Temporary Title, 2015 (Taipei 2023) is an exhibition where visitors enter and leave at will.
That situation is made with performers forming and deforming groups or assemblies while composing a landscape in perpetual transformation.
The performer’s actions and presences oscillate between recognizable and unrecognizable appearances which characteristics could be sculptural, animal, vegetal, mechanical . . . and, sometimes, they approach the public to engage in conversations.
Taking up some of the materials developed for low pieces this work questions the dividing lines between human / inhuman, object / subject, transformation / transition / modification.
At first sight, it can appear as something external to contemplate, but, the duration of the visit make it become a landscape in which we find ourselves, a situation to live, a space where our perception can be faster than the actions, otherwise says, a situation where maybe, time can wait.
Xavier Le Roy
Xavier Le Roy, France
Xavier Le Roy holds a doctorate in molecular biology at the University of Montpellier, France, and has worked as an artist since 1991. Since 2018, he has worked as Professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen (Germany). He was artist-in-residence at the Podewil in Berlin (1996-2003), Associated Artist at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier (2007-2008), Artist in Residence fellow at the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology (Cambridge, MA) (2010), and Artist-in-residence at Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris (2012-2015). Through his solo works such as Self Unfinished (1998), Product of Circumstances (1999) and Le sacre du printemps. He has opened new perspectives in the field of choreography. His latest works investigate the time and space of exhibitions as well as the specificity of the relationships between spectators and live art works that exhibition spaces, museum or other public spaces allow. His work has been presented internationally, including Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, Taikwun Contemporary Art Center (Hong Kong), Tapiès Foundation (Barcelona), MoMA PS1 (New York), Kaldor Public Art Projects (Sydney), Centre Pompidou (Paris), and La Biennale di Venezia Danza among others.
Scarlet Yu, Hong Kong & Germany Hong Kong-born Berlin-based dance artist.
Her work navigates the in-betweenness of the politic and the poetic of the narrative listening and telling. Using Autobiography and Memory as a tool to reexamine private/public embodied narration. Her collaborative and solo works have been presented in various contexts includes IsLand Bar with ADAM artists, Temporary Title 2015, For The Unfaithful Replica, For Performance and Still Untitled at Sculpture Projects Münster 2017, Still in Hong Kong together with Xavier Le Roy, A Performance curated by Enoch Cheng and one-on-one solo works such as Read MEmory, The Act of Passing and The Act of Memory. Yu was a jury member for Tanzplattform Germany 2018, artist in residency at Hombroich Summer Fellows, and ADAM-Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance in 2017.
Ticket Benefits
Member Pre-sale Period: 5/11 (Thursday) 12:00 to 5/18 (Thursday) 12:00
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Ticket Sales Start Date: 5/18 (Thursday) 12:00
Addict Players: 15% off *Addicted Players receive a 50% off coupon after attending 3 performances.
Trooper Players: 15% off *Trooper Players receive 20% off for orders of 4 or more tickets, and 30% off for orders of 10 or more tickets.
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