PERFORMANCE SOLO SHOWS
2020
Covid cancelled: Lineage, Longva+Carpenter, Baltic Square, Newcastle/Gateshead, UK
Covid cancelled: Lineage, Longva+Carpenter, Kunsthall 3.14, Bergen, Norway
2018
Red We, a social performance, Tynemouth Flea Market, Tynemouth, UK
Shift, Longva+Carpenter, Kunsthaus Essen Galerie, Essen, Germany
2017
What We Are Not, Künstlerbund, Tübingen, Germany
Red We, a social performance, Grainger Market, Newcastle, UK
2012
Shelter, Longva+Carpenter, Rochester Contemporary Art Center, Rochester, NY
2011
Thirst, Longva+Carpenter, Foster Lake, Alfred, NY
2005
Red Woman, Williamsburg Celebrates PERFORMA05, NurtureART Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Nourish Wish, performance for a woman, a child and live music, William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
Lick, solo performance, Wilbur Cross administration building public corridor, Storrs, CT
2003
Red Woman, MPG Contemporary, Boston, MA
Red Crest, solo performance event, Horsebarn Hill, Storrs, CT
PERFORMANCES in FESTIVALS | GROUP SHOWS
2023
Together Elsewhere, PAB, PANCH and the Academy of Art and Design, Basel (live-streamed)
2022
Take It Away! PAB Open Festival, Bergen, Norway (live streamed)
2020
Say Ahhh, FEM International Meeting of Women Performance Artists, Gresol Art, Girona, Spain (live streamed)
2019
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, PAO Festival, Oslo, Norway
Lineage, Longva+Carpenter, Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space, Czechia
2018
Thirst, Longva+Carpenter, Art Ii Biennial, Ii, Finland
2017
Of Wanting, PAB Performance Open Festival, Bergen, Norway
I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, FLARE, Vane, Newcastle, UK
Objet petit a, CarpWoz with Philippe Wozniak, Sofia Underground Performance Art Festival, Mechanical Room/National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
Point Out, INHABIT/Neon Arts, Night Cell, historic House of Correction, Hexham, UK
Touch On, INHABIT/Neon Arts, Night Stair, Hexham Abbey, Hexham, UK
2016
Without, CarpWoz with Philippe Wozniak, Salem2Salem, Bodensee Cultural Council, Schloss Salem palace, Germany
Kiss Today Goodbye, a live action on-line, Powell Campus Center webcam, Alfred University, Alfred, NY
2015
Down for the Count (Nede for Telling), Longva+Carpenter, Kunstbanken Hedmark Art Center, Hamar, Norway
Out And Out, Compartmented, Lyric Theatre, Rochester, NY
Out And Out, Salem2Salem Invitational Exhibition, Salem Art Works, Salem, NY
2014
A Maiden Still Less, Salem2Salem Invitational Exhibition, Schloss Salem palace, Germany
Dis-, Salem2Salem Opening, Schloss Salem palace, Germany
Discrete|Diskret, Longva+Carpenter, NOoSPHERE, New York, NY
Discrete|Diskret, Longva+Carpenter, CONTEXTS: Festival of Ephemeral Art, In Situ Foundation, Sokolowsko, Poland
Come, Longva+Carpenter, Between Sky+Sea triennial, Performance Art Bergen, Herdla Island, Norway
2013
Thirst, Longva+Carpenter, Festspillene i Bergen International Festival, Bergen, Norway
2012
Charme, International Festival of Contemporary Art, Terni, Italy
2011
A Crossing, Living Walls Performs, city-wide festival, Albany, NY. Curated by Grace Exhibition Space
Hunger, Longva+Carpenter, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Hunger, Longva+Carpenter, Big Orbit Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Elixir Way, Lumen Festival, Staten Island, NY. Curated by Grace Exhibition Space
2010
Homage, ‘A Feminist Tea Party’ Governors Island Art Fair, NY, NY
Alive Inside, ‘Homemade Burlesque Show’ Diane’s Circus Launch Event, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Again with Gusto, ‘Savoir-Faire’ PERFORMA09 Collateral Event, SOHO20 Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Red Woman, 40° Phi: Live Art in the Parks, New York, NY
2007
First, Kiss, The 52nd Biennale of Venice, ‘Body & Eros’ Arsenale, Venice, Italy. Curated by Marina Abramović
Avant Garde Dating, a full-week, partnered performance/residency, Wooloo Productions, Berlin, Germany
2006
Red Woman, ‘Icons of the 21st Century,’ Roger Smith Arts, NY, NY
