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Start the New Year with a Funeral Party!
Houston artist Emily Sloan is inviting the public to start the new year right, with a Funeral Party on January 1! Although no actual deaths are involved, Sloan has included almost everything else in her participatory performance: an interactive funeral service (write a eulogy!), funeral pyre (bring your symbolic memorobilia!) improvised funeral music parade (bring [...]
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Southern Naptist Convention II: Taking It To The Beach
Houston artist Emily Sloan is taking her Southern Naptist Convention on the road to Venice CA next weekend. Sloan, also noted for being the curator of The Kenmore, and “exhibition object” that encloses artistic expressions inside a working mini-fridge, held her original napping performance at the Houston Art League in 2010; the first Southern Naptist [...]
Naptistm Interpreted: Is it Art or Just Healthy Living?
The Houston Chronicle‘s Naheeda Sayeeduddin attended Emily Sloan’s Southern Naptist Convention at 14 Pews, leaving confused about the event’s message. Although appreciating Sloan’s piece as religious satire, she sees Sloan’s Napping Affects Performance group primarily as an advocacy org for the health benefits of afternoon naps with albeit kooky ways of getting the word out!
Southern Naptist Convention Sunday offering Naptisms and Napture preparedness
The Southern Naptist Convention, a project of Napping Affects Performance artist Emily Sloan and the Universal Nap Church is congregating on Sunday, June 12 at 1pm at 14 Pews in Houston. The major topic of discussion this year is the upcoming NAPTURE to take place on October 21, 2011. The Bring Your Own Pillow (BYOP) [...]