POA Closing Studio: Embodiments and Exhibitions is a fully subsidised work-in-studio exploration with acclaimed contemporary artist and choreographer Xavier Le Roy. Working on 2 or 3 movement materials, as well as noises and specific modes of embodiment, this workshop examines the alternating roles of performer and spectator. Participants explore and reflect on how the materials generated can produce specific qualities of relationship between the performers, and between the spectators and the performers, i.e. how one choreographs the other and vice versa.
We will explore the interpretive potential given by spaces without an architectural pre-given front, how the possibility for visitors to enter and exit at will induces choreography without being able to decide the time, duration, beginning and end of the visitor's experience, and how the oscillation between proximity and distance between performers and visitors becomes a choreographic parameter.
Embodiments and Exhibitions extends the experiments developed for works (such as "Retrospective" (2012- ) and "Temporary Title, 2015") conceived for the times and spaces of museum exhibitions.
Duration: 4 hours per day, 5 days in total
Dates: 24-28 February
Time: 6.30pm-10.30pm
Where: 72-13 Mohamed Sultan Road, Singapore 239007
Attire: Come dressed comfortably and ready to move. Additional attire to be used as workshop tools are welcome.
Fully subsidised process. Limited space available.
Expression of interest/enquiries, please contact perform@tworksasia.org
Xavier Le Roy holds a PhD in molecular biology and has been working as an artist since 1991. He is also a professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen, Germany. His early solo works were credited as ground-breaking, opening new perspectives in choreography. Motivated by the need for transformation, he creates with the desire to alter our understanding of dichotomies such as: Human/Non-Human, Subject/Object, Passive/Active, Norma/Anormal, and to multiply our perspectives.
His latest works, such as We Are Not Monsters (2020) in collaboration with Dalibor Šandor and Per.Art, Retrospective (2012-), For the Unfaithful Replica (2016), Still In Hong Kong (2021), investigate time, space as well as the relationship between the public and live artworks made possible by exhibitions, museums and other public spaces.
His works have been presented internationally, including at the Taipei Performing Arts Center, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, Tapiès Foundation (Barcelona), MoMA (New York), Kaldor Public Art Projects (Sydney), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and La Biennale di Venezia Danza among others.
Images courtesy of Xavier Le Roy.