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.
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