Sounds a bit like ur snapshots!!:-)
P

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Sent: 13 March 2009 14:23
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Subject: Wash DC / Melbourne OZ "Endurance Art Simultaneity"

I was startled by Kendall Nordin's process when I first encountered it
during an open 
studio, so I'm about to sample this larger-scale event.  Of course, I have a
taste for 
earlier works by Marina Abramovic, Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, and Tehching
Hsieh which 
demanded almost too much intense attention from both performer and audience,
so . . .

Barry Alpert


24-Hour Drawing Project
This weekend, from Friday, March 13 at 9 AM to Saturday, March 14 at 9 AM
Hamiltonian Gallery
1353 U St., NW

For the first time, the 24-hour Drawing Project will take place
simultaneously in both 
Australia and the US.  Six artists, led by project co-founder Kendall
Nordin, will 
participate in Washington D.C.  Project co-founder, Hannah Bertram, will
lead the project 
in Melbourne, Australia.  In addition to Nordin, the artists working in DC
include Leah K 
White, Hamiltonian artist Leah Frankel, and a collaborative group of Erica
Prince, Heather 
Bregman, and Sarah Ritch from the Pen 16 Collective in Philadelphia.  The
artists will all 
be working on projects related to duration and space.

The 24-hour Drawing Project is an event in which artists start and finish a
work of art in a 
continuous 24-hour period.  All artists work in the same venue and start at
the time.  
Artists work on their own projects-- the materials, scale, purpose, or
content are not 
restricted.  They do not have to "draw" in the traditional sense of the
work.  The only 
condition is that the artists must work for the full 24 hours (with
reasonable breaks).  It 
involves intensive effort and attention to process, action, and time.  The
art-making does 
not necessarily result in an outcome that could be exhibited, so the labor
of the artists is 
ultimately the exhibit.

Nordin and Bertram first performed the event in 2005 in Melbourne,
Australia.  Since then 
it has been performed in studios, galleries, and residencies throughout
Australia.  The 
Warehouse Theater and Gallery in Washington D.C. hosted the project's first
American 
performance in October 2008.

The Gallery will be open to visitors from 9 AM to midnight on Friday and
again from 7 AM 
to 9 AM Saturday morning.
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