EVENTS

SUNDAY, December 7, 2008

“Performance at Noon”
Cynthia Norton, Queen of Cups,
2008 by Ninnie Novelty
NADA Stage

2–4pm
Stan Shellabarger, Walking Books
Nomadic

Louisville-based artist/musician Cynthia Norton creates music in the character of her performance personae, Ninnie Novelty. Within this character, Norton references and expands upon the cultural traditions of the rural South and specifically of her native Kentucky. Moving fluidly between sculpture and musical performances, Norton plays with the idiom of comedic country rube (think post-modern Minnie Pearl) as a strategy to explore the idiosyn-cratic niches between folk traditions, readymade sculpture, concrete poetry and basement chemistry. Norton attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Norton has recently exhibited/performed with the McLeod Residence, Seattle (2008); Swanson Reed Contemporary, Louiville (2007/2004); Steinek Gallery, Vienna (2007); Eugen Lendl Gallery, Graz (2005); SECCA, Winston-Salem (2005). Her work was recently included in the Contemporary Art Museum of Houston’s “The Old, Weird America”.

Stan Shellabarger’s performance and book work addresses issues relating to the body, often taking mundane, everyday activities like breathing, walking and writing to extreme measures in endurance-based performance work that emphasizes the traces humans leave upon the earth. He will be performing Walking Books.