Netta Yerushalmy, Paramodernities, 2013–2018
Paramodernities is a six-part series of lecture-performances or dance-experiments that weaves theory and performance into a four-hour-long hybrid event. “Yerushalmy and a cast of 20 dancers and scholars, ranging in age from 20 to 68, perform deconstructed installments of Nijinsky’s Sacre (1913), Graham’s Night Journey (1947), Ailey’s Revelations (1960), a mix of Cunningham works Rainforest, Sounddance, […]
Sharon Lockhart, Five Dances and Nine Wall Carpets by Noa Eshkol, 2011
Artist: Sharon Lockhart (born 1964 in Norwood, MA, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA). Materials: Five-channel film installation (35mm film transferred to HD); continuous loop. Description: “Since the 1990s, Lockhart has memorialized specific, quotidian moments in particular communities using film and photography. She discovered [Israeli dance composer and textile artist Noa] Eshkol’s […]
Andrea Geyer, Truly Spun Never, 2016
Artist: Andrea Geyer (born 1971 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; lives and works in New York City, USA). Materials: Three-channel HD video installation, 17 min. Description: “For Truly Spun Never, Geyer expands her recent interest in Modernism through an investigation of the origins of modern dance in Europe from the 1910s to the 1930s. Given […]
Daria Martin, Birds, 2001
Artist: Daria Martin (born 1973 in San Francisco, USA; lives and works in London, England). Materials: 16-mm film, projection, color, and sound; 7 min 30 sec. Description: “Birds (2001) is the second in a trilogy of films. It is preceded by In the Palace (2000) and succeeded by Close-up Gallery (2003). The film follows five […]
Daria Martin, In the Palace, 2000
Artist: Daria Martin (born 1973 in San Francisco, USA; lives and works in London, England). Materials: 16-mm film, projection, color, and sound; 7 min. Description: “In the Palace began with a daydream to enter inside two inaccessible places, to penetrate the tinyness of [Alberto] Giacometti’s surrealist sculpture The Palace at 4am (1932) and to move […]
