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New Genre Festival performer invites audience to add stories By JAMES D. WATTS JR. World Scene Writer, 2/24/2012

Nevermind what the TV ads for products such as Ancestry.com might say – delving into one’s family history is rarely easy or complete. Memories fade, documents disappear and unhappy truths are ignored as some families’ trees get relentlessly pruned, whether by chance or design. Yet an absence signifies that something, or someone, once was there. And nothing can ever be totally erased. ”I had started investigating my own family lineage and history as part of a different project,” performance artist Erica Mott said. “And I ended up so intrigued by the strange disappearances and erasures from my own past that I created this piece.” ”Revised and Revisited,” which will be presented Friday and Saturday as part of Living Arts of Tulsa’s New Genre Festival, is a performance installation that uses Mott’s own family history as a starting point to examine the process of memory, the permanence of what was once there and the rituals that can either keep a family together or tear them apart.

Read more from this Tulsa World article.

Erica Mott will conduct a master class in “Cultural Erasure” and devising new dance with objects, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday at Liggett Studio, 308 S. Kenosha Ave., Tulsa, Oklahoma. For more information, call 918-585-1234 or visit tulsaworld.com/livingarts.

February 24th & 25th @ Living Arts, Tulsa Oklahoma

Panelists: Margaret Jenkins, Naomie Kremer, Rachel Damon (Synapse Arts), Erica Mott (Erica Mott Productions), and representatives from The Space/Movement Project

Saturday, February 11, 4-6pm at the Dance Center at Columbia College Theater, 1306 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago.

FREE and open to the public

Created in 2008 through a collaboration between two professional artists: community-based developer, theatre and performance artist Coman Poon (Toronto, Canada) and cultural worker, choreographer and performance maker Erica Mott (Chicago, USA), re[public] in/decency seeks to engage diverse audiences in our interdisciplinary work while acting as a conduit between social justice activism and conceptual art practice.

Our art-making practice is highly collaborative and we work with both artists across disciplines as well as diverse inter and intra-national communities. Key collaborators include teacher, video and performance artist Sheelah Murthy, experimental media artist Juana Awad, performance artist and scholar, Lisa Biggs and artist and designer, Kristin Mariani Frieman.

Our work embraces cross-cultural perspectives and is fueled by experiential research with arts-mediated dialogue about social, economic and racial justice. We place the artist as a central participant in our society. We believe that through performative action, the creation of strong and resonant images and the power of play, artists may act as catalysts to encourage citizens to reframe and possibly revise their in/action. Our creative projects are informed by personal experience and strives towards building connections between ‘local’ and ‘global’ issues. We focus on inclusively examining the ‘relational’ (composites of unique bodies and stories, political, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, gender inhabitation and artistic constitution) as a key component of collaborative creation.

ARTE NO ES FÁCIL is a project based in creating relationships beyond pictures between Cuba and the US through the manifestation of art. The project seeks to create a two-way passage for dialogue, collaboration, and information between our two countries by establishing connections between artists separated by location and context, yet sharing an interest in form, content or strategy.

February 19th @ 7pm @ Links Hall (3435 N. Sheffield Avenue, Suite 207, Chicago)

“Speed is perceived in two ways…as a causing factor of changes of culture and civilization and as an issue of (de)urbanization, which prepare the ground for new spatial objects and spaces.” -Paul Virilio, Speed and Politics

The historical palimpsest is a manuscript on parchment which has been effaced to make room for later writing, but of which antecedent traces remain.

Re[public] in/decency invites you to experience THE PALIMPSEST PROJECT 1.3, a time-based performance/lecture with Coman Poon (Toronto) and Erica Mott (Chicago) that examines how reified boundaries and palimpsested landscapes affect our embodied sense of self and place.

WHERE: gallerywest, 1172 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M6J 1J5

WHEN: Sunday, March 24, 2012 @ 3pm