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A dancer is positioned off-centre on screen, their back turned, arms repeatedly rounding the torso’s sides like pendulums. One movement extends out from the body, its force employed to traverse the flooring, morphing into the next, and next, and next – gesture. Soon thereafter the movements stretch from end to end, vertically and horizontally. The camera’s eye is trying to keep up pace, but falls through, falls behind in its capture. Limbs are being cut and exit given framework.
It all started with a discussion on Yvonne Rainer, and subsequently the convenient mishap that this dancer notably became screen, became book, became an archive of movements flattened out, piled and multiplied, slid back in amongst the shelves – that this show became a library.
Upon entering a library, one generally stumbles across the circulation desk; the piece of furniture to the top of which exchanges are referred. In targeted pirouettes, trade is introduced onto a stage, and leaves the…
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A dancer is positioned off-centre on screen, their back turned, arms repeatedly rounding the torso’s sides like pendulums. One movement extends out from the body, its force employed to traverse the flooring, morphing into the next, and next, and next – gesture. Soon thereafter the movements stretch from end to end, vertically and horizontally. The camera’s eye is trying to keep up pace, but falls through, falls behind in its capture. Limbs are being cut and exit given framework.
It all started with a discussion on Yvonne Rainer, and subsequently the convenient mishap that this dancer notably became screen, became book, became an archive of movements flattened out, piled and multiplied, slid back in amongst the shelves – that this show became a library.
Upon entering a library, one generally stumbles across the circulation desk; the piece of furniture to the top of which exchanges are referred. In targeted pirouettes, trade is introduced onto a stage, and leaves the…
