Her Blue Sea Fire, Live performance, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. 2002.

Live performance captured on camera and screened in exhibitions and film/video art/screendance festivals.

A multiple-year live performance project initially developed in collaboration with Iowa artist, Deanne Wortman in 2001 and later performed as a solo.  Inspired by the creation story initiated by the air-goddess, Ilmatar, in Canto 1 of the Finnish epic poem, The Kalevala. Spoken word, chant & movement within the spaces of a sculptural installation comprised of birch and other wood. Performed on stage (theatrical) and in galleries, conference and other spaces and outdoors. The two significant outdoor performances of Her Blue Sea Fire took place in and alongside a pond in rural Iowa and on a frozen river in Heinävesi, Finland in 2001 and 2009 respectively.  A short film also by the name of Her Blue Sea Fire that documented the performances in situ in Finland and the US has been screened in several locations.

Camera: Brian Smith (RIP)

Video and photographic documentation of this work is in the permanent collection of the Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland.

 

SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS:

  • Primer Festival Internacional de Videoarte, Solo video installation in “Minimo Acceso” Exhibition, Galeria Julian Morales, Camaguëy, Cuba. 2008.
  • Video Festival dell’Acqua / Video the Water's Festival. Invited group art exhibition, Spazio Contemporary Art Campagna, Italy. 2008.
  • In/of Nature II, Solo art exhibition, Finlandia University Gallery, (Finnish-American Heritage Center) Hancock, Michigan. 2007.
  • Video Festival dell’Acqua / Video the Water's Festival, Group/Invited art exhibition. Church Square & Town Agostiniano Palace, Campagna, Italy. 2007.
  • 10th Annual Film Festival, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, Michigan. Group/Invited art exhibition. 2007.
  • 56th Annual Quad State Exhibition, Juried Art exhibition. Quincy Art Center, Quincy, Illinois. Jane Simon, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Juror. Award: Best of Show.  Video presented as part of a sculptural installation. 2006.
  • Northern Passages, 5-person exhibition/Invited. DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan. Exhibited as part of a sculptural installation. 2005.
  • Inside the Quiet Dwelling Where…, Solo art exhibition of photography and video installations including Her Blue Sea Fire, Gallery 51 East, Fairfield, Iowa. 2004.