[Summit] North Burial Ground arts

[Greg Gerritt]

> Cryptic Providence
> A Project by Jay Chritchley
> June 13 - September 28, 2008
> The historic North Burial Ground in Providence, Rhode Island will host
> a summer long art and performance project by Provincetown artist Jay
Critchley, 
> entitled Cryptic Providence.
> Fifteen projects from visual artists and performers from Rhode Island,
> Massachusetts, Michigan, Oregon, Ontario, Canada and New York City were
> invited by Critchley to create original, site-specific installations
> and performances throughout the cemetery.
> Cryptic Providence opens Friday the 13thof with
> performances on the first two weekends. The cemetery is located at 5
> Branch Avenue (at North Main Street) and is open to the public seven
> days a week from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm daily. All events are free and open
> to the public.
> Click here 
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> for a complete schedule of Cryptic Providence events and installations.
> Featuring:
> Our Stones Last Beyond Our Years
> June 13 & 21, 2008
> 
> A film by Sandrine Silverman & Alfred Schoeninger.
> These aspiring filmmakers, with camera in hand, step out into the world
> determined to explore the human experience and expose its most
> beautiful and ugly truths from a raw and sociological perspective.
> Click here 
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> for more information.
> And:
> The Blue Storm
> June 13 & 14, 2008
> A performance and sound installation, The Blue Storm
> is an account of the body's transformation and representation of life
> in death, a ritual that takes place within the three chambers of a
> mausoleum. Through the augmentation of sound and movement within this
> space choreographer Wanda Gala and sound artist Bob Bellerue render its
> sanctuary while exposing their intimate perceptions on loss.
> 
> Click here 
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> for more information.
> Also:
> Requiem Mass
> Friday, June 13, 2008 - 8:15 PM
> Christie Lee Gibson and Arvid Tomayko-Peters will perform a digitally
augmented 
> 'requiem mass'
> for the occupants of the North Burial Ground using people and text from
> the graveyard, as well as form, texts and melodies from classical
> requiems. The performance will take place amidst the buried and involve
> both sound and light. Christie Lee Gibson is a classically trained
> vocalist who enjoys experiments in contemporary electroacoustic music.
> Arvid Tomayko-Peters plays laptop, unique electronic instruments and
> trumpets.Requiem aeternam.
> 
> 
> Click here 
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> for more info information.
> And:
> Strange Loop: An Ethereal Walking Tour of the North Burial Ground
> Saturday, June 14, 2008 - 5:00 PM & 8:00 PM
> Erik Carlson & Erik Gould provide a web-based tour of the
> graveyard, Providence's oldest structure. Explore with your feet and
> with Google Maps. Find geo-tagged locations that will offer up voices,
> music, images and stories relating fact and fiction from 400 years of
> history.
> Click here 
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> for more information.
> Also:
> Nest Eggs
> 
> June 13 & 21, 2008 - 9:00 PM
> Walking past rows of tombstones in the North Burial Ground it is hard
> to imagine the lives lying behind those cryptic dates and
> names. Even
> still, each stone marks the life - not just the death - of someone who
> was once as alive and substantial as we are. Nest Eggsexplores this journey
from
>  life to death and the shells that we leave
> behind to mark our lives. How can the complexity of life be remembered
> or contained in something that is purely physical? What is it that we
> really leave behind when we die? The ceramic egg forms of Nest Eggsgrow in
clusters
> resembling cairns once used for marking graves. The
> egg forms vary in size as though they might hatch anything from a
> chicken to an ostrich. Cracked and rough, the eggs recall bones or
> fossils rather than birth and fertility. Twice during the exhibition
> the pieces will be set on fire. The blaze will suggest an element of
> life and vitality escaping from the forms that otherwise seem lifeless.
> It will be both an act of life and death as the flames light up and
> slowly burn out, leaving behind charred shells.
> 
> 
> Click here 
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