Eric-Paul Riege – Performance
Date: 2022-08-19 15:00:00 – 2022-08-19 20:00:00
516 ARTS presents a performance by Eric-Paul Riege on Friday, August 19, from 3-8pm. Riege (Dinu00e9) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work (jaatu0142oh4Yeu2019iitsoh [9u201310])(to/too coccoonz) is currently on display in the exhibition u201cArt Meets History: Technologies of the Spirit.u201d Riege is a multi-media artist whose work includes weaving, installation, collage, digital media, and performance. These works express his philosophies and cosmologies of sanctuary, peace, and interconnection with all the elements of the world around him. They are informed by hu00f3zhu00f3, the Dinu00e9 philosophy that, Riege says, u201cencompasses beauty, balance, and goodness in all things physical and spiritual and its bearing on everyday experience.u201d
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His various approaches to art-making, the soft sculpture, the wearable regalia, come together in his durational performances. For Riege, this too is a form of weaving. u201cI call everything I do weaving,u201d he says. In a profile of the artist in Art in America earllier this year, Ellie Duke write, u201cAll the elements u2014 the materials, the performance, the audience, as well as the ancestors and rituals that inform his practice u2014 are woven together.u201d
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u201cArt Meets History: Technologies of the Spiritu201d is co-curated by Ric Kasini Kadour and Alicia Inez Guzmu00e1n, and is on display through September 3.
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