Artists talks by Mette Edvardsen and Theo Cowley.
Artists talks by Mette Edvardsen and Theo Cowley.
Wednesday the 11th of March at 7pm, free.
Norwegian dancer and choreographer Mette Edvardsen is a guest in Welds Nordic residency 2009. As a residency artist she can invite a person she is curious about. Her choice fell upon Theo Cowley a brittish artist working with film,video and sculpture.
Mette Edvardsen’s work is at home inside the performing arts context. Although some of her works have been exploring other media or other formats, her interest is always in their relationship to the performing arts as form, as practise or as situation. For her next work she will explore the media ‘book’. This time she invites the audience to an intimate reading of a piece. The piece unfolds through the turning of pages, and the fantasy and imagination of the experience of a space, of a time, of a performance. The idea is to create a space and a time inside a book, like a piece in a theatre.
Mette Edvardsen started to work as a dancer for Les Ballets C. de la B. in 1996. She has collaborated on several projects by the company, with Hans Van den Broeck (1996-2000) and with Christine de Smedt (2000-2005).Her own work includes the pieces Private collection (2002), Time will show (detail) 2004, Opening (2005/ 2006), The way/ you move (installation, 2006), or else nobody will know (2007), and the videoworks Stills (2002), coffee (2006), cigarette (2008) and Faits divers (2008). She has performed in pieces by Thomas Hauert/ Zoo (B), Bock/ Vincenzi (UK), Mårten Spångberg (S), Lynda Gaudreau (CAN), deepblue (N/B), and others.
“I study movement across various times, spaces and contexts in particular theatrical representations, which I see as a way to construct or retrace contemporary or old subjectivities. Im interested in how subjectivity might be formed through movement and movement formed through subjectivity. My work looks at the organization of movement and action. Instead of expressive gestures, I’m interested in what shapes, holds and frames movement, the key frames, abstract narratives, stuck or fixed positions that one moves through and the rhythms that form and interrupt them.” Theo Cowley
Theo Cowley is an artist currently working as a researcher at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, The Netherlands. His work consists of film, video and sculpture. He is also working on a study of the pamphlet, ‘Composition de rhétorique de M. don Arlequin’, published in 1601 by the early Harlequin Tristano Martinelli.
He will give a lecture presentation about his current work.
Solo exhibitions: Movement as mask, cloth as emotion. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie.The morality of movement. Whitechapel Project Space,London, GB: Lectures: The eye cannot see itself. Thoughts on a trip to Japan to see Noh theatre. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie. Performances: A place for everything, everything in its place. Maastricht, NL: Jan van Eyck Academie. The harlequin sits with the 7 sins and a character with no character.. In: Petit pois. London, GB: Tate Modern.