mnartists.org: Angela Zammarelli

Making New Friends in Old Places

Angela Zammarelli — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:05:52 GMT

Performance with portable doll fort in downtown Northampton, MA spring 2009.

image: making New Friends in Old Places

image: making New Friends in Old Places

image: making New Friends in Old Places

Spacemakers space making space

Angela Zammarelli — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 23:01:53 GMT

image: spacemakers space making space

image: spacemakers space making space

Spacemaker

Angela Zammarelli — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 02:35:01 GMT

If You Ask Me A Question, I Can't Promise You I Won't Lie

Angela Zammarelli — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:17:19 GMT

image: detail

image: detail

image: detail

image: detail

image: detail

Thank You For Coming, We Will Visit Again

Angela Zammarelli — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:16:41 GMT

Play and transformation, specificly in a domestic setting. The idea of home as microcosm. Rhyzomic growth and understanding

image: detail of viewers under the table

image: wallpaper drawing

image: Watcher with words shoved in its mouth

studio box and festive trim

Angela Zammarelli — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 04:05:25 GMT

This is process work from the Praxis/Practice show at the Katherine Nash gallery at the U of M late last year. The cardboard box is from my studio where I would hang out in it while I thought or draw, it has now become an archway in my studio, a box for an installation, and material for other shelters in my studio. The trimmings I had not seen before the show at the Nash. They were in a suitcase that my brother's mother-in-law gave me. I did not open the suitcase and see what she had given me until the show. I wanted to be suprised.

image: trimmings

image: box, suitcase, window, ladder

image: oh yes and evil eyes for protection

image: inside box

image: other side of the the box and trimmings

image: window side view

image: box outside

Stills from the video "A Ghost Story: Poupee and Bear"

Angela Zammarelli — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:42:35 GMT

Poupee hears a Chorus singing and desides to follow the sound. She comes to a cave where Bear is lying having lost all limbs . Poupee decides that she will give her dress to make Bear limbs. The process is long and tedious but in the end success is had. Poupee and Bear leave the cave together.

image: Poupee and Bear video still

image: Poupee and Bear video still

image: Poupee and Bear video still

image: Poupee and Bear video still

image: Poupee and Bear video still

image: Poupee and Bear video still

Bear (from A Ghost Story; Poupee and Bear)

Angela Zammarelli — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 20:54:23 GMT

Poupee made Bear's limbs out of her dress. Sometimes in moments of intensity the earth is able to capture the moment and replay it over and over forever.

image: viewer

image: peek

image: drawings

image: Bear

image: Chorus

image: Delila

image: Poupee

This is How We Lived Before You Came Along

Angela Zammarelli — Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:24:02 GMT

There is a Story I Forgot to Tell You (Part 3) This is How We Lived Before You (working title) Dweller: 1. to live as a resident; reside 2. to exist in a given place or state Watcher: 1. one that watches or observes 2. one who keeps vigil Habitat: 1. the area or environment where an organism or ecological community normally lives or occurs 2. the place where a person or thing is most likely to be found 3. a structure that affords a controlled environment for living in extremely inhospitable locations A portal was discovered during the excavation of this room/spot. Explorer (the excavator) decided to go through to see what was on the other side. Here Explorer found the Dwellers. The Dwellers are planters and players. They live off of Ribbelinchia (rough translation), a long sprawling plant of many colors and uses. Explorer admired the Dwellers and their homeland but decided that one cannot plant and play all the time. With this the Explorer headed back to the portal, tromping through a large patch of Ribbelinchia. Ribbelinchia is a very hearty, one might say invasive, plant. It can grow in many dimensions and environments, and apparently oxygen and dust are one of its favorite places to live. Coming through the portal Explorer began to spread the Ribbelinchia through the space. A passerby notices the growing screamed and shut the door to the space. Little by little the space started to transform and so did Explorer.

image: crawling up

image: Rolling Ribbelinchia

image: view from the window in the front of the room

image: placing rolled Ribbelinchia

image: view from the cave

image: view of the door where they watch

image: worms

image: worm nap squirm

image: river drinking

image: hiding

image: eating

image: rolling

image: Explorer (after the change)

image: view from the netted window

You Can Dress Death Up, But You Can't Take Her Anywhere (A Birth Story)

Angela Zammarelli — Wed, 03 May 2006 03:19:07 GMT

There is a Story I Forgot to Tell You Part II You Can Dress Death Up, But You Can't Take Her Anywhere (A Birth Story) Myth- 1. a. A traditional, typically ancient story dealing with supernatural beings, ancestors, or heroes that serves as a fundamental type in the worldview of a people, as by explaining aspects of the natural world or delineating the psychology, customs, or ideals of society 3. A fiction or half-truth, especially one that forms part of an ideology. Play- 1. To occupy oneself in amusement, sport, or other recreation 13. To move or operate freely within a bounded space, as machine parts do Play at- 1. To participate in; engage in Play- 1. An investment Watcher: 1. one who looks at, keep one's eyes fixed on 2. alert for something 3. an exerciser of protective care "You Can Dress Death Up, But You Can't Take Her Anywhere (A Birth Story)" is the second installation in the series called "There is a Story I Forgot to Tell You". This series stars the larva like knitted creatures that, while never occuping the center of attention in these staged spaces, are the reason why they are created. These larva like creatures are potential and are to be brought to the different worlds by the Garden Bearer (still playing with this or Barer). In the respected worlds that they are brought to they can become what ever is needed to balance out the hole left by the Departed. The Departed are beings that are done with their life in their respected worlds. They are brought by the Mountain Bearer to the Mountains of the Departed, here it is their responsibility to give freely of their lifestuff to the Garden Bearer. This happens so that they can rest and become apart of The Mountains. Also their lifestuff is needed to feed to Eaterbirther who lives in The Garden. The Eaterbirther consumes the lifestuff and poops out the larva like potential. After this it rests and The Garden Bearer takes the potential away to the different worlds for them to become. This is just a small portion of the cycle, a lovely portion. - Angela Zammarelli

image: Part of the Cycle

image: Mountains of the Departed

image: enabled Watcher or Watcher 9