Book: Thelema Trio

Book: Thelema Trio is an arrangement I made from my 2006 composition Book. Book: Thelema Trio is a custom arrangement of selected pages from Book, a 98 page graphic score for any instruments. Book uses a mixture of conventional notation and fantastically unsystematic notation and does not provide instructions for interpreting the unsystematic notation. In Book: Thelema Trio, the formal elements are specified, but some of the unsystematic notation is left undefined.

Strange Punctuation

Editing recorded words is very much like editing written words. You can add, subtract, rearrange the sounds in very much the same way that you can on the page. With sound there are additional ways to edit. You can revise the speed, pitch, volume, echo and decay. This prompted me to title the album "Strange Punctuation."

Actions To Relate

Actions to Relate is a performance of controlled physical interactions between the artist and participants. On a table are 60 cards with commands, such as "Hug me." or "Give me a high five." The commands range from benign to sexual, to violent. Participants pick a card, hand the card to the artist and then the artist performs that command on the participant's body. The artist stands in a red square; she is not allowed to leave and no one else may enter. Participants stand in a blue square. When they want the interaction to end they leave the blue square.

New Outfits

New Outfits placed decorative cloaks made by communities in Baltimore over the monuments in the parks of Mount Vernon Place. These decorative cloaks temporarily re-dressed the monuments of General Lafayette, George Peabody, Severn Teackle Wallis, Roger B. Taney, and John Eager Howard. New Outfits were made in workshops by diverse groups of Baltimore community centers and resident groups, in which the artist, Rebecca Nagle, acted as an educator and a facilitator. New Outfits gives people access to the power that the monuments symbolize.

Paintings

The figure is the starting point and lodestone for my work. Divorced from explicit narrative context or traditional portraiture, the figure can become an open-ended format for discovery, a jumping off point that allows for virtually limitless variation and invention. My paintings draw from a particular strain of artistic thought that focuses on the primacy of psyche or â??presenceâ?? in the work, the creation of which provides meaning for, and sense of relation to, the work.

The No Boundaries Coalition's public art projects

noboundariescoalition.com

The No Boundaries Coalition is a community organizing effort started by Rebecca Nagle in 2007. The No Boundaries Coalition is a resident-lead initiative working to deconstruct boundaries and reconstruct community. We are working to bring our neighborhoods together across race and class to build a more unified and empowered Central West Baltimore. The coalition works by organizing an annual Boundary Block Party, public art projects, a map of cultural and historical landmarks, town hall meetings, walking tours and more.

fifteen minutes

fifteen minutes is an interactive web-based performance.
viewers choose an activity for the artist to perform for fifteen minutes.
the artist video tapes herself performing the chosen activity.
all videos are uploaded onto the project website for the public to view: fifteenminutesvideo.com
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