This document describes an art initiative called Nomas Projects based in Dundee, Scotland. It provides background on two guest artists, Lia Chavez and Linnea Spransy, who will be featured in an exhibition from May 7-11, 2014. Nomas Projects aims to contribute to the local arts scene through high quality shows, events, and publications exploring questions of art, life, and faith. It also discusses the artists' views on performance art and how inspiration can be methodically uncovered through contemplative practices.

1. A Morphé Arts initiative
S TA R T I N G P R I N C I PA L S
O U R G ROW I N G R E S E A RC H F O C U S
L I A C H AV E Z & L I N N E A S P R A N S E Y

2. “BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE”
“WRITE THE BOOK YOU WANT TO READ”
“START WHERE YOU ARE WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT”
Experimental, professional, zero-budget, artist-led, gallery and platform.
To contribute to the local arts scene in Dundee by creating high quality
shows, events and publications around questions of art, life and faith.
Video, Audio and Print Publications | Partnerships | Opportunities ...
NOMAS* PROJECTS
STARTING PRINCIPAL S
9a Ward Road, Dundee
find us on facebook, follow us on twitter: @nomasprojects
www.nomasprojects.org

3. Bourriaud
“Artistic activity, for its part, strives to achieve modest connections, open
up (one or two) obstructed passages, and connect levels of reality kept
apart from one another…” (Relational Aesthetics, 1998)
Raban
“For better or worse, [the city] invites you to remake it, to consolidate it
into a shape you can live in. You, too. Decide who you are, and the city
will again assume a fixed form around you. Decide what it is, and your
own identity will be revealed, like a map fixed by triangulation. Cities,
unlike villages and small towns, are plastic by nature. We mould them in
our images: they, in their turn, shape us by the resistance they offer when
we try to impose our own personal form on them. In this sense, it seems
to me that living in a city is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of
style, to describe the peculiar relation between man and material that
exists in the continual creative play of urban living. (Soft City, 1974)
TRIANGUL ATION
Growing research focus

4. Asking;
* What impact do artists’ have?
* By what means?
* What is our function?
* What does the city need?
“I think artists have the amazing privilege of being able to shape our
futures. They are given the space and time to see/explore/feel the current
moment whilst also placing it in relation to the past and therefore have
the potential to dream of a variety of futures
In regards Dundee, I’d say it needs to recognise and be proud of its own
deep potential, as a city not quite like any other, rather than regenerating
every forty years as it attempts to model itself on other ‘successful’
models of a city ...
TRIANGUL ATION
A growth in perspective

5. “One medium of art tries to relate to another medium by defining and
describing its essence and form”
“Artists began to use their own literary and artistic genre of art to work
and reflect on another art to illuminate what the eye might not see in the
original, to elevate it and possibly even surpass it...”
“... We then need to challenge our own and each others practices whilst
also making engaging work that is necessary for the given moment and
accessible to a wider audience”
Interdisciplinary, collaborative, relational, clearing obstructions.
EKPHRASIS
Reflection in practice

10. LIA CHAVEZ
& LINNEA SPRANSEY
7-11 May 2014 (Sunday PM /Evening)
Linnea Spransy’s paintings, drawings and installations are generated
using systems and rules, which are distillations of her interest in science,
philosophy, theology, and quantum physics. Graduating from Yale in
2001 with an MFA in painting, her work has been exhibited throughout
the United States and internationally at numerous academic institutions
and galleries and is featured in corporate collections. Spransy lives
in Kansas City, MO where she leads a rather unorthodox lifestyle,
architected entirely round her core values: spirituality, community, art,
and simplicity.

11. LIA CHAVEZ
& LINNEA SPRANSEY
7-11 May 2014 (Sunday PM /Evening)
Lia Chavez is a New York-based artist working in a wide range of media,
including performance, photographic processes, painting, sculpture and
installation. Her work investigates the astonishing mysteries of light, form
and interior space. Lia has been featured in a number of internationally
renowned venues, including the Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Frieze
Art Fair and The Armory Show. She was a fellow in gender theory and
visual cultures at Oxford and holds an MA in Photography and Master of
Philosophy in Visual Art from Goldsmiths College in London, where she
was also an ORSAS scholar.

12. LIA CHAVEZ
& LINNEA SPRANSEY
7-11 May 2014 (Sunday PM /Evening)
I approach performance art as a much-needed link between the
disembodied observation of positivist science and the immersive nature
of human experience; it’s something which I call “embodied research.”
As I have journeyed through intensive experiments in contemplative
disciplines such as prolonged fasting, meditation and silence, **I have
found that inspiration is far from arbitrary and can be methodically
mined. Moreover, as my senses have become more ajar, I have
discovered that the universe is heavily pregnant with inspiration. If you
listen closely, the whole world is singing.**

13. “BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE”
“WRITE THE BOOK YOU WANT TO READ”
“START WHERE YOU ARE WITH WHAT YOU’VE GOT”
Experimental, professional, zero-budget, artist-led, gallery and platform.
To contribute to the local arts scene in Dundee by creating high quality
shows, events and publications around questions of art, life and faith.
Video, Audio and Print Publications | Partnerships | Opportunities ...
NOMAS* PROJECTS
STARTING PRINCIPAL S
9a Ward Road, Dundee
find us on facebook, follow us on twitter: @nomasprojects
www.nomasprojects.org