REAL ART WAYS PRESENTS INTERNATIONAL LIVE NETWORKED PERFORMANCE EVENT

Photo courtesy of Deborah Goffe. Contact mquinn@realartways.org with image requests.

Friday, April 29, 2011 | 8 PM - 11 PM
Saturday, April 30, 2011 | 3 PM - 6 PM
FREE

Hartford, Connecticut - Real Art Ways is pleased to announce its participation in Low Lives 3, an international exhibition of more than fifty live performance-based works transmitted over the web and projected in real-time at multiple venues around the world.

Low Lives 3 will take place at Real Art Ways on Friday, April 29 from 8-11 pm and Saturday, April 30 from 3-6 pm. On Friday, April 29 Real Art Ways will host Deborah Goffe and her dance company, Scapegoat Garden, for a live performance piece as part of Low Lives 3. Goffe's performance, along with others taking place around the globe, will be streamed online and screened for public viewing at Real Art Ways. This event is free and open to the public.

Audience members at Real Art Ways will have the opportunity not only to view innovative performance from around the world, but also to interact with performers and audience members at participating venues through live online chat. Seating will be casual and café style so that people can come and go throughout the event.

About Low Lives

"Low Lives is not simply about the presentation of performative gestures at a particular place and time," Low Lives founder Jorge Rojas explains. "It is also about the transmission of these moments and what gets lost, conveyed, blurred, and reconfigured when utilizing this medium."

Founded in 2009, the annual Low Lives exhibition highlights works that critically investigate, challenge, and extend the potential of performative practices. The project celebrates the transmission of ideas beyond borders, offering global audiences the opportunity to consider live performance in both physical and virtual space. Low Lives embraces low-tech aesthetics, such as low pixel images and muddled sound quality, to emphasize the raw, inquisitive quality of the broadcast and reception of the works.

About Low Lives 3

Low Lives 3 is co-produced by Chez Bushwick, an artist-run organization based in Brooklyn, New York.

Participating artists include: Annie Abrahams; Lukas Avendaño; Brian Balderston and Chloe Bass; Camille Baker; Tzitzi Barrantes; Rachelle Beaudoin; Black & Jones; Caroline Boileau; Catherine Cabeen and Company; Jennifer Chan; Tyrone Davies; Joseph DeLappe; dev01ded; Alfred Dong; Nancy Douthey; Eosin; Julie Fotheringham and Jarryd Lowder; Second Front; Deborah Goffe; Carlos Gonzalez; Katelena Hernandez; Ajeesh K.B., Santhosh V.S., and Hemabharathy Palani; Jayson Keeling; La La La Singers; Shaun El C. Leonardo; Anya Liftig; Kristin Lucas; James Mbunju and Company; Saul Melman; Marcello Mercado; Jui Mhatre and Jaee Joshi; Julio Morales; Irvin Morazan and Maya Jeffereis; Kendall Nordin; Molly O'Connor/Molliver; So Percussion; SaBa; Marisol Salanova; Rosa Sanchez and Alain Baumann; Byd Sarret; Jenny Schlief; Carmen Sober; Alan Sondheim; Nathan Stevens; Zornitsa Stoyanova; Channel TWo; Frans van Lent; Claude van Lingen; Ginna Vélez; Rodell Warner; Ian Warren; Dr. Heather Warren-Crow; Rebecca Weiner; and Paul Wiersbinski. Keeling, Leonardo and So Percussion have all been presented previously by Real Art Ways.

Now in its third year, Low Lives has expanded its reach to over twenty presenting partners from all corners of the world. Presenting partners include: Alice Yard, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago; Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, New Jersey; Attakkalari Centre for Movement Arts, Bangalore, India; Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, New York; Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York; Co-lab, Austin, Texas; QMAD, Queens Media Art Development in partnership with Crossing Art Gallery, Queens, New York; Diaspora Vibe Gallery in partnership with AE District, Miami, Florida; DiverseWorks in partnership with Box 13, Houston, Texas; Elon University Department of Art & Art History, Elon, North Carolina; Fusebox Festival, Austin, Texas; Konic Thtr, Barcelona, Spain; La Periferia, Mérida, Yucatán, México; La Perrera in partnership with MACO, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, México; Living Arts, Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mascher Space Co-op, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mindpirates, Berlin, Germany; Obsidian Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota; On the Boards, Seattle, Washington; Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon; Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; Simba Theatre Art International in partnership with Village Museum, Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania; SOMArts, San Francisco, California; the temporary space, Japan; and Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Low Lives 3 is funded in part by The Experimental Television Funds program. The Experimental Television Center's Presentation Funds program is supported by the New York State Council on the Arts.

For more information, please visit www.lowlives.net

About Deborah Goffe

Deborah Goffe is a performer, choreographer, dance educator and video artist. She is Founder and Artistic Director of Scapegoat Garden, a collaborative dance theater based in Hartford, Connecticut, driven to create daring interdisciplinary dance performance that goes in through the nose, eyes skin, ears and mouth to stir those who witness and participate.

Since earning her BFA in modern dance from the University of the Arts and an MFA in dance performance and choreography from California Institute of the Arts, Scapegoat Garden has served as the vehicle and creative community through which she cultivates artistic innovation, exploring dance and its intersection with other media.

She has created video works and sound designs for Scapegoat Garden, the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble (with whom she performed for many years), and the Greater Hartford Arts Council. She has received Artist's Fellowship Grants from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, from the Greater Hartford Arts Council, the Hartford Arts & Heritage Jobs Grant, and the Surdna Foundation for her choreographic work.

About Jorge Rojas

Jorge Rojas is the founder, producer, and curator of Low Lives. A multidisciplinary artist and independent curator, he was born in Morelos, Mexico and studied art at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and at Bellas Artes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Rojas engages in traditional, new, and performative media. His work often investigates communication systems and the effect of technology on artistic production, social structures, and communities. His artwork and curatorial projects have been exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and India. Rojas has received grants and fellowships including National Performance Network's VAN Residency, West Chicago City Museum Artist in Residency Program, and Vermont Studio Center.

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