February 1, 2025 @ 2:00pm
Gailliot Center, Carlow University, Pittsburgh, PA
A Celebration with Performance: Gail Langstroth’s new bilingual chapbook:
Ghost Friends - in Praise of Jean Valentine // Duendes Amigos - Alabanza a Jean Valentine
StahlWorte / SteelWords
“StahlWorte / SteelWords” is a nine-part performance piece based on poet/eurythmist/visual artist Gail Langstroth’s encounter with Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based steel sculptor Dee Briggs and her 72,000 pound work “Can’t You See”. This performance is the result of five months (May – October 2021) of inquiry, research, and observation in Briggs’ studio-warehouse. “SteelWords” communicates Langstroth’s powerful, complex response to Briggs’ massive sculpture and the process by which she conceived and constructed it. Langstroth’s piece premiered October 23, 2021, in The Hague, Netherlands, and was directed by Kaylin Horgan.
poet / performer / eurythmist / visual artist: Gail Langstroth
director: Kaylin Horgan
videographer: Andrés Tapia-Urzua
video editor & animator: Sean Horgan
piano: Klaas Trapman
lighting & tech: Jasper Gather
performance videographer & editor: Jaron Kühmstedt
music: Johann Sebastian Bach, “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” (BWV 659)
script: Gail Langstroth
line drawings & collage: Gail Langstroth
StahlWorte / SteelWords performance
How to fill out your mail in ballot
https://voxpopulisphere.com/2020/10/26/gail-langstroth-how-to-fill-out-your-mail-in-ballot/
Ephphatha
http://voxpopulisphere.com/2015/12/25/gail-langstroth-ephphatha/
Artistic Statement: Art is the Alchemical Process of Holy Graffiti.
Each work of art is a transformation of a substance or material. The poet uses sounds, words; the sculptor shapes stone, metal, wood, clay; the dancer sculpts air in space; the philosopher moves the light within ideas. An artist feels the sacred roots of his or her individuality and imprints his or her idea into a given substance—changing its constitution into gold.