Gesture of Benevolence May 15, 2009

Picture By Johana Moscoso

In the exhibition Gestures of Benevolence, artist Johana Moscoso turns her work into a participatory performance that encourages a communal gesture between the children and their families, the artist, and the audience.

Picture by deidratyree@yahoo.com

Picture by Danny Paulete

Picture by Danny Paulete

The notion of gesture that she is applying is an action to help two special needs children. The artist is making devices that their mothers need to assist them. However, there are some devices that cannot be made by the artist. Therefore, the audience is invited to make a minimum donation of one dollar.

Picture By Ana Hoyos

In return donors can participate in making metaphorical versions of the objects, needed by the children, by connecting the dots on the gallery walls. The donated proceeds will be used to purchase the actual devices for the children.

Picture by Danny Paulete

Picture By Staci Stone

Picture By Ana Hoyos

Picture by Johana Moscoso

The money collected is giving to the children’s mothers on Tuesday May 26, 2009 at 6:30 p.m and on Wednesday May 27, 2009 at 7:00 p.m at the gallery. The audience is welcome to be in the gallery when the money is presented. The donor participants are encouraged to leave their information so that they can be continually informed of how their gesture has impacted the lives of these two families.

Picture By Staci Stone

Picture By Staci Stone

Picture By Staci Stone

The two products that the children need; a Hip Reduction Wedge which costs exactly $101.65. The other product will be Braces with silicon inserts that can be removed as the child’s foot grows. These custom fit prostheses cost around $1000.

Hip Reduction Wedge. Picture by Johana Moscoso

Francisco's Braces. Picture by Johana Moscoso

The artist hopes to raise the $1101.65 through her exhibition and the participation of others. Thank you for your participation and collaboration in the project Gestures of Benevolence.

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Cake made by Viky, Francisco's mother

Picture By Johana Moscoso

Francisco was more interested in the piggy bank containing the money than the money itself .

Gestures of Benevolence

My Thesis project Gestures of Benevolence will open on Friday
May 15 2009 at 7p.m. Please mark it in your calendar, as I would love you to participate

Multitask Walker

On October 24 in LeFlash I had a successful performance for 5 hours around Castleberry Hill in Atlanta. I used one of my pieces: Multitask Walker”. You can see it on my website http://www.johanamoscoso.com/ in the works of 2008. I will be glad if you want to see my other work in my website as well.
I am very thankful with the people that have helping me in this piece and performance. my wonderful family, Scott Carter, Susan Krause, Ed Bringas, Tiffany Sinnott, Sean L., Danny Paulette, and The Sculpture Department of SCAD.

Pictures I received by e-mail the first, second, and third pictures from www.flickr.com/photos/cumberlandroadstudios I don´t know who is this person, but he or she took those pictures. Thank you

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Miss Fix - it

http://www.johanamoscoso.com/

The Pan in the bag

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New video Teatro Johana

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L_sO6b4Crs

or search in YouTube Teatro Johana.

Thanks Professor Jarvis for making the video Teatro Johana.

my MARY KAY protection device for marta

AN ARTIST MEAL IN MARTA

October 9, 6:20 p.m. Today I went with my friend Valentina Vitols to the Marta station, www.itsMarta.com, in order to use "my MARY KAY protection device for Marta" and take photos with her profesional camera. Before entering the N5 - Arts Center Station I opened the suitcase and put it on.

Pictures by Valentina Vitols.

There were few people in the station. I walked to the stairs and went down. I saw a friend while I was recharging my breeze card but he didn't recognize me. While I was recharging my breeze card a women from the station asked me if I needed help. She tried to see my eyes, but it was difficult to see them because they were covered by my hood. I felt like hiding. I walked a situation s a normal person, pretending that nothing happened. This situation was easier for me than for Valentina. I went through the doors and into the station but Valentina didn't because a security woman told her that she couldn't use her camera. That was when I realized it was time to give up.

