LIFE is as much part of NEAR DEATH as DEATH itself.

Performance art naturally lends itself to topics that challenge notions of the body and time, and featured artists, Jeff Huckleberry, Faith Johnson, VestAndPage, Travis McCoy Fuller, Marilyn Arsem, Jamie McMurry and zeroBARDO artists Yassy Goldie, Peter Dobill and Malcolm Smith have a particular sensitivity to feelings of extreme fear, loss and dissolution, as well as a sense of warmth, security and oneness. “Near Death is a moment of absolute existence,” Phelan describes, “ where one receives life and death equally and finds themselves out of body and out of the standard structures of time.” In NEAR DEATH, artists and audiences are challenged to uncover the small territory that we claim between life and death.

Artists: Jeff Huckleberry Faith Johnson, VestAndPage, Travis McCoy Fuller and Jamie McMurry.

zeroBARDO artists: Yassy Goldie, Peter Dobill and Malcolm Smith

performed documentation by DEAD ART STAR.

WHEN: 4pm-12:00am, April 21, 2013

WHERE: Cyclorama, Boston Center for the Arts, 539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA 02116

Curated and stirred by Vela Phelan ☠

Special thanks to: Maggie Cavallo, Fiorrio Viante, Raul Gonzalez, The Present Tense, Alexis Advesian, Boston Center for the Arts, Alice Vogler, Boston and all of the NDpae Kickstarter family!