The Vaudevillians, collaborative performance; Wellsville Center for the Arts, Wellsville, NY
2005
Maybe This Time, ‘Gifted Generation’ Hebbel Theatre, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Marina Abramović
Red Woman, Performance Studies International Conference #11, Brown University, Providence, RI
2004
Deosil, ‘Cleaning the House’ NMAC Foundation, Cádiz, Spain. Curated by Marina Abramović
Red Woman, MFA thesis exhibition: ‘Full Tilt’ William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT
INSTALLATIONS WITH PERFORMANCE
2009
Prospect, ‘XXXX: New Faculty, New Work’ Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
2001
The Sway of Themis, Brooklyn College Women’s Center, Brooklyn, NY
2000
Sow, Sew, Reap, Weep, performance for four women, ‘The Judson House Project’ Judson Church House, NYC
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Laurel Jay Carpenter: Tender Cusps, Oberwelt, Stuttgart, DE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS | SCREENINGS
2021
Say Ahhh, performance for video, 'Liveness,' Performance Research Network, Newcastle University, UK (online)
Talkers Talking performance object “Reflecting the Past” Performance Art Oslo retrospective, Galleri 69, Oslo, NO
2018
Thirst images, Longva+Carpenter “How to Drink Conflicting Water” On-line exhibition, Istanbul Performance Art
Of Wanting images, “Line Drawn” HOWL, Ithaca, NY USA
2016
Shelter video, Longva+Carpenter “As One” Neon+Marina Abramovic Institute, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2015
Legacies, lobby installation “Avant-Garde-Arama: MAYDAY!” Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY
2013
CocoRose+Sonny: it’s an act, but it’s real: a docudrama, ‘now what’ Microscope Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Red Crest / Red Woman documentation, ‘Woman of the 21st Century’ Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
dress and Lick, ‘You Can’t Do That On Television’ Brooklyn Fireproof Gallery, Bushwick SITE Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Red Crest / Red Woman documentation, ‘Black Madonna’ HP Garcia Gallery, New York, NY
2007
Avant Garde Dating documentation, ‘In Pursuit: Art on Dating’ ISE Gallery, New York, NY
2004
dress, performance for video, ‘Fully Tilted’ Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor and Department Head, Art, Texas A&M University, Commerce, starting Fall 2023
Associate/Visiting Lecturer, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, Fall 2017-Spring 2018; Spring 2020; Spring 2022
Associate Professor of Art [US ranking equivalent: (EU) ao Prof; (UK) Senior Lecturer/Assoc Professor; (NO) Assoc Prof/Prof], Alfred University, Alfred, NY, tenured + promoted 2011-2016
Assistant Professor of Art [US ranking equivalent: apl Prof or Lecturer], Alfred University, 2005–2011
Adjunct/Part-time Instructor, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, 2003-2005
Adjunct/Part-time Faculty, Parsons School of Design, AAS Degree Program, New York, NY, 1998-2000
RESEARCH FUNDING AWARDS | FELLOWSHIPS | RESIDENCIES
Bursary, Artists Development Program, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, 2023
Bursary, North East Artists Fund, Art Network North East, 2023
Developing Your Creative Practice Grant, Arts Council England, 2021
Cultural Fund for Publications, 10 Together: Performances by Longva+Carpenter, Kulturrådet: Arts Council Norway, 2021
Commission, Say Ahhh, expanded performance for video, 'Liveness' in Performance, Performance Research Network, Newcastle University, UK, 2021
Shortlist Award, The Light of Day, Artquest, London, UK, 2021
Artists Bursary, Professional Development for Research Residency in Norway, a-n: The Artists Information Company, 2019
Quality-Related (QR) funding for ‘Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures’ conference, ENSAIT in Roubaix France, Northumbria University, 2019
STEP Travel Grant for Prague Quadrennial, European Cultural Foundation/Compagnia di San Paolo, 2019
