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PERFORMANCE ARTIST COLLIN FRAZIER CREATED ONEOFUS : THE CHAPEL’S ‘CLOISTER. HERE ARE SOME OF HIS REFLECTIONS ON THE WORK.
‘Cloister’ is an exploration of the manner in which we come to terms with our own solitude and the unknown of the afterlife. HE was struck by the concept of the Church, not as an institution, but as a structure. Many old churches have changed hands of ownership and denomination numerous times during their lifespan, and the building becomes imbued with very specific and important ideas for each of the people connected to it at any given moment in history. The concept of the Church being a panacea for our own discomfort with the unknown then becomes universal, and this is what I found intriguing.
HE wanted to juxtapose this concept against the possibility of finding eternal comfort within oneself, and one’s connectedness to their reality: the physical space and life in which they dwell. ‘Cloister’ examines these two possible ways of relieving anxiety regarding the mystical and metaphysical aspects of our shared existence. The two possibilities are presented simultaneously but in different mediums, and by doing so, we can compare and contrast both paths. HE sees the piece as taking the audience down two possible roads that one person could walk, and ultimately end in the same place.
COLLIN FRAZIER is a PERFORMANCE ARTIST specializing in dance, acting, and choreography. Hailing from DETROIT and having trained at MICHIGAN STATE, his movement style is a mixture of both classical and modern techniques and incorporates an urban improvisational aesthetic. Before relocating to New York City, he danced with the DETROIT DANCE COLLECTIVE, where he cultivated an appreciation for collaborative arts by combining dance with new media, sculpture, and painting. He has collaborated on choreography for and performed in numerous projects, including the 60X60 choreography series, ‘BRUNCH: THE MUSICAL’, and the short film ‘DARK ALLIES’. He has worked as a rehearsal director and choreography consultant for ORLANDO’S latest dance/rock concert production, ‘DRIP’, performed in MOVEMENT WORKSHOP GROUP’S ‘RACINE D’Or’, as well as music videos for MARLO and ASHEN FIGURE.

 

OneOfUs.Chapel.Poster no blONE OF US are excited to announce we’re organizing another immersive performance this time in Williamsburg New York.

After a sold out performance in London (listed in Time Out, Le Cool London and Who’s Jack among others) we are uniting artists and performers in St Paul’s Lutheran Church.

The Village of Williamsburgh within the Town of Bushwick has seen a lot of changes since 1827. Industrialists (see the remaining relic ‘Domino Sugar Factory’); shore-side mansions; it became a cauldron of pent up energies when Tony Serpico was shot and most recently it has been a haven for creatives. St Paul’s is an emblem of history having witnessed most of these changes since it was born in 1853.

Be transported through a postmodern mish mash of ideas and celebrate this area with us through our site specific performances.

There will be 4 performances of over 20 vignettes over Friday the 28th of March and Sunday the 30th of March. The slots run between: 7-8:30pm,9-10:30pm. Address: St Paul’s Lutheran Church of Williamsburg, 334 S 5th St 11211. The nearest subway is Marcy Ave JMZ.

DRESS WARMLY the CHAPEL is a chilly mistress.

You can buy tickets here.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/one-of-us-the-chapel-tickets-10947866363
You can also reserve tickets from oneofus.whitechapel@gmail.com that will require payment on the door.

Tickets are $20 with a student discount rate of $15.

Interact with us: https://twitter.com/OneofUsWchapel

https://www.facebook.com/events/706016429421247/

Pieces will include:

The Chair, the Table

Dealing with how objects, people, and space inform and control one another, the project focuses on how an object can be made uncanny via its theatricalized setting. Even the most mundane object bears witness to an event. As objects of ritual, they may hold cherished memories or sacred lore.  Broken, misused, overused, ritualized or multiplied, objects can determine the nature of a space or the character of their users. 

Emma Stirling, Yates Norton with Artwork by Tom Laprade and Aaron Lehman.


Runaround 

This piece will explore issues of violence and alienation as a result of society’s taboos against female physicality. How and why do we destroy our own bodies, and what occurs at the breaking point? The artist will create a multitudinous self to present before the audience through a combination of audio and visual elements, which will be manifested and destroyed before the audience.

Carina Finn

 

Death is a Salesman

A woman confronts a used car salesman about faulty breaks on a car she purchased, then ends up discussing matters of life, death, and redemption, before finally partaking in a high-stakes game of scrabble.

Linda Wu

 

Ech0

A kiosk for temporal meditation and reflection. Modern science and modern thought (the Renaissance invention of perspective; Copernicus, Newton, Einstein) sought to demystify and explain physical space, leaving no place more special than any other; ech0 seeks to combine the notions of non-place (i.e. Internet) and locale (i.e. church) that relays transcendental experience and spirit while breaking conventional iconography. 

