SUB-Version/ Sotto gli occhi di tutti
SUB-Version/Sotto gli occhi di tutti, deliberately confronts the notion of evidence and its innate fallacy. History in particular, personal and universal ( if such thing exists) is constructed and told in various modes of narration, it is after all “sotto gli occhi di tutti”-under everyone’s eyes... Art however often grasps sub- texts and versions of history, even those that are under everyone’s eyes. Artists propose their understanding of events perceived as major or minor according to the view point. This is why this exhibit will incorporate the artists’ voices at some moments in the gallery. Sophie participates to the event with her film Body/Traces realised with Lisa Parra ( https://wfs.gc.cuny.edu/TFujioka/www/index.html)
2010 Dance Camera West Festival, L.A. CA
Sophie Kahn video Body/Traces, created in collaboration with choreographer Lisa Parra, will be projected in the basement vault of the Los Angeles Theater Center during the Downtown LA Art Walk, as part of the 2010 Dance Camera West Festival. June 10, 6pm - 9pm 514 South Spring Street Los Angeles, CA 90013-2304 (213) 627-6500
Revealing Culture-Group exhibition,Smithsonian International Gallery- Washington DC
Sophie Kahn video work is part of the group exhibition Revealing Culture, opening June 8 at the Smithsonian International Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC.
The exhibit continues at the Kennedy Center where works by artists including Dale Chihuly and Yinka Shonibare feature.
June 8 - August 29, 2010
Open daily 10:00am - 5:30pm 1100
Jefferson Drive Southwest (Metro to Smithsonian Mall Exit)
Phone (202) 633-1000
DANCE MOVIES- NEW YORK Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
RECENT EVENTS
March 2010:
Sophie Kahn presents a new sculpture: Head of a Young Woman, at The Armory Show 2010 (Washington, DC)
The Armory Show, http://www.vsarts.org/documents/resources/general/ArmoryPostcard2010.pdf
DANCE MOViES COMMISSION ARTIST IN RESIDENCE PRESENTATION
New media artist Sophie Kahn and choreographer Lisa Parra present a work-in-progress showing of their video installation, body/traces, a 2008-2009 EMPAC DANCE MOViES Commission. Using a DIY 3D laser scanner and stop-motion 3D digital animation to track a dancer's movement through space and time, they are creating a single-channel video to be projected at life-size. The showing is the culmination of a three-week creative residency at EMPAC, and it will be followed by an open discussion.
The project body/traces explores the female body through 3D laser scanning and structured improvised movement, where the images become alive and what is alive becomes idle, illuminating the physical presence and disappearance of the body. A dancer's body is scanned at various stages of movement, and the resulting images are re-animated in 3D. The result is an imperfect document of the traces left by the dancer’s body in space. The deeper one looks, the less familiar the body becomes, appearing awkward and fragmented. The project looks at the unstable representation of womens' bodies and of movement by addressing the questions: What happens to the body in motion when it becomes a still image? And what becomes of that image when it is returned to the moving body whence it came?
Curator: Hélène Lesterlin FREE + Open to the Public
At the : EMPAC — Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center | 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180 | 518.276.4135
Tuesday, January 27, 3:00 PM | Studio 2
Curator: Hélène Lesterlin FREE + Open to the Public
At the : EMPAC — Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center | 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180 | 518.276.4135
