Artery 24: The throbbing heart of performance art
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A lot will be going on this weekend at Artery 24, the Soap Factory’s 24-hour performance art extravaganza: certainly too much to try to cover in an article, much less attend, or even remember. The show is summed up well by one of the participating artists, Blake Bolan. “It’s incredible to be involved in one crazy day of art with so many other unique and fantastic artists,” says Bolan. “It’s scary and wonderful to be pushed to make something new that will exist in one hour of one day/night and then exist only in people’s memories.”
Bolan’s piece, Buckets, is about “carrying objects and sorting through memories, about getting stuck, about falling under the weight of your life.”
Artery 24 starts Friday, July 24 at 6 p.m. and runs through the following day until 6 p.m. This is the second year of the show, curated by Fiona MacNeill, Kristina Fong, and Tucker MacNeill. “The idea was originally inspired by a medieval Italian ritual that included artists of all types and practices gathering and performing for a 40-hour period,” says Fong. Continue Reading
