Wednesday
April 10, 2002 7pmPERFORMANCE
Program Director: Tara Anderson
Performance at Dactyl Foundation explores the "total art." An inherently interdisciplinary form, performance incorporates the visual, poetic, and musical arts. It is the only art which exists in both space and time and is finally distinguished from other forms by the real presence of the human body. Performance seeks the amalgam of text, light, plastic, and aural means for a complete and overwhelming effect, but comes into existence only in the act of disappearing.
The Performance series presents a variety of artists working in music,
dance, theater, and "performance art" and ventures to suggest that the form
and symmetry which comprise beauty in the fine arts, originate in the form and
symmetry of the human body. Performance at Dactyl Foundation presents
the body in space and time.
Submissions: Performance proposals may be submitted to Tara Anderson, Dactyl Foundation, 64 Grand St. NYC 10013. Please include a one-page description of the performance, number of participants, technical requirements, and any visual materials including photographs and videos. If you would like your materials returned to you, please include an appropriate envelope with postage. Please note that Dactyl has stone floors and may not be ideal for certain types of performances. Dactyl can accommodate approximately 75 people. Dactyl Foundation does not offer performance grants.
Does Art Heal? Lygia Clark's "Structuring of the Self"
A Talk by Suely Rolnik
"Contemporary aesthetic practices work with the tissue of reality -- they interfere, open up interstitial spaces for problematization, and thus put the world working. The singularity of a proposal lies on the portion of reality in which it inscribes itself, and on the specific procedures of this inscription: the subtler and more precise these procedures are, the greater their critical power and sharpness of effect. In this context, I will be examining the last and most radical work of Lygia Clark, "Estruturação do Self" (Structuring of the Self) as an experimental practice that inscribes itself onto the figure of the spectator and, more broadly, onto dominant modes of subjectivation that basic machine of homogeneity whose name is "consensus." It is this essential mechanism in the contemporary politics of reality production that Lygia Clark's proposal interferes with: by reactivating the aesthetic function within the spectator's subjectivity she sets up the necessary condition creation needs in order to establish its relation with the world. By putting subjectivity in and at work, Lygia Clark recovers, in her own way, the critical & clinical power of art."
Suely Rolnik is a psychoanalyst and Professor at the Catholic University of São Paulo, where she directs the Center for Research on Subjectivity at the Clinique Psychology doctoral program. She is the author of many books, among them, in collaboration with Félix Guattari, Micropolítica. Cartografias do desejo [1986], 6th edition, 2000, published in USA by Semiotext/MIT (in the press). She has translated many works into Portuguese, among them, Deleuze and Guattari's "Thousand Plateaus," and Deleuze's "Francis Bacon Logique de la Sensation". She has delivered many lectures in the Americas and Europe, among them at Documenta X (Kassel). She has also written many articles for books, art journals, exhibition catalogues and newspapers in the Americas and Europe.
Presented by: Dactyl Foundation, PJ Novelli and the Tuesday Night Forum Series, Performance Studies International, and New York University's King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center.
Links in English:
http://www.stretcher.org/archives/essays/despachos/despachos_sr.html
http://mitpress2.mit.edu/e-journals/Leonardo/isast/spec.projects/osthoff/osthoff.html
http://www.echonyc.com/~trans/lygia/clark3.html
http://www.universes-in-universe.de/doc/clark/e_clark1.htm
http://www.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/brazil/neo_concrete_01.html
http://www.artforum.com/inprint/id=2436
http://www.artnet.com/library/01/0179/T017960.asp
Kill With A Borrowed Knife: A Lecture-Performance of BudoFlux
Presented in association with PJ Novelli and the Tuesday
Night Forum Series
Kill with a Borrowed Knife is an ancient martial arts stratagem. It means making use of an opponent's resources for one's own gain: for example, using U.S. passenger planes to attack the United States. Budoflux uses this and other stratagems to introduce the integrated performance language of martial arts/dance presenting brief, theatrical actions based on the nature of conflict.
A performance of Italian Folk Songs
gathered and rearranged by Laura Biagi,
discussion to follow
Presented in association
with PJ Novelli and the Tuesday
Night Forum Series with:
Laura Biagi: voice and percussion
Ilya Temkin: guitar, gudok, mouth harp
Biagi will perform songs from the Italian folk repertoire in the original dialects. The songs come from different regions of Italy and will be grouped into different themes: love songs, prayers, lullabies, emigration songs, etc. The performance will be followed by a discussion on the history of the Italian folk revival during the late 1950's and 1960's and Biagi's position as a contemporary artist working with traditional material.
"My work is the work of an interpreter. I learned the songs both orally from the people and graphically, from scores and partitions that other scholars and musicians had previously transcribed. From the beginning, the work or revival raised two main questions: one about the functionality of the songs and, one about the concept of an originality. Both questions are still very relevant for those musicians who are interested in traditional material. The songs of the folk repertoire were associated with specific functions: there are work songs, love songs, lullabies, prayers, songs for the dead, etc. Once the songs leave their "original" contexts, how is the revivalist to behave in relation to the "original" function? In the context of oral culture, what does it mean to talk about an original performance? In sharing the songs with the audience I share the history of my country; in sharing the history I contextualize my place in it." - Laura Biagi
Laura Biagi was born in Siena, Italy. PhD candidate New York University
Tisch School of the Arts, Performance Studies. Areas of specialization: Southern
Italian tarantismo,Il Nuovo Canzoniere Italiano and the Italian folk revival
during the 1960's, performance theory, medical anthropology, and music. Adjunct
Professor, Italian Department (Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò) NYU.
Ilya Temkin is a performer and a researcher of Russian folk music. Areas
of specialization: epic songs, minstrelsy, and instrumental traditions. Ilya
plays various instruments including gusli (ancient psaltery) and lira (hurdy-gurdy),
and built several reproductions of medieval archaeological finds.
Tuesday February 5, 2002 7pm
Diane
Torr in Discussion. Drag King Ambassador to the World
presented in association with PJ Novelli and The
Tuesday Night Forum Series
Diane Torr will present her work as a performance/installation artist whose investigations into sexuality and identity over the past 20+ years have produced pioneering performances, which have toured throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe and Eurasia. Working as a go-go dancer in the working men's clubs and bars of New Jersey from 1978-81 gave Diane the opportunity to explore "contemporary notions of the erotic" and the representation of women's sexuality. This experience instigated a series of performances and films that reinvent the erotic. Taking on a male persona in one of these performances, AROUSING RECONSTRUCTIONS (1982), at St.Marks Church, New York, was the beginning of an ongoing exploration into gender and identity. She is presently working on a series of monologues written by the French surrealist artist, Claude Cahun, some of which she performed at the Maison Francaise and Dixon Place.
Diane is a graduate of Dartington College of Arts, England and a fellow of the Whitney Museum Independent Studies Program, and is matriculated in the MFA program at Bard College. Her movement/bodywork background includes the study of Release Technique, Contact Improvisation, Aikido and Shiatsu. She holds a third degree black belt in Aikido from New York Aikikai. Her work has been the subject of profiles in G.Q., The Washington Post, High Performance,Village Voice, The Manchester Guardian, German Vogue., etc. and is documented by BBC2 in its Q.E.D. series. Diane is a recipient of grants from NYSCA, Jerome Foundation, Joyce Mertz Gilmore Foundation, Art Matters, Artist Space, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts, RE.AL Lisbon Research Residency.
November 10, 1997
October 12,
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