performances | Geelong, "1984" at GPAC

A multimedia rendering of  the "1984" novel opened on Thursday at the Geelong Performing Art Center GPAC. The dystopian novel by George Orwell is yet a dark rendering of the many facets of surveillance and lost of privacy almost all of us are facing today. Even if, hopefully in a positive bright way, the connection with remote places brought by social networks, GPS, smartphones and cameras, are not far from the invasive "big brother" of 1949 novel. Food for thought, and sensory dark and obsessive feast for the eye, was brought by the towering screens in the set design, where technology of the remote video images was in contrast with the set portraying the real squalid places of the action.

Shake and Stir theater company cast portraying Winston Smith and O'Brien

Performances | The Medium is the Message...and the Prop is the Content

Fuerza Bruta is a collection of seemingly detached stunts, where the performers on a movable platform interact with the moving audience. Strobe and UV lighting, water, mist, fogs ladders, hooks and ropes holding the suspended actors, and many other theatrical tricks create a psychedelic environment of colors, movement and purposeless actions.
    Yet the show is mesmerizing, and definitely engaging, in a sensory feast of colors, lights, movement and sounds.

Below a collection of visual memories, in chronological order. The walking/running man is the thread connecting the collection of actions and visual effects.

The walking begins, in the middle of the theater, emptied of seats. The cheering audience is instructed to move to different locations throughout the show.

"Flying" performers on a shimmering curtain

 Performers move on a plastic water filled ceiling right above the audience heads

 Finale: the "running man" going through a paper wall

A lot of clean-up after the show

Art Fair | NYC, Armory, Pier 94: Body Views

The body is a major presence at Pier 94, especially in new media, between mirrors, performances and silhouettes.

Reflected and Recorded Bodies

Performances: horizontal body in movement

and in stilness

and in movement

Moving bodies makes shapes

or they just go back to the world of minimalistic expressionistic representation

 
 my walking body was sore after a walk of about 12km in an unusually warm weather

Calendar........................................................... | May 10 - May 16

Friday 18:30 | Rome, Art Opening

Anselm Kiefer, Die Ordnung der Engel, Galleria Lorcan O'Neill | Via d'Orti D'Alibert 1

Friday, 18-20 | New York, Art Opening

"Reflection", Peter Blum Soho | 99 Wooster Street

Saturday, 10-17 | New York, Design

22nd International Contemporary Furniture Fair ICFF | JK Javits Convention Center |800-272-show

Saturday 18-20 | New York, Art Opening

Resurrectine, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts | 31 Mercer Street

Saturday 18-21 | New York, Cocktail Party (check for invitation)

Walt Disney Signature, Cappellini Showroom | 157 Wooster Street

Saturday 18-21 | New York, Cocktail Party (check for invitation)

Poltrona Frau, Milano Design Village | 157 Wooster Street

Saturday 18-21 | New York, Cocktail Party (check for invitation)

Flos, Milano Design Village | 152 Greene Street

Saturday 18-21 | New York, Cocktail Party (check for invitation)

Gaetano Pesce "Notturno", Cassina Showroom | 151 Wooster Street

Monday, 8:30-18:30 | NYC, Performance

Kate Gilmore, Walk the Walk, Public Art Fund | Bryant Park, Sixth Avenue at 41st Street

Sunday, 10-17 | New York, Design

22nd International Contemporary Furniture Fair ICFF | JK Javits Convention Center |800-272-show

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Monday, 18-20 | NYC, Book Signing

Annie Cohen-Solal, Leo & His Circle The Life of Leo Castelli , Gagosian Shop | 988 Madison Avenue

Tuesday, 8:30-18:30 | NYC, Performance

Kate Gilmore, Walk the Walk, Public Art Fund | Bryant Park, Sixth Avenue at 41st Street

Tuesday, 19-21 | NYC, Art Opening

Bas Princen, Refuge, Five Cities, Storefront for Art and Architecture | 97 Kenmare Street

Wednesday, 8:30-18:30 | NYC, Performance

Kate Gilmore, Walk the Walk, Public Art Fund | Bryant Park, Sixth Avenue at 41st Street

