CURATORS PETER DOBILL AND PHOENIX LIGHTS HAVE CONFIRMED THE FINAL PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE FOR THE MAXIMUM PERCEPTION PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL:

(AMERY KESSLER, DRUM CASKET, 2008)

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 7pm - 12am

Matthew Blair

Rosabelle Selavy

Jen Zak + Kristen Rhea Van Liew

Erik Hokanson

Jill McDermid

Amery Kessler

Leah Aron + Tymon Mattoszko

Andrew Hurst

Ongoing Performances: Danielle Freakley / The Quote Generator, Matt White (@ Maximum Perception Bar), Rob Andrews (@ Maximum Perception Courtyard)

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 7pm - 12am

MARNI KOTAK

NATE HILL

MARK STAFFORD

RYAN BROWN

PHILIP FRYER

SANDRINE SCHAEFER

JODIE LYN KEE CHOW + ZACHARY FABRI

LECH SZPORER

HOLLY FAUROT + SARAH H. PAULSON

NAOKI IWAKAWA

Ongoing Performances: Danielle Freakley / The Quote Generator

CURATORS PETER DOBILL AND PHOENIX LIGHTS ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE:

MAXIMUM PERCEPTION PERFORMANCE FESTIVAL

DECEMBER 11th – DECEMBER 12th, 2009

(MARK STAFFORD, "TEMPORAL EXCHANGE," 2008)

ENGLISH KILLS ART GALLERY
114 FORREST ST.
BROOKLYN, NY 11206

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English Kills Art Gallery is pleased to present the inaugural Maximum Perception Performance Festival, December 11-12, 2009 at English Kills Art Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.

Over 2 nights, the Maximum Perception Performance Festival will be a showcase for over 20 national and international performance artists, focusing on presenting a dynamic range of contemporary performance practice from the best emerging artists in performance.

Curators Peter Dobill and Phoenix Lights seek to present a counterpoint to the fiscally bloated, dilettante-based spectacle that has consumed the image of performance art in New York City. The Maximum Perception Performance Festival will feature newly commissioned performance works in addition to site-specific actions and ongoing projects from all participating artists.

Established as a critically acclaimed exhibition in 2008 to survey the Brooklyn performance art scene, the Maximum Perception Performance Festival has evolved to become a yearly showcase for the forefront of performance art practice in New York City and beyond.

ROB ANDREWS, LEAH ARON + TYMON MATTOSZKO, MATTHEW BLAIR, RYAN BROWN, HOLLY FAUROT + SARAH H. PAULSON, DANIELLE FREAKLY/THE QUOTE GENERATOR, PHILIP FRYER, NATE HILL, ERIK HOKENSON, ANDREW HURST, NAOKI IWAKAWA, AMERY KESSLER, MARNI KOTAK, JODIE LYN KEE CHOW + ZACHARY FABRI, JILL MCDERMID, SANDRINE SCHAEFER, ROSABELLE SELAVY, MARK STAFFORD, LECH SZPORER, MATT WHITE, JEN ZAK + KRISTEN RHEA VAN LIEW

Entranced to the ecstasy of the ephemeral - actions swallowed whole at creation.

Performance offers the actuality of time embraced and elastic.

The artist folds into and out of their body in expression to a viewer - an offering to achieve a maximum perception of the senses; an overwhelming and enveloping moment in time.

What stands for performance now requires a break necessary to produce a new path, denying inspirational reverence to achieve progress and a vision towards new creations.

Staring back in to the eyes that overlook us, we demonstrate to the modern world a fiercely primal statement; what has been must be burned so that the ashes can be swallowed for our own expression.

We produce performance that is "new" - our expression seeking a focus through the risk of untried and untested original concepts.

Ignorance of our history is not tolerated - our expression rises from intelligence, understanding, and scholarship. 

Our expression is not bound by the oppression of the viewer's whims and limits; in order to attack perception, we must be at risk with our time spent - no compromise to expectations.

Our development into new creation is assisted through the interconnected experiences of all performance artists - embracing all philosophies to further inform and question our own practices.

We believe in the power and vision of performance artists to transform performance art itself.

Peter Dobill - 2009