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On Saturday November 26, 2022 Carron Little & Duff Norris (NYC) collaborated on creating this public performance in Barrowland Park, Glasgow, Scotland. The materials used were brooms, three metal buckets, blue and yellow pigment and a black wig.

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Entering our sixth edition of Artist Focus where different artists in the outofsite_chi collective are in conversation with artists around the globe about their public performance art practice.

This Spring we spoke to Yvette Teeuwen, Denys Blacker, Boris Neislony, Dorothea Rust, Julie Vulcan, Keike Twisselmann, James King and Janice Parker.

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Carron is currently organizing the online public performance symposium with the community of artists in Out of Site. This is the second year of this international gathering of public performance practitioners from around the world. We have developed two partnerships for a second year with Experimental Sound Studio and Intellect Books and are offering symposium attendees a 30% discount on Actional Poetics - ASH SHE HE, The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971 - 2020 edited by Sandra Johnston, Cherie Driver, and Paula Blair.

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A weekend of live public performances from around the globe brought to you by Out of Site in cultural partnership with Experimental Sound Studio.

Please click below to a link for the live broadcast on YouTube on Friday June 17 @7pm CT | Saturday June18 @12noon CT | Sunday June 19 @12noon CT

Image: Video Still of Digital media composites and Carron Little performing.

On November 22, 2020 Carron created a live stream public performance on Experimental Sound Studios channel as part of Field Chicago Fall workshop. The poem was written the week of the U.S. election and she fused heat press prints to create digital worlds for each stanza.
To read more about this performance and view the documentation please click below.

Image: Digital Print Collage by Carron Little

On February 8, 2021 Carron created a public engagement performance project for the town of Luddington, Michigan supported by West Shore Community College and curated by Eden Unluata-Foley. The performance was inspired by Burns Night celebrations where the public are invited to write poetry for the opposite gender. Three individuals volunteered to participate, Barbara Forgue, Sean Henne and Duff Norris.
To read more about this civic engagement project please visit the performance page.

On August 26, 2020 Ginny Sykes and Carron Little worked in collaboration with chicago Women’s History Center to create a live streaming event to celebrate the Centennial Anniversary of Women’s Suffrage in the USA.

Ginny marked the occasion with sharing banner art project and Carron created a live stream performance fusing poetry from the Spare Rib Revisited project. The poem for Claudia Bucher and Sylvia Hikins and then we had a zoom talk with the audience.

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On June 19, 2021 Isa Fontbona Mola and Carron Little collaborated to create a public performance on the steps of the Cathedral in Girona, Spain. This performance was inspired by Poem for Abilasa Leuenberger that Carron wrote in 2016 as part of the Spare Rib Revisited project. Here you see a member of the public reading Carron’s poem in Catalan written on gold bandage wrapped around Isa’s head.

The poem was inspired by Abilasa’s experience of going to school in a village in Switzerland where the teacher’s made her an outcast because of her mixed race. Carron wrote to poem as an offering to Abilasa to use her talent of writing to heal from this brutal experience. To view the documentation of this project please click on the link below.

From April 22 to May 9, 2021 Carron organized the online public performance symposium called Flow, embody • in site with the amazing community of artists in Out of Site. We had an open call for practice-based workshop submissions and presentations on public performance that was juried by ieke Trinks, Jeremy Pauly and Martine Viale. Practice-based workshops were created by Marilyn Arsem, Dimple B Shah, Martine Viale, Kirsten Heshusius, Callum Eccleston and Carron Little. These workshops lasted several days. Performance Lectures and presentations were given online by reknowned artists Alastair MacLennan, Zhou Bin, Denys Blacker and Dimple B Shah to name a few. We are currently planning Flow 2022 and will be annoucing an open call in February.

Image: Video Still from Live Stream Performance constructed from prints, paintings and live performance by Carron Little.

Action Art Encounter curated by Martine Viale on Experimental Sound Studio Twitch Channel on September 5, 2021. In this charateristic performance experimentation Carron fuses poetry, visual prints and video taken while on residency in Puglia, Italy to compose a visual poem. This was part of a curated evening of live performances with Emilie Franceschin. Manuela Macco and Michelle Lacombe.

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In September 2020 the Out of Site artist collective decided to host weekly Artist Focus talks every Saturday in the Fall and Spring. Each session lasts for eight weeks and we dive into a conversation with artists who have a public performance art practice. Chinese Scholar and performance artist Sophia Kidd asked Carron if she would engage in a mutual conversation with Carron discussing their work. This broadcast can be listened to here.

In partnership with Experimental Sound Studio, Carron curated a live public performance program on October 1, 2021 with artists, Beau Coleman, Beate Linne, Yvette Teeuwen and Surya Tüchler.

This event started at 4pm CT | 23:00 CEST so its time for afternoon tea or a midnight feast depending on where you are.

Image: Video Still from live stream performance by Carron Little.

This project was curated by Beau Coleman at the Spar2c Research Center, University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada on October 22, 2021. This was part of a symposium called Research-Creation in Urgent Times and Carron spoke on a panel entitled Artistic Research in the Public Space. This live stream performance was compiled with poetry, video and photography taken on hikes in the Highlands of Scotland taking in the slow times and smells while walking.

Image: Residue of Performance by Carron Little

Edition #21 took place in the intimate space of zoom where nine artists perform simultaneously as part of this ongoing performance art project through the pandemic. Core Artists invite three guest artists to participate in each session and Carron was delighted to be invited by Beau Coleman. The intimate 15 minute group performance was followed by a post-performance conversation on January 24, 2022. Please find a link to the video documentation below. To find out more about this exciting project please visit Lock Unlock Performance Art Project