Daniel Levya


Host
A sound piece relating to the diverse history of the church’s inhabitants. A new denomination assumes ownership not so much adopting the presence of the previous tenants as they make their own mark, but unable to remove the past’s impact completely. A residue like ghosts exists in the space, and my sounds will be representative of that airiness; phasing in, phasing out.

Adam Stoves

Patient Saint
SAINT GENEVIEVE EXCLUSIVE APPEARANCE. In his penultimate demonstration, Dr. Charcots prize patient and celebrity hysteric displays the wrong symptoms.  

Samantha Beach, Kyle Bales and Group

Eulogy

We grieve alongside 7 Widows while a fallen poet mourns a life of unrealized love.

Shayfer James and Group

There Art Thou Happy
Shooting the Friar Lawrence scene for a modern re-telling of Romeo and Juliet, A film crew struggles to get the last shot.

Eric Fallen

 

Cleansing Concordia

An interactive ritual cleansing with volunteers from the audience where the participants will talk, recite an agreement together as they wash their hands of the dominant powers that be and reclaim their individualism. Gabriel Don

 

Whoso Walketh Wisely

 After facing expulsion from private school for starting up a coven-brothel, spirited Alice arrives on at the dusty doorstep of unsuspecting Frank with a backpack full of raw beef, desperately in need of an oven. Propelled by the illusion that they will soon part ways forever, these unlikely companions expose colors of each other long kept in the dark. But are they truly strangers? Or have they collided many times before?

Laura Heckel

 

Every Time I Break the 7th Commandment, An Angel Gets a Hard On

A visual exploration of the ideology behind one of the 10 commandment’s most disputed and argued over tenets, “Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery.” The point is to place the spectator at odds with his/her own sexuality and the fear of judgement. An investigation into the heart of desire, the sin of lust, and the castigation that follows.

Sebastian Pinaud

 

As well as visual art work from Ursula Mur, Satoshi Okada,  Terry Huber, Mohanee Alingasa Ramchandani’s ‘Visions of Meditative Practice,’ Michal Verred Ammar’s ‘Inner Rooms.’

Event image by artist Jonathan Hsu.

For a full list of performances see Facebook

Garon

Garón Peterson is an

INDEPENDENT ARTS PRODUCER

VISUAL ARTIST

&

FILM MAKER

He is also a NEW YORKER, raised in BROOKLYN. Having had no artistic influences in his family, he succeeded in being chosen out of many applicants to attend the specialized H.S. of Art & Design. His “Return of the Goddess Series” artwork was also picked to represent his graduating class in the 75th Anniversary Alumni Show.

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Searching for himself as a young man growing up in the 80‘sand 90’s, his talents brought him into many fields, piling up wonderful adventure stories along the way. He interned for and had his portrait drawn by famed fashion illustrator ANTONIO LOPEZ before graduating from F.I.T, worked with music legend DR. JOHN, traveled on the debut tour of iconic Italian rap duo ARTICOLO 31 in Italy and was on the PROPAGANDA FILMS production crew of THE CULT LIVE! at Wembly Arena, London.

Since 1990, he has worked steadily in two fields, FILM and ART EVENT PRODUCING. In the film industry he worked in many positions, assisting the camera dept, location and talent scouting, lighting, and production assistant. See some of his film work below:

Changing Channels

 At the same time, Garón was producing and organizing a series of multimedia art exhibitions based on EROTIC MYTHOLOGY, showcasing the artworks of dozen’s of artists, including his own. He was the first CURATOR to hold a show at DANNY SIMMONS RUSH PHILANTHROPIC ARTS in Chelsea.

 Founding GELATO! ART SALON In 2009 with PHOTOGRAPHER Gisella Sorrentino, is counted as among one of the finest (as well as busiest) moments in his life. Gelato! Art Salon has in the past 3 years, held more than 20 shows featuring Film, Fine Art, Photography, Dance, Music and Performance art in various locales in NY and Italy. Gelato! Elegant girlGelato! logo

 Garón is excited to put newly founded Gelato! Art Collective production experience and skills at the service of clients who appreciate vision, creativity, efficiency, harmony, and hard work.

 http://www.gelatoartsalon.com/index.html

 

sam bSAM BRANMAN IS

DESIGNER

DJ

+

PHOTOGRAPHER

BORN in the CATSKILLS.

He is pictured here with his partner in crime ERIC getting dressed in a leprechaun outfit HE MADE for a CHERYL (http://cherywillruinyourlife.info) an art collective based in BROOKLYN who make videos, do performance art, and throw a long-running series of costumed theme-parties.

