Defibrillator: Stephanie Acosta

​I Am A Potted Palm ​

The Defibrillator Gallery
1463 W Chicago Ave
February 6th, 7pm – 8:30pm

Stephanie Acosta is a multidisciplinary artist focused on the exploration of the experiential, incorporating concrete objects, ensemble performances and documentary filmmaking as modes of inquiry. By placing the materiality of the ephemeral at the root of her practice, Acosta questions the making of immovable meanings in our manufactured limitations. Acosta currently resides between NY and Chicago​, where she works extensively with unseen histories, performance, experimental radio, and film. Acosta can also be found creating with NO ONE IS ANYWHERE, davielshyfilms, Intrinsic Grey Productions and past ​collaborators including Atom-r, Manuel Vason, and Robin Deacon. Most recently she could be found in Paris producing the upcoming project,​The Ladies Almanack, the first feature film based on the writing of Djuna Barnes coming ​Spring 2016,​ or in Chicago developing the new publication series Travel Logs with Rory Murphy, or in NY developing solo performance and video works for the series Is This What You Wanted, issues of self tokenizing and the sanctity of sincerity in identity work. Recently Acosta premiered Fleeting Components, an experimental documentary series looking at the ​experimental broadcasting project Radius, and can be found this spring back in Brooklyn working with a new ensemble on the final part of Process/Progress, a research series.

​I Am A Potted Palm is a 2 part performance event, an accidental collection, part of an evolving series of performance and video works for the series Is This What You Wanted, confronting​ issues of self tokenizing and the sanctity of sincerity in identity work. As part of IN>TIME I Am A Potted Palm will manifest in two parts, first on February 6th (3-6p) as a durational meditation on the limpieza espiritual, or spiritual cleansing, ​engaging elements of the hybrid spiritual practices and creating a microclimate amidst Slant, a sound installation by Ethan Rose. This durational action will continue with the artist delivering each palm in a trek to Defibrillator gallery. On February 8th (7p) an evening length performance amongst the palms, including moving image, objects, actions, light oceans, and fuchsia skies.
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I Am A Potted Palm – La Limpieza

Regards gallery – Feb 6th (SAT) 3-6pm

A durational meditation on the limpieza espiritual, or spiritual cleansing, ​engaging elements of the hybrid spiritual practices and creating a microclimate amidst Slant, a sound installation by Ethan Rose. This durational action will continue with the artist delivering each palm in a trek to Defibrillator gallery. Join us for the continuation on February 8th at 7p for the evening length performance amongst the palms, including moving image, objects, actions, light oceans, and fuchsia skies.

I Am A Potted Palm is an accidental collection, part of an evolving series of performance and video works for the series Is This What You Wanted, confronting​ issues of self tokenizing and the sanctity of sincerity in identity work and is presented as part of IN>TIME16 Performance Festival.