Now, the festival was another completely different experience. The three days event was divided as follow: on the first day (Thursday, November 12) some of the artists gave presentations about their work, they had roughly 15 minutes to talk and about 5 or 10 to answer questions. On that night we all went to the opening reception for the exhibition at the UNR gallery, which feature works by Jonah Brucker-Cohen, Rob Duarte, Joshua Fishburn, Jason Nelson, John Walters, Samson Young, Sven Goyvaerts and outside the gallery there was a beautiful performance by Doo-Sung Yoo.
--Highlight: spilling wine over my sweater after hearing Rob Duarte’s piece explode, brilliant work!
The following day (Friday, November 13) we had the pleasure to watch and listen to video and sound pieces inside the UNR planetarium, a sixty person dome with reclining seats and a $30,000 projector. Works by Mattia Casalegno, Stephanie Dodes, Josh Goldman, George Marie, and David Snedegar were presented.
--Highlight: Mattia Casalegno video piece made in Jitter just for the dome, it was so good it made me dizzy.
Before the night's event we took a small road trip to the Pyramid Lake in Reno. The light was beautiful.Finally, and on the last day of the festival (Saturday, November 14) it was the performance artist’s turn to present their work. This time it was the Nevada Museum of Art who hosted us, and who were kind enough to help us during our tech rehearsal. The artists featured on this day were: Giuseppe Di Bella, Stephanie Lie, Tara Rynders, Karl Mendonca, Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cárdenas, and yours truly Natalia Jaeger.
My piece Miranda closed the entire festival (wow! I said to myself). I was so exited and interested in finding out how the piece would translate in a big theater. I must say it went terrifically well: I handed out almost one hundred bananas to my audience, I managed to project my voice well enough so everyone could hear me, and yes, the projection in my underwear was visible (maybe not as much as I would like, but the ideas was understood, I think).





--Highlight: the wonderful help, support, and flattering comments I received before and after the piece was shown. Thank you.
The festival was very much a success. A small community of artists was formed over the course of three days, and let me tell you, I was inspired by many people during that small period of time. I love art!






