In conjunction with the Norwegian art collective Verdensteatret’s premiere of And All the Question Marks Started to Sing—an art machine played by performers, musicians and robots—FuturePerfect, CPR, Dance Theater Workshop and Performance Space 122 invite you to a panel on Installation, Art Machines and Performance. At CPR in new York on February 28th at 7:30PM.
Installation, Art Machines and Performance
What does the concept of performance mean today as artists increasingly fuse together traditional human centered notions of performance with the dynamics and actions of digital, material, and electromechanical processes and techniques? As the writer and artist Chris Salter reminds us: The preoccupation with performances by and for machines (if not human spectators) is rooted in the criss-crossing histories of automata, the imagined machine fantasies of industrial modernism, post-World War II military-industrial schemes, the advent of kinetic sculpture, industrial subculture, and finally, our long-standing interest in robots. These confluences are boldly evident in the transdisciplInary work of artists working at the intersection of installation, sound and performance.
A panel of distinguished artists, curators and critics will talk about their work in relationship to these histories and ideas about inter-media, embodiment, presence, affect, materiality, and performativity.
Panelists include Lisbeth Bodd (Verdensteatret), Asle Nilsen (Verdensteatret), Piotr Pajchel (Verdensteatret), Barbara London (curator, MoMa), and Alan Licht (musician, writer, curator).
Additional Support for this program is provided by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General in New York City.