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FD13 presents: Jen Rosenblit The Other Come Over

Target Park, Minneapolis Institute of Art, by the entrance to the Target wing

Artist reception and Q&A at FD13, 8:30pm

The Other, Come Over looks to performativity and casual conversation to investigate the complexities and contexts for what, when, and who is foreign. How does a tone of otherness remain in the room, on our bodies, near memories over time? What is the labor surrounding the body as it experiences this transitional knowledge? How do we deal with knowledge that is in passing, not yet determined?

A work in progress, The Other, Come Over will eventually be staged for three performers in constant rotation, with an outside person always acting as translator or perhaps, narrator.

Documentation here.

Jen Rosenblit has been making dances and teaching workshops on improvisation, choreography and performance in New York City since 2005. Rosenblit is originally from rural Maine and holds a B.A. in performance studies from Hampshire College. She has toured internationally with Young Jean Lee, performed for Ryan McNamara (NYC and Basel Miami), Yvonne Meier (NYC), Sasa Asentic (NYC) and currently with Simone Aughterlony (Zurich). Rosenblit was a 2009 Fresh Tracks Artist, a recipient of the 2012 Grant to Artists and a 2014 Emergency grant from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts, a 2013 Fellow at Insel Hombroich (Germany), an inaugural recipient of THE AWARD, a 2014-2015 workspace artist through LMCC and a 2014 recipient of a New York Dance and Performance “bessies” award as emerging choreographer for her work, a Natural dance, which premiered at The Kitchen in May 2014.

Recent works locate spaces for being with audience in a contemplative theatricality and currently focus on an improvisational approach to choreographic thought and ways of structuring bodies as they fall out of relation aesthetically and spiritually while still locating ways of being together.

Rosenblit will conduct a FD13 residency in Saint Paul, MN, Sep. 1-8, 2014.

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Food and drinks will be served at the artist reception.

We kindly ask for a donation that will ensure the continuation of FD13 and will directly benefit the invited artist.

Danish Berlin-based artist Sophie Erlund will present a newly developed sound installation.

Erlund’s works are coined by a precise sensitivity to internal processes. She has been developing a practice that both dissects and celebrates the presence of past narratives in a contemporary world. Her work process is defined by a thorough investigation of the subject and its context, which she translates into the three important fields of her work: sculpture, installation, and sound.

Inspired by theories about the openness in modern architecture Erlund started to translate emotional states in sculptures resembling modern architectural vocabulary, a concept that she calls ‘personified architecture,’ in which the immateriality of the acoustical material becomes a quasi-sculptural mass.

Besides her work for FD13, Erlund will show a sound installation at the Northrop Auditorium in the framework of Vexations. A long, long, long night (and day) at the piano curated by Amara Antilla and Sandra Teitge on June 14th-15th, 2014.

Sophie Erlund’s work has been internationally presented, most recently at the Fri Art – Centre d’art de Fribourg (2013) and at the 4th Marrakesh Biennale (2012).

She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Documentation here and here (details).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Work of Dance in the Age of Sacred Lives

Premiered in November 2013 in the framework of the festival-conference “Tanz über Gräben (Dance over Trenches). 100 Years of Le Sacre du Printemps” at the HAU Hebbel am Ufer Berlin that marked the 100th aniversary of “Le Sacre du Printemps,” the legendary choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky, set to music by Igor Stravinsky.

In this collaboration between choreographer Netta Yerushalmy and philosopher David Kishik, the former dances while the latter delivers a paper. The movement clashes the sensibilities of primitivism with minimalism, as Yerushalmy cuts the specificities of Sacre’s original choreography and pastes them into this contemporary composition. Biopolitics, with its strong sacrificial undertones, its fixation on the body and bare life, stands at the center of Kishik’s essay. This is the context in which Nijinsky’s work achieves its paradigmatic role, on the threshold between classicism and modernism.

Choreographic concept and performance by Netta Yerushalmy

Essay reading by David Kishik

Costume by Magdalena Jarkowiec

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Netta Yerushalmy‘s work is regularly presented in NYC and commissioned by companies throughout the US. She received prestigious fellowships from foundations such as Bogliasco, Guggenheim, NYFA, and Six Points, and has been Artist-in Residence at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, the Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin among others. She is presently creating her second commission for Zenon and will be creating a new work at the American Dance Festival this summer. Netta works with choreographer Joanna Kotze and has performed with Doug Varone & Dancers (‘07-’12), Nancy Bannon, Karinne Keithley, Mark Jarecki, and the Metropolitan Opera.

David Kishik is assistant professor of philosophy at Emerson College. He is the author of Wittgenstein’s Form of Life (Continuum, 2008), and The Power of Life: Agamben and the Coming Politics (Stanford University Press, 2011). He is also the translator of two of Agamben’s essay collections. His third book, an imaginary sequel to Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, set in New York, capital of the twentieth century, is pretty much done.

Documentation here.