Saturday July 11th,
1-6pm
Week 5: Emily Mast, INDEX
Performed by Gregory Barnett and Davie Blue
On the fifth week of the show we present "sculptures" made of bodies in the space. Emily Mast’s new work,INDEX is a procession, a series of live vignettes, masking themselves as a performance by taking place one day, within the gallery, and mingling with the other objects on display. The bodies, coated in paint, alternate the exercise of becoming inanimate, non-verbal and seemingly immune to time....
Saturday July 11th,
1-6pm
Week 5: Emily Mast, INDEX
Performed by Gregory Barnett and Davie Blue
On the fifth week of the show we present "sculptures" made of bodies in the space. Emily Mast’s new work,INDEX is a procession, a series of live vignettes, masking themselves as a performance by taking place one day, within the gallery, and mingling with the other objects on display. The bodies, coated in paint, alternate the exercise of becoming inanimate, non-verbal and seemingly immune to time.
The work is deceptive. While delineating its own complicated space between performance and exhibition, the temporary and the durational, it eliminates starts and finishes, challenging performance’s predictable beginning, middle and end. The sculptures Mast creates are culled from a range of her other performances. They are citations of past works, and construct an inexact and unfinished INDEX of her choreographies. They are a glossary of signals, a modular set of tools, like a new alphabet.
Over the course of the day, the work will take place on a loop, bodies sweating, paint fading and with the loss in translation inherent to any repetition. Utilizing different spaces in the galleries, the work smudges the line between the artifice of the carefully staged (i.e. exhibition), and its very human unraveling.
Viewers are invited to come at anytime and stay for as long as they want.
ps: This is Week 5 of a summer-long exhibition, This Sentence, whose artists and ideas are accumulating. The exhibition will run from June 6th to August 22nd. It is organized by Public Fiction at China Art Objects and will present the work of (in order of appearance): Becket Flannery, Gregory Kalliche, Sascha Braunig, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Emily Mast, Ryan Gander, Tamara Henderson, Pascual Sisto, and Helen Marten.
As well as a program of screenings including: John Smith, Merce Cunningham, Sophia Al-Maria, Charles Atlas, Ericka Beckman, Derek Boshier, Joan Jonas, Ohad Fishof, Tzion Abraham Hazan, Babette Mangolte, Sara Magenheimer, Rashaad Newsome, Shahryar Nashat, A. Michael Noll, Martine Syms, and a few more to be announced soon…
There will be performances staged by Ryan Gander, and Adam Linder. As well as a conversation with writer Alexander Keefe.
Public Fiction at China Art Objects Galleries
6086 Comey Avenue
Los Angeles, California 90034
(323) 965 - 2264
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11am to 6pm / Tuesday through Saturday