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Sat, Jul 12, 2008
3:00 PM

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Ei Arakawa: Dance, Not Yet Titled

Part of Exhibition Related
 
Music / Performance

with Ronnie Bass / Eric Angles / Young Prada, Katie Brown, Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Eleanor Erdman / Kim Gordon / Nancy Garcia, Chase Granoff / Jenn Joy, Alix Pearlstein, Beau H Rhee, Georgia Sagri / Maria Sagri, Sakura Shimada, and Andrew Smith

Performances
Saturday, July 12, 3 p.m.
Sunday, October 5, 3 p.m.

Toying with notions of art production, Ei Arakawa works with numerous participants to create energized performances that he broadly refers to as "market." For this exhibition, he has collaborated with dancers and writers on a group of open-ended texts about objects in transition, leading to a series of amorphous performances that will occur over the course of the exhibition—all of which will contribute to a developing installation in the gallery space. In this show, texts printed on fabric hang from rolling racks and will remain in the exhibition space when not being used for rehearsals and performances. Adhering to the participatory and unkempt approach that interests Arakawa, the public events include the spectators themselves, turning his communal projects into spontaneous gatherings of people in which roles and definitions are constantly shifted and re-shaped. Arakawa’s practice is a celebration of instability and a ritual of exchange that never becomes static.

Open rehearsals
Wednesday, July 9, 3 p.m.
Friday, July 11, 3 p.m.
Thursday, October 2, 3 p.m.

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The 2008 Altoids Award is made possible by Altoids, The Curiously Strong Mints.

Addditional support is provided by the Toby Devan Lewis Emerging Artists Exhibitions Fund.

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Ei Arakawa

Ei Arakawa works with numerous participants, combining dance, improvised actions, and objects to create a new genre of performance. The product of Arakawa’s process is not quite an artwork and not quite a sculpture, but is constantly shifting between the two. Arakawa was born in Iwaka, Japan, in 1977, and currently lives and works in New York City.