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Mark February 28 down on your calendars, DC, and do it now. The good people of COLON:Y Art Collective will be putting on their first public performance at University of Maryland’s Herman Maril Gallery, from 1:00-8:30PM. Parley collaborator Wilmer Wilson IV (VISION + afterimage, Foil Night) and Chukwuma Agubokwu- another longtime friend of ours- are both members of this new collective of rising DC-based creative stars. It’s going to be well-worth stopping by to see what these folks are up to. See below for full event details and bio information for the artists.
peel apart an orange - Wilmer Wilson IV
Colon:y Art Collective, in conjunction with Herman Merill Gallery, presents The Way We End It: New Performance, a day of new works by DMV-based artists exploring the limitations of material, culture, and cognition. For one day only, the artists will command the Atrium ofUMD’s Art and Sociology building with performance pieces as expansive as they are climactic.
Contributing artists:
Wilmer Wilson IV is a DC-based installation artist and photographer, and a 2011 resident artist at Strathmore in Bethesda, MD. Through a prolific, durational peeling of oranges, his work peel apart an orange questions the boundary between processes perceived as mundane and the profound philosophical implications of vitality, mortality, and sexuality.
Chukwuma Agubokwu is a DMV based artist working primarily in mixed media sculpture and installation. His piece, Fuel, simultaneously touches on the issues surrounding very public Deepwater Horizon oil spill and the very personal issue of irrational fears, unraveling the true motivations, complexities and origins of both
through a physically taxing performance.
Kunj Patel is a Maryland-based, collage, sculpture and printmaking artist. He has begun experimenting with performance, and the results thus far are two breathtaking works about restriction, the death of the self, and the tension between the group and the individual.
Joshua Davis is a DMV area musician and one half of the band, ACME. He will produce a live, context-based, musical installation using sounds from the performance environment.
Performance times:
Wilmer Wilson; 12p-end of show
Chukwuma Agubokwu; 1, 3, 5, 7.30
Kunj Patel; 1.30, 3.30, 5.30, 8
Joshua Davis; 12p-end of show, with periodic intermissions
