Monica C. LoCascio (b. 1984) is a multi-media artist-researcher focusing on questions of resonance, connection, and interference, particularly within and between bodies. Her work is inspired by such topics as biophotonics, particle entanglement, memory, and the thermodynamics and non-linearity of time.
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APPLIED MICROPERFORMATIVITY
Live Arts for a Radical Socio-Economic Turn
12-19 December 2018 | brut at AIL
Embrecord Durational performance. Embroidery cloth, thread, experiential input.
12-15 December 2018
LoCascio employs the repetitive micro-movements of embroidery as a means of processing time and experience. Over the course of the exhibition and symposium, LoCascio will create Embrecord, a durational performance piece, with a stitching pattern and composition based on the exhibition’s design, and thread color and length being determined by both input from participants and her personal interpretations of the symposium. When completed, the work serves as a chronicle of the collective and subjective experience that has come to pass.a
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THE GREAT WALL
A multimedia sculpture inspired by the term cosmic web composed of six slices of a map of the astoundingly large BOSS Great Wall—a recently-discovered supercluster which, at 1 billion light years across, is the largest structure ever found in our universe. At approximately 5 billion light years from earth, the supercluster is too far away to be measured by visual light and therefore has never been “seen”, only made “visible” through the collection of radio data.
The installation explores how structure is formed in outer space through the forces of dark matter and gravitational pull. It offers a meditation on questions relating to connection and separation: the luminous galaxies are millions of miles apart, and yet they are holding onto each other, they are connected.
Steel, acrylic glass, acrylic glass paint 120 x 120 x 170 cm 2018
Private Collection
Exhibitions:
Our Place in Space, Naturhistoriches Museum Wien, Austria, summer 2018.
Between the Media, Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow, Plac Jana Matejki 13, November 2018.
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Resonance Practice
Resonance Practice is a practice-based performance included in WORK OUT III: Interference Practice, an exhibition of performance and sculpture by artists Monica C. LoCascio, Laura Stoll, and Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi.
The work explores the interaction of bodies on separate trajectories. What happens when they come into contact? How do those bodies experience and acknowledge the connection? And how do the repercussions of the collision resonate out of the impact location and through the bodies themselves?
These questions are explored as the three performers travel and collide on circles, drawn by hand and at random, and perhaps using different performers’ body parts as radius references. Their paths define both the trajectories of the performers as well as the collective space of the performers and audience.
This work comes out of the artist’s exploration of large bodies and structures in space (see Circle Process) and is informed by her interest in biological sensing mechanisms.
Three bodies, chalk, string, fascia tape, metal finger appendages, symbols, recorded sound.
May 2017
Photographs courtesy Peter Kainz.
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Circle Process
Circle Process in an installation of paper, layering, and shadow studies included in WORK OUT III: Interference Practice, an exhibition of performance and sculpture by artists Monica C. LoCascio, Laura Stoll, and Zsuzsa Rózsavölgyi.
The work is a preview and post-study from the creation of The Great Wall, a sculpture by LoCascio that will be shown at the Naturhistoriches Museum Wien on June 19th, 2018 in collaboration with Hubble and the European Space Agency. Both works are inspired by the notion of the cosmic web, and humans’ desire to view the large-scale structure of the Universe as a network.
The original drawings that form the core of both installations are based on astronomical maps of the BOSS Great Wall, a supercluster complex located approximately 5 billion light years from earth.
The work offers a meditation on questions related to connection and separation: Though the luminous galaxies are separated by vast distances, and yet they are holding onto each other. They are connected.
Paper, transparency, nylon string, light
Thanks to the BOSS collaboration, especially Maret Einasto (Tartu Observatory) and Heidi Lietzen (Tuorla Observatory) for their help and for providing the scientific data used in this work.
May, 2017
Photographs courtesy Peter Kainz.
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Studio Frankenstein
Sonntag, 04. March 2018, 23:03 - 00:00, Ö1 RADIOKUNST - KUNSTRADIO
By students of the University for Applied Arts: Rosie Benn, Jasjote Grewal, Lukas Gritzner, Natalia Gurova, Daniel Hüttler, Ekaterina Kostova, Monica LoCascio, Eirik Melstrøm, Benjamin Nelson, Pia Plankensteiner, Irene Reichart, Raphael Reichl, Andrea Resner, CarMiña Tarilonte Ro. Concept and production by Ralo Mayer in the framework of a course at the Department of Site-Specific Art.
