Synchronized Pieing

pies, house of cards, backyards, Meg, Catie, NYC, Chicago = soon or rather TBA

What happens when you separate Meg & Catie? Well, actually they'll be building in two different backyards, in NYC & Chicago. What else would they have done? They are braving a whole new building format with the elements of pie, specifically peach pie. Soon, very soon, Meg & Catie will embark on this feat. Not recommended for the shy at heart.

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Meg & Catie successfully completed "Split, Splat, Splot" in central park over the weekend. They made new friends, threw a few pies around, dragged a new digital projector fully wrapped & packaged through central park just because & even came up with future ideas for work. Clothing, they both discovered, especially when wearing the same dress, makes people think you are related- like "sisters" or even "twins". We were noticed certainly. Add a cart filled with a bucket, a shovel, a broom, and pies stacked in crates... we became a cleaning crew that worked for the park... who'd da thunk?? We are certainly tired. Catie even woke up from a dream today; she had a dream that she was being pied.

July 22nd, 2007 -- Preparation

Meg and Catie rise early

They pack 18 pies for the days events

They have a large cart and a bag full of:
18 pies
Rope
4 tablecloth dresses (they are already wearing their red ones)
A broom
A shovel
A bucket
A boom box
Their bags

They go, with their cart, to B & H to pick up Catie’s new video projector. It is not needed for the day, but it is need for Catie’s life.

Meg and Catie are full of stuff.

They go on the train to Central Park. A few bystanders help with the cart on the stairs.

Catie and Meg meet Jon Marco by Central Park. He is helping with today’s events.

July 22nd, 2007--Close-range toss

Ingredients:
Meg
Catie
Chocolate cream pie
Belvedere Castle
2 red tablecloth dresses
A fine digital video camera

Meg and Catie take all of their stuff up to Belvedere Castle. It is a hike.

Meg looks at the view over turtle pond

Catie throws chocolate cream pie on Meg’s turned head

Meg’s hair is covered

It was a glorious splat

Meg washes off in a drinking fountain

Catie licks her fingers.

They go to the bathroom to change dresses, but the line is too long.

Meg washes her hair using a water bottle

Catie and Meg change to new black tablecloth dresses by a bench

July 22nd, 2007-- long-range throw

Ingredients:
Meg
Catie
Apple pie
Great Lawn’s ball fields
2 black tablecloth dresses
Shovel
Broom
A fine digital video camera

Catie, Meg, and Jon, go to the Great Lawn’s ball fields, carting all of their stuff

There are many ball and Frisbee players

Catie and Meg run out into the field through two Frisbee players

Meg has the pie

Catie backs up

Meg THROWS!

Catie flinches

The pie explodes into shrapnel on Catie’s shoulder

Meg and Catie prance back to the cart and get the broom and shovel

Catie and Meg clean up pie shrapnel

Jon Marco videotapes all of the events

Catie am Meg wash up in the bathroom

July 22, 2007—the duck and throw

Ingredients:
Meg
Catie
Jon Marco
Blueberry pie
Sheep Meadow
2 black tablecloth dresses
A fine digital video camera

Catie, Meg, in black table cloth dresses still, and Jon Marco cart all of their stuff to the Sheep Meadow

Jon Marco leans by a tree

Meg and Catie run around, Catie with pie in hand, Meg with video camera

Catie throws pie at Meg

Meg ducks

Splat!

Catie hits tree next to Jon Marco

They do to prepare for the Dance

Today's Events--July 22nd

Today's Events

July 22, 2007
7. Olson will perform a close-range toss by tossing, overhand, a chocolate cream pie at Duguid.
Belvedere Castle, 12 p.m.

8. Duguid, using an apple pie will perform a long-range throw on Olson by pitching the pie at Olson from at least Eight feet away.
Great Lawn’s Baseball Fields, 2 p.m.

9. Olson, performing the duck and throw, will attempt to hit Duguid with a blueberry pie at close-range but will accidentally hit a passerby at long-range when Duguid ducks.
Sheep Meadow, 5 p.m.

