Momentary Signals Open Call
Momentary Signals - An MSA Exhibition of Performance, displayed at Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, features works that incorporate live, interactive, or participatory components and push the boundaries of contemporary performance and sculpture. Selected performances will be presented on November 7, 2024 at 7:00 PM during the 2024 Mid-South Sculpture Alliance Conference Check back after the Conference for images of performances. |
Congratulations to the exhibiting artists Reid Arowood Jason Brown Hugh Patton Stacey Holloway Christyn Overstake Nina Rastgar |
About the Juror
George Ferrandi is an American artist whose performance, installation and participatory projects address issues of vulnerability, impermanence, fallibility and spectacle, often through experimental approaches to narrative. Employing a unique humor and deep sense of humanity, her work ranges in form and scale from simple gestures–like resting her head on the shoulder of a stranger on the subway, to giant spectacles–like parading with hundreds of people through the streets of South Philly. It’s often a collaborative experiment in story-telling, with participants becoming performers in the narrative or even creating it. George is Creative Director of Jump!Star, a multi-media initiative using the eventual transition of our North Star as a catalyst for building a better future–and for planning ceremonial traditions for the people who will live there. Jump!Star projects have been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town Grant and featured in Documenta 15 in Kassel, Germany. George’s work has been performed/exhibited at the World Museum in Vienna, the International House of Japan (Tokyo), Brunnenpassage (Vienna), Abrons Arts Center (NY), The Kitchen (NY), Cinders Gallery (NY), McKinney Contemporary (Dallas), Wexner Center (Columbus), Harn Museum (Gainesville), Fleisher Art Memorial (Philadelphia), and at Sluice (London). She is an NEA fellow of the Japan-US Friendship Foundation and has been awarded grants from the Franklin Furnace Fundwinners for Performance Art, MAP fund, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Council, and Kindle Project. Ferrandi teaches Sculpture and Performance Art periodically at Pratt Institute, Virginia Commonwealth University and the Rhode Island School of Design. |