Tag Archives: Kaleidoscope

AMNESIA SCANNER

Amnesia ScannerVille Haimala and Martti Kalliala—will perform their debut album ANOTHER LIFE in Paris this weekend.

This Kaleidoscope Manifesto program is presented in collaboration with Lafayette Anticipations.

AMNESIA SCANNER

Saturday, May 19, at 8 pm.

Lafayette Anticipations

9 rue du Plâtre, 4th, Paris.

From top: Amnesia Scanner, Another Life; Martti Kalliala (left) and Ville Haimala; Kalliala and Haimala in 2011, Renaissance Man project; Lafayette Anticipations x Kaleidoscope Manifesto poster, 2019. Images courtesy and © Ville Haimala, Martti Kalliala, Amnesia Scanner, Lafayette Anticipations, and Kaleidoscope.

LIGIA LEWIS AT REDCAT

In MINOR MATTER—part two of her Blue, Red, and White trilogy that began with Sorrow Swag—dancer-choreographer Ligia Lewis and her dancers Jonathan Gonzalez and Tiran Willemse interrogate the color red as a medium between love and rage. 

“[With this piece] I knew that I was working specifically with a very strong relationship to space, so I wanted to animate the periphery as much as possible. I knew that I was trying to interrogate a certain type of body and a certain type of embodiment. I was also trying to play with duration, or at least with creating a relationship to time that had an articulation of memory, and the present, and a sort of posturing towards the future… happening simultaneously…

“I have a very contentious relationship with abstraction, at least in early notions of abstraction being ‘pure’ or unadulterated form, so I go in knowing that I’m not entirely going to get that, or maybe not entirely interested in it, but it’s an interesting place to start for me…

“I was thinking about marks and traces in space, which is me thinking through what it means to be a marked body on stage. How do you leave a mark or a trace?” — Ligia Lewis interview with Emily Gastineau

Returning to L.A. after a preview at Human Resources—see Evan Moffitt’s review—MINOR MATTER is presented as part of this month’s Pacific Standard Time Festival: Live Art LA/LA.

 

LIGIA LEWIS—MINOR MATTER

Friday and Saturday, January 12 and 13, at 8 pm.

Sunday, January 14, at 6 pm.

Redcat, 631 West 2nd Street, downtown Los Angeles.

See Hannah Black on Lewis.

See Martha Kirszenbaum, interview with Ligia Lewis, Kaleidoscope 29 (Spring 2017).

Above: Kaleidoscope 29 (Spring 2017), Ligia Lewis cover.

Below: Ligia Lewisminor matter. Photographs by Martha Glenn.

ANNE IMHOF — GOLDEN LION

“My work stands for the grace of thoughts, for liberty, for the right to be different, for gender nonconformity, and the pride of being a woman in this world.” — Anne Imhof, representing Germany, after winning the Golden Lion in Venice, 2017

FAUST, by Anne Imhof, took the top prize at the 57th Biennale Arte. Her durational installation/performance piece—Dobermans circling a theater featuring dancers on and under a transparent stage—was a hit among Biennale visitors, too.

“The concept of movement is treacherous. It seems to denote an external, natural movement, whereas in my work is as much about how people project into the future, considering what they might do, how they will do it, why and with whom.” — Anne Imhof*

 

ANNE IMHOF—FAUST 

LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA, 57th INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION, through November 26, 2017.

THE GERMAN PAVILION

 

labiennale.org/en/Home.html

*Susan Pfeffer, “Anne Imhof,” interview, Kaleidoscope 29 (Spring 2017): 70.

Video, 10 min., FAUST/GERMAN PAVILION:

​the i-D guide to what you need to see at the venice biennale

Faust, Anne Imhof, 57th Biennale Arte, Venice, 2017. Image credit: i-D Vice