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Communication is vital among all living things and without it, extinction would be inevitable.
Missile and Bear
Missile and Bear are a collaborative team made up of Kelly Rogers and Mark S. Zimmerman currently based out of Gainesville, FL. Through absurd gestures and nonsensical actions, Missile and Bear attempt to reach a greater understanding of the nature of communication by making contact with inanimate objects, nature, as well as with eachother.
I Cut Myself Off
Man VS. Tree
Ocean Performance
Do You Understand
Statement
At times, Missile (Rogers) acts as translator between Bear (Zimmerman) and the outside world. The collaborative teams’ individual work references both
communication and translation, with honeybees or the dead. While these gestures are both meaningful and serious, an underlying thread of absurdity always seems to arise.
The performances or gestures are recorded on video and photographed by the audience; we provide the video camera and hand it off to one of the onlookers. The physical outcome of the work presents itself in the form of a poster, a video, stills from the video, and the objects used within a performance. For example, in the video Ocean Performance, Bear can be seen overlooking the vast ocean, while playing a miniature piano. The objects used within this performance were brought into the exhibition space as evidence of the performance. Mark S. Zimmerman waits until the performance is over until he creates the posters, leaving word of mouth as the only form of advertisement for the events. Each situation is purposefully set up where failure is almost inevitable. When the event succeeds, the performers and the audience are filled with a sense of surprise and
excitement.
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