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Alison D'Amato & Adam Overton at Kristi Engle Gallery
Tue, 24 Jan 2012, 8–9:30pm

 

 

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The Temperaments
a reading and screening
Alison D'Amato

 

Ripe For Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism
a lecture
Adam Overton

 

 

This event is presented by Asher Hartman and Carol McDowell as part of A Little Louder: Performance in Conversation at Kristi Engle Gallery. It’s also presented as part of Liz Glynn’s Spirit Resurrection, a 2-month platform for performance inspired by the historic 1980 Public Spirit festival.

 

more info:
http://kristienglegallery.com
http://www.spiritresurrection.org

 

 

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The Temperaments
The Temperaments features six New York City art handlers re-interpreting male solo choreography from Balanchine's classic ballet, The Four Temperaments. Prior to the filming, these performers had never learned or rehearsed choreography in any setting. No movements were shown to them – instead, they were asked to create material of their own in response to specific verbal directions transcribed from video footage of the ballet. The film screening will be preceded by a reading of the score. Conception and choreographic direction by Alison D'Amato, videography by Grace Fitzpatrick.

 

 

Ripe For Embarrassment: For a New Musical Masochism
Having finally realized that scatological belittlement as a performance strategy is sooooo 2011, it’s becomes clear that the performer shall now work-to-rule their grateful composer. In this proposal, we look back to Cage one last, bitter time to find the composer’s boringly sublime, new musical, masochistic future.

 

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“A Little Louder: Performance in Conversation”
Every other month from February 2011 @ Kristi Engle Gallery in Highland Park

 

In this series, arists/curators Asher Hartman and Carol McDowell look at the ideas of conversation and performance to ask simply, 'what are people thinking?" Artists in this series are invited to perform, converse, and listen with singular purpose of circulating new ideas through the lens of performance.

 

The pairing of artists asks us to look in between art works, at the electric space of gaps and connection. Listening can be like scavenging, collecting facets of thought-- concerted statements and unplanned segues--detailing what the speaker is conscious of (or not). meshing with and advancing our own ideas.

 

As performance practitioners, we're curious about the nature of what we do, its exigencies, and how it responds or recedes from the larger cultural landscape. We invited people who are simply interesting to watch, to listen to, whose ideas give us ideas. We hope you'll join us in the spirit of exploration and discovery.

 

http://kristienglegallery.com

 

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Spirit Resurrection is a platform for performance inspired by the historic 1980 Public Spirit festival.  A series of new performances and re-inventions of historic works will be organized through a calendar structure based on the original.  This website offers an archive of the original festival combined with an open source platform for artists to participate in the project and the larger Pacific Standard Time festival. Performances will be staged at artist-run spaces, non-profits, and other sites in Los Angeles and beyond.

 

Spirit Resurrection was commissioned by LACE as part of Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983 an exhibition and performance series that explores the histories and legacies of performance art in Southern California in the 70s and early 80s. Los Angeles Goes Live is part of Pacific Standard Time. This unprecedented collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to tell the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene.

 

http://www.spiritresurrection.org

 

tags: event, words, scores, johncage, alisondamato, kristiengle

 

 

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