Jennifer Dorner's new website Jennifer Dorner is pursuing a multi-disciplinary artistic career working mostly in painting and video.

She writes:
My work is influenced by a variety of mediums, social spaces, and everyday life. Key concepts include artifice and display and how these can create atmospheric space within painting. As a juncture, the small and detailed representation of leisure activity combined with transport vehicles acts as the catalyst for disrupting the painting field. The use of humour - the uncanny - within the pictorial narrative introduces a subtle, but complex compositional language.

You can see a selection of her paintings and videos at
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  Conference at DARE-DARE Artists, sociologists, architects and activists will present approaches, visions, intervention modes, aiming at redefining conceptualization, design and organization of urban landscape. Among other things, participants will discuss new forms of public space based on public connectiveness and urban experience rather than solely in terms of visual representation. In this view, the conference's objective is to explore and present alternative ways of intervening in the city, be it short-lived, contextualized or discrete, and will specially address site-specific practices, which consist of working with what exists, blurring the boundaries of art's definition. The event will also deal with various questions pertaining to the relationship to the site and to the public, as well as the real impact of the presence of art in the public space on society and urban life.

Autour de l'Agora
(conference)
May 26 and 27 2006
At Viger Square
http://www.dare-dare.org/programmation/programmation%202006/schedule.htm
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  Soliloquy Soliloquy is an audible oratory or conversation with oneself. It is a term that is typically applied to theatrical characters engaged in a monologue, but can also be a term that is simply descriptive of any occurrence when one talks with oneself. Soliloquy can take the form of a dramatic or comedic monologue that is illusory (or abstractly hallucinagenic or dreamlike) of either a single passage or an entire series of unspoken reflections, and can therefore be a theatrical technique instrumental in advancing several ideas and thoughts in one sequence. In theater, a soliloquy is performed by a single actor on the stage, but more commonly in modern theater, the actor delivers the soliloquy in a sequence known as an "aside."
Writers such as Shakespeare used the soliloquy to great effect in order to express aloud to audiences some of the personal thoughts and emotions of his characters without specifically resorting to third-person narration.
The English version of the word "soliloquy" comes from the relatively late Latin root word "soliloquium," which is a direct derivation from the singular Latin word 'solus' meaning 'alone,' in addition to 'loqui' meaning 'to speak.

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  Art and Freedom Heather Dewey-Hagborg
Theoretical Perspectives on Interactivity

Art and Freedom

-“Left to itself art would have to be something very simple - it would be sufficient for it to be beautiful. But when it's useful it should spill out of just being beautiful and move over to other aspects of life so that when we're not with the art it has nevertheless influenced our actions or our responses.” (John Cage)

The only way for art to escape this feedback cycle is to operate entirely outside the loop. Art cannot be made for money. To think you can be employed as an artist, that you could possibly make a living from your art, is to strive for imprisonment. To think you can exhibit your work in a gallery or museum is to reinforce the system as it stands. To think you can make a saleable work of art that is a genuine expression of yourself is to show that you have already been consumed.

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