Finale--Synchronized Pieing--the Dance
Cedar Hill, July 22, 7 p.m.

For Duguid and Olson’s finale the have created a two-woman public slapstick dance piece based on the idea of synchronized swimming. This choreographed routine breaks down the motion of pieing into a poetic comedyesque dance. As they go between one pieing type to another, the layers of sugar will pile up on Duguid and Olson followed by the pair donning cleaning uniforms spilling buckets of water on the pie area and each other for cleaning.

Stay tuned for picture of yesterday's pieing pictures to be posted

July 21st Cleaning up

July 21st Cleaning up

Meg and Catie clean up at Saks Fifth Avenue

Instead of going to the laundry mat they shop for dresses at H & M

Later in the evening they eat Dim Sum and wash the clothes by hand

Catie makes signs for tomorrow

Meg goes to bed to blog early in the morn

July 21st, 2007—Duck Close-up

Ingredients
Meg
Catie
Pumpkin pie
A tree
2 black tablecloth dresses
A fine digital camera


Meg and Catie go to meet Jeff at Literary Walk to discuss the duck close-up

Jeff doesn’t come

How do they perform a duck close-up with no passerby?

Description:
In an attempt to enact a close-range pieing on Duguid, Olson will accidentally pie a passerby with a pumpkin pie when Duguid ducks. This is known as the duck close-up.

They decide to pie a tree!

Olson chases Duguid with a pie

Duguid runs across the walk and ducks at a tree

Olson throws pie and hits tree

Tree is embarrassed, so they take no pictures

July 21st, 2007—Pie drop

Ingredients
Meg
Catie
2 cherry pies
An Arch
2 black tablecloth dresses
A park goer
A fine digital camera

Catie and Meg are on their way to change into their black tablecloth dresses and get coffee when---

OH NO!

HOMEMADE CHERRY PIE SLIPS FROM HANDS OF CATIE

SPLAT

that cherry wanted to fly.

Meg and Catie need to change and need new pie.

They look in the Pioneer grocery—lots of pies, but no cherries. They decide to take the bus to Whole foods. While waiting for the bus, they see a great resale shop. They longingly look as they get on the bus. There is no time for shopping, only time for cherry pie.

At whole foods they find an expensive organic cherry pie—Catie pays

They eat breakfast and change

The go on their way in their black tablecloth dresses to the arch

The walk is 30 minutes

Catie finds park goer who is reading and asks him to take some pictures.

Meg unwraps organic pie and walks to top of arch

Meg gets to top of arch and Catie is still talking to park goer

Meg is ready to drop

Catie is setting-up shot

Catie goes into tunnel where musician is playing and comes out.

Meg drops

Pie splats

Catie is not hit

Meg missed

Meg runs down and scoops up pie to try again.

Catie goes into arch and Meg runs to top

Meg attempts to hit Catie again

Splat!

Catie is not hit

Meg missed again

Pie is really a mess on the ground.

They decide to try again tomorrow

Catie and Meg are both clean. So they keep on the black tablecloth dresses.

They decide to have a meeting at Cedar Hill. They meet; they talk to their significant others. Catie is really excited about her new cell phone and the ability to talk to her fiancé, Erik, for the park. Meg makes dinner plans with her husband, Michael.

July 21st, 2007—Face Pushed into Pie

Ingredients
Meg
Catie
Banana cream pie
The Museum of Natural History
2 red tablecloth dresses
A tourist
A fine digital camera

Meg and Catie sit in red tablecloth dresses near the ground entrance of Natural History

Meg takes out banana cream pie

Catie attempts to find a tourist to take their picture. The fist woman she approaches walks away. The second tourist agrees. Catie asks her to take a few pictures of us.

Catie sits next to Meg

Tourist takes picture

Catie pushes Meg’s face into pie

Meg is creamy and puts cream onto Catie

Tourist keeps taking pictures.

