Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Panel Discussion on visual performance

Add some food for thought to your Thanksgiving weekend.  An artists' panel discussion on visual performance, "Physical Endurance and Extended Time," will be held at 7p.m. this Friday, Nov. 28, at Gallery 510 Fine Art, 510 E. Fifth St.

The discussion is being held in conjunction with the visual performance art exhibit "Approaching Metronome" at Goloka gallery, in which sculptor and painter Ryan McCullough is seeking to discover the space where sensory deprivation, identity and social expression intersect by becoming the very concept his art aims to explore. On Nov. 7, a sensory-deprived McCullough - outfitted with industrial earplugs and his eyes covered - began a residency in the gallery, creating art that was a visual representation of his experiences in his quiet darkness.

McCullough will participate in the panel discussion, along with Landon Crowell, the sculpture technician at Wright State University who has worked on extended time physical endurance art, and Jason Nein, who is in the Master of Fine Arts degree program in sculpture at Ohio University.  Thomas Macaulay of Wright State University will moderate.