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2/11/02

ARTIST AT SLU TO PERFORM PIECE INSPIRED BY STATIONS OF THE CROSS

CANTON - "When We Meet at the Stations: Sisters, What a Mourning!," 
a slide/sound installation by Stephanie Ann Johnson, will be 
performed as part of the St. Lawrence University Festival of the 
Arts on Sunday, February 24, at 5 p.m. in Gunnison Memorial Chapel. 
The festival's theme is "Remapping the Goddess: Global Visions" and 
the event is open to the public, free of charge. It will be followed 
by a reception.
	Johnson, an instructor of sculpture, installation, performance 
art and public art at California State University's Monterey Bay Visual 
and Public Arts Institute, says, "This piece of 'stations' is inspired 
by the Catholic Stations of the Cross which provided visual remembrance 
of the final days of Jesus, one of the world's prophets - one who stood 
up for marginal people...These stations are set around the circumference 
of the chapel space as interactive sites. As you move through the chapel 
and actively engage with this piece, it is my intention that you 
experience moments of introspection and reflection upon the contributions 
of African-American women and the legacies of your own ancestors. It is 
my hope that you will deeply consider how accountability to each of them 
is manifested in your life."
	Johnson is also a professional lighting designer, working 
nationally and internationally in theatre and film. Her work uses 
large-scale slide projections in settings such as railroad stations, 
churches, cemeteries and galleries.
	The St. Lawrence University Festival of the Arts is February 16 
through March 7 and includes a variety of performances, exhibitions, 
lectures, discussions and other events, all exploring "the shifting 
representations and cultic practices of female deities in their own 
locale and in translation to other contexts."

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