This post is an extension of that one.

Dancing on the Ceiling: Art & Zero Gravity, is a major group exhibition in which contemporary artists explore—and on occasion recreate—the condition of weightlessness on earth. The exhibition will present the work of multiple national and international artists, including three newly commissioned pieces for the exhibition. Distributed throughout the public spaces in the building the exhibition is itself un-tethered from the confines of the traditional gallery exhibition paradigm.

Arts Catalyst • Benjamin Bergmann • Denis Darzacq • Edith Dekyndt • Chris Doyle • William Forsythe • Julia Fullerton-Batten • Thom Kubli • Tomás Saraceno • Jane & Louise Wilson • Xu Zhen

Dancing on the Ceiling will bring together artworks that use the metaphor of floating or weightlessness as an expression of the relationship of the individual to social, political or personal contexts. In addition, several of the pieces relate to lightness as akin to an agility of mind, freed of entrenched perspectives.

Curated by Kathleen Forde, Curator of Time-Based Arts, the exhibition will be accompanied by an exhibition catalog including essays by Italo Calvino as well as interviews with commissioned artists Chris Doyle and Thom Kubli.

The exhibition is also contextualized by a series of related performances, talks, films, and events; see the schedule for complete information.

Robert Longo, “Men in the Cities”, 1980s

NB: Don’t miss Aaron Schuster’s essay on levitation, love, and space sex in SB5!

During the stretching sessions of my dance courses, I often happen to broadcast Grace Jones’ Corporate Cannibal piece and while working on the elongation of specific muscles & muscle group, I ask my students to focus on the experience of fascination, which I interpret to be at the crossroads of the imaginary and the corporeal.
Rather than asking how one would have to define the ontological status of fascination, I actually wonder why fascination proves to be a paradigm “par excellence” to cover, that is to say, both nominate and legitimate, contemporary artistic experience?

Pleased to meet you, pleased to have you on my plate
your meat is sweet to me
your destiny
your fate

i’m the spark, make the world explode
i’m a man-eating machine, i’ll make the world explode
corporate cannibal…

Yesterday, we had the pleasure to attend Jean-Luc Verna’s performance at the opening of the Black Mirror exhibition, at théâtre de l’Arsenic, Lausanne.

Cross-posted on Novembre Magazine.

Tonight will happen the opening of the Black Mirror exhibition, for which we published a pretty well designed catalogue, followed by Verna’s exclusive concert at 9pm!

BE THERE !

Agrandir le plan

With the concept of “re|actions”, Annie Vigier and Franck Apertet reveal the approach that they have adopted and which constitutes the uniqueness of their work. The work touches upon the interpretation of systems of representation. It is developed by confronting the identity of exhibition contexts that it infiltrates. Each piece produced expresses a unique position, its presentation is developed using procedures that are incessantly re-interpreted. This approach of individualising implementations constitutes the choreographers’ unity of reflection and places the progression of the work at the centre of the debate over transdisciplinary issues and the exportation of works into other contexts.

On March 5th and 6th, the company will perform the first application of “Topologie” in the frame of the residency at the National Choreographic Center of Franche-Comté in Belfort.

More infos:
Centre Chorégraphique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort
3, av. de l’Espérance
90000 Belfort
Tél. : + 33 (0)3 84 58 44 88
E-mail : infos@ccnfc-belfort.org

Every Wednesday Dasniya Sommer will be teaching an additional and regular Shibari class in Kreuzberg. The focus will lie on the technical aspects of Japanese Rope Bondage and on how to tie, untie and suspend a person. She says “By clearly engaging in the technique we will try to raise our technical levels and see how they can be combined. On a long run, we could think of a staged group situation besides the individual games.”

WEDNESDAYS
20 – 22 pm
10 €
@ Buffet – Queer Art Studio
Schlesische Straße 38
2nd backyard: ‘Mühlengebäude’
First Floor
10997 Berlin Kreuzberg

more infos + contact: http://www.dasniyasommer.de/