Conference Bursary for ‘Lived Female Body in Performance’ Conference, ULeeds, Northumbria University, 2019
Quality-Related (QR) funding for ‘All By Our Selves’ Symposium, Department of Arts, Northumbria University, 2018
Research and Innovation funding for ‘All By Our Selves’ Symposium, Northumbria University, 2018
Associate Member Bursary, New Bridge Projects, Newcastle, UK, 2018
Conference Bursary for ‘Between Strangers’ Symposium, Glasgow, Northumbria University, 2018
Artists in Residence, Longva+Carpenter, Kunsthaus Essen, Germany, 2018
Arts Faculty Research Funding for new work in Sofia, Bulgaria, Northumbria University, 2017
Salem2Salem International Artist Residency, Salem Art Works (NY) and Schloss Salem, Germany, 2016, 2015 + 2014
Faculty Development Grant, Alfred University, separate awards: 2014, 2011, 2010 + 2008
Studio Residency, Bergen Center for Electronic Arts (BEK), Bergen, Norway, March – May 2013
Artist in Residence, Indisciplinarte, Terni, Italy (to prepare new performance for festival), September 2012
Grant for residency in Norway, Lighton International Artists Exchange Program, 2012
Finalist, The Fulbright US Scholar Program, University of Leeds, UK, 2011
Collaborator/Participant, Individual Workshop with Linda Montano, The Art/Life Institute, 2010
Invited Participant, Cleaning the House, a performance event by Marina Abramović; Montenmedio Art, NMAC Foundation, Cádiz, Spain, Summer 2004
Fellow, MacDowell, Fall 1999
Nominee, Rema Hort Mann Award, 1998 and 2000
Visiting Artist, University of Southern Maine, Fall 1996
ASSOCIATED ART EXPERIENCE
Performed Reading, In the Rainbow Glow: a Love Letter for Linda Mary Montano, BIRTHDAYARAMA! EarthLab, US 2022
'The Elixir Way' (2011) performed by Anna Berndtson, Ad Hoc Re-performance, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Scotland 2018
Performer, 'Public Address System,' a live sound installation by Helen Collard, GIFT, Baltic Art Center, Gateshead, UK 2018
Collaborative Site-based Performance, 'Generated Image Format (GIF),' with NonTopia, Blackfriars, Newcastle, UK 2017
Performed Reading, 'The World Becomes So Accurate,' video/audio installation by Terese Longva, Hotel Pupik, Austria 2017
Collaborative Performer, Bbeyond Open Performance Meeting, Customs House Square, Belfast, N. Ireland 2017
Performer, 'Manatee in the Moon,' Full Moon Show, a Tom Murrin Homage by Salley May, Howl! Gallery, New York, NY 2016
Copy Editor/Proofreader English translation, Agnes Nedregård, Performance Works: The Big Toe, pub: Dimanche Rouge 2015
Performer, 'As The Air Moves Back From You' installation / performance by D. Chase Angier, F-N Gallery, Alfred, NY 2015
Collaborative Performer, Performance Art Bergen (PAB) Public Meeting, Mon Plaisir, Bergen, Norway 2013
Performer, 'CocoRose LIVE! In Bed Sty' with Robert Bingham, ‘Superstar Frontierland’ Diane’s Circus, Brooklyn, NY 2013
Performer, 'CocoRose LIVE! On 14th Street' with Robert Bingham, ‘Model’ Art in Odd Places, New York, NY 2012
Performer, 'CocoRose LIVE! At the Elks Lodge' with Robert Bingham, Hornell Arts Walk, Hornell, NY 2012
Director/Producer, 'The Elixir Way' the 2011 work re-performed by a student, Hornell Arts Walk, Hornell, NY 2012
Performer, 'Teach Me Tonight' and 'More' performance works by Robert Bingham, Miller Theatre, Alfred, NY 2012
Performer, 'I Think I’ll Play Myself' dance/theatre work by Robert Bingham, Miller Theatre, Alfred, NY 2011
Performer, 'Circling' site-specific dance work by D. Chase Angier, Alfred, NY 2010
Performer, 'Diane’s Circus' web project by Diane Dwyer, www.dianescircus.com 2010
Co-Curator, 'In the Loop' artists influenced by iconic performance works, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY 2008
Performance Consultant, 'Paper II' collaborative performance/installation with D. Chase Angier, Alfred, NY 2007
Specialist Reviewer, 2nd Ed. manuscript, ‘On Edge: Performance at the End of the 20th Century’ by C. Carr, Wesleyan University Press 2006
MONOGRAPH
Laurel Jay Carpenter and Terese Longva, eds. 10 Together: Performances by Longva+Carpenter. Bergen: PABlish, 2022.
