{"id":4489,"date":"2016-08-17T19:05:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=4489"},"modified":"2018-05-21T11:08:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T15:08:15","slug":"emily-mast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/emily-mast\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Mast"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9951\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4489-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/emilymast.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/emilymast.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/emilymast.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4490 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/emily-profile.png?resize=179%2C232&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"emily profile\" width=\"179\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/emily-profile.png?w=499&amp;ssl=1 499w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/emily-profile.png?resize=231%2C300&amp;ssl=1 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/span><span class=\"s1\">Emily Mast makes performances and installations that incorporate bodies, movement, sound and light as live sculptural material.\u00a0Her work consists of collaborative practices that celebrate their ambiguous position between art, theater, poetry and dance. She\u00a0often allows her work to unfold in chapters by proposing iterations and offshoots of the same piece. This comes from a\u00a0longstanding interest in the imprecision of language, the unreliability of memory and the value of inaccuracy as it relates to\u00a0systems of belief in contemporary society.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0 \u00a0Her five-part project <i>The Cage is a Stage<\/i> is currently on view in Toronto and was co-produced by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepowerplant.org\/Exhibitions\/2016\/Summer-2016\/The-Cage-is-a-Stage.aspx\"><span class=\"s2\">T<\/span><span class=\"s3\">he Power Plant<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blackwoodgallery.ca\/exhibitions\/2016\/TheCage.html\"><span class=\"s3\">Blackwood Gallery<\/span><\/a>. Before that, she\u00a0staged a solo \u201cchoreographed exhibition\u201d\u00a0at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lafermedubuisson.com\/emily-mast\"><span class=\"s3\">La Ferme du Buisson<\/span><\/a>\u00a0in Noisiel, France, and an 18-part roving procession of performances at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (<a href=\"https:\/\/unframed.lacma.org\/2014\/03\/27\/emily-mast-the-least-important-things\"><span class=\"s3\">LACMA<\/span><\/a>). Her video, installation, and\u00a0performance work was part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hammer.ucla.edu\/made-in-la-2014\/emily-mast\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Hammer Museum<\/span><\/a>\u2019s\u00a0<i>Made in L.A.<\/i>\u00a0Biennial (2014). Mast\u2019s performances have been exhibited at\u00a0venues including:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/frieze.com\/article\/sentence-public-fiction?language=en\"><span class=\"s3\">China Art Objects Galleries<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 Los Angeles (2015);<a href=\"http:\/\/www.monabismarck.org\/events\/performance-emily-mast\"><span class=\"s3\"> Mona Bismarck American Center<\/span><\/a>, Paris (2015); Silencio, Paris\u00a0(2015);\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nightgallery.ca\/event.php?id=109\"><span class=\"s3\">Night Gallery<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 Los Angeles (2014);\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/machineproject.com\/archival\/rrf-project-space\/\"><span class=\"s3\">Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space<\/span><\/a>\u00a0 New York (2013);\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.publicfiction.org\/birdbrain.html\"><span class=\"s3\">Public Fiction<\/span><\/a>, Los\u00a0Angeles (2012); REDCAT, Los Angeles (2012); MUHKA, Antwerp (2011); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2010) and Performa, New\u00a0York (2009).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Emily has been an artist-in-residence at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; the Headlands Center for the Arts in\u00a0Sausalito; and Yaddo in Saratoga Springs.\u00a0Please visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilymast.com\/\"><span class=\"s2\">emilymast.com<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The book she&#8217;s\u00a0re-reading right now is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pol-editeur.com\/index.php?spec=livre&amp;ISBN=2-86744-910-3\"><span class=\"s3\">Oeuvres<\/span><\/a>\u00a0by Edouard Lev\u00e9 and h<\/span><span class=\"s4\">ere is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oogaboogastore.com\/shop\/books\/detail\/Material-1.html\"><span class=\"s2\">publication<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that her\u00a0translations appear in.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4504\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4504\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4504 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BBNY.jpg?resize=640%2C379&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BBNY\" width=\"640\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BBNY.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BBNY.jpg?resize=300%2C178&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/BBNY.jpg?resize=624%2C370&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4504\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Mast, B!RDBRA!N, 2012 Photo: Julia Sherman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4493\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4493\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4493 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/carboard_final.jpg?resize=625%2C417&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"carboard_final\" width=\"625\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/carboard_final.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/carboard_final.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/carboard_final.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/carboard_final.jpg?resize=624%2C416&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/carboard_final.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4493\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Emily Mast, The Cage Is A Stage, 2016 Photo: Betsy Lin Seder<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/emilymast.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listEmily Mast makes performances and installations that incorporate bodies, movement, sound and light as live sculptural material.\u00a0Her work consists of collaborative practices that celebrate their ambiguous position between art, theater, poetry and dance. 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