Theresa Anderson

Month: May 2026

  • kicking feet from under self

    kicking feet from under self

    video collage from artist documentation, appropriated sound and video 

    Used in performance art project recitations on agency and inadequacy/ sites of pressure and pleasure/ fun and unfun/ many person harness/ kicking feet from under self, 1

    an excerpt from the performance, kicking feet

    Theresa Anderson with Frankie Bushell, Katie Bowman, Amber Cobb, Patrick McGuire, Zac Maas, Ella Trujillo, and Larry Shavers Jr.

    “recitations on agency and inadequacy/ sites of pressure and pleasure/ fun and unfun/ many person harness/ kicking feet from under self, 1” 2015

    seven person harness fabricated from athletic elastic banding (aka a big jock strap), easy release buckles, expandable textile bags filled with flour, feather pillows, video and sound appropriated (and not), approximately 9 minute duration as part of Performance Art Now!- a collaboration between RedLine Denver and the Biennial of the Americas. Live performance documentation by filmmaker Kim Shively.

    This is a long-term project that is not practiced nor rehearsed- maintaining chance and indeterminacy.  For each iteration a new group of people meet at the pre-determined space and time. the group is put in the harness, given light directions to work with a selection of props. Each time the work is performed a new description is formed according to the actions of the participants. The work is site-specific as the group responds to each other as well as the things around them similar to the politics of a dance floor.

  • crimsoncrew +*~~*+ projects

    crimsoncrew +*~~*+ projects

    A collaboration between Alicia Ordal, Kim Shively and Theresa Anderson

    inventory of a material and visual language is an accumulation of video documentation of experimentation with abstract sculpture and architectural forms. Using serious humor, they embody spaces where they control their own narrative, a collaborative voice, symbology and language.

    Negotiating their gendered identities within a politicized and unwieldy landscape they use a process of repetition, deflection and resurfacing to claim space. Sculptural practice becomes performative. Their bodies function as utilitarian tools that deconstruct the physical world and reveal their unique vision of personal interior spaces.

    Filmmaker Kim Shively then edited the final footage and similar to the drawing game “exquisite corpse” reinterpreted the work.

    photo credit mostly to Kim Shively with minor roles by Alicia Ordal, and Theresa Anderson

    An excerpt from crimsoncrew +*~~*+ Disco Zone by Alicia Ordal

     *a sensor/y driven physical body movement club

    +*~~*+ under construction

    crimsoncrew +*~~*+ is a fluid, nomadic, performance art collective finally putting a name to what we’ve been doing a long time.

    There’s a strong DIY art community in Denver. Pretty much treated as a cow town by galleries and collectors- I soon discovered the wealth and depth of experimental contemporary art, music and literature. Meeting like minded artists at exhibitions, curating exhibitions in interesting and difficult spaces or landscapes, collaborating with all kinds of people interested in performance art, creating art collectives such as Hyperlink has been my saving grace.

    Did we meet 20 years ago? Many of us are scattered to the wind but we are still making art, showing art together, and wandering cities or abandoned mine towns.