Sunday, April 18, 1999
Wrestling artists - Why not?
BY JACKIE DEMALINE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The team from Dileia Contemporary Gallery wrestled the University of Dayton's art department to defeat 18-6 in February, and team captain (and Dileia co-founder) Matt Distel thinks they have a good chance of bringing a team of Cleveland artists and arts administrators to their knees on Saturday.
The occasion is Cleveland's 12th annual (and last) Performance Art Festival.
The wrestling match, says Mr. Distel, is “the next installment in an ongoing series of performances? competitions? We call them culture wars. It's metaphorical. Art and wrestling — it's the same thing, isn't it?”
The meet, which follows NCAA rules, is serious business even if the idea is to “play with people's perceptions of art.” Mr. Distel may just sneak in a couple of ringers, his two younger brothers who wrestled through high school. “I'm not above that.”
Next up for Dileia (2823 Massachusetts Ave., Camp Washington) is the May 2 Curatorial Marathon. Twenty-four hours before to the opening “we decide on the theme and the artists, then we assemble the artists and hang the show.”
Time Store opens June 6 and Incendiary Devices opens, appropriately, on July 4. And that will be about the last of Dileia as a gallery space, with the closing planned for July. The gallery opened in the Cultural Machine Complex in November 1996.
“It's time to move on to the next set of ideas,” Mr. Distel says. To keep up with the group, visit www.cmc.simplenet.com.
The Last Performance Art Festival runs through next Sunday at Cleveland Public Theatre (216) 221-6017. For more information, about Dileia call 541-5383.
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