Arthub Favorite of the Week!
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Singapore followers: don’t miss out on SURF and SURFACES at Ikkan Art Gallery, an exhibition of works by French artist duo, Norbert Corsino and Nicole Corsino, otherwise known as n + n Corsino. SURF and SURFACES is their first solo presentation in Singapore and Southeast Asia, and features their choreographic works in a poetic and sensual amalgamation of artistic installation and digital innovation.
Venue: Ikkan Art Gallery
Opening: Monday, January 18, 7:00 to 9:00 pm, as part of Singapore Art Week
Exhibition: January 18th to February 27th, 2016
Arthub had the pleasure of working with n + n Corsino in 2014 at Aurora Museum. Their exhibition Signs, surfaces and the instant explored the kinetics of bodies and landscapes, connecting dance and technology in installations where choreographic movements could be mapped and then rendered in calligraphic patterns.
Find out more about Arthub and n + n Corsino’s collaboration here.
About SURF and SURFACES
As atypical authors of choreographic stories, n + n Corsino departs from the conventional stage, venturing into other fields of representation while exploring indeterminate and arbitrary spaces. They question the fundamentals of dance through their research into the nature and quality of movement and its relationship with writing, inviting spectators to go beyond the boundaries of continually (re)invented spaces. Through their often off-beat, unconventional use of various forms of technology, they reveal a carnal, sensual presence drawing on the memory of movement and its traces.
The exhibition SURF and SURFACES presents a total of seven choreographic navigations from n + n Corsino’s oeuvre, each an elaborate construction of real and virtual images and figures, from sounds, languages, words and letters.
First presented in Shanghai in 2004, Amorces Intimes (Intimate Beginnings) refers to what Confucius calls the infinitesimal beginning. Engaging with the moment that occurs just-before-it-moves, n + n Corsino pay particular attention to the slightest of accelerations while maintaining lightness and mobility in their choreography, paving to the way for possible intimacies via the symbiosis of tactile and visual perceptions.
MUES is a six-channel video installation presenting moving bodies freefalling in slow motion and immersed in various landscapes. The work establishes a dialogue between forms, genders, time and space through the interaction between the imaginary and the real. As a counterpoint to MUES, “Trieste” is a series of choreographic sequences developed by n + n Corsino for display on digital tablets. Each tablet is enclosed in a transparent box, surfacing tensions between escape and entrapment enacted on the performer.
Photo credit: Bamboo, 2001, Ikkan Art Gallery, multi-channel video installation, dimensions variable
Courtesy of Ikkan Art Gallery and the artists