Laurel Jay Carpenter – Circular Magic: John Court in York

A visual art performer examines her experience as witness to a durational action; it all comes full circle at John Court’s work, presented by OUI Performance. Laurel Jay Carpenter’s durational performances have been presented across the USA, UK, Scandinavia, Western and Eastern Europe, most notably as part of the 2007 Venice Biennale, the 2013 Festspillene i Bergen (Norway) and the 2019 Prague Quadrennial. She regularly collaborates with Norwegian artist Terese Longva as Longva+Carpenter, and was, earlier in her career, an active member of the Independent Performance Group founded by Marina Abramović. For more than a decade, Carpenter served as a tenured Associate Professor of Art at Alfred University in New York before refocusing her practice toward doctoral research at Northumbria University. She is currently self-isolating in Newcastle.