Performance
www.laureljay.com
Laurel Jay Carpenter is a performance and installation artist, investigating longing, devotion and alchemy in her durational live works. She has exhibited extensively in New York City at venues including Exit Art, The Knitting Factory, Performance Space 122, Judson Church House, the ISE, SOHO20 and Microscope Galleries, and Brooklyn’s Borough Hall. Laurel has been a fellow and invited artist at the International Performance Art Festival in Cleveland, The Performance Studies International Conference and the MacDowell Colony.
Internationally, Laurel has presented work at the NMAC Foundation in southern Spain; with Wooloo Productions and the Hebbel Theatre in Berlin, Germany; as an Artist-in-Residence at The International Festival of Contemporary Art in Terni, Italy; at the Bergen International Festival in Norway; and as part of the 2007 Venice Biennale. Laurel is honored to have been one of only two US participants in the Independent Performance Group (2004-2007), founded and facilitated by Marina Abramovic, as an early incarnation of her Institute in supporting the “next generation” of durational performers.
Currently, Laurel is engaged in two collaborations: with Norwegian video/performance artist Terese Longva and with US dance artist Robert Bingham. She also serves as Associate Professor of Art at Alfred University in western New York.
