The Precession: An 80-foot-long Internet Art Performance Poem

School of Art
ASU Art Museum
Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts
ASU Art Museum
ASU Intermedia
Location: ASU Art Museum Top Gallery
Campus: Tempe           
Cost: Free

The Precession, a project of artists Judd Morrissey and Mark Jeffery, constructs a durational  performance of visual poetics and movement combining writing, text-mining and processing with the real-time positions of celestial objects and depictions of the laboring body. 
The Precession: An 80-foot-long Internet Art Performance Poem is a 3-hour, 10-part digital literary/visual performance art work. Each part lasts between nine and 18 minutes.
Performance components include choreographed readings of texts being generated on ASU Art Museum gallery walls, a Busby-Berkeley inspired movement sequence that mixes gestures of labor with embodied formations based on the stars above the building with live and screen-based responses to works by Sol LeWitt (the sun) and Rebecca Horn (the horned moon). A chorus will sing a song,  an incoming stream of Twitter texts and excerpts from the source code of The Precession. Visitors may enter or leave at any point.
The artists will be in residence at ASU Art Museum starting Feb. 13 to remap the work that was on exhibit at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago from Dec. 21, 2010, to March 22, 2011. For more information about the artists and their schedule at ASU, go to the ASU Art Museum blog, here.

For more information
E-mail: deborah.susser@asu.edu
Website: ASU Art Museum
Phone: 480.965.0014

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