Expanding Choreographic Imaginations
This year's series welcomed Isaac Julien who discussed the impact between visual arts and performance and their creative evolution. Alongside each talk was an opportunity to watch associated films from Bruce Nauman, Pablo Bronstein, Yvonne Rainer and Isaac Julien.
Friday 13 June 2008
Bruce Nauman: inventory and experience
Christine Van Assche, Isaac Julien, Mark Nash
Visual artist Bruce Nauman has used all mediums from dance to media installation in his work. Through this experience he has invented a method called 'PheNAUMANology'. Watch Christine Van Assche, Isaac Julien and Mark Nash discuss Nauman’s experiences of acting, moving and performance within the structure of his works in footage from the event. Bruce Nauman’s Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square was shown before the talk.
Watch video and audio from the talk
Friday 4 July 2008
Visual arts and performance: the private and common imagination
Helena Blaker, Pablo Bronstein, Isaac Julien
With the re-emergence of the body in performance in contemporary arts practice, Isaac Julien, Pablo Bronstein and Helena Blaker discuss conceptual art’s staging of the body in the public arena, and its impact on cultural histories through architecture and film.
Pablo Bronstein’s recent work Paternoster Square was shown before the talk. Julien's early and rarely seen film work The Conservator's Dream was shown at the beginning of the talk.
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Friday 25 July 2008
The conceptual in choreography
Mark Nash, Yvonne Rainer, Catherine Wood
Yvonne Rainer talks to Catherine Wood and Mark Nash about her work in connection to conceptual art and performance and her transition from dance to experimental film and recent return to choreography. Yvonne Rainer’s film Lives of Performers was shown before the talk.
