Olive Bieringa and Bryce Beverlin II, November 4, 2009
Olive Bieringa, founder of the BodyCartography Project, talks with her collaborator, physicist Bryce Beverlin II, about 1/2 Life, a project which addresses the environmental problems of nuclear residue and indestructible plastics. 1/2 Life investigates the survival of the body amidst a world of scientific research, data, and control. The performance hovers geographically at the edges of the Pacific Ocean - connecting nuclear super power USA, atomic survivor Japan and nuclear free New Zealand. A contemporary ritual to address our dormant nuclear nightmares. ½ life is the time a radioactive substance takes to lose half its radioactivity through decay.
1/2 Life will be an installation at the Art of This Gallery in Minneapolis, December 10-19, and will be performed at the Southern Theater, January 28-30.
Also available as a video download (.flv - 133.5 MB) or as an audio file (.mp3 - 54.1 MB).
The BodyCartography Project was founded in 1998 and is co-directed by dance and video artists Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad. Their work investigates the physical resonance of space in urban, wild, domestic and social landscapes through dance, video and installation work. They engage and provoke audiences in diverse contexts working with independent artists, communities, organizations and scientists.
Bryce Beverlin II is a multidisciplinary artist residing in Minneapolis where he explores various forms of art including free improvisational music, contact improvisational dance, guerrilla public performance, film and video, poetry, public and private installation, and conceptual composition. His primary artistic discipline is music, which he has been immersed in since the age of three including numerous awards, over 100 recordings, and a BMusic from Northwestern University. Bryce started the record label, Insides Music, in 1999 and is the current curator of the Tuesday Night weekly series for free improvisation. He has achieved a BScience in honors in Physics and Astrophysics with a minor in Mathematics. Bryce is currently pursuing a PhD in Physics at the University of Minnesota conducting research on neural network behavior.