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Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS: Born in Flames � Resistance Dolores: Simone Forti � News Animations - 26 May 2012 to 30 June 2012 Current Exhibition |
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Born in Flames � Resistance
26/05/12 � 30/06/12 |
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Born in Flames – Resistance These coming weeks Ellen de Bruijne Projects will present numerous events around the theme of resistance, resulting in a vivid exhibition that will grow by the day. Starting point is 1983 cult movie Born in Flames by Lizzie Borden, a documentary style film dealing with problems of all kinds. In a future United States socialist democracy sexism, racism and classism are daily routine. Diverse groups of women feel urged to gather and revolt against not only the government, but cultural society as a whole to stop matters for once and for all. The event based exhibition brings various artists together, from in and outside the gallery, connected by their shared fascination for resistance in every imaginable way. Ellen de Bruijne Projects will present lectures, performances and screenings. Updates on events, dates and times will come soon! On Tuesday the 5th of June we will kick off with the screening of Born in Flames accompanied by a lecture by Kaisa Lassinaro, whose new book Born in Flames will be launched in the gallery at that evening. You are all welcome at 19.30 at Ellen de Bruijne Projects. Born in Flames – Kaisa Lassinaro Born in Flames, the publication, is an illustrated transcript of Lizzie Borden’s 1983 film ‘Born in Flames’, edited and designed by Kaisa Lassinaro. It includes an interview with Borden conducted in L.A. by Lassinaro, as well as the lyrics of Undercover Nation by The Bloods and Born in Flames by Red Crayola, kindly supplied by Adele Bertei and Mayo Thompson. Dolores Simone Forti – News Animations Ellen de Bruijne Projects proudly presents the work of Los Angeles based artist Simone Forti. By many regarded as one of the key figures in postmodern dance, Forti prefers to be referred to as a movement artist. By improvising she explores pure movement and its relation to the mind, in her latest work enriched by language as one of her central interests. Her work links linguistics to movement by translating the word into gesture and speech into choreography. According to Simone Forti improvisation can never be purely natural and spontaneous as it will always be influenced by the dancers’ personal style or desire to express. By using only movements of everyday life, she aims to objectify improvisation. These movements are strengthened by the ephemeral character of her choreographies due to their truly improvisational core. In News Animations the news becomes the choreographer, determining Forti’s movements and speech. This seemingly infinite series of performances started as an attempt to fully comprehend the news through improvisations. Moving and speaking became a method of inquiry and social commentary, implementing all words that come to mind. These words arise from questions, feelings and speculations about the world brought to us by the news. Also incorporated in Forti’s drawings, the artist has found a way to practice improvisation in the two-dimensional as well. Thought becomes movement becomes line becomes word. Simone Forti (IT, 1935) is a dancer/choreographer /writer. After her studies and apprenticeship with Anna Halprin, she studied composition at Merce Cunningham Studios. Here she started working with choreographers like Trisha Brown, Yvonne Rainer, and Steve Paxton. Forti went on to be a pivotal figure in the Judson Dance Theater community. Over the years her work has evolved from her early Dance Constructions, through her animal movement studies and News Animations, an improvisational dance narrative form wherein movement and language spontaneously weave together. In 2005 Forti received the Guggenheim Fellowship and currently she’s teaching improvisation at UCLA. Throughout the years, writing has been part of Forti’s process. Among her writings are: Handbook in Motion (1974) published by The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design; Oh,Tongue (2003) and Unbuttoned Sleeves (2006) both published by Beyond Baroque Books. |
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