He has a BFA in PHOTOGRAPHY from the School of Art+Design at Purchase College, SUNY and recently earned a certificate in PATTERNMAKING from the FASHION INSTITUTE of TECHNOLOGY.

He started out as a PHOTOGRAPHER, shooting the things he loved. His primary subjects are his friends and hobbies, shooting some of the same people for ten years. He began shooting COSPLAYERS shortly after he began COSPLAYING himself at anime conventions in Baltimore, Dallas, and New Jersey. During and after college Sam performed with THE TERROR PIGEON DANCE REVOLT!(http://theterrorpigeondancerevolt.com/), making costumes, taking photos during every show from the middle of the crowd, and shooting the cover and other exterior art for the debut album, as well as recording some back-up vocals. In the past few years, he has appeared in videos and performed with CHERYL.

Originally starting out as half a JOKE, creating and interpreting costumes and day-to-day outfits became his primary means of expression. Sam MAKES clothes that are as much about people as his photography is. Custom pieces, spandex, comfortable knits, and borderline-insane prints all feature heavily in his design aesthetic. Body-baring, occasionally confrontational, and blending MASCULINE and FEMININE style, his work is always focused on FUN.

CHECK OUT HIS WORK

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OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA pr8pr23wyzyrdSam can be found on the DANCEFLOOR, on the ACTUAL FLOOR sewing, online, and occasionally DJing at Rock Bar’s KINK night.

CONNECT with HIM
TUMBLR:
http://tenyards.tumblr.com
http://murder-shewore.tumblr.com

INSTAGRAM:
@blamsamran

TWITTER:
@blamsamran

ETSY SHOP

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TenYards

DJ MIXES:
http://www.mixcloud.com/blamsamran/

PHOTOGRAPHY WEBSITE:
http://sambranman.com

BellaBELLA FRANKS is an

ARTIST

PHOTOGRAPHER

CREATIVE.

Her work focuses  on the HUMAN FORM.

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She completed a foundation year of art at CITY & GUILDS in London before studying Sociology & History of Art at University. After this she completed a foundation in commercial photography to increase her skill set in creative outputs. She has worked on art event teams at charities & teaches a weekly drawing class to homeless people at CRISIS. She also hosts a number of life drawing classes across London as well as running a weekly pop-up life drawing session and lunch at her own home which is attended by a wide group of her creative friends, including musicians, artists, photographers and the like.

Bella works more jobs than she has fingers & tends to fly between them on her ROLLER BLADES. She loves life, particularly when it’s experienced on wheels. She dresses in as many COLOURS as she can & her bag is always filled with colouring pencils and pens for her to inject into her life drawing studies. She is inspired by the energy of others & works to illuminate this through her work.

WE shot her in her house and garden sporting a vintage 60s dress from Screaming Mimi’s as well as a variety of hats.

FOLLOW/INTERACT with HER on

TWITTER @BellaFranks

&

INSTAGRAM @Bella_Franks

DanaDANA ZALDO

is a

GRAPHIC DESIGNER.

She hails from Laredo, Texas and Mexico. Her work is inspired by social, ethnic and political identities and behaviors. VIEW it below:

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Currently, she is a member of the Puro Borde art collective in El Paso, Texas. They aim to unite artists throughout all the border cities between Mexico and U.S.

Previously, she ran the design department as Senior UX/UI designer at Majestyk Apps; an inspiring start-up that develops mobile apps and websites.

WE shot Dana in a vintage 80s dress from Absolute Vintage in the UK in her Brooklyn neighborhood CLINTON HILL.

WE LOVE DANA.

So should you:

danazaldo@gmail.com.

Twitter @danazaldo

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JOCELYN SPAAR JOCELYN SPAAR is an

ARTIST
POET
TRANSLATOR

Her work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, Bridge Journal, Stonecutter, Storychord, The Virginia Literary Review, and 3.7., and is forthcoming in Paper Nautilus.  She has exhibited drawings, video and text-art installations at the .NOo Sphere gallery, the Bridge PAI, and Ruffner Hall, and has screened films in festivals including the 2ANNAS International Film festival in Latvia. She assisted with art direction on Prince Rama and Astral Projects’ “now-age” psych-opera, Never Forever. One time she won a hamburger-eating contest.

She is multifaceted and the perfect person to be featured as the inaugural creative on ONE OF US.
Check out her most recent work, three translated poems entitled “The Beggars”, “Misery” and “Night” by Egyptian-born French novelist Albert Cossery in The Paris Review here:
AND more of her visual work:
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AND Prince Rama’s “Never Forever” :