Glass Meet The Future International Film FestivaL | 03 JULY – 17 JULY 2020

Anna Mlasowsky “Chorus of One”

GLASS MEET THE FUTURE FILM FESTIVAL 2020 | NORTH LANDS CREATIVE | 03 JULY - 17 JULY 2020

synopsis

Category: performance

Chorus of One is a wearable sound object, producing multiple tones when activated by a single performer. The wearable was created after the facets of a found rock. Each scale of the cloak is a face of the rock.

 

The type of glass used for the creation of this object was a material developed for body armor by Corning Inc. as a specialty glass product for the military, which I got to use during my Specialty Glass residency in 2016. The glass is called Rhino glass and it is extremely shatter resistant. The performance would not be possible with another type of glass.

 

I was interested in how a shield is an inhibiter. As protection both a boundary and border. It inhibits movement but also communication. Performance, dance and music are the opposite of a protective layer. Chorus of one is an object that possess both, inhibiting and extending.

 

Performed by Alethea Alexander Video by Derek Klein Object and Editing by Anna Mlasowsky

ARTIST BIO
Anna MlasowSKY

Born in 1984 in East Germany, Anna Mlasowsky holds a BA in Glass from the Royal Danish Academy and an MFA in Sculpture from the University of Washington. Anna received an Artist Trust Fellowship in 2017, was one of the Emerging Voices in Craft Shortlist Award recipients and was awarded an Emerging Artist residency at Centrum Foundation. Her work has been included in Museum collections of the Corning Museum of Glass, The European Museum of Modern Glass and the Glasmuseum Ebeltoft.

 

 

Anna gave the Page Hazelgrove lecture at MIT and was the 2016-17 research Artist in Residence at the Corning Inc. Science Center. 

 

She was recently an artist in residence at Sculpture Space, a visiting artist at Bowling Green State University, University of Texas Arlington, College for Creative Studies and during the fall an artist in residence at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. 

 

Last year she received the Aldo Bellini Award, the John and Joyce Price Award of Excellence and she is a Museum of Art and Design Burke Prize finalist. She was the Windgate Visiting Artist at Purchase College in the Spring of 2019.

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