Coinciding with Binford Experience's exhibition and installation, Juliana Pivato will perform live a 6 hour repeated-song:
Comfort Songs: 6 hours, 3 verses, 1 chorus.
Song List: Company, Rickie Lee Jones; I Fall to Pieces, Patsy Cline; Goodbye to Love, Karen Carpenter, Don’t Worry ‘bout Me, Ella Fitzgerald, etc.
Comfort Songs is an ongoing elaboration on the performer-audience relationship. For the work, Pivato uses specific power ballads as a technologies of transformation. Through repetition, visceral transmission in song becomes flattened out, stabilized, diluted into background. Singing a cappella, real-time vulnerability enables her to situate herself with the viewer in the rupture that ultimately materializes between expectation and experience.
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Juliana Pivato is currently completing an MFA in Sculpture at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Originally from Montreal, Canada, Juliana works in a variety of media including live performance, bronze casting, drawing and sound. Since 2008 she has been hosting a weekly radio show on freeradiosaic.org entitled Songs from the Loop.
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