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Thursday, August 1, 2013

2013 - PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE @ CANAL CREATURE CRAWL






PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE 
PRESENTS:
MOBILE GEOGRAPHY PERFORMANCE SERIES #6
PHOTO-INTERACTABLES & COS-PLAY VOLLEY(BALL)))

A HYBRID PERFORMANCE SERIES PAYING HOMAGE TO TWO
ARTISTS AND ONE SPORT ALL SPAWNED IN HOLYOKE, MA.

THE INDIVIDUALS ARE:
 WILLIAM WEGMAN (CONCEPTUAL ARTIST / PHOTOGRAPHER)
KNOWN FOR VIDEO ART AND COLLABORATIONS WITH HIS MANY DOGS

ARTHUR ADAMS (COMIC BOOK ILLUSTRATOR)
KNOWN FOR HIS 1990’S CREATION “MONKEYMAN & O’BRIEN”

THE SPORT IS:
VOLLEYBALL (INVENTED BY WILLIAM MORGAN IN 1895)

PHOTO-INTERACTABLES
PHOTO-INTERACTABLE (WEGMAN-ENTITY) #1 
 4X6ft. Mixed media interactive photo stands. 

PHOTO-INTERACTABLE (ADAMS-ENTITY) #2 
 4X6ft. Mixed media interactive photo stands. 

COS-PLAY VOLLEYBALL X2
Costume volleyball event with two joined nets.

The variable project is a collaboration between
The City of Holyoke, PARSONS HALL PROJECT SPACE, media artist Torsten Zenas Burns and students from Holyoke Community College - Performance Art for the Camera class taught in the Department of Communication, Media and Theater arts. 

SPECIAL THANKS TO:
City of Holyoke
 Jeffrey C. Bianchine: Creative Economy Coordinator
Canal Creature Crawl / Nancy Howard Smith / M.I.F.A.
Signs Plus, Holyoke, MA
Kari Gatzke / Denis Luzuriaga
Holyoke Community College, Holyoke, MA
The Dept. of Communication, Media and Theater arts. Holyoke, MA
HCC (EMS) student participants

EVENT
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26TH - 4PM-12AM   
HERITAGE STATE PARK / 2ND CANAL / HOLYOKE CITY HALL