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Melati Suryodarmo, I Love You 2007 performance
| Title : | Melati Suryodarmo: Solitaire |
| Venue : | The Annexe @ Central Market The Annexe Gallery Studio Theatre, Central Market Annexe, Jalan Hang Kasturi Kuala Lumpur Opening Hours : Office Hours: 10am - 6pm; Exhibition Days: 11am - 7pm URL : http://www.centralmarket-kl.com.my |
| Date & Time : | Thu 10 – Sun 27 Apr 2008 (11am - 7pm; closed on Mon) |
| Tickets : | Free Admission |
| URL : | http://www.vwfa.net |
| Synopsis : | Germany-based Indonesian performance artist Melati Suryodarmo is recognised today for her long durational performances using the body and its environment, to create what she calls 'a concentrated level of intensity'. In these performances, Suryodarmo engages in seemingly redundant actions - dancing on butter, communicating with rabbits, pumping balloons to the tune of Elvis Presley - combining both her arresting physicality with the foibles of her struggle. The result is often absurd though no less heroic, as we come to see her fragility redeemed by the tenacity of her will in what Emanuela Nobile Mino calls her 'poetic of overcoming'. Melati will be opening her first solo exhibition in Kuala Lumpur with a piece entitled 'I Love You' 17 April 2008. Interacting and moving with a glass platform, Suryodarmo repeats, 'I love you!' for the duration of the two-hour long performance. In tandem with the opening act, the exhibition will showcase selected documentations of Suryodarmo's past performances in photography and video. Documented works include performance photographs from her Death series, as well as video excerpts of Exergie - butter dance, My Fingers Are the Triggers and her most recent work Perception of Pattern in Timeless Influence. Absurd yet poignant, this landmark event will introduce the KL art scene to one of the most promising and relevant artist working in the performance medium. Suryodarmo will also be conducting two workshops on performance art during her visit: - Workshop 1 on 19 Apr 2008 at the Central Market Annexe - Workshop 2 on 20 Apr 2008 at Rimbun Dahan Artist Residency. |
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| posted by anak seni, Sun 20.04.200820:18:09 PM |
| thanks for the workshop, Melati. Hope you are having nice days in Malaysia.
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