Candice Breitz
dal 11/11/2009 al 12/11/2009
Segnalato da
11/11/2009
Candice Breitz
Abrons Arts Center, New York
New York, New York. A Performa Commission with Kunsthaus Bregenz.
Video and installation artist Candice Breitz presents New York, New York, her first-ever live performance, which features two nearly-identical casts composed of four pairs of identical twins -with each pair of twins split into two groups of four actors each- presenting two evenings of improvised performance. The performances will be based on intensive 'character development sessions' that Breitz will hold with each pair of twins to develop a single character that both will play, although in separate casts and improvisations. Moving the probing of sameness and difference that has been central to Breitz's video-based work (most recently in Factum, a series of double-portraits of twins) into the space of live performance, New York, New York brings her interest in what she has called 'the scripted life' together with an ongoing reflection on the fragile condition of individuality. A Performa Commission with Kunsthaus Bregenz, produced by Performa in association with The Power Plant, Toronto, and Scott Macaulay. Supported by the TOBY Fund, Goodman Gallery, and Performa Producer's Circle member David Raymond.