Öper Öpis

Posted by Fabio 12 January 2010

Opening the 2010 London International Mime Festival, Oper Opis (which translates as “someone something”) is a mix of visual arts, circus, music and dance. Directed and led by the rubber-limbed Martin Zimmermann, and composer/DJ Dimitri de Perrot, the company features some of Europe’s top young circus artists.

13 – 16 January 2010 / 19:45 / Barbican Theatre

Variety Evening

Posted by Fabio 11 December 2009

Variety Evening at the New Museum, 30th October 2009, with Pierre Bismuth, Claire Fontaine, Wojciech Kosma, Tao Lin, Kristin Lucas, Vladimir Nikolic and Adrian Piper. Curated by vvork as part of Rhizome’s New Silent Series.

Via vvork

Conatus: Night of the Dancer

Posted by Fabio 17 November 2009

French artist Boris Achour directed this performance / video which took place during an exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris.

www.borisachour.net

Mortal Engine

Posted by Fabio 12 November 2009

Mortal Engine is a new dance-video-music-laser performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Choreography is focused on movement of unformed beings in an unfamiliar landscape searching to connect and evolve in a constant state of becoming.
www.chunkymove.com

Jorge Macchi

Posted by Fabio 18 September 2009

Artist Jorge Macchi in collaboration with Edgardo Rudnitzky for the Argentine Pavillion, Venice Biennale 2005. read more

Mike Nelson

Posted by Fabio 15 September 2009

British artist and Turner Prize nominee Mike Nelson is currently exhibiting at the National Gallery of Denmark.
The title of Mike Nelson’s total installation refers to the short story Tres versiones de Judas (Three Versions of Judas) by the Argentinean author Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). The story is about a Swedish theologian called Niels Runeberg, who is said to have advanced a theory that Judas was in fact the Messiah. Exhibition ends 20 September, so hurry up! read more

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan

Posted by Fabio 15 September 2009

Choreographic genius Lin Hwai-Min has created a contemporary dance work that makes shadows come alive. Joining forces with leading Chinese visual artist Cai Guo-Qiang, Wind Shadow is a study of motion created through the monochromatic palettes of black and white and the use of light and shade. Part of Bite09 at the Barbican.

www.barbican.org.uk/bite09

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