Ensemble

Monday, February 11, 2013

Backlit

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Ensemble seeks to investigate the use of movement and dance within the production of contemporary art, examining this process through video, documentation and live works. The exhibition includes practitioners drawn from a variety of sources including dancers, artists and filmmakers. Ensemble will examine the commonalities and tensions between large-scale cellular, choreographed works such as those by Busby Berkley and George Gurdjieff and more individual explorations by Yvonne Rainer, and Gillian Wearing. In all the works, the audience is implicated in different ways by a rhythm and restlessness; however a fundamental compulsion to move with the crowd is offset by a desire to stand back and observe its patterns and forms.