Art (and Dance!) Happens Here
It's International Dance Day! As Miami’s incubator of new art and ideas, we thought we’d look back at how Locust Projects has helped Make Art (and Dance!) Happen!
From Martha Friedman's 2015 collaboration with dancer and choreographer Silas Riener to Cranbrook MFA-candidate Brian Vu's 2018 dance performance with unfired porcelain for his LAB MFA show, and our recent collaboration with Miami Light Project featuring dancer and choreographer Ivonne Batenero’s dance interpretation of FeCuOp 's Antenna.
Look back with us and feel free to dance along!
For her first major show in Miami, Martha Friedman created four vividly colored sheets of rubber – each site-specific sculpture had a costume attached and was colored to reference one of the four humors, the theory of which formed the basis of Western medicine for over two thousand years.
During the exhibition’s opening weekend, as well as Art Basel week, New York choreographer/dancer Silas Riener interacted with the sculptural installation through a performance developed collaboratively with Friedman. Performing in the round, for a standing audience, Reiner put on each costume and dramatized a choreographed series of movements that explored the qualities associated with each humor.
For his LAB: MFA project, Brian Vu presented lung tone_ mirror print_, the second evolution of the artist’s lung tone_ series, a body of work featuring approaches to contemporary dance that establish constructions of ‘movement memory; for both audience and performer with ‘material traces’ acting as a mark-maker for ephemera.
The performances Vu developed during his summer residency at Locust Projects furthered his interests in the ephemeral and semi-permanent nature of performance and improvisation, particularly as it relates to the malleable nature of memory. Acting as both choreographer and dancer Vu’s movements slathered unfired porcelain clay throughout the space as an act of performative mark-making. The remnants serving as a semi-permanent trace of the ephemeral performances.
Performance by Ivonne Batanero
Antenna was a performative and interactive installation constructed primarily to solicit auditory participation created by the collective FeCuOp, seeking to create a social experiment with communication as its foundation. To celebrate the closing of the exhibition, Locust Projects collaborated with Miami Light Project for a performance by dancer and choreographer Ivonne Batanero. Described as "engaging" and "theatrically compelling", Ivonne Batanero's movement throughout the space and interaction with the Antenna created a visual narrative centered around the idea of communication and connection.