After leaving Marta I sat on the garden wall and took off "My Mary Kay protection device for Marta," and another security woman asked if we knew that it was prohibited to take pictures in public places, she told us that people had been very afraid of me, because a lot of people told her there was a Middle Eastern or a Mediterranean girl, who was dressed strange and might have a bomb. They must have assumed style of the hood, but nobody took the risk to look at my face and see. The security woman was very kind. She told us how to get permission to take pictures in Marta. We got along with each other and we discussed people’s fear of unusual thing; Every day people report anything they find strange or even silly to the Marta security people. She believed that the people in Marta were mortified.

This experience was like a our flavor sour in my mouth
I did not like that I offended people.
I did not like that I was included in political issues that did not relate to me.
I did not like that I didn’t take full advantage of the Mary Kay name on my suitcase.
I did not lke taking advantage of people’s fears and judgments of Mediterranean people in order to make polemic art

This experience was as good as chocolate (without milk)
- It was good to explore an artwork in a public space.
- It was different the experience to be hiding in a public place. Even though I was really nervous, I sweated and trembling.
-Performance in a public place and in a different country, make you thought that you’ll never know what is going to happen.
- I enjoy to made my MARY KAY protection device for Marta
- I took pleasure of using the body as support for an artwork
- It is motivating to open my work to the public places.

To cook

- Work in a public places
- Performance
- Open my self to the people that live in Atlanta, knowing people?
- New techniques video? Sound?
-Try to take a distance with the idea of product.

All pictures by Valentina Vitols.

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FEmale 1. 2007.

“Menor fertilidad”. (Minor fertility).

Dimensions : Each piece has different dimensions. Medium : Tull net, under wear materials. Each piece was made from a collection of junk food packages in knots; They are the record of all that I ate for one year. Year : 2006. Theme: This work is a reflection of womens in fertility. Women get fatter at their waist because she is getting ready to have a baby. This means that the less they eat the less fertile they are, and the more they eat, more fertile they are. Each piece has a Silver Willendorf venus pendant, one of the most popular art image of fertility.

“Acompañantes afectivos” / Emotionally Affectionate

Year : 2005 This was my thesis Project. It has two parts: the first one is written and the second one is an art work. In the written part there are reflections about art and the art relation with the industrial design throughout the history, the emotional affections, the relationship and the proximity with people with whom one is affectionate or all that means a real home. The second part is a collection of tridimensional pieces called Emotionally Affectionate Companions.

The collection of tridimensional pieces permits reflections about its emblematic characteristics: the concept of luxury, functionality, mechanics and anthropomorphism. They offer to the viewer the possibility to see that art is a flexible net, which can tie together with all postmodern time connotations. This art’s attitude gives a virtue to tying it with different fields, like industrial design. It glimpse a relationship between art combined with industrial design. The “Emotionally Affectionate Companions” functionality provide connections with the objects that we live with; so it seems that the net (art) can weave together with a discipline that worries about usefulness and the physical characteristics of the objects. It is a work of art that lets do reflections about the human relationship with objects and it allows the viewer to discover connections with art. The diversity of all the intensions of this work are focus on the concept of substitute. The substitute of E.H Gombrich. It shows an interest about human affections and about the topic variety that these imply. In these affections we can find relationships and the proximity with the close relatives, the dearest ones in the home (home is a place that means affection), the happiness at home and the comfort that can be established with these people, that is possible only at home.

These pieces mean a collection of emotional affections, memories, comforts, customes, loving acts, persons or routine situations, like walking hand in hand, sleeping between dad and mom or when someone takes care of you when you are sick. The “Emotionally Affectionate Companions” had made as a group; they are a collection of art pieces, or maybe a collection of affections, remembers, commodities, homes, customs, love acts, persons or daily situations like walking hand in hand, sleeping between dad and mom or when someone takes care of you when you are sick, or the restless excite noise of the parents in their child school shows, this ideas born from the Jean Braudillard connotation of collection.

None.Performance.

Place : Au Bon Pain. 1100 Massachusetts. Ave Cambridge MA 02138-5218. U.S.A. Medium : Performance. Date : 2003. 8 March. 4:00 p.m. Usually all the customers of this store eat every day the same food. They have the same daily habits everyday of their lives, but one day in March they got stress because they found all the containers and products of this place turned so they couldn’t see the label. The crowd who usually has coffee feels confused and their routine has a strange break. They lost the usual “consumismo” seduction