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Allison Wyper

Performance Artist
  • about
    • bio
    • cv
  • news
  • works
    • encounter
    • birthing a nation
    • sibling rivers
    • witness
    • intimate performances
    • the lovers (after magritte)
    • two minutes hate
    • abby ghraib
    • contaminated femininities
    • unruly bits
    • ephemeral projects
    • videos
    • curatorial projects
    • la pocha nostra collaborations
  • workshops
  • rhizomatic arts

Upcoming engagements:

events


Recent posts:

news
CCI feature on my work with creative entrepreneurs in LA
CCI feature on my work with creative entrepreneurs in LA
about a month ago
I gave an interview for The Void Academy.
about 7 months ago
Encounter fundraiser at Human Resources
about a year ago
A few of my favorite LA artists
about 2 years ago

Recent coverage:

 

“Artist > Activist > Leader: Evolution & Throughline” on Creative Industries Incentive Network blog by the Center for Cultural Innovation.

"Work Independently, Not Alone: Allison Wyper on Los Angeles performance, community, and supporting other artists" by Karina Vahitova for The Void Academy. 

HomeLA // Frogtown coverage on Artforum, and KCHUNG's Performance Now! 
Plus "Playing Ophelia: homeLA's 'Frogtown' Dances Along the L.A. River" by Christina Campodonico.

GYST Radio interviews Allison about Rhizomatic Arts for the GYST DO IT podcast.

Los Angeles River: Art, Performance, Civic Engagement (Episode 20), an interview with Julia Meltzer, Cathy Gudis, and Allison Wyper, on KCHUNG's Performance Now! with Carol Cheh

photo by Mido Lee

photo by Mido Lee

"this is what i call the light of god" premieres in San Francisco

May 25, 2016

[NOTE: THIS PIECE HAS SINCE BEEN RE-TITLED BIRTHING A NATION. LEARN MORE ABOUT IT HERE. -AW]

 

Erika Katrina Barbosa and I premiered a new media/performance work at the stARTup Art Fair earlier this month. We kept having to explain to attendees that, yes, in fact, we are an art piece... and no, we are not actually pregnant!

Above is a photo (by Mido Lee) with stARTup founders Ray Beldner and Steve Zavattero. The wonderful Justin Charles Hoover curated interactive/performance works.

It's title a direct quote from a police officer describing his weapon, "this is what I call the light of god" is a participatory performance ritual for an age of police violence. Found sound of real U.S. officers, NRA members, and gun enthusiasts, activated by touch sensors, are embedded in the wombs of the performers: Our Ladies of Peace, vessels of the patriarchy, police brutality madonnas for the 21st century. 

This media art/performance collaboration combines my work with vulnerability and participation, with Erika's interrogation of police violence through the objects officers carry.

More photos, by Mido Lee:

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The next night, we were invited to POW!POW!POW!POW! action art festival by founder and co-curator Guillermo Galindo, at the Fort Mason Center:

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