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Curated by second year Mills MFA candidates in collaboration with Stephanie Ellis.
Through installation and performance Fortnight explores issues of night, the childhood practice of building forts, security, and fantasy. Fortnight is curated by the Mills MFA candidates in collaboration with Stephanie Ellis, and consists of three installations ‘Fortification’ ‘Take Shelter, and ‘Experiential Fort Night’. For details about the three openings, performance, and events, please see below.
Opening of ‘Fortification’: Friday May 4, 2012, 7-10pm
Opening of ‘Take Shelter’: Friday May 11, 2012, 7-10pm
Performance of ‘Experiential Fort Night’ an interactive performance event: Saturday May 19, 2012, 7pm. The opening will continue after the show until 10pm.
From May 4th through May 20th 2012, Royal NoneSuch Gallery presents Fortnight, a three part installation and performance curated by the Mills MFA class of 2103 in collaboration with Stephanie Ellis. Inspired by the tradition of building forts as children combined with the theme of night, the artists have created three re-imaginations of the fantastic structures of youth. These explorations of childhood forts, post-apocalyptic shelters, and stories, dancing, and sound have in common a sense of youthful play and the security that comes from built structures.
Stephanie Ellis Bio:
Stephanie Ellis is an interdisciplinary scholar who teaches studio as well as cultural studies seminars. Her seminars examine the ethics of knowledge production and dissemination. The agenda is to investigate how visual relations exclude or ignore what does not fit into ideal categories and she encourages students to ask what intellectual feats produce such erasures. Ellis’ MFA and PhD in the Theories and Practices of Visual Culture are from the University of California at Davis. She is a recipient of the UCD Skowhegan School Scholarship and the UC Intercampus Arts Program Grant. Her writing has appeared in journals such as parallax, Feminist Studies, and Architectural Design. She is also a curator (Work/Space, a nationally traveling exhibition on corporate culture) and an artist (Bad Girls West).
Artists:
Maryellen Herringer
Keegan Luttrell
Katy Warner
Nadja Eulee Miller
Evan Barbour
Meri Page
Jenny Sharaf
Claire Colette
Barbara Obata
Lauren Douglas
Lu Hanna
