Thomas Bell, Christina deRoos and Anya Liftig - Itinerant Festival Performance

I T I N E R A N T Festival for Contemporary Performance Art Sunday, April 29th, 2012, 6 - 9 pm @ BRONX ART SPACE 305 East 140th Street Bronx, NY 10454 Join us Sunday April 29th 6pm to 9pm for the Itinerant Performance Festival at Bronx Art Space.   Spread Art Co-Directors Thomas Bell and Christina deRoos join forces with performance artist Anya Liftig for a collaborative improvised performance experience.  See the whole line up below! "playing with myself playing with yourself" Thomas Bell (sound), Christina deRoos (video) and Anya Liftig (performance) create an intimate collaborative work while each improvises in their respective medium while simultaneously working together.  Christina's video remixes of Anya's past performances, to which Anya performs along with, creates an opportunity for self reflection and introspection.   The addition of live audience participation through the use of video and sound feeds creates an intimate experience between the audience members and the three performing artists.

QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, continues the presentation of ITINERANT, a citywide Festival for Contemporary Performance Art to be hosted at various venues in the five boroughs of New York City. On Sunday, April 29th, ITINERANT will be in the Bronx to present the work of local, national and international artists performing at Bronx Art Space from 6 - 9 pm. Participating artists at Bronx Art Space: Thomas Bell with Christina deRoos and Anya Liftig, Camila Cañeque, Bryon Carr, Irene Chan, Christine Ferrera, Jia-Jen Lin with Yung-Li Chen, Nadja Marcin, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Negin Sharifzadeh,and Jess Whittam with Lorelei Ramirez. Host: LuLu Lolo. ITINERANT 2012 focuses on live performative works that treat notions of intimacy, self-reflection, and introspection. Performance artists were selected to participate from an open call that attracted more than 175 local, national and international submissions. Forty five artists were selected and will be featuring new and existing works that explore the program’s theme over a period of 5 weeks starting on March 30th through May 12th, 2012. Directions: Bronx Art Space, 305 East 140th Street. #6 Train to 3rd Ave/138th St in the Bronx (first stop after Manhattan). Walk 2 blocks on Alexander Ave., turn left on 3rd Ave (Public Library is on the corner), walk towards the middle of the block. Program (borough, date & time, venue):  * BROOKLYN: Friday, March 30th, 8 - 11 pm at Grace Exhibition Space (past).  * QUEENS: Saturday, April 21st, 6 - 9 pm at Crossing Art Gallery (past).  * MANHATTAN: Saturday, April 28th, 7 – 10 pm at Floor 4 Art (featured).  * BRONX: Sunday, April 29th, 6 - 9 pm at Bronx Art Space (upcoming).   * STATEN ISLAND: Sunday, May 5th, 6 - 8 pm at Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art -     Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical Garden (upcoming). Public Performances: 37th Road Pedestrian Plaza at 74th Street in Jackson Heights, Queens:  * Every Friday, April 6th – May 4th, 3 – 6 PM: “Worlds Together, Worlds Apart,” a durational     performance collaboration between Camila Cañeque and Hector Canonge.  * Saturday, May 12th, 3 – 6 PM: Closing Event with performances by Chloe Bass, John Cichon,     Nancy Nowacek, Lizzie Scott, and Priscila Stadler. About: QMAD, Queens Media Arts Development, is under the direction of artist, Hector Canonge, who launched ITINERANT in Queens in 2011.  Canonge explains that ITINERANT is “the first program for performance art in this borough,” and that he “wants to introduce audiences to this art form as well as to create dialogue and exchange among artists coming from all over to the festival. ITINERANT started as a mini-festival with handful of local artists presenting their live performances at Crossing Art Gallery, I wanted to create the same in larger scale in NYC." Canonge adds that the experience has been an incredible challenge. "To be able to collaborate with organizations and galleries in the five boroughs, to have their support and trust that I could carry such enterprise has been a major incentive in organizing the event.”  QMAD, under the leadership of Canonge, presents the monthly LGBT film series CINEMAROSA, the annual program Framing AIDS, and the monthly art series A-Lab Forum.   More information: www.qmad.org/itinerant or email: communications@qmad.org

ITINERANT is an independent initiative supported by QMAD