The Paris-based, young Greek artist to watch Iris Touliatou has a Palais de Tokyo Modules solo show opening on Thursday 9 September. Her fascinating practice crosshatches a physical urban construct over an architectural landscape yet to be realised; a hanging state of cognitive dissonance in which fiction and reality exist simultaneously. Iris’s work across various media displays a unique and specialised depth of research making it equal parts visually stunning and highly sophisticated.

From the exhibition text: The Xenia hotel chain, built in the 1960s, was central to a plan to modernize the Greek tourist infrastructure to convey a new image of the country. These holiday resorts built in idyllic landscapes by Greek architects influenced by Le Corbusier were the symbol of the postwar era at the time. The
architecture was then seen as a real marketing tool, passed on by the film industry that chose these new leisure places as shooting locations, as in the film “Apollo Goes on Holiday”. Filmed in 1968, partly at the Xenia Hotel in Nafplio, this musical comedy playfully conveys a new way of living.

Basing her ideas on this evidence, Iris Touliatou embarks on a dialogue between different historical facts. While the American Marshall Plan was supporting the recovery of postwar Europe, NASA was developing the Apollo moon program.
The exhibition, its title alluding to the aforementioned film, presents two new works. A replica of the shade screens that were present on the façades of the Xenia hotels, “ECLIPSE II (Parasol Set)”, at the center of the space looks like the setting for a scene to be acted out: the metaphor of the human dream. The artist weaves a mesh of references. Thus the collage series “ECLIPSE I” associates the official photographs of the Xenia hotels with cuttings from 1960s architecture magazines, advertisements for new materials such as concrete, and publications recounting celestial phenomena. Through a work involving collage, cutting-out, associations or overlaying, new images appear, operating along the lines of an unconscious language, and laden with mysticism.

With the support of the Onassis Foundation

Palais de Tokyo / Module 1 / Iris Touliatou / Apollo Goes On Holiday

RoxanneLola MovementMachine presents the premiere of Anne Zuerner’s first evening length work, NEAR THE FAR, a site-specific contemporary dance work for CPR’s brand new performance space. This emotionally intense, cinematic work, features remarkable dancing by Emma Desjardins (Merce Cunningham Dance Company), Ellie Kusner (Pam Tanowitz Dance), Adele Nickel (Sara Michelson’s Dover Beach, Liz Gerring Dance, CorbinDan…ces), and Anne Zuerner, as well as a haunting, original score for keyboard and synthesizer composed and performed live by Porcelain Skyline. Painter David Pappaceno contributes his visionary designs to CPR’s large white walls.

Performances will take place:

Wednesday and Thursday at 8:00pm,
Friday and Saturday at 7:30pm and 9:00pm.

Tickets are $17 and available online at smarttix.com, (212) 868-4444, and at the door.

Only 30 audience members may attend each performance, so reservations are recommended!

More infos: Center for Performance Research

Photographer Corrine Day passed away on Friday

His back will arch, his knees will bend, his fingers will find your neck and your hair. You probably never payed attention before. Though the rules of engagement are not clearly delineated, your role is a passive one. There will be no kissing, of course, and the more sensitive spots are off limits to your hands. Nevertheless, Summer was bold enough, while sitting on your lap and facing away, to take his hands in yours and place them on your bare hips.

These moodboards have put me in the mood for a moodboard. Don’t want to give too much away but.. Oh dear, too late.

- May I go now?

- Yes, you may go.

(silence)
(sudden change of heart)

- No, stay a little longer.

- May I come tomorrow?

- Yes, you may come.

- What shall I wear?

- Nothing.

(silence)
(sudden change of heart)

- No, only roller blades.

- At what time shall I come?

- Come at 4pm. When the clown will be trussed up.

- May I meet the clown first?

- No, you may not.

(silence)
(sudden change of heart)

- Yes, but you need special permission.

- Where can I get permission?

- You may obtain it from the roller-coaster office.

- Ok.