seattle Public Central Library on Saturday, June 28, from 10 am to 5:30 pm. This will be the first of Herring’s Task performances to be staged indoors, and the first involving multiple organizations.
Applications are currently available on the Frye Art Museum website and will be accepted through April 1, 2008. Completed applications and/or questions should be sent to: task@fryemuseum.org.
Applicants, who must be at least 14 years old, should possess: an interest in creating, interpreting and executing tasks over the course of a day; an interest in exchanging creative ideas and developing a sense of community through the arts; a willingness to work with a group of 35 people while an audience observes and photographers document the process; availability from 9 am to 7 pm on Saturday, June 28. A brief orientation session with the artist precedes the performance. Participants are also invited to attend a reception after the performance and discuss their experience with the Task audience.
Participants will be selected by Oliver Herring, and will be notified by the Frye by May 1. Participants will be required to sign a waiver. Opportunities for individuals interested in volunteering (not performing) during Task will be posted on the partner websites in May and June.
[more about Task after the jump]
