Thursday, April 15                            Artist’s Forum: “Square Dance/Round Dance,”

6:30 p.m.                                            a performance by Amelia Winger-Bearskin

Auditorium

Free

Performance artist Amelia Winger-Bearskin will work with participants to create an interactive flashlight show in a new artwork written especially for the Frist Center. The event may remind participants of a visit to the dark rooms of a honky tonk, the experience of viewing celestial lights, or even an American Indian round dance. This ambiguity is deliberate; not only is it up to the viewer to decide what the event is, but to help create this work of art as well.

Amelia Winger-Bearskin is currently an assistant professor of studio art at Vanderbilt University in the area of time-based media arts and performance. She was classically trained as an Opera Singer in Rochester, New York, at the Eastman Conservatory of Music where she received her undergraduate degree in performance art. In 2008 she received her MFA in Transmedia (time-based art) from the University of Texas, Austin.

Ms. Winger-Bearskin was in the group show Art in the Age of the Internet at the Chelsea Art Museum in 2007. As an artist at large for the perpetual art machine [PAM], she has been a featured video and performance artist at Basel in Miami, Scope at the Lincoln Center, and other art fairs since 2007. She has won numerous awards and grants in her field. From the fall of 2009 through the spring of this year, she has been focusing on participation in Asian Performance Art festivals that provide the artist with a unique international model for support of performance art. She has performed at the 10th Annual Open Art Performance Art Festival in Beijing China, PAN Asia ‘09 Performance Art Network Festival in Seoul, South Korea, and in 2010, will be performing at TUPADA Action Art Festival in the Philippines and the GwangJu International Human Rights Performance Art Festival in GwangJu Korea.