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Kate Barry posted a status"Here is my new blog, Musings On Performance:
http://katebarryperformance.blogspot.ca/"
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Performance with Egg
"You asked, why I performed Performance with Egg? That is like asking me why I have an art practice? Why I make art? Simply, it is about communication and connecting with people. One of my chief inspirations for performance art is the FLUXUS street…"
Kate Barry posted a videoPerformance with Egg
In the performance, I slowly pushed an egg with my mouth or nose across the front entrance of the Art gallery of Ontario. After about 45 minutes of pushing the egg, I sat on the cement and I pierced small holes in the top and bottom of the egg with…
Kate Barry posted a videoVictorine Meurent, 1:55 excerpt.
Victorine Meurent is an 11:00 minute video installation that transports an openly lesbian artist of the nineteenth century into the twenty-first century. The work tells the story of Victorine Meurent as if she were forty years old and looking back…
Kate Barry posted a photo
Snow Painting
This performance is a Fluxus inspired, conceptual piece where I painted over fifty 'snow paintings' in four hours. It was performed on the occasion of Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens' "White Wedding to the Snow" Ottawa, 2011.
Kate Barry posted a photo
White Wedding to the Snow, 2011
This photo was taken after the wedding. Beth Stephens, Annie Sprinkle and Kate Barry.
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- Artist
- Bio
- I am a Canadian visual artist and part-time Professor at the University of Ottawa. My interdisciplinary work focuses primarily on performance art and is concerned with questions of subjectivity, intersubjectivity and the performative capacities of the body. My exhibition history includes National Gallery of Canada, Galerie SAW Gallery (Ottawa, ON), The Rider Project (New York City), and Musée d’Orsay (Paris, France). I have received a number of awards for my work including an Ontario Arts Council Grant (2010), City of Ottawa Grant (2010) as well as a nomination for Best Emerging Ottawa Artist in 2010.
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- http://www.katebarry.com
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Performance with Egg
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