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The Butterfly Effect Jacqueline Bell Johnson Takeshi Kanemura Snezana Saraswati Petrovic
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The Butterfly Effect is the name of a collaborative art project which explores the potential of the gesture and use it to identify commonalities on a global scale through art. This is an introductory booklet about the project. We will be publishing an expanded book version of this project in a few months which include specific essays on the individual works, and images from our performances in Japan.
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The Butterfly EffectJacqueline Bell JohnsonTakeshi KanemuraSnezana Saraswati Petrovic
The Butterfly EffectProject Statement
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.
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.
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.
Key Artists
Butterfly effect fb Pagewww.facebook.com/ButterflyEffectArtProject
Please visit our facebook page to find out about our latest performances, events and exhibits.
Jacqueline Bell Johnson URL: JacquelineBellJohnson.com E-mail: [email protected]
Takeshi Kanemura URL: takeshikanemura.com E-mail: [email protected]
Snezana Saraswati Petrovic URL: www.snezanapetrovic.com E-mail: [email protected]
Jacqueline Bell Johnson
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.
Deflated/Defeated (Installation)Human Resources, Los Angeles, March 2014Dimensions variableFabric, Wood, PVC Pipe, Cotton Twine, Steel Cable, Paint, Dye, Colored Lights
Jacqueline Bell Johnson
We All Look The Same UnderneathEast Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, October 20125ft (hP x 4ft (w) x 4.5ft (d)Lampworked Acrylic, Bamboo, Monofilament, Paint
The StorytellerClaremont Graduate University, October 20126ft (h) x 12ft (w) x 9ft (d)Wood, Cotton String, Steel Cable
Dragon 1Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, March 201325ft (w) x 32 ft (d) x 16ft (h)Steel, Aluminum, Fabric, Dye, Parachute Cord, String of lights
Takeshi KanemuraTakeshi 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.
Including You: CVCoachella Valley, 2014
Collaborator: Cris Low,Vocalist/Countertenor
Takeshi Kanemura
Including You: 1019Inglewood, 2014
Including You: dAPomona, 2014Collaborator: Mei Hotta, Cello
Goishi BeachIwate, 2013
Snezana Saraswati Petrovic
Snezana is internationally exhibited 2D, 3D, 4D art-ist, independent curator, gallery director, educator and award-winning set/costume designer. Across diverse disciplines her work explores ephemer-ality, gender, present vs. past, hybridity and dislo-cation. Two decades ago, at the verge of the civil war in Yugoslavia, she found her home in Los Angeles.
ENSO: You Are HereBeacon Arts Building, Los Angeles, 201312ft x 40ft x5ftVideo installation/performance: pelon, felt
Mandala: Salt LabyrinthHighways Performance Space, Los Angeles, 2014Performance/installation4ft x 4ft x 2ft
Not a GardenSCA Project Gallery,
Arts Colony Pomona, 2014Video installation: pelon, white felt,
silica, monofilament, black sand12ft x12 ft x 9 ft
Artchemy/solo exhibitionBrandstaters Gallery, Riverside, 2012Video installation: silica, monofilamentVariable from 4ft x 6ft x 4ft
Snezana Saraswati Petrovic
Satomi AkutsuAkutsu is a dancer, choreographer, and yogainstructor. 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.
URL: http://satomiakutsu.tumblr.comE-mail: [email protected]
RanwakabaRanwakaba’s career started as an illustrator after he graduated from the Toyo Institute of Art and Design in1997. Recently, he start-ed producing live performances and events based-on his theme of “graphics, sounds, and movements.”
URL: http://www.ranwakaba.jpE-mail: [email protected]
Hiroshi ShimizuPercussionist/phonographer. Shimizu createsenvironments 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: [email protected]
Tokyo CollaboratorsThese artists will be joining our project when we arrive in Tokyo.
Mail Art ExchangeThroughout 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 Tie-Dying. Particpants will be able to learn several techniques.
Butterfly Print Collections
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 me-dia 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.
Ongoing Projects Events History
Including You: CVFebruary 2014Coachella Valley Art Center45140 Towne Street, Indio, California 92201, USA
Including You: IEFebruary 2014Crafton Hills College11711 Sand Canyon Road, Yucaipa, California 92399, USA
Butterfly Effect Collaborative ProjectSeptember 2014dA Center for the Arts252 D South Main Street, Pomona, California 91766, USA
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 [email protected] .
Future Events
Moment by MomentFriday, November 14, 2014Gallery Conceal Shibuya1-11-3 Fujishoji building 4th floor, Dogen-zakaShibuya, Tokyo 150-0043, Japan
Butterfly EffectSunday, November 16, 2014Sukedo Public Hall and Kominka House (formerly the Kimura House) in Ashikaga City.453-2 Sukedonakacho, Ashikaga-city, Tochigi 326-0043, Japan
The Butterfly Effect
