Pinkard gallery solo show

Fifteen minutes is on view at the Pinkark Gallery at 1401 Mount Royal March 10- April 11.

INTERACTIVE WEB-BASED STUDENT PERFORMANCE AT MICA

GIVES WEB VIEWERS AN ALTERNATIVE USE OF POWER

BALTIMORE – In a new student exhibition at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), fifteen minutes gives Web surfers a unique position of power. Fifteen minutes, an interactive web-based performance created by MICA senior Rebecca Nagle, allows viewers an opportunity to choose an activity for the artist to perform within 15 minutes on video. In a comfortable living room setting, complete with a sofa and other furnishings, viewers can enjoy and experience the video installation as well as surf the project’s Web site at www.fifteenminutesvideo.com. The video performance is on display from Monday, March 10 through Friday, April 11 in Bunting Center, Pinkard Student Space Gallery at 1401 Mount Royal Avenue. A reception occurs on Wednesday, March 12 from 5–7 p.m.

In fifteen minutes, viewers can submit an activity via the Web site, as well as specify the date and location of the act, that will be performed by Rebecca Nagle. All videos are uploaded to the Web site for the public to view. The requests have varied from radical to demeaning to misogynistic. She has fulfilled a number of requests including gluing M&Ms to rubber duckies while hula hooping; public bathing; playing with a noose; and dancing to Michael Jackson. According to Nagle, “The purpose of fifteen minutes is not to fulfill the desires of participants, but rather to establish a relationship by which those desires are negotiated. This negotiation complicates the typical rendering of power relationships as absolute, and puts forth an alternative view of power as malleable.”
All exhibitions and receptions at MICA are free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m.–5 p.m. and Sunday from noon–5 p.m. For more information about fifteen minutes, visit www.fifteenminutesvideo.com. For more information about MICA, visit www.mica.edu or call 410-225-2300.