THREE PIECES BIOS
January 9, 2007:
Biba Bell,
Barbara Garber,
Equivicleft (a.k.a., Jeff Lubow)
Biba Bell
As a choreographer my interest's lie in movement based site-specific
collaborative projects, which play on the notions of traditional
performance venues and venture into the public/ pedestrian domain. The
work is installed in the setting, and is thus experienced by the
audience, who subtley take part, as an "event" in the space to which it
is inextricably linked. Each piece is created with the specific space
in mind, and its elemental components are unique to this space
entirely. The installation nature of the performance gestures to the
realm of visual art, where the viewer is able to make active choices in
attention and their physical involvement with the piece.
In addition I am interested in the subtle boundaries between private
and public space, and the qualitative response thus produced in the
personae of performer/subject. What can we further glean about our
psychosis and the nature of our interactions with one another by
investigating how we inhabit these facets of self while moving through
public space as a transitional phase from one privatized sector to the
next? Who instigates the audience/performer relationship in an image
driven culture? And how does the performer integrate their process of
expression (in-out, out-in) within what can be construed as seemingly
opposing worlds?
Biba is currently in school to continue this investigation in
dance/performance at New York University. She will potentially be
graduating with an MA in performance studies May 2007.
www.urisov.com
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Barbara Garber
I was born to giants who drove me around the coast of
California in a brown VW bus with a bed in the back seat. When we
settled down, I made necklaces out of willow branches and sold them
door-to-door. My dad painted mountains collapsing into the ocean with
watercolors and played Beach Boys songs on his Fender Stratocaster. As
I grew older, I really wanted to be on the radio and spent all of my
time in the attic of my friend's earth house manipulating reel-to-reel
tapes from the Vietnam era.
I never intended to paint
watercolors of mountains collapsing into oceans, but lately that is
what has happened. I find drawing to be an open and conceptually
elastic medium in which I can explore a range of subjects. The
repetition of actions through drawing enhances my ability to think
clearly. This is of particular importance to me, because my life line
is extremely short. Just look at my hands when you get the chance.
My drawings of creatures, queens, and mountain tops have recently been
included in group exhibitions at Soap Gallery, San Francisco, 2006;
Gallery Y, Tartu, Estonia, 2005; Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco,
2004; Pond Gallery, Build Gallery, Adobe Books, San Francisco, 2003;
Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Szene 4, Berlin, Germany, 2002. I received my
BA in Art and Women's Studies from the Unversity of California, Santa
Cruz in 1999. I live and work in San Francisco.
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Equivicleft (a.k.a., Jeff Lubow)
is a
producer of experimental music from the Midwestern USA. He studied New
Media at the Kansas City Art Institute, and Electronic Music
composition/performance at Mills College in Oakland, CA, where he now
lives. Since attaining his MFA, Jeff has performed in an array of
venues as diverse as his music. The work incorporates numerous aspects
of dance music, composition, and computer science. Demarcations between
the elements he employs are blurred through his ability to present his
ideas through a medium which has great potential for conceptual
respiration.
Soft musical structure and interface design are catalysts for a
continuing body of work-- work that is manifest as a gestural
relationship between the musician and computer, providing a window into
dialog between technology and the artist's place within it. Equivicleft
records music on BodyButton records, a label that he co-founded with
long-time friends Climbo-Blinker and Mattjazz. Equivicleft is currently
producing an album of new works, and is on a tour of Europe for the
Summer of 2006.
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