{"id":3109,"date":"2025-08-18T10:53:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:53:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/?p=3109"},"modified":"2025-08-18T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:53:33","slug":"activating-the-labyrinth-a-performance-for-two-people-in-three-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/2025\/08\/18\/activating-the-labyrinth-a-performance-for-two-people-in-three-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Activating the Labyrinth: A Performance for Two People in Three Parts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To celebrate the closing of our remarkable exhibit \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/2025\/07\/11\/an-unreliable-record-exploring-the-photographic-imaginary\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"3104\">An Unreliable Record: Exploring the Photographic Imaginary<\/a>\u201d, curated by Nelleke Mack, UNE Art Gallery Portland presents an outdoor performance by Elana Adler and Patricia Brace. Free and open to the public; refreshments served; rain date September 7th.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Much like the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.une.edu\/news\/2025\/une-art-gallery-portland-present-unreliable-record-exploring-photographic-imaginary\">Cottingley Fairies photographs<\/a>\u00a0that blurred the lines between fantasy and reality, artists\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elanamarteadler.com\/\">Elana Adler<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.patriciabrace.com\/\">Patricia Brace<\/a>\u00a0venture into the woods to create their own kind of magic\u2014this time by activating the 14-year-old labyrinth on the University of New England\u2019s Portland campus through a trilogy of walking performances. Rooted in the meditative tradition of labyrinths\u2014ancient structures with a single, guiding path\u2014this collaborative project emerges from a shared conversation about failure and the paralysis often felt in the face of political uncertainty. By engaging with the elements of water (ice), air (leaf), and earth (stone), the artists move slowly along the pine-needle path in a somatic, reflective ritual that emphasizes grounding, presence, and connection\u2014to each other, the land, and their fellow walkers. In the final act, audience members are invited to join the journey, placing stones at the labyrinth\u2019s center as a quiet, collective monument to care, slowness, and shared intention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To celebrate the closing of our remarkable exhibit \u201cAn Unreliable Record: Exploring the Photographic Imaginary\u201d, curated by Nelleke Mack, UNE Art Gallery Portland presents an outdoor performance by Elana Adler and Patricia Brace. Free and open to the public; refreshments served; rain date September 7th. Much like the\u00a0Cottingley Fairies photographs\u00a0that blurred the lines between fantasy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3110,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,28,8],"tags":[17,21,66,68,65,67],"class_list":["post-3109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-exhibits","category-portland-campus-art-gallery","tag-art-gallery","tag-environment","tag-labyrinth","tag-performance","tag-portland-campus","tag-walking"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3111,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3109\/revisions\/3111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.une.edu\/art-galleries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}