Meg and Catie say “thank you” and clean up using the shirt.

They look at the pictures and they are great--Thank you Tourist!

They go to change into their black tablecloth dresses

July 21st, 2007--Preparation

Meg and Catie get up and drink coffee

Meg goes to grocery for more pies shells

Catie and Meg bake 3 cherry pies and 3 apple pies

Meg and Catie take laundry off the line and put on red tablecloth dresses

They pack up pies—1 cherry, 1 pumpkin, and 1 banana cream—and go to the train. Today they take the JMZ, On the train 2 people bump into Meg and she almost looses the cherry, That pie already wants to fly.

Meg and Catie switch to the F train. The A is running local on the F, What a pleasant surprise. They take it up to the Natural History Museum.

July 21st--Today's events

Today

July 21, 2007
4. Duguid holding a Banana Cream pie under Olson’s face as a sweet smelling temptation will push her face into the pie performing the famous face pushed into pie act.
In front of The Natural History Museum, 12 p.m.

5. Olson on the top of the bridge will enact a pie drop with a cherry pie on Duguid who i nonchalantly walking under the bridge.
Greywacke Arch, 2 p.m.

6. In an attempt to enact a close-range pieing on Olson, Duguid will accidentally pie a passerby with a pumpkin pie when Olson ducks. This is known as the duck close-up
Literary Walk, 5 p.m.

pictures of yeaterday's events will be posted tonight

July 20th Cleaning up

Meg and Catie clean up at Bloomingdales

Instead of going to the laundry mat they shop for wedding dresses

Later in the evening they wash the clothes by hand

July 20th Close-range Pieing

Ingredients
Meg
Catie
Chocolate cream pie
2 green tablecloth dresses
A rickshaw driver
A fine digital video camera

Meg and Catie pick their rickshaw driver while wearing green tablecloth dresses

They ask him for permission to pie

They all climb aboard—Meg and Catie carefully maneuver the suitcase onto the rickshaw

Catie videos the pieing

Stay toned for the video!

July 20th Running with Pie

Ingredients
Meg
Catie
Blueberry pie
2 black tablecloth dresses
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A fine digital camera
Two cell phones

Catie is on 81st St. and 5th Ave in her black tablecloth dress, armed with blueberry pie

Meg is on 83rd St. and 5th Ave in her black tablecloth dress, she now has Catie's rolling suitcase

Meg calls Catie and says go! It’s 2:00

Meg walks downtown, Catie walks uptown, they meet in between in front of the Met

Catie prances up to Meg and pies her with blueberry. Meg continues downtown, Catie continues uptown.

Meg’s ear has blueberries in it.

They go to the bathroom to clean up a

July 20th Sitting on Pie

Ingredients
Meg
Catie
Lemon meringue pie
2 red tablecloth dresses
A bench next to Conservatory Water
An unsuspecting shirt to clean up with
A fine digital camera

Meg in her red tablecloth dress sits on bench and places the lemon meringue pie next to her and starts to write

Catie, with her suitcase in tow, walks along in her red tablecloth dress and starts to sit on the pie next to Meg

A man with a gray Scottish terrier on the other side of the bench exclaims, “Watch out!”

Catie sits

Lemon meringue splots like a freshly fried egg.

Meg and Catie have no towels to clean up with. So they use Meg's unsuspecting shirt.

Meg and Catie go to the bathroom to change into their black tablecloth dresses to pie at 2:00p.m.

July 20, 2007--Preparation

Catie wakes up at 5;00 a.m. and gets on the train to O’Hare

Catie has conversations about pies on the train with Dan from wine-o-rama, he asks good questions about pies

Her plane takes off at 8:00 a.m.—she is on her way

Meg wakes up at 8:00 a.m. to bake pies

Meg’s oven is slow-2 hours to bake a blueberry pie at 500 degrees—The meringue for the lemon mostly sets after an hour of baking

Meg makes
4 Chocolate pies
2 Lemon Meringue pies
2 Banana pies
4 Blueberry pies

Cherry and apple pies still needed to be made

While pies are baking, Catie is in the air; Meg attempts to get last minute press because earlier attempts garnered nothing.

