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<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#CC9922" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="043d2962dakdei.png"> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="About NCognita"><B>About N'Cognita</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Art From Detritus"><B>Art From Detritus</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Resume"><B>Resume</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Contact"><B>Contact</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="visual_art.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Visual Art"><B>My Visual Art</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="performance_art.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Performance Art"><B>My Performance Art</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="my_writing.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="MY POETRY OTHER WRITINGS"><B>MY POETRY & OTHER WRITINGS</B></A></div> <div> <A HREF="my_feminist_art_history.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="My Feminist Art History"><B>My Feminist Art History</B></A></div> <bR> <div> <I><B> I also do guerilla performances outdoors that deal with the moment & often require instant decisions and improvisation - an exciting charge that I love. I am much influenced by the Fluxus Movement and chance. I enjoy the interaction with the audience in ways not always visible that performance creates.</B></I></div> <div> <I><B>-----</B></I></div> <div> <B>Usually I do solo performances and each run for approximately a half hour. Some of the performances mentioned here I do as solos, backed by a musician (Sean Carolan) playing guitar.  Ghost Traveller II included a dancer, Nicole Lee.</B></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" width="100%" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Vernita</B><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >     |    </FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#0000BF" FACE="Arial" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Vernita"> home</A></FONT></div> <div> <B>U.S.A.</B><B>   |   </B><A HREF="germany.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Europe">Europe</A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="japan.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Japan">Japan</A><B>   |   </B><A HREF="mexico.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Mexico">Mexico</A></div> <div> U.S.A.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  "<A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/user/vernitancognita#p/u/2/QUyHNTp5vgE" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/user/vernitancogn">Dress</A>" (at Dance Theater Workshop, June 2010.  <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/user/vernitancognita#p/u/2/QUyHNTp5vgE" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/user/vernitancogn">7-minute video</A>) After being awarded a 3 month workshop & rehearsal grant at Farspace through The Field, Nemec developed this silent (but for the sound of the "Dress") Butoh performance of a strange and unidentified female character.</div> <bR> <bR> <div>  "F-Word" (at Dance Theater Workshop, December 2009.  In progress) In this performance, a voice over reads from Simone de Bouvoir's "Second Sex" as Nemec explores thru Butoh Movement, our Feminist transformations.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id99.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tin not gold"><IMG SRC="0b7384b0.jpg" border=0 width="56" height="75" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A>  <A HREF="id99.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tin not gold">"Tin Not Gold"  Performed at SoHo 20 Gallery Benefit, Oct. 20, 2009</A>.  (Vernita confronts tin foil.)</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Ghost Traveler II.   "In this performance artwork, Nemec's version of Butoh movement & monologue both inspires and responds to the live guitar sounds of Sean Carolan and the dance of Nicole Lee representing Nemec's more youthful self."  </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGY1q9c4lRI" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGY1q9c4l">Click to see video excerpt from Ghost Traveler II presented by Movement Research at Judson Church, NY, NY, April, 2009</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ghost Traveler I"><IMG SRC="0b696640.jpg" border=0 width="150" height="100" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A>   <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ghost Traveler I">"</A><A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ghost Traveler I">Ghost Traveler I" was a performance first presented at the reception for an exhibit of photographs by Masayo Nishimura </A>titled "Uptown Bound" at Ceres Gallery in Chelsea in March of 2009.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.ncognita.com/Performance/Ghost%20Traveler%20I/ceres3minExcerpt.wmv" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.ncognita.com/Performance/Ghos">Click to see video excerpt</A> (3 minute, WMV format)       <A HREF="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KuiUu4o-w" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KuiUu4o">YouTube 5 minute excerpt</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id67.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Channeling"><IMG SRC="07660400.jpg" border=0 width="96" height="64" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A>    <A HREF="id67.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Channeling"> Channeling (NYC 2008 street performance)</A></div> <bR> <div> Video excerpt to be uploaded.</div> <bR> <div> Also, an improvisational performance called “Channeling Building” at the Maritime Building as part of David Byrne's Organ Installation in August of 2008. Billed as an “interactive installation” I presented a Guerrilla Butoh performance and interacted with other performers as well as the on-lookers. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id82.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tuscon"><IMG SRC="0a557780.jpg" border=0 width="87" height="120" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A>       In <A HREF="id82.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Tuscon">Tuscon, at Dinnerware Gallery (2008)</A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div>   <A HREF="id100.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trapped at Brooklyn Museum"><IMG SRC="0b89a6a0.jpg" border=0 width="154" height="106" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A><A HREF="id100.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trapped at Brooklyn Museum">May 5th, 2007, Opening of Sackler Feminist Art Center.  Vernita as angry man</A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="id83.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paper Doll"><IMG SRC="0b078540.jpg" border=0 width="120" height="84" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></A>      <A HREF="id83.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Paper Doll">Paper Doll at Soho 20 Gallery, NYC (2005)</A></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>