•Shortlist: Best Publication Award, Prague Quadrennial 2023
PUBLICATIONS
‘Visceral Fermentations: Duration, Intimacy and Collaboration,’ in 10 Together: Performances by Longva+Carpenter, 2022
‘Circular Magic’ Something Other: On Circularity, The Ninth Chapter, Winter 2020
‘I Live in This Dress: Materiality and Identity in Visual Art Performance’ Framework 60 (2), Fall 2019
‘Żyję w tej sukni: materialność i tożsamość w performansie wizualnym,’ Powidoki: Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im.Władysława Strzemińskiego w Łodzi, 1 (1), 2019
(Polish translation of: ‘I Live in This Dress’ in Afterimages: Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts)
‘Sliding Scale: Oversized Dresses and Small Moments in Visual Art Performance.’ K[]NESH Space, Issue 1: Scale, 2018
‘CarpWoz’ Performances. Body, Space & Technology. 17 (1), 2018
RESEARCH SYMPOSIA
2021
Lead researcher/moderator ‘Upon the Cusp,’ seminar for art in-between, supported by Arts Council England, UK
Practice-researchers
share creative investigations of cusps in their work, life and bodies,
including: Dr. Traci Kelly (UK/DE), Francesca Steele (UK), Elizabeth
Short (UK), Lady Helena Vortex (UK) and Dr. EL Putnam (IE/US).
2018
Lead researcher/moderator ‘All By Our Selves: Personae, Alter Egos and Other Selves’ Interdisciplinary Symposium, supprted by Northumbria University, UK
Practice-researchers introduce aspects of shifting selfness in their work: Dr. Robert Bingham (USA), Dr. Amanda Coogan (N. Ireland), Julia Dick (DE), James Gray (UK), Dawn Felicia
Knox (UK), Dr. P. Solomon Lennox (UK), Sarah Riseborough (UK)
LECTURES | PAPERS | PANELS | WORKSHOPS
2022
The Length that Brings Us Closer ‘Critical Costume’ conference, Queensland University National Institute of Dramatic Arts, AU; Aalto University, FI; and Grafias da Cena Brasil Association, BR
Seminar panel guest speaker, ‘Performance Art Seen Now: Streamed or Live?’ Performance Art Bergen, Norway
Approaching Alterself: Practice-as-Research, From Venus to Guerrilla Girls, The Cambridge School of Weston, US
2021
I Live in this Dress: Materiality and Identity in Visual Art Performance, Dept of Art, York St John University, York, UK
Visceral Fermentations: Duration, Collaboration and Intimacy, Fine Art, University of Bergen, Norway
Approaching Alterself: Practice-as-Research, MFA Seminar: Performance/Installation, Univ of Connecticut, USA
Artist How-To: Inspiration, This Moment Now: Art Practice for Art Teachers, Portland State Univ, USA
2020
Sited Vision: Seeing Far from Where You Are, BA Fine Art, University of Plymouth, UK
I Live in this Dress: Materiality and Identity in Visual Art Performance, Visiting Artist, CORE, Portland State U, USA
'Circular Magic: John Court in York,’ Something Other Live: On Circularity, collective listening event, LADA web, UK
2019
I Live in this Dress: Materiality and Identity in Visual Art Performance, ‘Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures’ conference, École Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Industries Textiles, Roubaix, France
Emergence: Practice Exchange, a platform for dialogue between emerging and established artists, Prague Quadrennial, CZ
Monumental Dresses and Intimate Moments, ‘The Lived Female Body in Performance’ conference, U Leeds, UK
My Artist Story: Beginnings to Current Research, Professional Practices Seminar, Alfred University, US
2018
This is ‘Red We’,
“Between Strangers” / Take Me Somewhere Symposium, University of Glasgow UK
Beyond Ourselves to Find Ourselves, MFA Seminar, University of Connecticut, US
Insight/Expert Panel, Rough Cut,
Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, UK
2017
Image! Sound! Object! Focus! Re-Search Lab: Performance Workshop, BA Year 3 Module, Northumbria University, UK
