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SUMMARY:Nowhere And Everywhere At The Same Time No.2
DESCRIPTION:Now this is an unexpected offering from Berklee: the revised version of William Forsythe’s Nowhere And Everywhere At The Same Time\, a kind of DIY performance piece that encourages you to experience space\, movement\, other people\, the absence of other people … \nThe original version was a dance piece created at Tate Modern in 2009\, devised by the eminent choreographer and performed by the dancers of his company. The Tate’s Turbine Hall was filled with dozens of metal pendulums suspended from wire rope; the dancers used the pendulums as catalysts for movement\, their bodies reacting to the objects\, and each other\, as they moved through the field. Forsythe has commented that the work’s choreography is “based on observations; so the dancers are observing the room\, observing each other\, and producing conclusions or expressing their observations”. By conceiving the Turbine Hall as both ‘nowhere and everywhere at the same time’\, this performance sought to unleash the kinetic and metaphorical potentials of the space. \nThe No.2 version does not involve a specific choreography or indeed dancers as such. The field of moving pendulums is retained\, and visitors are invited to move through them at will. In doing so\, they effectively generate an infinite range of individual choreographies. As the Berklee puts it\, “The spectators are free to attempt navigation in this statistically unpredictable environment but are requested to avoid coming in contact with any of the swinging pendulums. This task\, which automatically initiates and alerts the spectator’s innate predictive faculties\, produces a lively choreography of manifold and intricate avoidance strategies …” \nThe piece is accompanied by two of Forsythe’s short films. Solo (1997) is a performance for the camera by Forsythe himself that has close-ups and rapid cuts of his twisting body contrasted with overhead shots that capture his movements across a starkly lit stage. Antipodes I/II (2006) consists of two videos shown on facing screens suspended at different heights; on the raised screen\, Forsythe attempts to hold on to a table attached to the ceiling\, while in the second video he moves between two tables resting on the floor. The result\, which apparently dramatises Forsythe’s childhood belief that someone traveling to the South Pole risked falling off the planet\, subverts the relationship between embodiment and gravity. \nShould be fun. The performance/installation/movement piece is open between 8 November and 18 December; you need to book a one-hour time slot between 10am and 8pm (there is a maximum of 50 people per time slot so you should get the one you want).
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/nowhere-and-everywhere-at-the-same-time-no-2/
LOCATION:Berklee Abu Dhabi\, UAE Pavilion\, Saadiyat ISland\, Abu Dhabi
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SUMMARY:Walid Siti: Fragile Construct
DESCRIPTION:Two towers loom large in Walid Siti’s artwork\, one manmade – the 9th century Malwiya minaret of Samarra\, encompassing both the hubris of political power and the genius of an unknown architect; and the mountains of his native Kurdistan\, formed by nature but central to the myth and identity of the region’s residents. \nThe mountains overshadowed Siti’s childhood in Dohuk in the 1950s and 1960s and were often painful reminders of the personal impact of the political situation in Iraq. The physical presence of the minaret at Samarra was more enigmatic; he never visited it while growing up in Iraqi Kurdistan\, instead seeing the monument from the bus to and from art school.\nSiti found power in these two forms through their continual reworking in his practice; he continues to study them through hundreds of sketches\, leading to a painting or a sculpture. Siti’s compositions force the viewer to focus on the building blocks of his towers\, this being his practice\, whether they are acrylic lines of paint or aluminium wires. \nThe cyclical nature of Siti’s practice brings the constant hope of renewal. No matter what landscape or context he finds himself in\, for Siti\, there is always metal\, wood\, clay or dust from which to build a tower or a mountain. \nTo 3 February. \nAbove: Walid Siti\, Suppleness of a Mountain (2023)
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/walid-siti-fragile-construct/
LOCATION:Meem Gallery\, Umm Suqeim Rd\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Miwa Matreyek: This World Made Itself / I Infinitely Yours
DESCRIPTION:Two works featuring Miwa Matreyek’s signature projected animations and shadow silhouettes\, both combining surreal and poetic narratives to depict the conflict between humans and nature. Matreyek is an animator\, designer\, and performer who creates live\, staged performances where she interacts with her animations as a shadow silhouette; her work exists in a dreamlike visual space that makes invisible worlds visible\, often weaving surreal and poetic narratives of conflict between man and nature\, and that’s the essence of these two works. \n\nInfinitely Yours (premiered 2020) is an emotional\, dream-like meditation on climate catastrophe and the Anthropocene. It merges live performance\, sculpture\, and animation\, with Miwa’s silhouette shape-shifting to experience the world from various perspectives\, an illustration of the news headlines we see every day and the complex harm humanity causes to the world. The music for Infinitely Yours was composed\, recorded and performed by Morgan Sorne.\nThis World Made Itself (2013) is another multimedia live performance work combining projected animation and the artist’s own shadow silhouette\, this time for a visually and musically rich journey through a history of the earth. Music by Flying Lotus\, Careful (aka Eric Lindley)\, and Mileece\n\nThere are further performances at 7.30pm on 17 November and at 2pm and 7.30pm on 18 November.
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/miwa-matreyek-this-world-made-itself-i-infinitely-yours/
LOCATION:The Arts Center @ NYUAD\, NYUAD Campus\, Saadiyat Island\, Abu Dhabi\, United Arab Emirates
CATEGORIES:Performance,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Fridge Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Open to all singers\, musicians\, instrumentalists and performers — register from 6.30pm on the night\, and it’s first come first served. We thinks it’s free for performers and audience …
URL:https://magpie.ae/event/the-fridge-open-mic/
LOCATION:The Fridge Warehouse\, Warehouse 5\, Alserkal Avenue\, Dubai
CATEGORIES:Music,Open mic
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