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independent study

Spring 2012

Course #999

Marina Kelly

Holding You in the Light

This image documents the live-art-work, Holding You in the Light a durational work included in Marina Kelly’s MFA Show, Entrainment at the Commonwealth Gallery in Madison in April of 2012. Over the course of three hours, seven young women occupied their own space under their own hanging lamp, dancing to a love song of their own choosing. Periodically, the performers would invite participants into the light to share a song/ dance with them. Some took them up on their offer, some declined and/or simply watched the scene. Some approached the teens, initiating this intimate live art experience.

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