Tying/Untying Video is live!

Tying/Untying, my month-long performance during Reworked at The Vestibule gallery, is finished. It was such a joy to make this participatory durational performance piece with you and for you. Thank you to everyone that came out and participated! Those of you that happened to come during my weekly performance sessions will be able to catch glimpses of yourselves in my Time-lapse videos on my IG @meganprinceart. I will be consolidating them into one full video piece soon. I have many many other pieces of documentation from this time and I will be adding them here on my website as quickly as I can. You will be able to find it all together under the Videos and Performance tab in the WORK section of my website soon. In the meantime here is a video that was made about this performance. Enjoy!

This is a video of Tying/Untying a performance by Megan Prince at The Vestibule gallery, Seattle, WA 2023.

Reworked

Reworked: Lee Davignon and Megan Prince, January 12 - Feb 11 at The Vestibule
Reception Saturday, Jan 14 4-6 pm

Tying/Untying Performance Hours: weekly on Thursdays from 5-7pm and Saturdays from 2-4pm watch Timelapse footage from my performances here.

Lee Davignon and Megan Prince rework textile and plastic into sculpture and installations. In her participatory, durational performance, Tying/Untying, Prince invites visitors to knot a mass of reused textile while she attempts to unknot it and remake it into a sculpture. The project echoes the frustration and reward of working with others.

Davignon, a weaver by training, unmakes material while keeping its history of use. They unwind marine rope, ball hair, break up plastic packaging, and then they reweave or resculpt it until it is almost unrecognizable. They model how art-making ought to be aware of its material history and material future.

Fiber Art Now Meet-Up Fri Jan 13 6-8 pm

Materials donated by Prarie Underground.

Multi-disciplinary work in development for next month!

Friends,

I’m excited to share that I have a new performance developing in conjunction with my installation Spinning Lines 2022. Ruts of Repetition, a durational dance performance, will engage my string installation emphasizing how we get stuck in repetitive patterns in life. I will be performing alongside, Bryon Carr and Amy Funbuttons! We will be stopping by at various times throughout the exhibition, including a couple of planned performances you won’t want to miss!

Here’s a sneak peak of the performance development:

Excerpt from #wip durational performance Ruts of Repetition by Megan Prince, Bryon Carr and Amy Funbuttons for Spinning Lines 2022 featured in Howl at Forest For The Trees this July 21-24.

This multi-disciplinary work will be featured in the l exhibition Howl, curated by Lele Barnett and Amanda Manitach, at Forest for the Trees, a satellite to the Seattle Art Fair with a 4 day block party. FREE! If you are interested in sponsoring or volunteering, 🙏 pls send me a message.

Howl is a survey of female-identifying and non-binary artists who work in large-scale material and voice. From hanging gardens to tensile textile walls, ephemeral text tracings to punk-poetic shout-outs, the exhibit encompasses a range of material expressions as elegant as they are aggressive, spanning the softly ecstatic to blunt-force unapologetic. 

Exhibited works include installations from both regional and national artists, and features reproductions of vital and viral images produced by the organization Shout Your Abortion. Across the works in this exhibit is a through-line where technical precision meets poetic expression, an offering of violent beauty that calls for response. 

The bittersweet march towards collective healing, progress, health, and survival lands on the ever-bending backs of these beasts of perpetual burden and power. May women rule the world.

Howl will run, July 21-24 from 12noon-9pm each day. Performance dates and times to come.