honora foah Selected Works
DELTA
Installation & Performance Piece
Greensboro, North Carolina an environment created from brown paper enveloping a room as a cave with conte-crayon drawings. Performance of linked poems and choreography.
Art does not represent the visible, rather it makes visible. Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth‌Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other latent realities. - PAUL KLEE
DIGITAL ART INSTALLATIONS
INSTALLATIONS INCLUDE SYMPHONY CONCERTS, VIDEO INSTALLATIONS, LASERS
LET EVERY EYE NEGOTIATE FOR ITSELF… - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
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If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. - Albert Einstein
United nations pavilions// The work for the UN Pavilions included collaboration with the architect on design to realize a space embodying the concept created for the content. Production included exhibitions, video walls, animation, sculpture and painting.
THERE CAN BE NO LASTING PEACE UNLESS WE ALSO MAKE PEACE WITH NATURE. - NORWEGIAN ENVIRONMENT MINISTER KNUT HAREIDE
digitalmedia // childrens hostpital // AUGUSTA CHILDREN’S // CHILDREN’S HEALTH CARE OF ATLANTA.
Children’s Hospitals PERMANENT VIDEO ART INSTALLATIONS TO CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT FOR SICK AND ANXIOUS CHILDREN TO HAVE WINDOWS ONTO NATURE AND THE WORLD OUTSIDE.
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The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. - Albert Einstein
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. - Albert Camus
creativity in captivity//
A performance series, scripted with stories connected to the music, which was all written in the concentration and internment camps of World War Two. www.CreativityinCaptivity.org
Christchurch New Zealand Concert// Producer, Stage Director As part of a gathering for participants from more than 70 countries, a concert connecting music from many cultures and faiths.
MUSIC IS ESSENTIALLY USELESS, AS LIFE IS. - GEORGE SANTAYANA
RECOMBINANT DNA// The Birth of Color, A Marriage of Darkness and Light The first work in a performance cycle of 7 The Birth of Color is a frequency opera based on ancient and new scientific ideas and images about the creation of the UNIVERSE.
THERE IS ANOTHER WORLD, BUT IT IS IN THIS ONE. - PAUL ELUARD
Other notable projects BANAZ
writer Emmy and Peabody award-winning film
TWO PERSON COLLABORATIVE SHOW WITH AMY LANDESBERG Narrative is like a back door into a very deep place inside of us, and a place where reason doesn’t necessarily hold sway. - Ira Glass
Sandler-Hudson Gallery, Atlanta, GA sculpture
PERFORMANCE
World Woman, Oslo, Norway
Honora Foah is a multi – media artist and Artistic Director of Mythic Imagination Institute. A pioneer of multi- disciplinary art, Ms. Foah’s New York based dance theatre company incorporated movement/dance, voice, music, food, art installation, and media projection. The company was a grant recipient from the National Endowment for the Arts. She created and collaborated on two notable performance cycles, Water Murders, with playwright Bradford Riley, and her own Recombinant DNA, which is the core of her ongoing focus. A collaboration with artist Amy Landesberg produced a full gallery show at the Sandler-Hudson Gallery in Atlanta. After ten years with the New York company, Ms. Foah’s son was born inspiring an interest in education which led to studies in Waldorf Education and helping to found three schools. A Masters degree from the University of North Carolina in Dance and PhD studies in Education followed. Ms. Foah became Creative Director of Visioneering International in 1989. In this capacity, she served as chief designer and producer of two World’s Fair pavilions for the United Nations (Genoa, Italy; Taijon, Korea), work for the Hayden Planetarium, installations for Fernbank Science Museum, and video art installations for Augusta Children’s Hospital and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta’s Emory Hospital. In 2003, Ms. Foah began work on Mythic Journeys, a performance festival and conference of extraordinary scope. Bringing together more than 150 presenters, speakers, artists, and performers, Mythic Journeys used the great archetypal stories, sacred traditions, folk wisdom and tales as a ground from which new art in consonance with interdisciplinary conversations creates a context for contemporary events. Psychologists, scientists, poets, scholars, politicians, business people, artists and musicians brought their expertise and creativity to bear on the experiences and issues of our time. In 2005, Mythic Journeys was the subject of a two-hour documentary on National Public Radio. Mythic Imagination has also produced the Human Forum conference for The Alliance for a New Humanity. A feature-length film about Mythic Journeys was released in the spring of 2010. In 2013, the film Banaz, A Love Story, for which Ms Foah was a writer and story developer, won a Peabody and an Emmy for best documentary. She is on the Board of the AVA Foundation. In 2014, a multimedia opera she created, wrote, directs, The Birth of Color: A Marriage of Darkness and Light was recorded in Budapest with a full production to follow. This piece is the first in a seven-part performance cycle called Recombinant DNA.