Apr 8th 2017

Alba Soto: Screwing The Pieces

@ Defibrillator Gallery

1463 W Chicago Ave. Chicago, IL 60640

Opening Saturday, April 8th, from 7PM - 9PM

SCREWING THE PIECES
A workshop performance lead by Alba Soto [Spain]
SAT 08 APR | 7PM | $5 suggested

Artists in a week long workshop present their work in an evening of performance art designed by the participants.

Featuring:

Alba Soto | Jake Eveker | Keegan | Smeza | Veronica Rodriguez | Amanda Staples

Alba Soto is an artist working and living in Madrid, Spain. Dr. Soto holds a Phd in Fine Arts and is a specialist in interdisciplinary and performing tools for creation and teaching. She served as the chairperson and as a professor of Fine Arts at Universidad Nebrija from 2009 to 2015 and has conducted workshops and seminars at universities around the world, including the Kymenlaakson University of Applied Sciences in Finland; the UCA University for the Creative Art in the UK; Hochschule für Künste Bremen in Germany; and Universidad de los Andes in Colombia. Alba is an actively working artist and her practice is underpinned by intuition, spontaneity and surprise as a survival strategy. Her performances, video art and drawings have been showcased at a number of national and international festivals and exhibitions.

In this Workshops the artists worked with concrete objects of their choosing in order to rediscover basic performative elements. Alba Soto’s teaching philosophy is based on an individualized method and focuses on the following objectives:

– Find new points of view and different approaches in art-making.
– Strengthen our artistic work through reinforcing the basic elements of contemporary art.
– Support confidence, quality of attention, sensory perception, focus, and performance
– Learn about yourself through shared collaborative and parallel processes.
– Adapt your artistic work to a particular space and context.

Defibrillator is made possible with support from the Martha Strutters Farley and Donald C. Farley, Jr. Family Foundation; DFBRL8R Board of Directors; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Department of Performance; and generous contributions from those who attend exhibitions.

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