Sunday June 30th, 2024 | 2pm
Factory Media Centre (366 Victoria Ave N. Hamilton, ON)
Free Admission
Factory Media Centre is excited to present Physical Exercise, a live durational performance by Steacy Easton. The performance will begin at 2pm. As this is a durational live performance, there is no set end time. We encourage people to arrive for and engage with the performance between 2-4pm. Factory Media Centre will also be sharing live updates on the status of the performance on our social media channels.
About the performance
In an attempt to ritualize and reclaim acts forced on disabled bodies, and to historicise work like Bruce Nauman’s Walking in an Exaggerated Manner, or Alÿs’s Paseo’s I will perform a physical exercise at Factory Media Center.
The plan is to bounce a red rubber ball against a wall in the gallery space, and then catch it 100 times. I will have to start over if I fail to catch the ball. The performance will be over when I have successfully caught the ball 100 times. It will be filmed via a live camera feed. People will be able to view the video, in real time, via a small screen in Factory Media Centre’s Studio space.
There will be a log in sheet, in the space of the video. People who watch the live feed video will be asked to record their name, the time they started watching, and the time they stopped watching.
About the Artist
Steacy Easton is a writer and visual artist, originally from Edmonton, who has lived in Hamilton for more than seven years. They have written on gender, sexuality, and country music for publications including Slate, NPR, and the Atlantic Online. They have books on Tammy Wynette for University of Texas, an upcoming volume on Dolly Parton’s White Limozeen for Bloomsbury’s 33 ⅓ series; and an erotic kunstlerroman for Coach House, Daddy Lessons
They have shown work in Hamilton, Toronto, Montreal, Alberta, and New York. They have made durational performance art in Hamilton, Toronto, and Halifax. Their work is in public collections in Edmonton, Burlington, and Hamilton; plus in the library of the National Gallery of Canada. They were the 2022 Artist in Residence at the Martha Street Studio in Winnipeg.
About Factory Media Centre
Factory Media Centre is Hamilton’s not-for-profit artist-driven resource centre for film, video, new media, installation, sound art, and other multimedia art forms. Our mission is to develop and support a vibrant, sustainable, creative, and diverse community of Members and non-Members within Hamilton and its surrounding region.