Pies are done!

Meg wraps pies in plastic, grabs tablecloth dresses, and throws an umbrella in her bag. She kisses her husband on the cheek and walks to the train

Meg leaves message for Catie hoping she has landed

Catie calls Meg she is here! And waiting for a car—Meg and Catie decide to meet at 60th St. and 5th Ave at 11:45

Meg gets on the train

Catie gets in a car

OH NO! Catie is late! Damn airports

Catie and Meg experience moderate stress, Catie arrives and the lawyer who split the car with her expensed the car ride—Thanks you James! —Catie and Meg meet and hug

Catie and Meg walk to Conservatory Water for a late pieing

July 19th—Preparation

Catie is delayed—flight cancelled because of weather—no rain in New York or Chicago—now has to go to Newark at 8:00 am tomorrow—Catie called meg from her new cell phone—it’s her first

Meg goes to the grocery and gets pie fixins

Split, Splat, Splot

Split, Splat, Splot
New work by Meg Duguid and Catie Olson
with guest appearances by Jeff DeSalvo, and Jon Marco

Central Park
July 20-22, 2007
12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 5 p.m. daily, with a grand finale on Sunday July 22 at 7:00 p.m.

Split, Splat, Splot is a series of synchronized pieing events taking place throughout Central Park. During the three day span, Duguid and Olson have synchronized their watches and will be performing nine classic pieing actions in various park locations directly on the hours of 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 5 p.m. daily, culminating with a grand two-woman synchronized pie routine on Sunday July 22 at 7 p.m. (see schedule and map on the following pages for a further description).

In advance of these events, Duguid and Olson set up a public learning pie lab, called I can toss. Can you smash? What a splat! A Pie Research Project, to determine which pies they will be performing which actions with.

I can toss. Can you smash? What a splat! A Pie Research Project was a public learning lab where Duguid and Olson tested pieing in April. By setting up a systematic pie experiment, they discovered what pies are best for which situations and how the structure of pie and the movements of the pie-er and pie-ee create meaning.

Although the cream pie seems to be the favorite of pieing moments, was it the most effective comedy instrument? Or is it the best for black and white film where pieing had its media heyday? To satisfy these questions, Duguid and Olson created a list of pie actions and another list of pie types and performed each action with each pie type to fulfill this quest.

After an extreme evening of scientifically lobbing a total of sixty pies at each other, Duguid an Olson came to a number of conclusions, including that cream pie is does not hold up as well as a double-crusted pie in a long-range throwing situation—and that sometimes the sponginess of meringue is funnier than the splatyness of cream.

Come join Duguid and Olson with guest appearances by Jeff DeSalvo, and Jon Marco in Central Park when these results will be put to the test.

Synchronized Pieing--on the Hour
July 20-22, 2007, 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 5 p.m. daily

Each morning Duguid and Olson will be waking up with the roosters to synchronize their watches and bake that day’s pies. During the three-day span Duguid and Olson will be performing 9 classic pieing actions in various park locations directly on the hours of 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 5 p.m. daily. Every evening they will be found at Duguid’s local laundry mat cleaning their outfits from that day.

July 20, 2007
1. Sitting on pie will be performed with a Lemon Meringue pie: Olson will set a pie on bench to read the paper. Duguid not noticing the pie will sit directly on it.
Conservatory Water,12 p.m.

2. Running with pie will be enacted with a blueberry pie. Duguid will come at Olson with a running start and pie her at close range.
In front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2 p.m.

3. Duguid and Olson will hail a Carriage or Rickshaw on 60th St & 5th Ave. Sometime after they are picked up Olson will hit Duguid at arms length with a chocolate cream pie and perform a close-range pieing.
Taking off from 60th St & 5th Ave, 5 p.m.

