Vernita
(Vernita N'Cognita)
Welcome to my website! Take a look at the shows of Art from Detritus that I have curated by clicking on the "Art From Detritus" (AKA "art from recycling") link at the top of the page.
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I am an artist of split persuasions- a performance artist and a visual artist as well as a curator of exhibits in which art and politics touch or, if necessary, collide. My base is New York City but I love to travel & as often as possible, I use my art as an excuse to go somewhere I've never been.
My most recent visual artwork has been an ongoing installation entitled the Endless Junkmail Scroll in which I collage security envelopes into an ongoing artwork that is sold by the linear inch. That work has been shown at Gallery 128 on the Lower East Side of NYC, at Central Wyoming College in Riverton WY, at Huntington Long Island in June of 2006 and Cape Girardeau MO in September of 2006.. I see it as ongoing, just as our junkmail sadly seems to be, but please don't send me any until I've figured out a way to work faster!
I am a performance artist in New York City and have been taking butoh workshops for the last 5 years or so and incorporate Butoh in my performances. I 've practiced Butoh movement with Noboru Kamita, Eiko, Kim Ito, Akira Kasai, Atsushi Takenouchi, Ko Murobushi, Yumiko Yoshioka & others at Japan Society & The Cave in Williamsburgh, Bklyn; I also participated in the Time Based Art Festival in Portland Oregon, September 2004 with 33 Fainting Spells; Deborah Hay, etc.
In 2005 I performed in Darmstadt Germany in an international project of art & performance in gardens. Previously I was part of the 5 Cities Project in Tokyo, as well as being a presenter at the PSI (Performance Studies International) Conference in Mainz Germany.
In January 2006 I presented a guerilla performance at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, France entitled "The Silver Rose."
Feel free to check out my other links below.
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