Performance
2011

Commitment Issues presents the work of artists who use their bodies as primary source material to investigate qualities and dimensions of commitment—to ideas, to performance, to audience and to the artists themselves.

Between the timeless and the transitory, between dream and reality, fact and fantasy, there emerges a potent junction. This intersection, a “no-man’s land,” straddles temporal veracity and produces a space difficult to pin down.

The artists in Extra-Rational embrace the aesthetics of popular culture and seek to recuperate/utilize these “low brow” processes of production and cognition.

They see us. They perform in front of us. We see them perform. We see them. They feel us. They perform near us. We feel their work. We feel them. Something happens…