[FleshyFeb] Talk to Me Sweetly, Make Me Grow: Seducing Neglected Plants in Parking Lots and Big Box Stores
Sun, 20 Feb 2011, 2-5pm

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In celebration of Valentine's Day, come join us as we show some love to flora that live on the edges of our daily routines. Those sad little flowers in the grocery store parking lot? We are coming to seduce you, talk to you, and tell you how special you are. That broken-hearted tree by the shopping carriages? You are gonna get hugged. Melancholy little plants rejoice! We are bringing you your Whitman's Sampler. Even the guys on Mythbusters have established a link between music, talking, sound and plant health. After developing our amorous flora flirtations outdoors, we will head to a big box store garden center and spread the love some more.

Where:
Please plan to meet outside the main entrance of the Home Depot in Cypress Park (near the convergence of the 110 & the 5) at 2pm. We will sharpen our skills in the parking lot first, and then at some point move inside to the Garden Center. Please rsvp a day in advance to let us know if you're coming.

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Anya Liftig is a nationally and internationally recognized performance artist. Her most recent work, “The Anxiety of Influence,” was an intervention into Marina Abramovic’s “The Artist is Present” retrospective at MOMA. Liftig dressed as the elder artist and sat across from her all day. Liftig’s work has been featured at TATE Modern, Highways Performance Space, Exit Art, Chashama, Surreal Estate, Eyedrum, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Galapagos, The Flea, Yale University, INCUBATEChicago, University of Wisconsin, University of Chicago, Mess Hall, Joyce Soho and many other venues. Her work has been published and written about in The New York Times Magazine, Bomb, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue Italia, Marie Claire Italia, Heeb, Mix Magazine, Next Magazine, Now and Then, Stay Thirsty, New York Magazine, Gothamist, Jezebel, Animal New York and many others. She is a graduate of Yale University and Georgia State University and has received grant and residency support from The Field, Vermont Studio Center, University of Antioquia, Casa Tres Patios-Medellin Colombia, and Flux Projects, Atlanta.

tags: event, emcla, anyaliftig, fleshyfeb

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