Marginal Arts Festival parade, 2010.
Saturday, March 5, downtown Roanoke
Bring your kids to Market Square and Norfolk Avenue, or just follow the Marginal Arts Festival parade to experience this Monty Python-like absurdist street carnival.
You don’t have to know what’s going on to have a blast at this event, but it is extra fun knowing that these absurd events are being performed by artists with national and international reputations.
Staten Island-based Day de Dada performance artists will entertain and encourage audience participation in their pieces Marco Polo Journeys South, Dollars de Dada and the Art Grant Fairy.
Fluxus artists Keith Buchholtz and Reid Altenus, from St. Louis and Portland, Maine, respectively, will also delve into their performance scores to present classic Fluxus Art Performances.
Vermont-based and internationally renowned Bread & Puppet Theater will mingle among the crowd, as will the U.K.-based performance artists Zierle & Carter. Three traditional Punch & Judy scores will be performed throughout by the Post-NeoAbsurdist Anti-Collective, including the age-old pre-Lenten favorites “Faust” and “Jabberwocky.”
The carnival will include an Inflatable Bouncer, a Stuffed Animal Repurposing Station, a Visual Poetry Station, a Cabaret Voltaire Sound Booth, puppet-making station and more. A Rubber Chicken Toss will warm folks up, and if you need a break from the outdoor chill you can pop in to the Taubman Museum of Art for its spectacular Saturday event!
Lydia Grey – “Marco Polo Journeys South”
Description: Marco Polo goes to the South for the first time and discovers Roanoke.
Bio: Lydia Grey is a performance and video artist and member of the Day de Dada Performance Art Collective. A graduate of the MFA program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, she is currently a visual and performing arts instructor at Raritan Valley College. The Marco Polo performance series is a 10-year collaborative work that has been performed throughout the United States and Europe.
Vivian Vassar, a.k.a. “Viv de Dada” – Art Grant Fairy
Description: Calling all artists! Need money and appreciation for your art? The Art Grant Fairy is here to soothe your ego, prop up your finances and let the world know how great you are. Money will be spread lavishly throughout this performance.
Bio: Vivian Vassar is a founding member of the Day de Dada Performance Art Collective. She has a BFA from Rutgers/Douglass where she studied with Fluxus artist Geof Hendricks. She believes that art should embrace chance and happenstance – also, you can’t go too far wrong as long as you have a good costume and an enthusiastic audience.
to do a performance. Choose a dollar, do the action written on it and keep it as your payment. Begun in 2008, “Dollars de Dada” has been performed at events throughout NYC and recently as part of the Fluxus performances at “A Book About Death @ Belknap Mill” in Laconia, NH.
Bio: Mary Campbell’s artwork originates from a combination of life events and an interest in how our society shapes ideas. Active in the East Village art scene of the ’80s, Mary was included in many gallery shows and window installations. Sharing studio space in the 2B Gas Station (Second Street and Avenue B, NYC), she curated several shows there and created a six-foot wooden human heart sculpture on the studio grounds. She is presently a Snug Harbor Cultural Center studio artist, and an organizing member of Day de Dada, a fluxus-based, dada-inspired performance art collective.
Mary Campbell – “Dollars de Dada”
Description: “Dollars de Dada” is the opportunity for audience members to get paid
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