A PERMIT, TO PERMIT
24h Performance Program
Saturday & Sunday July 19- 20, 10a-10p
A meditation on permission- A Permit, To Permit is a 24 hour performance art program featuring durational performance works and ephemeral installations. This program is part of Upstate Art Weekend 2025
Free and open to the public. RSVP is highly recommended
Participating Artists: Spencer Tunick & Emma Shapiro, Tamar Ettun, Jocelyn Beausire, Hannes Egger, Immanuel J,
Organized by Lital Dotan
A 24h performance program that straddles the performativity of the word ‘permit' in its double meaning- as a bureaucratic document and as permission, evoking opposite approaches, gestures, processes and conclusions.
Remedy is a participatory photographic installation by artist-photographer Spencer Tunick with text written by artist and activist Emma Shapiro. Shapiro uses the language of Tunick’s iconic group photography to ponder our role in the spread of misinformation – as individuals, and as the larger group organism that ultimately shapes our shared reality. Learn more about the project, or witness the video documentation during program hours.
Two Red Creatures and the Moon are hanging sculptures created by Tamar Ettun for Sally Silvers’ dance piece, You Better (2025), inspired by Enheduanna, the world's first known author from ancient Mesopotamia. The works reference an ancient relief depicting Enheduanna, who composed poetry dedicated to the moon goddess, Nanna. The moon sculpture bears Enheduanna's name written in Sumerian. The sculptures, hanging in the air, constantly move in response to movements.
Jocelyn Beausire presents a durational performance titled Shed (Exercise 1: An Unsettling), a meditation on American ruralism in which the shed unsettles itself.
Hannes Egger presents May I? prompting questions with/in the ruin, and guiding audience into moving between past and future, where we encounter all kinds of beings.
Immanuel J. presents Suga’N’Tanks, a participatory performance that includes cane sugar, oil, and recitation.
Bios:
Jocelyn Beausire is a performance artist, musician, and spatial researcher originally from the rural midwest. Her work functions as temporal architecture, constructing and activating an emotional, multi-sensory ecology to reveal relations between the performer, audience, and environment. www.jocelynbeausire.com
Hannes Egger (Bolzano, Italy), studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. His artistic practice is based on conceptual approach and audience participation. He currently teaches at the Faculty of Art and Design at the Free University of Bolzano. www.hannesegger.com
Tamar Ettun (she/they) creates immersive textile installations, sculptures, drawings, videos, and performances that reflect on somatic empathy – the process of responding to others through sensory-based, embodied experiences – in relation to trauma-healing and ritual. She has exhibited and performed at The Ford Foundation, The Walker Art Center, Pioneer Works, The Chinati Foundation, The Shelburne Museum, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, The Watermill Center, Art Omi Sculpture Garden, PERFORMA, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Jewish Museum, and Sculpture Center. www.tamarettun.com
Immanuel J. is a New York based live arts practitioner working on experimental video-making, interactive performance, and site based-installations. Utilizing an archival research praxis, Immanuel J.’s work often incorporates multiple forms of visual production within the same project. J. received an undergraduate degree in Fine Art, American and Indigenous studies at Bard College (2022) and a graduate degree from the Center for Human Rights and the Arts (2024). Their work has been shown at Co-Prosperity Catskill, Opalka Gallery, Tender Edges Microfestival, Alluvial Microfestival, Nonchalant Gallery, Momenta NYC, Baba Yaga Gallery, and DIZZY TV. www.immanueljartist.com
Emma Shapiro is an American artist, activist, & freelance journalist based in Spain. My work intersects artistic freedom, digital rights, body politics, identity, and memory. www.emma-shapiro.com
Spencer Tunick records the live nude figure in public, with photography, since 1992. Since 1994, he has organized over 100 temporary site-related installations that encompass dozens, hundreds or thousands of volunteers, and his photographs are records of these events. In his early group works, the individuals en masse, without their clothing, grouped together, metamorphose into a new shape. The bodies extend into and upon the landscape like a substance. These group masses, which do not underscore sexuality, often become abstractions that challenge or reconfigure one's views of nudity and privacy. The work also refers to the complex issue of presenting art in permanent or temporary public spaces. www.spencertunick.com
A Permit, to permit’ is made possible by the generous support of New York State Council on the Arts