Body Talk
04 Dec 2013 - 05 Jan 2014
BODY TALK
4 December 2013 - 5 January 2014
Video installation by American artist Sharon Lockhart. Performances by Israeli company Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group and Austrian choreographer An Kaler.
Sharon Lockhart, Noa Eshkol and An Kaler share an interest in the particularities of the human body. If there is one common denominator that should be pointed out, it would be their shared sensitivity for how a single body relates to space and given situations. The body is never addressed as something idealised as essential, but rather something that is situated and specific. From that insight the three artists develop their own individual and strong voice within visual art and dance under the title Body Talk.
Sharon Lockhart Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation
In Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation we meet an mature dancer who moves to the simple and rhythmic sound of a metronome. The dancer moves, controlled and focused, against a backdrop of grey cubes. On the same kind of cubes in the exhibition room are some colorful and expressive textile carpets.
In 2008, during a research visit to Israel, Sharon Lockhart (b.1964) discovered the remarkable work of Israeli dance composer and textile artist Noa Eshkol (1924–2007). While Eshkol could have chosen a life in New York, where art and dance flourished in the experimental and dynamic 1960s and 70s, she instead remained relatively secluded with a close group of individuals, creating dance compositions and textile art and ultimately developing a dance notation system with architect and collaborator Avraham Wachman. Lockhart’s research led her to a number of dancers from Eshkol’s group who continue her training at the composer’s home and studio outside Tel Aviv. It was there that Lockhart also unearthed a large number of Eshkol’s textile works, or “wall carpets.” Over the course of the following two years, Lockhart created a suite of work based on the story of Noa Eshkol, including serial photographs showing models Eshkol created to describe the Eshkol Wachmann movement notation system and a film installation with four of Eshkol’s dance compositions performed by Ruti Sela. Lockhart’s photographs and single-channel installation are accompanied here by a selection of Eshkol’s wall carpets in a site-specific architectural intervention designed by her collaborators Escher GuneWardena. Sharon Lockhart’s participation in Body Talk is a prelude to a large-scale solo exhibi¬tion of her work, which will open at Bonniers Konsthall in April 2014.
4 December 2013 - 5 January 2014
Video installation by American artist Sharon Lockhart. Performances by Israeli company Noa Eshkol Chamber Dance Group and Austrian choreographer An Kaler.
Sharon Lockhart, Noa Eshkol and An Kaler share an interest in the particularities of the human body. If there is one common denominator that should be pointed out, it would be their shared sensitivity for how a single body relates to space and given situations. The body is never addressed as something idealised as essential, but rather something that is situated and specific. From that insight the three artists develop their own individual and strong voice within visual art and dance under the title Body Talk.
Sharon Lockhart Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation
In Four Exercises in Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation we meet an mature dancer who moves to the simple and rhythmic sound of a metronome. The dancer moves, controlled and focused, against a backdrop of grey cubes. On the same kind of cubes in the exhibition room are some colorful and expressive textile carpets.
In 2008, during a research visit to Israel, Sharon Lockhart (b.1964) discovered the remarkable work of Israeli dance composer and textile artist Noa Eshkol (1924–2007). While Eshkol could have chosen a life in New York, where art and dance flourished in the experimental and dynamic 1960s and 70s, she instead remained relatively secluded with a close group of individuals, creating dance compositions and textile art and ultimately developing a dance notation system with architect and collaborator Avraham Wachman. Lockhart’s research led her to a number of dancers from Eshkol’s group who continue her training at the composer’s home and studio outside Tel Aviv. It was there that Lockhart also unearthed a large number of Eshkol’s textile works, or “wall carpets.” Over the course of the following two years, Lockhart created a suite of work based on the story of Noa Eshkol, including serial photographs showing models Eshkol created to describe the Eshkol Wachmann movement notation system and a film installation with four of Eshkol’s dance compositions performed by Ruti Sela. Lockhart’s photographs and single-channel installation are accompanied here by a selection of Eshkol’s wall carpets in a site-specific architectural intervention designed by her collaborators Escher GuneWardena. Sharon Lockhart’s participation in Body Talk is a prelude to a large-scale solo exhibi¬tion of her work, which will open at Bonniers Konsthall in April 2014.