This weekend is your last chance to catch Art in Odd Places, an annual festival of visual and performance art in public spaces. Appropriately titled Art in Odd Places 2011: RITUAL, this year all performers have incorporated ideas of ceremony, habituation, myth, obsession, superstition and liturgy into their works.
Now in its 7th year, the festival has grown in its participants and spectators. Furthering this year’s appeal is the addition of artist Edith Raw. To call Edith an artist is an understatement. Be it as performance artist, visual artist, poet, dancer, maker, thinker, guru of sustainability & re-use, her work is intuitively created.
For the festival, Edith performs Human Rites. Garbed in a combination of re-purposed textiles and lids from (consumed) canned foods, she thoughtfully moves her body in such a way that she creates Guaguanco, an Afro-Cuban rhythm. (Historically rooted in oral histories of Benin). While Edith may call herself an “interruptive spectacle in a costume made of tin can lids” her work certainly draws attention to the relationship between the desire to preserve history and the waste which currently threatens the future.
It would be an impossibility to experience Ritual, without Edith Raw.
It would be an impossibility for Film Biz Recycling to be without Edith, who is an integral leader of our Re-Use Team.
HUMAN RITES, by Edith Raw
WHEN:
Saturday October 8, 1-4pm
Sunday October 9, 1-4pm
WHERE:
14th Street, Manhattan, NYC.
Begins at Avenue D, continues to West Side Highway and returns back again.
DETAILS:
www.artinoddplaces.org
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