Author: FD 13

FD13 presents: Ligia Lewis. Minor Matter for the Theater (work-in-progress)

Wednesday, 23 March 2016, 7 pm

FD13 at Public Functionary

Public Functionary
1400 12th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Grounded in an ongoing investment in affect and embodiment, Minor Matter takes the “minor” position to be understood racially, sonically, and thematically as it’s translated into aesthetic experience. In the score dancers negotiate themselves in relation to sight and phonic play, while exploring the limitations of signification and the fallacy of neutrality.

At Public Functionary, Ligia Lewis will share an excerpt of the research for Minor Matter as a solo with dancer Jonathan Gonzalez. Minor Matter will be performed by three dancers when it premiers later this year at HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin.

We are pleased to announce that Minor Matter will additionally be presented at White Flag Projects in Saint Louis/Missouri on Saturday, 19 March, 8pm.

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Ligia Lewis is a choreographer and dancer who inhabits a variety of contexts from the visual arts to the theater. Her work has been presented by American Realness, New York; Impulstanz, Vienna; Flax/Fahrenheit, Los Angeles; Tanz im August, Berlin; NGBK, Berlin; Basel Liste, Basel; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Sophiensaele Theater, Berlin; and Hebbel-am-Ufer, Berlin. She has performed at Festival d’ Avignon, Avignon; Spectacles Vivantes Centre Pompidou, Paris; Serralves Museum, Portugal; and the National Museum of Singapore, among others. Lewis has upcoming performances with Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Les Subsistances, Lyon; Centre National de la Danse, Paris; and Theatre Garonne, Toulouse. She has collaborated with artists Eszter Salamon, Mette Ingvartsen, Vincent Riebeek, Jeremy Wade, Wojciech Kosma, Wu Tsang, and Les Ballets C de la B. Lewis was awarded the Prix Jardin d’ Europe for her work Sorrow Swag. Minor Matter will be the second work to follow Sorrow Swag in a triptych of works. Ligia Lewis lives and works in Berlin.

Ligia Lewis: Minor Matter for the Theater (work-in-progress) is co-produced with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Supported by Collective Address New York, Tanzhaus Zuerich, and Human Resources Los Angeles. Funded by the Governing Mayor of Berlin Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs. Special thanks to Will Rawls.

Ligia Lewis’ FD13 residency is supported by the Goethe-Institut Chicago.

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FD13 residency for the arts presents: Sara Ludy
Thursday, 3 March 2016, 7 pm.
FD13 at Public Functionary

Public Functionary
1400 12th Ave NE
Minneapolis, MN 55413

Ludy’s video installation will be on view at Public Functionary:
Thursday, 3 March, 5–9 pm (drinks & snacks will be available)
Friday, 4 March, 11 am – 5 pm
Saturday, 5 March, 11 am – 5 pm.

Sara Ludy is a nomadic multi-media artist and musician known for her statically encapsulated digital fantasy. Her works include websites, animation, video, sculpture, and audio-visual performance and always investigate the confluence of the physical and virtual.

Recent presentations of Ludy’s work include the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago; Berkeley Art Museum, California; Honor Fraser, Los Angeles; bitforms gallery, New York; Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York; Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology, New York; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Western Front, Vancouver; Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Carroll Fletcher, London; Espace Verney-Carron, Lyon; and C-Space, Beijing.

Ludy is currently experimenting with the link between live and digital representation within the realm of performance. While in residency at FD13 in the Twin Cities Ludy will continue and develop this investigation further.
Her performance at Public Functionary will take place in the framework of the Guerilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover.

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Nabadi is a coat made from felt or karakul (the short curly fur of young lambs of the breed of that name).

Karakul being quite expensive, burkas were usually sewn from felt treated to look like karakul. Nabadi are sewn with high, squared off shoulders, and wearers will have a distinctive high-shouldered silhouette.

Nabadi were part of the customary male garb of various peoples inhabiting the Caucasus region. Nabadi were adopted by Russian cavalry, and worn as part of the Russian military uniform from the middle of the 18th century until the 1850s, during the Caucasus War.

 

Metal Nabadi Workshop with Gela Patashuri, Ei Arakawa, and Sergei Tcherepnin
Saturday, 16 January 2016, 2-4 pm

Nabadi is a traditional shepherd’s outfit in Georgia. It is also a kind of construction, or architecture that can be worn. In this workshop artists Gela Patashuri, Ei Arakawa, and Sergei Tcherepnin will demonstrate and instruct you how to make Nabadi out of metal. Upon the completion, the group will make a procession to Hampden Park adjacent toFD13 to exercise anti-cold dance sessions.

This workshop is a performance introduction to the artists’ exhibition at Midway Contemporary Art on Saturday, January 23^rd, 2016.

Please rsvp before Friday, 15 January 2016: info@fd13residency.org

(Bring your mobile phone to the workshop!)

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Tbilisi-based artist Gela Patashuri and New York-based artists Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin have been collaborating since 2005. Their collaboration was initiated in a Tbilisi exhibition series organized by Daniel Baumann.

Since then, their work has been shown at Casco, Utrecht, Netherlands; CAC Bretigny, Brétigny-sur-Orge, France; Georgian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale; and Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland. The upcoming show at Midway Contemporary Art will be their first exhibition in United States.

This residency is made possible with the support of the Trust for Mutual Understanding (TMU).

Documentation here (workshop) & here (procession).

Thank you for a great year and for supporting our mission of bringing international artists to the Twin Cities and creating an exchange with Minneapolis/St. Paul-based artists and the local audience.

We could not have done it without you and appreciate your enthusiasm.

C/o James Cahn & Jeremy Collatz

Films by Minneapolis-based artist Xavier Tavera will be screened throughout the evening.

After moving from Mexico City to the United States, Xavier Tavera learned what it felt like to be part of a subculture- the immigrant community. Subjected to alienation has transformed the focus of his photographs to share the lives of those who are marginalized. Images have offered insight into the diversity of numerous communities and given a voice to those who are often invisible. Tavera has shown his work extensively in the Twin Cities, nationally and internationally including Chile, Uruguay and China. His work is part of the collections of the Minneapolis Institute of Art, Plaines Art Museum, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minnesota History Center and the Weisman Art Museum. He is a recipient of the McKnight fellowship, Jerome Travel award, State Arts Board, and Bronica scholarship.

Snacks, refreshments provided by yum!
Home-made artist-designed cookies by Isa Gagarin, Anne Labovitz, Sarah Petersen and many others.

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Ballhaus Berlin, 16mm, 2015.

Ballhaus Grünau, 16 mm, 2015.