Wednesday, 8:30-18:30 | NYC, Artist Lecture

Harvey Tulcenksy "Notebook Project , Center for Book Arts | 28 W 27 Street

Thursday, 16:00-18:30 | Bari, Lectio Magistralis

Jannis Kounellis “Scirocco”, Universita' degli Studi | Piazza Umberto I

Thursday, 19:00 | NYC, Panel Discussion

Intersections: Social Issues in Contemporary Art, Remember the Upstair Lounge, No Longer Empty | 447 West 16 Street

Thursday, 8:30-18:30 | NYC, Performance

Kate Gilmore, Walk the Walk, Public Art Fund | Bryant Park, Sixth Avenue at 41st Street

Thursday, 19-22 | New York, Art Opening

Ray Sell, Stand Yer Ground, Leo Kesting Gallery | 812 Washington Street

Thursday, 16-21 | New York, Opening

Celebrate Contemporary Design, New York Design Center | 200 Lexington Avenue

Thursday, 18-20 | New York, Art Opening

Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, Roma Pas, Ruben Aubrecht, Selin Kocagoncu , AC | 547 W 27 Street

Thursday, 18-20 | New York, Art Opening

Laurent Millet "The Last Days of Immanuel Kant", Robert Mann Gallery | 210 11 Avenue

Thursday, 18-20 | New York, Art Opening

Justin Allen "Turquoise Afternoon", Robert Miller Gallery | 524 W 26 street,

Thursday, 18-20 | New York, Art Opening

Sean Henry, Forum Gallery | 745 Fifth Avenue

Thursday, 19-21 | Rome, Art Opening

Marco Tirelli, Oredaria | Via Reggio Emilia, 22-24

Friday, 8:30-18:30 | NYC, Performance

Kate Gilmore, Walk the Walk, Public Art Fund | Bryant Part, Sixth Avenue at 41st Street

Calendar | New York, Rome | May 3 - 10

Tuesday h. 20:15| Rome, Performance

Maria Inversi, Liliana Cavani, Dell'Amore del Danno, Teatro Palladium | Piazza Bartolomeo Romano, 8

Wednesday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Jim Nutt, Trim and Other Works: 1967-2010, at David Nolan Gallery | 527 W 29 Street

Wednesday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Thomas Struth, Marian Goodman gallery | 24 W 57th Street

Wednesday, 6-8 | New York, Book Signing

Eikoh Hosoe, Aperture Foundation | 547 W 27 street

Wednesday, 6-8 | New York, Lecture

Grandmother of the Hippies: Lil Picard and Downtown New York, with critics John Perreault and Irving Sandler, and artist Carolee Schneemann, NYU Einstein Auditorium | 34 Stuyvesant Street

Thursday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Willie Doherty, Lack, Alexander and Bonin | 132 Tenth Avenue

Thursday, 6-9 | New York, Art Opening

Liz Engelhardt, Silentscapes, 571 Projects| 551 W 21 Street

Thursday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Amir Zaki "Relics, Perry Rubenstein Gallery | 527 W 23 Street

Thursday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Andy Goldsworthy , New York Dirt Water Light, Gallery Lelong | 528 W 26 Street

Thursday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Ghada Amer, Color Misbehavior , Cheim & Reid | 547 W 25 Street

Thursday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Wendell Castle "Rockin, Barry Friedman, 515 W 25 Street

Thursday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Betty Woodman, Paintings, Max Protect | 511 W 22 street

Friday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Alison Elizabeth Taylor Foreclosed, James Cohan Gallery | 533 W 26 Street

Friday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Roni Horn, Hauser & Wirth | 32 E 69 Street

Saturday, 17-18:30 | Rome, Children Workshop

Labirinti Creativi, Galleria la Nuvola | Roma, via Margutta 51a

Saturday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Beyond Geometry, Cueto Project | 551 W 21 Street

Saturday, 6-8 | New York, Art Opening

Roy Lichenstein, Gagosian | 555 West 24 Street