Two exhibitions
dal 9/7/2009 al 12/9/2009
Segnalato da
9/7/2009
Two exhibitions
Camden Arts Centre, London
Swedish artist Johanna Billing has been commissioned to make a new film: I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm. She skill lies in combining the choreography of individuals with facilitating their freedom to perform naturally, bringing the whole together through editing hours of footage. Alexandre da Cunha creates a new installation; his dynamic, large-scale sculptures improvise on the concept of the readymade by reusing everyday objects.
Johanna Billing
I'm Lost Without Your Rhythm
Swedish artist Johanna Billing has been commissioned to make a new film which is the second project in the 3 Series; a collaboration between Camden Arts Centre, Modern Art Oxford and Arnolfini.
Shown alongside other work, this exhibition is Billing’s first major solo exhibition in a public gallery in London.
Johanna Billing’s videos reflect on routine, rehearsal and ritual with an emphasis on the fragility of individual performance and power of collective experience.
Her new work is based around the recording of a live performance of dance ‘learned’ or performed by amateur Romanian dancers in Iasi (pronounced ‘yash’), during Periferic 8 Biennial of Contemporary Art "Art as Gift" in October 2008.
The film links several days’ activity into a continuous process, in which dancers were watched by an audience who were free to come and go as they pleased.
Johanna Billing’s skill lies in combining the choreography of individuals with facilitating their freedom to perform naturally, bringing the whole together through editing hours of footage.
There is no final performance, the whole is a collaboration between choreographer, dancers and local musicians. The unfolding dramas hold the viewer enthralled and moved.
Part of the 3 Series: 3 artists, 3 spaces, 3 years, funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and supported by the Embassy of Sweden
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Alexandre da Cunha
Laissez-Faire
Camden Arts Centre has commissioned London-based Brazilian artist Alexandre da Cunha to create a new sculptural installation for Gallery 3.
His dynamic, large-scale sculptures improvise on the concept of the readymade by reusing everyday objects: job lots from pound shops, surplus fabrics and recycled goods, reflecting on their specific histories and aesthetics.
Prior to the exhibition Da Cunha is artist in residence in Camden Arts Centre’s Artists’ Studio. He often incorporates plinths or pedestals into pieces, examining classical ideas of presentation and the relationship to where the piece begins or ends.
Recently he has collaborated with crafts people such as wool spinners and dyers, transforming materials from their humble beginnings into spectacular objects.
Da Cunha’s work often deals with the wider concern of the human condition, commenting on the distribution of wealth in his native Brazil.
Da Cunha's commission and residency are supported by outset.
Image: Johanna Billing, filming in Iasi, (work in progress), 2008
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