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Jeremiah Barber
Artist Information
Born: August 28, 1983, Michigan
Currently Resides: Chicago, IL
Contact Information:
buckaroni (at) hotmail (dot) com
http://www.manuallabor.org/jeremiahbarber.html
Medium(s) Worked in:
Painting
Sculpture
Film/Video
Performance
Installation
Artist CV:
Coming Soon
Available for Commission: No
Education:
2006, Columbia College, Chicago, BFA
HPAC Exhibitions
Artist Statement
Making performance art works within space of the public’s everyday, I find a fine balance between creating a disturbance - which limits the audience from self-driven interpretations, and creating resonance - with gestures folding into the fabric of conventional behavior, its doubts and challenges rising at the edge of one’s periphery. A good performance has presence in an unfamiliar place yet belongs there, so that the viewer is the one with the choice: react, ignore, stay, stare, engage. This is the shared experience of performative action.
p(callout)My interests are in subtle transformations: a feeling induces an aura; a stranger feels the change, disapproves, and frowns; the reaction bringing self-reflection, the reflection, a sorrow.
By magnifying the moments into hours, I seek to bring inspiration into long forgotten joys and a sense of relevance to the escaping hours of the everyday.
Artist Bio
Jeremiah Barber graduated with a BFA from Columbia College, Chicago in 2006. He is a member of Marina Abramovic’s Independent Performance Group, and curates the Manual Labor Gallery, a local space devoted to emerging artists and writers.