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1:49pm | <\/strong>Tonight at 6:30 PM, CSULB’s University Art Museum presents a free dance performance by Flora Wiegmann<\/a>, one of the artists whose work is included in an exhibition entitled Split Moment. Split Moment was curated and organized by Mary Coyne, Damaris Leal, and Hillary Morimoto, students in the CSULB Graduate Program in Museum and Curatorial Studies. The exhibition looks at documentary works that relate to performance. <\/p>\n I asked Mary asked how the 15 month effort began. <\/p>\n “We proposed our idea to the museum in December of 2010,” Mary said. “From there we developed the exhibition thesis and, after plenty of research, carefully considered which artists and artworks would work best. We started out with a very general idea which was refined and strengthened during last Spring. The original idea was centered around dance, and how it its interpreted through the visual arts. Then our ideas morphed more into a thesis about documentation and mediation of the live performance event. We were reading theorists, including Jacques Derrida, and it was his ideas that made the greatest impact on how we were thinking about documentation and performance. <\/p>\n “Instead of thinking about performance,” explained Mary, “as the event from which artists could only document and attempt to re-create, we realized that documentation can offer alternative views of the performance not available when witnessing the live event. The artists we finally chose use documentation as their medium, and emphasize that mediated quality of their work as opposed to an original performance from which it may have derived.” <\/p>\n I asked if the framework constructed itself around the artists as they discovered them, or if they created the framework, and then find artists who fit within it. <\/p>\n “The progression happened,” Mary answered, “when we had chosen all the artists and the specific artworks and looked at them as a whole.” <\/p>\n The media include photography and video, but one of the most interesting, to me, was Jocelyn Foye<\/a>‘s polyurethane resin piece. I asked Mary to talk a bit about Foye’s work, and the materials she produced. <\/p>\n “She often stages performances on pliable materials,” said Mary, “and provides additional documentation through photography. The ‘sculptural relief painting’ is a cast of a small section taken from the large clay surface where the wrestlers performed. She is a multi-media artist, and has done pieces in clay, plastic, sand, and photography. Most of her work is produced from a live performance, which she organizes.” <\/p>\n