No, this isn't a low-budget remake of "Dune." Or Gov. Cuomo's idea of a return to indoor dining with limited capacity. (Thanks Eden for the photo!)Today through Sunday, a performance called Correspondences will take place on Astor Place.
Here are some details via the Village Alliance:
With Correspondences, multidisciplinary artist duo Ximena Garnica and Shige Moriya offer multiple entry points for spectators to engage with questions of being, interdependence, and coexistence. The human body (performer and observer), machines, natural elements, and the urban square mingle in an entangled poetic microcosm while opening inquiries into animate life and environmental ethics.
In the inaugural presentation of this multi-borough project, audiences can safely engage in Astor Place installation over conversation, and bear witness to daily activation periods performed by members of the LEIMAY Ensemble.Single bodies are enclosed inside transparent chambers partially filled with sand. Bodies are donned with gas masks as they try, time and again, to rise to standing. At intervals, machines attached to the chambers trigger a blast of sand causing the performers to lose their footing, sinking them back down into the ground. This seemingly perpetual eruption repeats throughout daily performance activation periods of Correspondences, both with and without performers.
The first performance is tonight at 8... with additional shows tomorrow through Sunday at noon, 2 p.m., 4 p.m. and so on...
[Photo by Lola Sáenz]
... and here's another view via Steven today ... an undress rehearsal...
Alison Stewart had a segment on the piece on her show All of It on WNYC today
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ReplyDeleteBodies aren’t donned WTTH anything. It is bodies that do the donning.Bodies are clothed with things, if you insist on that construction. Shame, Grieve
ReplyDeleteThe copy about the body donning etc., etc. came from the organizers. I generally don't give that stuff a heavy edit because there isn't enough time in the day. I also don't proof people's comments for typos either.
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Delete@Patricia Kennealy Morrison - Seriously, what makes you think you have the right to critique and try to "shame" Grieve? The only shame here is on you for being a relentless prig and nagging scold. Belt up and mind your manners.
ReplyDelete@Grieve - Touche. I doubt she even realized you were referring to her comment.
ReplyDeleteOnce the odd chance of being intrigued by seeing vacant young people half naked in public wears off, this installation is as drab as the sand they sit in. In the current political, racial, pandemic climate, I'd love to see work by a relevant artist, like Jenny Holtzer, on display at Astor Place.
ReplyDeletethis looks great! also re "donning" it is further misused by many who think it means "wearing" or "sporting" but what it really means is "putting on." i am donning my hat and tipping it to the grieve!
ReplyDeletethat "copy" is a lot of high falutin non-sense. and it is ugly
ReplyDelete@Gojira Cut her some slack, she's probably frustrated from being locked in her sandbox all afternoon.
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