Move. Choreographing You is a recent exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in the South Bank of London, you can see the exhibition's website here: http://move.southbankcentre.co.uk/ or you can come check out the exhibition catalog right here at the library! It is a beautiful book comprised of more than 4 decades capturing the relationship between visual arts and dance as a channel for performing routine behaviors as scripts and choreography. Edited by Stephanie Rosenthal, it brings together performative actions beginning with Kaprow and Pollock and covering such artists as Merce Cunningham, Lygia Clark, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Robert Morris, Tania Bruguera, Janine Antoni and even our own faculty, Mary Ellen Strom! In all, it is a very exciting book for anyone interested in the performative body. Come see it!
Friday, September 9, 2011
NEW BOOK: Move. Choreographing You: Art and Dance since the 1960s
Move. Choreographing You is a recent exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in the South Bank of London, you can see the exhibition's website here: http://move.southbankcentre.co.uk/ or you can come check out the exhibition catalog right here at the library! It is a beautiful book comprised of more than 4 decades capturing the relationship between visual arts and dance as a channel for performing routine behaviors as scripts and choreography. Edited by Stephanie Rosenthal, it brings together performative actions beginning with Kaprow and Pollock and covering such artists as Merce Cunningham, Lygia Clark, Bruce Nauman, Yvonne Rainer, Trisha Brown, Robert Morris, Tania Bruguera, Janine Antoni and even our own faculty, Mary Ellen Strom! In all, it is a very exciting book for anyone interested in the performative body. Come see it!