July 21, 2007
4. Duguid holding a Banana Cream pie under Olson’s face as a sweet smelling temptation will push her face into the pie performing the famous face pushed into pie act.
In front of The Natural History Museum, 12 p.m.

5. Olson on the top of the bridge will enact a pie drop with a cherry pie on Duguid who isnonchalantly walking under the bridge.
Greywacke Arch, 2 p.m.

6. In an attempt to enact a close-range pieing on Olson, Duguid will accidentally pie a passerby with a pumpkin pie when Olson ducks. This is known as the duck close-up
Literary Walk, 5 p.m.

July 22, 2007
7. Olson will perform a close-range toss by tossing, overhand, a chocolate cream pie at Duguid.
Belvedere Castle, 12 p.m.

8. Duguid, using an apple pie will perform a long-range throw on Olson by pitching the pie at Olson from at least Eight feet away.
Great Lawn’s Baseball Fields, 2 p.m.

9. Olson, performing the duck and throw, will attempt to hit Duguid with a blueberry pie at close range but will accidentally hit a passerby at long-range when Duguid ducks.
Sheep Meadow, 5 p.m.

Synchronized Pieing--the Dance
Cedar Hill, July 22, 7 p.m.

For Duguid and Olson’s finale the have created a two-woman public slapstick dance piece based on the idea of synchronized swimming. This choreographed routine breaks down the motion of pieing into a poetic comedyesque dance. As they go between one pieing type to another, the layers of sugar will pile up on Duguid and Olson followed by the pair donning cleaning uniforms spilling buckets of water on the pie area and each other for cleaning.

Split, Splat, Splot Event Map

I can toss. Can you smash? What a splat! A Pie Research Project

I can toss. Can you smash? What a splat! A Pie Research Project
New work by Meg Duguid and Catie Olson

Fifty50 Gallery
1017 W. Lake Street
Chicago, IL 60607
Friday, April 13, 2007
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/carlwarnick/469483154/

I can toss. Can you smash? What a splat! A Pie Research Project is a public learning lab where Duguid and Olsen will test pieing. By setting up a systematic pie experiment, they intend to discover what pies are best for which situations and how the structure of pie and the movements of the pie-er and pie-ee create meaning.

Although the cream pie seems to be the favorite of pieing moments, is it really the most effective comedy instrument? Or is it the best for black and white film where pieing had its media heyday.

• Is an apple pie better than a cream pie at close range?

• Is a graham cracker crust funnier than a standard crust?

• Is there a time when a two-crust pies ability to hold together important to the way the pie-er pies?

• When tossed does a pumpkin pie out splat a cherry?

To satisfy these questions Duguid and Olsen have created a list of pie actions and another list of pie types. The audience is invited to watch and help the pair perform each action with each pie type to fulfill this quest.

A Night at the Races: Racecar is racecar backwards, but piecar forwards is a challenge

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Night at the Races: Racecar is racecar backwards, but piecar forwards is a challenge
New work by Meg Duguid and Catie Olson
Thursday, Dec. 21, 2006
7:00 – 10:00 p.m.

Green Lantern
1511 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Second Floor
Chicago, Illinois 60622

http://thegreenlantern.org/memory.html#anightattheraces

A Night at the Races is a one-evening pie race event, which utilizes slapstick symbology navigating a series of tracks like roman chariots to explore the collision of craft, performance, reality, and cartoon through the literal collision of piecar into piecar.

Go fast, turn left, and don’t crash!

For this event Duguid and Olson have created two remote control pie-racers that the audience can use to compete with on a two-dimensional track. These piecars are literally remote control cars of which the bodies have been replace by pie tins creating a pie on wheels that will race on a hand drawn track. In heats of two racers at a time the pie-racing talent will be weeded out of the audience. As the evening progresses the courses will be altered to increase in difficulty until a pie-race champion is named. There will be a special prize for the victor.

Serious Laugh

Laugh Seriously
New work by Meg Duguid and Catie Olson
June 24-July 15, 2006
Opening June 24, 2006, 6p.m.-10p.m.

