Nothing in excess

Self -ISH

PERFORMANCE ART

-LESS -HOOD -NESS -HEAL -WARD -MATE -MADE

AMONG THE MANY WAYS OF COMBATING OBLIVION

KOVA VEE ALEHA SOLANO From Columbus, OH

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US FOR THE ARTS

THE WALL

Gallery

NYC

Dec 21 '17

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P e r f o r m a n c e

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Did you ever learn to live & breathe as the luminous power, purpose & pleasure that you are?

It should be noted that these PROPOSAL A choreographic show based on the poetic imagery of the American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou.

verbal movements never move away from the literary traditionbecause the historical memory and the collective identity is one of the cultural fronts, but the main task of experimentation, promoting the renewal, modernization and reinterpretation of cultural

Our proposal moves

tradition.

on horseback between the virtuosity of Butôh dance, and the revaluation of all corporal poetry.

Take a peek at the hard life and many accomplishments of Maya Angelou's world through the amateur corporal poetry. The intervention comes up from some of her short poems, confronting words and silence, light and obscurity, movement and

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calmness.

ARTWORK MOMENTS

GS presents a set of artistic practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the

1. INTELLIGENT SEDUCTION Wooden blocks / lights / track / needles / hammer / soundtrack

whole of human relations and their social context, rather than an independent and private space.

That is to say that GS projects tend to break with the traditional physical and social space of the art gallery

2. CORPOREAL MEMORY Diverse items / lights / soundtrack

and the requested artist studio or atelier. GS takes as its subject the entirety of life as it is lived, or the dynamic social environment, rather than attempting a from daily life.

3. SHARING IMAGINARY Diverse items / lights / soundtrack

In even simpler terms, the goal is to create a social circumstance of the constructed social environment

4. AMPLIFY VITALITY Wooden blocks / lights / soundtrack

becomes the art, the task of we as artists is to become a conduit for this social experience. to that end, often creating a physical space to be used for a particular (often ephemeral) performance art piece, almost anything could them: a communal meal, a discussion....even sitting around.

GS makes live interventions inspired by punk, comics, cinema, science, nightmares & dreams by live soundscaping & our own style of visceral movement theater & dance. Our work is a catharsis through collision and conflict challenging how we see the

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audience, architecture, music, history, myth, and reality. It comes out of a deep desire for conspiracy,

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soul-exchange, and transformation.