The Butterfly Effect Jacqueline Bell Johnson Takeshi Kanemura Snezana Saraswati Petrovic
Key Artists
The Butterfly Effect Project Statement
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The connections we make with others occur through gestures, conversations, and common interest. The Butterfly Effect looks to explore the potential of the gesture and use it to spark conversation that identifies common interests. Through performance, social engagement, and interactive art, we invite the viewer to share an experience with us.
Jacqueline Bell Johnson URL: JacquelineBellJohnson.com E-mail: JBellJohnson@gmail.com
The artists bring their own internal divulgences of immigration and displacement, mindfulness and the desire to be present and in the moment, and the blending of eastern and western cultures and philosophies into the collaboration. Perspectives and ideas are not competing, but blending together and morphing into a new state of being.
Takeshi Kanemura URL: takeshikanemura.com E-mail: takezok395@hotmail.com
Snezana Saraswati Petrovic URL: www.snezanapetrovic.com E-mail: e-art@snezanapetrovic.com
Our efforts will begin here in Los Angeles, in different neighborhoods and art spaces. In the fall we will travel to Tokyo and for several days we will perform and exhibit in front of Japanese audiences. We are not looking for what make these audiences different, but for what makes them the same. What, through gesture, body language, and other non-verbal communication can we convey and communicate to the viewer? These performances are rooted in movement of the body, and the struggles and compromises of different bodies occupying the same space. Personal and public space becomes one, and individual’s experience become universal.
Jacqueline Bell Johnson is a sculptor and installation artist. She relies on craft processes to create large scale constructions that explore themes of skeletal structures, architecture, and feminism. She is from Baltimore, Maryland and has been living and work in Los Angeles for the last ten years.
Jacqueline Bell Johnson
Deflated/Defeated (Installation) Human Resources, Los Angeles, March 2014 Dimensions variable Fabric, Wood, PVC Pipe, Cotton Twine, Steel Cable, Paint, Dye, Colored Lights
Jacqueline Bell Johnson
We All Look The Same Underneath East Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, October 2012 5ft (hP x 4ft (w) x 4.5ft (d) Lampworked Acrylic, Bamboo, Monofilament, Paint
Dragon 1 Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, March 2013 25ft (w) x 32 ft (d) x 16ft (h) Steel, Aluminum, Fabric, Dye, Parachute Cord, String of lights
The Storyteller Claremont Graduate University, October 2012 6ft (h) x 12ft (w) x 9ft (d) Wood, Cotton String, Steel Cable
Including You: CV Coachella Valley, 2014 Collaborator: Cris Low, Vocalist/Countertenor
Takeshi Kanemura
Takeshi Kanemura is a performance artist who utilizes Butoh movements, paint, plastic, and music to create unique moments of collaboration between himself and the audience and with other artists. Born and raised in Okinawa Japan, he has made a home of Los Angeles for most of his life.
Takeshi Kanemura
Including You: 1019 Inglewood, 2014
Goishi Beach Iwate, 2013
Including You: dA Pomona, 2014 Collaborator: Mei Hotta, Cello
Snezana is internationally exhibited 2D, 3D, 4D artist, independent curator, gallery director, educator and award-winning set/ costume designer. Across diverse disciplines her work explores ephemerality, gender, present vs. past, hybridity and dislocation. Two decades ago, at the verge of the civil war in Yugoslavia, she found her home in Los Angeles.
Snezana Saraswati Petrovic
ENSO: You Are Here Beacon Arts Building, Los Angeles, 2013 12ft x 40ft x5ft Video installation/performance: pelon, felt
Snezana Saraswati Petrovic
Mandala: Salt Labyrinth Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, 2014 Performance/installation 4ft x 4ft x 2ft
Artchemy/solo exhibition Brandstaters Gallery, Riverside, 2012 Video installation: silica, monofilament Variable from 4ft x 6ft x 4ft
Not a Garden SCA Project Gallery, Arts Colony Pomona, 2014 Video installation: pelon, white felt, silica, monofilament, black sand 12ft x12 ft x 9 ft
Satomi Akutsu
Ranwakaba
Akutsu is a dancer, choreographer, and yoga instructor. She studied Butoh dance by Akira Kasai, Butoh master and a founder of the Tenshi-Kan, and a modern dance called “Duncan,” which was established by the world-renowned dancer Isadora Duncan, by Mary Sano. Akutsu has been involved in solo dances and various projects with musicians, performers, and visual artists.
Ranwakaba’s career started as an illustrator after he graduated from the Toyo Institute of Art and Design in1997. Recently, he started producing live performances and events based-on his theme of “graphics, sounds, and movements.”
URL: http://satomiakutsu.tumblr.com E-mail: satomiakutsu@gmai.com
Hiroshi Shimizu
Tokyo Collaborators
These artists will be joining our project when we arrive in Tokyo.
URL: http://www.ranwakaba.jp E-mail: goz@asteroidbelt.jp
Percussionist/phonographer. Shimizu creates environments and thinks relationships between him and others (time, human, nonhuman, and material), by playing the percussions, toys, and junk objects. He has supported numerous bands and projects by incorporating his sound. URL: http://hiroshi-shimizu.tumblr.com/ E-mail: soundgeezer43@gmail.com
Ongoing Projects
Events History
Mail Art Exchange
Including You: CV February 2014 Coachella Valley Art Center 45140 Towne Street, Indio, California 92201, USA
Throughout the summer we will be mailing images, drawings, prints, and other small art pieces back and forth as a way to silently collaborate. These finished pieces will be on exhibit during our events and available for purchase to help support the Butterfly Effect. Shibori Dying Workshops Jacqueline Bell Johnson will be conducting all-ages workshops to on the traditional Japanese process of Shibori (resist) fabric dying. One of the most common forms of this technique is American TieDying. Particpants will be able to learn several techniques. Butterfly Print Collections
Including You: IE February 2014 Crafton Hills College 11711 Sand Canyon Road, Yucaipa, California 92399, USA Butterfly Effect Collaborative Project September 2014 dA Center for the Arts 252 D South Main Street, Pomona, California 91766, USA
Collections of Prints visually reflecting on the ideas behind the Butterfly Effect will be on exhibit during events. These collections will also be available for purchase to help support the Butterfly Effect. Time Ripple Exploration of mindfulness and inter-connectedness via Social media and Iphone. The artists in different time zones will record the snapshot of time on the smart phone accompanied with an image of a moment and post it on the FB Butterfly Effect. At the end of the process the data will be compared, analyzed and exhibited.
We are accepting invitations to perform, exhibit, and engage throughout southern California as well as during our time in Tokyo Tochigi, and Okinawa, Japan. Please contact Jackie for details and to make arrangements at JBellJohnson@gmail.com .
Future Events Moment by Moment Friday, November 14, 2014 Gallery Conceal Shibuya 1-11-3 Fujishoji building 4th floor, Dogen-zaka Shibuya, Tokyo 150-0043, Japan Butterfly Effect Sunday, November 16, 2014 Sukedo Public Hall and Kominka House (formerly the Kimura House) in Ashikaga City. 453-2 Sukedonakacho, Ashikaga-city, Tochigi 326-0043, Japan
The Butterfly Effect