Butchershop Dogmatic Gallery
1319 W. Lake St, 3rd floor
Chicago, IL 60607
(312) 375-7757
http://www.dogmaticchicago.com/exhibition.asp?showid=150


Laugh Seriously is a collaborative show based on a weird tracking of subject and object within a fictional world of serious laughter. Duguid and Olson have excavated their gray matter and come up with a spine-tingling exhibition. The audience is invited to literally step directly into this duo’s work that features a laughing-gas chamber and an oxygen chamber, a homemade clown car, a joke wall, a chess game, and a map of what it all means.

While trying to fulfill the comedic rolls of the “straight man” and the “crack up” this team has created a serious of work that explores leisure, joke, and concentration. The opening itself will be a riot with a myriad of performances including a hundred yard dash. Please dress accordingly and bring proper identification

Reconstructing, pineapple leaves, deconstruction, bench press, destruction, matadors, mischief, fire, whatever, OK!

Laugh Seriously
Reconstructing, pineapple leaves, deconstruction, bench press, destruction, matadors, mischief, fire, whatever, OK!
Performance by Meg Duguid, Catie Olson,
and The Butcher Shop Dogmatic Gallery
July 29, 2006

This exhibition ran from June 24-July 15, 2006. Although the exhibition has closed, it’s not over yet.

During the run of this exhibition multiple works were purposely damaged by unknown parties. Since July 1st, their zeal in rallying against Meg and Catie and their work, with its casual appearance and mercurial substance has resulted in the vandalizing of 6 pieces, on separate occasions, over the course of 2 and a half weeks time. As the Butcher Shop mostly houses studios in it’s two-floor space, it is most likely that this was an artist on artist crime. After much conversation as to what created such offense in another artists mind, Duguid, Olsen, and the Butcher Shop Dogmatic gallery could only come up with one response:

Reconstructing, pineapple leaves, deconstruction, bench press, destruction, matadors, mischief, fire, what ever, OK!

This descriptive word association was uttered by Duguid and Olsen, in conjunction with the Butcher Shop Dogmatic gallery, as title for a performance to directly deal with these impish and quizzical actions.

Unable to document the exhibition before the pieces were damaged, the artists will reconstruct the exhibition and shoot slides. After the exhibition has been reconstructed they will then reinstall the show to highlight the damaged works, as well as recreate the Map of what it all means in the image of the new space. The gallery will then be reopened for one evening on the 29th of August. That evening you are invited to bring to the Butcher Shop a piece of artwork to be destroyed, as a physical response to the questions raised when so much work is damaged.

A Note about the exhibition:
Laugh Seriously was a collaborative exhibition based on a weird tracking of subject and object within a fictional world of serious laughter. Characterized by an iterative structure and favoring modulating events to idol speculation, Meg Duguid and Catie Olson’s program navigated a space wherein process was investigated as an experiential device. At its core, Serious Laughter employed humor and absurdity as mediums with which contemporary aesthetic could be analyzed and its fraying bits snipped at the pleasure of a passerby’s joke

Included in the exhibition were:
• Abstract sad clown drawings
• Shoe drawings
• Sideshow cigar box dioramas
• High-heeled clown shoes
• A laughing-gas chamber and an oxygen chamber
• A homemade clown car that fills an entire room
• A joke wall where the audience could add their own joke
• A chess game
• (catie add the cans)
• Potential Energy Barbie
• C World
• a book of two’s communications during the process of this exhibition
• a map of what it all means


Dogmatic maintains and upholds its belief that art is not something accessible only to the few. It is instead a potential for all people everywhere to engage the notion of sensation and challenge the experience of history with anything they choose to make a tool of in any space they so choose. Dogmatic in short, will continue to provide leadership for these endeavors as more and more duck, duck, goose becomes a reasonable way to ring around the rosy. We will continue providing Art in any way possible to a world of grown ups that realize the importance of such experiences and we will do this from Chicago where Art happens in real time daily.