JOHN STURGEON

SATURN RETURN

Saturn Return, (video/performance), "Castle of Imagination-6th international meeting of performance artists", Byt—w,Poland - 1998; "InterAzoni", Teatro ARKA, Cagliari, Sardinia-Italy - 1998, centers on issues of the Father and the nature of fathering.

 

SHARED FEAR

 

 

Shared Fear -the dance denial, (video/performance), "World Image", Metzingen, Germany - 1998; "InterAzoni", Teatro ARKA, Cagliari, Sardinia Italy - 1998, presents a teetering balance drawn from the anxiety of the Cold War and the often frivolous manifestations of denial from that tension.

 

 

 

FALLING MOOR
Symposium Moor 1992 & More Moor 
International Festival of performance, installation & site specific work on the Wittemoor, an ecologically endangered, state nature preserve in northern Germany.

 

 Falling Moor was a series of video shorts and photographs produced as segues between video segements, documenting the participating artists in Symposium Moor 92 

 

MOOR BATTERY  
Symposium Moor was made possible by national, state & local grants as well as corporate funding and in-kind donations from Germany.

 

 Moor Battery 
Video, photography & performance collaboration with German artist Jörge Haberland, Wittemoor, Germany, 1992. 

 

FISHING MOOR  
John Sturgeon's participation was made possible, in part, with a travel grant from Arts International, The Fund for US Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, (USIA, NEA, Rockefeller & Pew).

 

 Fishing Moor 
Video and performance collaboration with German sculptor and performance artist, Insa Winkler, Wittemoor, Germany, 1992.

 

FRAGMENTS 

 

 Fragments 
Collaborative video/computer graphic performance with Aysha Quinn, at Anthology Film Archives, NYC (1984) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1985).  Fragments was also presented at Medium West Gallery, Minneapolis, MN and the University of Wisconsin in 1986.

 

 

NO EARTH / NO EARTH STATION

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 No Earth / No Earth Station 
A video-performance collaboration with Aysha Quinn premiered at the 2nd Intermedia Arts Festival, University of Iowa (1982), and was reconfigured as a commission for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1983).  Los Angeles featured live & pre-recorded video staging, within a real-time chroma key performance environment.

ATARI IS THE NEW PARENT

 

 Atari is the New Parent 
A collaborative, interactive satellite performance (linked between Los Angeles and Iowa City) with Aysha Quinn & Gary Lloyd, created for the Artist & Television Conference Cablecast, 1982

 

CONJUNCTION / OPPOSITION

 

 Conjunction/Opposition 
A series of performances (with Aysha Quinn) that evolved over the course of four evenings; composed of b&w video (pre-recorded and live) in a sculptural environment.  Conjunction/Opposition premiered at Site, San Francisco, CA in 1976 and was preconfigured for the L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA as Conjunction/Opposition II in 1977.

 

SPINNING DREAM  

 

 Spinning Dream 
AND / OR Gallery, Seattle WA, 1977.  B&W live & pre-recorded video, with sculptural set and text.