Work in progress- Domestic space

 

Work In Progress- Untitled

PHOTOGRAPHY- in focus

PHOTOGRAPHY- thisgnihton isot notyas

SHOWS- Merce Cunningham Dance Company at the Barbican

Nearly ninety
The legacy tour

Merce Cunningham's last work before his death on 26th July 2009, was premiere in London at the Barbican in October. It was first shown in New York on his 90th birthday, 16 April 2009.



This was the first time I saw a live preformance of Cunningham's work. Managed to buy a ticket at the last minute after listening in the radio about the show.

When I arrived at my seat (GG13) the dancers were unexpectedly on stage warming up. Did some quick sketches.
Unforgetable experience.
Full admiration for the dancers who have performed with astonishing beauty.
Perfect combination of movement and sound.

In his work, Cunningham is interested in creating the possibility of a new experience. Through looking and listening, figuring out that it shouldn't look like something else, but instead making us think of what is that we are looking at.


Choreography by Merce Cunningham
Music by John Paul Jones, Takehisa Kosugi, Sonic Youth


Décor by Benedetta Tagliabue


Costumes by Romeo Gigli for io ipse idem


Lighting by Brian MacDevitt


Video by Franc Aleu

http://www.merce.org/

SHOWS - Trisha Brown Dance Company at the Tate Modern

Sunday 17 October 2010, 13.00-14.30
Early Works (1968-1975) presented at the Tate Modern as part of Celebrating Trisha Brown

Trisha Brown in Avalanche Magazine Summer 1972

PHOTOGRAPHY- Diamonds

"Sayag Your photographs are all full frame. Do you ever crop your images?

Rauschenberg I don't crop. Photography is like diamond cutting. If you miss you miss. There's no difference with painting. If you don't cut you have to accept the whole image. You wait until life is in the frame, then you have full permission to click. I like the adventure of waiting until the whole frame is full.


Sayag You don't miss very often, from looking at the contact sheets.


Rauschenberg It's because I wait; I wait until it's there again. Whatever is there is a truth, but a truth you have to believe in. What you see in front of you is a fact. You click when you believe it's the truth. The information is waiting to become in essence a concentration, concentrated so clearly that it can be projected back into real life, into your recognition. It could be any size."


- Robert Rauschenberg and Alain Sayag, extract from interview, in Robert Rauschenberg: Photographs (New York: Pantheon Books, 1981- Reprinted in Chance, Documents of Contemporary Art, Whitechapel Gallery, 2010




This interview was on my mind when I shot this photographs today.
Location between Liverpool street and Old Street, London
Camera: Canon EOS 1000D
Photographs where not digitally manipulated.

DANCE- Performance with Michael Clark Company

From 27/08/2010 to 30/08/2010 at the Tate Modern London.
More info at: www.michaelclarkcompany.com

Michael Clark

Full dress rehearsal Thursday 26/08/2010.
Photo found on Michael Clark Company Facebook page. 

Tracks used in the performance:

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It's No Game by David Bowie - Group 2

4)

QUOTE- Jean Tinguely

'In his 1959 Manifesto For Statics Tinguely exhorted his fellow artists to "stop painting time. Cease building cathedrals and pyramids that crumble away like sugar decorations. Breathe deeply, live in the now, live on and in time. For a beautiful and absolute reality." He then abridged his manifesto, had 150,000 copies printed and dropped them from airplanee over Dusseldorf.'

- extract from Art of the 20th Century, Taschen

Jean Tinguely - Homage to New York (1960) from Stephen Cornford on Vimeo.

DANCE- rehearsal with Michael Clark Company

I am very privileged to have been given the opportunity to take part in this project. Here is a video of one of the rehearsals with Michael Clark Company at the Turnbine Hall in the Tate Modern, on Friday 13th August 2010.

Tate Live:

Michael Clark Company at Tate Modern

Part I: residency, 13 July - 30 August 2010

Free public showings in the Turbine Hall

Friday 27 & Saturday 28 August 21.30

Sunday 29 & Monday 30 August 17.30

For Part I of his choreographic project at Tate Modern, Michael Clark and his company have been resident in the Turbine Hall for seven weeks, making the development and rehearsal of his work publicly visible for the first time.

The Company's presence has transformed the monumental space into an arena for experimentation and practice, foregrounding the processes - both artistic and practical - behind making and performing Clark's work.

As well as devising movement for his company's trained dancers, Clark has invited over 75 non-dancers to join weekly workshops with the company. The group of untrained dancers have learned a piece of dance, specially devised by Clark, which will be performed en-masse in the space over the August Bank Holiday weekend.

Clark has presented work within gallery spaces on many occasions, but this residency enables him to respond directly to the iconic architecture and specific character of Tate: as a communal space and as a museum.  This series of experiments is, in part, preparation for a new, large-scale performance commission due to be premiered as Part II of the project in June 2011.

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HIGH ON REBELLION, 

Inside the underground at Max's Kansas City

by Yvonne Sewall- Ruskin

Foreword by Lou Reed. 

"It's really gone now. The laser light that shone from the back room with all its red tables. The chick peas. The bad steak and horrible salad. Warhol, the superstars, the rock groups-to-be and not-to-be. The poets (and almost every-one was thought to be), the painters- in the front of the bar- and, toward the end, the upstairs where entertainment of a more formal nature resided- complete with a booker. The Velvet Underground played its last gasp up there." - Lou Reed 

Pictured : Larry Rivers, Cedar Bar Menu I, 1959.

213 Park Avenue South, New York 10003

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FOOD- An exhibition by White Columns, New York, curated by Catherine Morris October 3 1999 - February 13 2000, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln, 1999

"On Saturday September 25, to mark the unofficial opening of Food, an artist-run restaurant at 127 Prince Street, free garlic soup, gumbo, chicken stew, wine, beer, and home-made breads were served to friends, gallery-goers and passers-by until late in the evening." - Avalanche, Fall 1971