Last year, the Visual Fringe committee was talking about what could be done to invigorate and expand this aspect of the Festival. Taking cues from our annual mural project, the idea we landed on was the need to get Visual Fringe out of the gallery and instead create interactive visual art events. The result is three exciting Visual Fringe events: the Fringe mural, an edible art show featuring the delicious creations of Josh Campbell, and a collaborative project with MoBo Bicycle Co-op, ArtWorks, and Wolf Custom Tile who will design, build, and install one (or possibly two) bike rack(s) in the parking lot to the south of Know Theatre.

 

Local artists Danny Babcock and Matthew Dayler of Higher Level Art will again lead the painting of a 12 day mural project on the north wall of Know Theatre during the 2011 Fringe Festival. The small group of local artists which comprise Higher Level Art have a large number of collaborators from Chicago, Columbus, Cleveland, Atlanta and Los Angeles joining this year’s production. When asked about the theme all they will reveal is, “This year’s mural will be drastically different than what we’ve left you with before.” For more information about Higher Level Art, visit their website at HigherLevelArt.com.

 

 

Chef Joshua Campbell presents his fun and imaginative edible art show, introducing you to a creative way to look at what you eat. You will experience food as you never have before, with an inventive twist on the appearance, taste, and smell of many familiar foods, with the help of new styles and techniques for cooking.

 

1401 Vine Street

90 Minutes

3 seatings at 7:00 pm, 7:30 pm, and 8:00 pm
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The Body Speaks is a unique collaboration for the 2011 Festival. Four components in this collaboration – a dance, performance, film, and visual art piece have come together based on the work of Sean Dunn’s Calligraphic Photography.

 

From Sean Dunn, the photographer: "This body of work reflects my attempts at unifying the mediums of calligraphy and photography. I began by stitching together variously textured calligraphy paper into large screens. Then, working in the photo studio, I draped these screens in front of my subjects and proceeded to illuminate them from behind with a single glaring light. The subject’s shadow is projected onto the paper and I captured this image with my camera. This silhouette is reminiscent of the sumi ink that flows from the calligraphy brush onto the artist’s paper. These shadow images though lacking reference to any specific Japanese characters suggest a similar gestural evocation and by virtue of the process, incorporate both deliberate and intuitive, paralleling the Zen spirit of sumi painting."

 

See The Body Speaks: Movement, The Body Speaks: Scripted, and The Body Speaks: Captured.

 

The Body Speaks: Calligraphic Photography

1411 Vine Street

Exhibit can be viewed 30 minutes before and 15 minutes after any performance at 1411 Vine Street