Reminder: "Trace" performance/installation by Cynthia Lee and Shyamala Moorty on Nov 7-8 at Sea and Space!
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Sarah Vox
Oct 29, 2009, 12:00:11 PM10/29/09
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"Trace"
created and performed by Cynthia Lee and Shyamala Moorty
created and performed by Cynthia Lee and Shyamala Moorty
Sea and Space Explorations Gallery
4755 York Blvd Los Angeles CA 90042
4755 York Blvd Los Angeles CA 90042
Saturday, November 7: gallery open 7-10 PM, performance at 8:30
PM
Sunday, November 8: gallery open 1-5 PM, performance at 2:30 PM followed by reception
FREE ADMISSION
Sunday, November 8: gallery open 1-5 PM, performance at 2:30 PM followed by reception
FREE ADMISSION
a courtesan beckons from a storefront window...cross-rhythmic
voices interrupt and lose each other on a SKYPE call... fragments of
precolonial Indian erotic poetry litter the floor, waiting to be
reframed by a los angeleno audience in the here and now...
How do our bodies remember, dismember, and reshape the traces of the past? In "Trace," Cynthia Lee and Shyamala Moorty grapple with a fragmented South Asian aesthetic legacy through a contemporary lens, combining live performance, interactive installation, video, and poetic documentation. With long-distance contributions from Sandra Chatterjee and Anjali Tata, the work includes traces from the Post Natyam Collective's ongoing transnational creative project (www.postnatyam.blogspot.com), which re-routes the erotic artistic legacy of (pre)colonial South Asian courtesans through internet technologies, translating them into the specifics of our contemporary geographic locales. The evening also features an improvisational score created by Carol McDowell especially for the performers.
How do our bodies remember, dismember, and reshape the traces of the past? In "Trace," Cynthia Lee and Shyamala Moorty grapple with a fragmented South Asian aesthetic legacy through a contemporary lens, combining live performance, interactive installation, video, and poetic documentation. With long-distance contributions from Sandra Chatterjee and Anjali Tata, the work includes traces from the Post Natyam Collective's ongoing transnational creative project (www.postnatyam.blogspot.com), which re-routes the erotic artistic legacy of (pre)colonial South Asian courtesans through internet technologies, translating them into the specifics of our contemporary geographic locales. The evening also features an improvisational score created by Carol McDowell especially for the performers.
"Trace" is part of INSTRUMENTS OF RISK, a performance series curated by Asher Hartman and Carol McDowell at Sea and Space Explorations (www.seaandspace.org). The curators state: "Performance is up and out of the margins again, lately as a hybrid of practices that highlight the collective exchange between performer, gesture, spectator, and space, whose lineage can be traced back to performance constructions of the 1970s....This is physical conceptual performance with an unabashed theatricality and rigorous abstraction, steering through the unresolved complexities of our world. Focusing on the body as a compass, the artists in this series grapple with multiple means through which we understand history, speech, location, culture, force, and self in relation to the world around them and within."
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