I AM THE ONE WHO
I am both mesmerized
and repelled
by the deceased.
I study corpses
of birds,
frogs,
roadkill.
Not seeing you,
I dodge butterflies
on the highway.
- Carol Anthony
I AM THE ONE WHO was a structured improvisational performance piece in memory of Lloyd S. Schoeneman (October 18, 1951 – August 17, 2001), a good friend and art mentor who passed away from cancer at too young of an age. Set to jazz, two heavy, oversized cedar blocks separated by a thin film of Japanese rice paper were hammered together, live on stage, with a 60 penny nail. Hammering was timed to the exact length of the jazz piece.
This sculpture was one of the first pieces I constructed 30 years earlier when Lloyd was a mentor. He said the sculpture was 'curious' and I found him staring at it often. He then told me he thought it was a failure of design. Nonetheless, shortly after, the sculpture sold to a happy owner. This sculpture was re-created in I AM THE ONE WHO, and afterwards installed in an anonymous woodland to decompose over time.
At a certain (structured) time in the performance, audience members stood up from their seats and danced to jazz during the rest of the sculptural construction.
Performer:
Carol J. Anthony
Extemporaneous dancing:
Audience members
Performed at HotHouse
Chicago, IL
Part of the exhibition “Mortal”
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
November 1, 2001
I am both mesmerized
and repelled
by the deceased.
I study corpses
of birds,
frogs,
roadkill.
Not seeing you,
I dodge butterflies
on the highway.
- Carol Anthony
I AM THE ONE WHO was a structured improvisational performance piece in memory of Lloyd S. Schoeneman (October 18, 1951 – August 17, 2001), a good friend and art mentor who passed away from cancer at too young of an age. Set to jazz, two heavy, oversized cedar blocks separated by a thin film of Japanese rice paper were hammered together, live on stage, with a 60 penny nail. Hammering was timed to the exact length of the jazz piece.
This sculpture was one of the first pieces I constructed 30 years earlier when Lloyd was a mentor. He said the sculpture was 'curious' and I found him staring at it often. He then told me he thought it was a failure of design. Nonetheless, shortly after, the sculpture sold to a happy owner. This sculpture was re-created in I AM THE ONE WHO, and afterwards installed in an anonymous woodland to decompose over time.
At a certain (structured) time in the performance, audience members stood up from their seats and danced to jazz during the rest of the sculptural construction.
Performer:
Carol J. Anthony
Extemporaneous dancing:
Audience members
Performed at HotHouse
Chicago, IL
Part of the exhibition “Mortal”
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
November 1, 2001