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Soto/Chemin/Wassman/Gui: Girlmachine

Monday, October 26, 2009 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (ET)

Water Mill, United States

Soto/Chemin/Wassman/Gui: Girlmachine

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GIRLMACHINE is a free theatrical investigation of Futurism's ambiguous vitality and its complex relationship to the modern body, exploring notions of masculine identity and mechanized erotics. This inaugural performance unfolds an associative journey through various texts ranging from Futurist poetry and manifestos to contemporary sources, through the neo-Renaissance-style Teatro. Taking as its main focus certain conceits of Futurist masculinity as hyperbole, the performance presents an adaptation of Una Parentesi Luminosa by Marella Caracciolo Chia. Fragments, vibrant tableaux, still and moving images, silence and orchestrated words, repeated and sudden actions, bodies, voices, decor, lights, and texts all create layers that could erect or destroy in an antagonistic escalation.

This collective of highly accomplished and eclectic artists includes Luisa Gui (producer), Charles Chemin (director), Carlos Soto (director) and Christian Wassman (architect). They have come together to create a theatrical performance to be held at the Teatro of The Italian Academy on November 11, 2009. The piece will inaugurate the symposium “Beyond Futurism: F.T. Marinetti, Writer” organized by Paolo Valesio and the Department of Italian at Columbia University, and will be featured in PERFORMA09, the biennial for new visual performance art.

Soto, Wassmann and Chemin are all alumni of the Watermill Summer Program under the artistic leadership of Robert Wilson. It was as Summer Participants that they actually met and laid the groundwork for this collaboration. We are very proud that our independent selection committee was convinced of the artistic quality of these young artists and awarded them a residency.

This free workshop / work-in-progress showing is part of The Watermill Center's Fall 2009 Artists-in-Residency program.

 

 

 

 

 

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39 Watermill Towd Rd.
Water Mill, 11976

Monday, October 26, 2009 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (ET)


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