Bethany Ides

MAAS PERFORMANCEBETHANY IDESJun 22 – 30, 2013 Performance I : Saturday, Jun 22, 7pm Performance II : Saturday, Jun 29, 7pm Transitions (workshop sessions): Tuesday, Jun 25 – Wednesday, Jun 26, 7pm, and                                                             Thursday, Jun 27, 2pm Coda (conversation with the artists): Sunday, Jun 30, 2pm MAAS | Mandragoras Art Space36-01 36 Ave. 3rd Floor North. Long Island City, NY 11106 Admission is free | For Transitions please RSVP at performance@mandragoras.orgwww.mandragoras.org MAAS | Mandragoras Art Space presents performance work by New York-based artist Bethany Ides. I Feel It in My Dreams is a performance cycle comprised of distinct phases involving both public and private interactions.  Bethany Ides teams with VISITATION, a performance/art & research collective, to activate provisional objects in transitional spaces.  Combining video, song, guided imagery sessions, active play scenarios, installation, commentary and breakfast, Ides/VISITATION triggers a kind of mania of mutability.  All material is liable to dislocate from itself, become the inverse of itself, and possibly dematerialize altogether. Via this method of extra-sensing, background and foreground are collapsed, leaving only a hole where a figure might be or might have been.Bethany Ides/VISITATION will host a series of 3 Transitions on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday(June 25th – 27th).  Each Transition will take place in a different zone of the gallery and will focus on dematerializing and rematerializing elements through song.  No singing, acting or dancing experience is necessary.  Participation is free and open to any who are willing to play the dreams of themselves. I Feel It in My Dreams will culminate in a Coda.  Part artist/s talk, part performative experiment in community, Coda is an open forum for reformulating themes implicit to the performance cycle at hand, including (but not limited to): play and play therapy, spectral visions, voice, and magical objects.  Bethany Ides works with conditions (text, presence, prescience, instability, irrevocability, implicature, dis-use) and this work manifests as performance, installation, publication, video, sound and/or curation having been presented in contexts such as Fragmental Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, PS122, Tritriangle in Chicago and CounterPULSE Theater in San Francisco. Children Get Stuck Places Underground, an intermedial opera, premiered at Half/Dozen Gallery in Portland, OR in 2010.  Ides’ poetic projects include Indeed, Insist (a mystery) published by Ugly Duckling Presse and Approximate L from Cosa Nostra.  In 2012, Ides completed the inaugural critical writing commission for Recess Gallery.  She holds an MFA from Bard College where she also currently teaches in the Language & Thinking Program, in addition to courses in art history, sacred texts and the philosophy of language at NYU and SVA.