recent highlights
Glasshouse, m(othering) performance art residency, New Paltz, NY October 2022
with a performance on October 8, 2022
The Un-Antropocene?, The Un- Lab a collaboration between Emily Ward Bivens and Rae Goodwin:
The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY August 2022
Inverse Performance Art Festival, Bentonville, AK November 2022
Winds of our Ancestors: Land Grab, collaboration with Casey McGuire, Satellite Art Show, December 2021
Winds of our Ancestors: Grab Rosekill, collaboration with Casey McGuire, performance at Rosekill Performance Art Venue,
Rosendale, NY, July 2021
Glasshouse, m(othering) performance art residency, New Paltz, NY October 2022
with a performance on October 8, 2022
The Un-Antropocene?, The Un- Lab a collaboration between Emily Ward Bivens and Rae Goodwin:
The Brick Theater, Brooklyn, NY August 2022
Inverse Performance Art Festival, Bentonville, AK November 2022
Winds of our Ancestors: Land Grab, collaboration with Casey McGuire, Satellite Art Show, December 2021
Winds of our Ancestors: Grab Rosekill, collaboration with Casey McGuire, performance at Rosekill Performance Art Venue,
Rosendale, NY, July 2021
The Un-Anthropocene? A collaborative, inter-species dialogical/relational performance art project by Emily Ward Bivens, and Rae Goodwin, image from a public intervention, Rae was asking the micro-organisms in the East River if they could un-anthropocene.
In my art practice I work with intimacy, risk and therefor vulnerability as my main material. I am also deeply concerned with maternal ancestry as it influences the construction of identity, assumptions of strength and notions of agency. Individual Grandmothers in our society, after a whole life they are seen thru the lens of their role or perceptions of their archetype and vastly undervalued. When I ask people about their own grandmothers many confess they do not know her first name, how she grew up, nor her favorite music. Many people do not wonder about her until after she has passed. The absence in presence and presence in absence of this grandmother figure in the social lives of families, leads me to think about relationships, relationality and vulnerability in my work. Often this is conveyed through archetypal or sentimental gestures, materials and interactions between myself and the viewer/participant.
I live and work in Lexington, Kentucky. My art has been exhibited widely and performed at/with the Queens Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, McColl Center for Visual Art, La Pocha Nostra, Dimanche Rouge in Paris, LIVESTOCK in Dublin, defibrillator gallery, Panoply Performance Laboratory, The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, Grace Exhibition Space, Rosekill, grüntaler9, Satellite Art Show, BIPAF and MPAB festivals and many other venues. I earned an MFA from Winthrop University and a BA in Studio Art from Framingham State University. I am also a Professor of Art Studio and am incredibly grateful for the generous support of the College of Fine Arts, the Office of the Vice President for Research and the School of Art & Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky.
I live and work in Lexington, Kentucky. My art has been exhibited widely and performed at/with the Queens Museum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, McColl Center for Visual Art, La Pocha Nostra, Dimanche Rouge in Paris, LIVESTOCK in Dublin, defibrillator gallery, Panoply Performance Laboratory, The Brick Theater in Brooklyn, Grace Exhibition Space, Rosekill, grüntaler9, Satellite Art Show, BIPAF and MPAB festivals and many other venues. I earned an MFA from Winthrop University and a BA in Studio Art from Framingham State University. I am also a Professor of Art Studio and am incredibly grateful for the generous support of the College of Fine Arts, the Office of the Vice President for Research and the School of Art & Visual Studies at the University of Kentucky.
