Vandy Wood

Panel Abstract: Through the exploration of four different performative gallery projects, this panel will interrogate the role of space and place in defining public(s), as well as how various publics shape the space(s) between artist and audience. Together, panelists will question how private and public space(s) intersect and diverge in the ‘Desire Project’ an Austin based museum installation/ performance. Next, they will explore the ways in which the TypeBound Project at the University of Central Florida’s Museum of Visual Art plays with space to engage audiences in the written word as performance and performance as literature. Finally, the panelists will address how Macabre Vignettes and No Strings Attached, shows situated in downtown Orlando galleries, disrupt traditional public(s)/spaces, presenting sculpture as performance and performance objects as sculpture. Converging at the intersections of visual art, literary art, and theatre/performance, each of these projects/events invites artists and audiences to re-imagine and transgress established boundaries of traditional performance/exhibit spaces to engage new and broader publics as collaborative contributors to and within performative spaces and places.