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A scream cuts through the night. It also cuts the curtain between nature and culture. But it’s not the monster that screams–it’s the horrified creators. “I have just found a body.” 200 years ago Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein“ was published – perhaps the first modern myth. Ever since, the story of Victor F. and his monster has haunted our imagination and informed discussions about artificial life and the relationships of nature, technology, and society. A key moment in the story describes the monster hiding in a small dark room, where it listens to voices and sounds, and observes human behaviour. The monster is recording. Welcome to Studio Frankenstein. Within a course at the Department of Site-Specific Art students have produced a radio show, patched together like the monster itself. The individual sound pieces approach contemporary themes and questions of ecology, gender, or identity. Like chapters of a monstrous novel, the pieces vary in content, style and narrative perspective.
The experiment is framed by an expedition into the perpetual ice of Vienna’s 3rd district. While Shelley’s novel starts and ends in the Arctic, Studio Frankenstein has set up its base-camp in an industrial cold storage facility near Vienna’s former slaughter houses. Track-List: Natalia Gurova - Wer ist Frankenstein? 01:58 Freezer Intro Andrea Resner - Love Letter 02:31 Irene Reichart - My hairy womb 03:54 Daniel Hüttler - hmstn1,7 01:00 Pia Plankensteiner - Du musst das Monster nicht visualisieren, es ist schon längst da 01:20 Freezer #2 Eirik Melstrøm - Recreation #5 06:22 Benjamin Nelson - Moth 04:22 CarMiña Tarilonte - Ro. Amarteur 1 05:52 Monica LoCascio & Jasjote Grewal - Everyday monsters 03:14 Freezer #3 Daniel Hüttler - hmstn1,7 04:00 Raphael Reichl - Oscurasia H16 03:48 Lukas Gritzner - Untitled 04:26 Freezer #4 Rosie Benn Brexit - Monster 05:11 Ekaterina Kostova - „Frankie is Born“ 00:47 About "Studio Frankenstein" Statements by Ralo Mayer, Benjamin Nelson, Carmiña Tarilonte
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Meditations on 22
Graphite on paper 29.7 x 42 cm 2017
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Untitled
Mixed media, approx. 24” x 14”
2016
Private Collection
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Juliana’s Kitchen Table
Graphite on paper 29.7 x 42 cm 2015
For The Spiders
Graphite on paper 29.7 x 42 cm 2015
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Autobiographical Needlepoint
I have kept a journal since I was a child. With this work, I explored both the recording and reviewing processes of the events in my life.
The work is oriented to the middle — my center. At the end of each day, I picked a color to represent either the entire day or a defining moment in it. Then intuitively I would decide the shape, size, and placement of the one to four color blocks depending on the intensity and narrative of the experience.
I deliberately tried to ignore color relationships. I picked the color that best fit the experience of that day rather than creating a harmonious color palette.
Cotton cross-stitch fabric, yarn 8″ x 8″
2014
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M. Kara
A line of unisex, one-of-a-kind crocheted necklaces, collars, brooches and chest pieces, M. Kara embodied how we preserve our complex histories, often weaving together the glorious and the gory as celebratory tales to share like trophies.
The line was named after Mustafa Kara Pasha, the Ottoman military leader and Grand Vizier who was responsible for the Battle of Vienna in 1683. He was ultimately defeated and subsequently executed by strangulation with a silk cord, the method of capital punishment inflicted on high-ranking persons in the Ottoman Empire.
Silk and cotton cord, metal chain
2009-2010
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Conceptual Convergence
Conceptualism as New Media through the Vocabulary of Sol LeWitt
Conceptual Convergence is an interdisciplinary project that explores the practices of New Media within the context of Sol LeWitt’s Sentences on Conceptual Art.
The final product included an essay outlining the correlation between the practices, a physical recreation of Lewitt’s Wall Drawing #716, an interactive flash component for users to create and print their own version of the drawing, and a website to exhibit the work.
Monica C. LoCascio -- concept and ideation, all written elements, documentation, physical installation of the wall drawing.
Alexander Wolf -- coding of interactive elements, website
Ashley Dunn -- video.
2006
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