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Visual Studies professor to perform new work at MCA
November 14, 2016
This November Visual Studies and Foundations Visiting Assistant Professor Meghan Moe Beitiks will be performing a new series of works at the Museum of Contemporary Art Live. The performance is called aper_ture: admitting the light with Marissa Benedict, Liz Ensz, and Lindsey French. These artists analyze ecological, emotional and material processes, and have been working together for the past three years. aper_ture will be in multiple locations in the MCA where each artist will produce a live event based on their individual artistic practices. To find out more about aper_ture: admitting the light and the processes behind it visit https://mcachicago.org/Calendar/2016/11/MCA-Live-Aperture-Admitting-The-Light.
Moe has been an Artist in Residence at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, a MacDowell Colony fellow, a Fulbright Student Fellow, and a recipient of the Claire Rosen and Samuel Edes Foundation Prize for Emerging Artists. She explores associations/dissociation of culture, nature, and structure in her work. Moe creates work that investigates connections with the nonhuman. Her interdisciplinary process is research-based, rooted in performance.
aper_ture: admitting the light will be at the MCA on November 22nd from 6-7 p.m. The performance is free with admission. There is a 12-person GVSU van departing from Calder Art Center at 3 p.m. on November 22nd and returning that evening. That group will be eating dinner in Chicago together. If you are interested in joining, email Moe at: [email protected]. For more information about Moe and her work visit www.meghanmoebeitiks.com.
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(Image: From left to right: Lindsey
French, Marissa Benedict, Moe Beitiks, Liz Ensz. Images courtesy of
the artists and Aiden Simon. This piece was written by Aly Phillips,
Visual Studies Studio Assistant, and published with her consent.)