Beyond Ourselves to Find Ourselves ‘Reality in Art: Do We Want to Differentiate?” PAB Open Symposium, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
AlterSelf or Off Base? Northumbria-Sunderland Consortium, AHRC CDT, Art and Design Conference, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
2016
Performance and Feminisms panel, host: Hector Canonge, TALKaCTIVE: performance art conversation series, Queens Museum, New York, NY
2015
Let Your Body Be Slow ‘Learning to Notice’ panel, FATE Conference, Herron School of Art + Design, Indianapolis, IN
2014
Longva+Carpenter, 6-day Performance Workshop, In Situ Foundation, Sokolowsko, Poland
Performance to Go-Go: Italy, Norway, Poland, Germany, Norway (again), Bergren Forum, Alfred University
2013
Moderator, Interview with Traci Kelly and Rita Marhaug, “Liquid Bodies, Solid Minds” Rom8 Gallery, Bergen, Norway
Staging Subjects + Objects panel with Traci Kelly and Rita Marhaug, Hordaland Art Center, Bergen, Norway
Longva+Carpenter: The Needs Trilogy, Visiting Artists Lecture, Ålesund Art School (Kunstfagskole), Norway
Performance Art + The Impossible In-Betweens, Bergen Academy of Art + Design (KHiB), Norway
2012
Performance Workshop, Visiting Artist, Advanced Sculpture, University of Virginia
Performance Art + The Impossible In-Betweens, Visiting Artist, University of Virginia Department of Art
Visual Art Performance and the Process of Charme, Visiting Artist, Istituto Istruzione Superiore Gandhi, Narni, Italy
Longva+Carpenter: The Needs Trilogy, Visiting Artist with Terese Longva, University of Northern Iowa
2011
Performance Art + The Impossible In-Betweens, Visiting Artist, Studio Visits, Alfred University BFA Foundations
Performance Art + The Impossible In-Betweens, Visiting Artist, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
2009
Prospect Process, Gallery Talk for exhibition XXXX, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred University
Lick, a Site-Specific Performance, Visiting Artist, Site-Specific Dance Composition, Alfred University
2008
A Short History of Happenings, Dance History Guest Lecturer, Alfred University
2007
The Magic of Presence: Performance Art and Alchemy, Bergren Forum, Alfred University
Endurance Performance and the Work of Laurel Jay Carpenter, Visiting Artist, Alfred University Advanced Sculpture
ASSOCIATED WORK EXPERIENCE
Program Director, Summer Studies: NYC & Paris, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, 1994-1996
PR/Marketing Director, Performance Space 122 (now PS NY), New York, NY, 1991-1993
Publicist, Mobius: An Experimental Art Center, Boston, MA, 1990-1991
AFFILIATIONS
Longva+Carpenter, interdisciplinary collaboration with Norwegian artist Terese Longva, longvacarpenter.com, 2010-present
CarpWoz, interdisciplinary collaboration with German composer/musician Philippe Wozniak, 2015-2018
Independent Performance Group (IPG), founded and facilitated by Marina Abramović, 2004-2007
Avant-Garde-Arama selection committee, Performance Space 122, NYC, 1996-2006
EDUCATION
Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
PhD, practice-led research; 2020
Thesis: This Is She: Tracing Potentials of the Alterself Experience in Durational Visual Art Performance
Supervisors: Dr. Sandra Johnston and Dr. Julie Crawshaw
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
MFA (with distinction)
Thesis: Nothing Else to Love: Intimacy and Transformation in Artmaking
Graduate Teaching Assistantship/Full Fellowship
Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
BA, English Literature
including
University College London, London, England, year-long study
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, courses toward BA