The FarNear
The FarNear is a durational performance exploring intimacy through reading, writing, and shared authorship. Tethered to each other by a 25-foot clothesline, the artists send edible notes back and forth, creating and consuming poems that transform language into physical points of connection and separation. Drawing from love letters between women artists and writers, the piece invites reflection on how intimacy and boundaries evolve, reshaping identities, words, and space in an ongoing dialogue.
Date
Jun 21, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Featuring
Thorn (Erin Ethridge & Colleen Marie Foley)
Thorn is the collaborative identity of artists Erin Ethridge and Colleen Marie Foley. Through collaboration, Thorn engages the tensions and possibilities of shared authorship. Their practice plays with the push and pull between distance and closeness, pleasure and discomfort, self and other—highlighting the boundaries that shape our relationships and imagining how they might soften or shift.
Combining Erin’s and Colleen’s skills in fabrication and electronic media, Thorn creates performances, sculptures, videos, and wearable objects. Their work has been shown in galleries and museums such as the CICA Museum (South Korea), the Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University, Denison Museum (Ohio), and Field Projects (New York City). They have participated in residencies and fellowships at the TIDES Institute (Maine), Fjuk Art Center (Iceland), Elsewhere Museum (North Carolina), Chulitna Lodge (Alaska), and Rhizome (Washington, D.C.).
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