TABLEAU STATIONS: Made of silence, air, and glass

Description

An eclectic assemblage of image and movement based work from an international collaboration reflecting on silence in a city. With resonate inquiries to visualization, absence, and materiality, the work unfolds a series of precarious architectural scenes. Cross-references span the paintings of American artist Edward Hopper, to the disparate environment of the works making in Tokyo, Berlin, Taipei, and San Francisco.

For this San Francisco production, the work enlists an idiosyncratic cast of notable collaborators, Yuko Kaseki (Berlin based contemporary Butoh dancer and movement artist, and co-founder of cokaseki), José Navarrete (San Francisco based choreographer and performance artist, and co-founder of Navarrete x Kajiyama Dance Company), and Christian Nagler (San Francisco based artist, writer, and performer, creating often apart of the Nonsite Collective).

By assemblage, TABLEAU STATIONS: Made of silence, air, and glass collects primarily from three different works initiated outside of the US beginning in 2010: Stations of Appearance (a site-specific work for photography and video created along the Tokaido Line between Tokyo and Kyoto in connection with the Japan-US Friendship Commission), in 2011: At the Window (inspired by a man in his eighties with Alzheimer's who repeatedly opened the windows of local residents questioning why they were there and who invited them - created while in residence at the Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei), and Different Types of Silence (a dance performance for theater exploring oppositional notions of silence in primary collaboration with Yuko Kaseki and Diego Agullo - developed in Berlin at ADA and F40/Theatre Thikwa). Work is currently being re-explored in San Francisco for its April showing at CounterPULSE.


Performance: Yuko Kaseki, José Navarrete, Christian Nagler, Isak Immanuel (with additional artists in Japan and Taiwan for video)

Choreography: by ensemble

Sound/Music: Clem Snide, Toshio Hosokawa, various by ensemble

Artistic Direction and Photography/Video Installation: Isak Immanuel



APRIL 6-8, (Friday-Sunday) 8pm, 2012.

at CounterPULSE
1310 Mission Street
@ 9th Street in San Francisco

Tickets: $15.00 - $20.00
http://www.counterpulse.org

For additional information on the work and to see video: http://www.tableaustations.org

CounterPULSE is wheelchair accessible and easily reached via public transportation.
For more information please call 415-626-2060.

TABLEAU STATIONS

is a performance and exhibition series creating work in dance and the visual arts. Acting as a context to explore experimental collaborations, it was initiated (with the project Floor of Sky in 2004) by interdisciplinary artist and choreographer Isak Immanuel. Projects shift through an exploration of place and the absences and inversions of quotidian moments. The impetus of the work came from an inquiry on how to negotiate contemporary public spaces of a city with the intimacies and economies of individual bodies. Since its conception, it has created solo and ensemble works, site-specific performances, video, and mixed media photography within the context of theaters, galleries, metro stations, airports, intersections, and civic space in the United States, East Asia, and Europe.

Tableau Stations: Made of silence, air, and glass is presented through CounterPULSE's curated Co-Production Program.

The research and creative process of the work has been supported in part by the Zellerbach Family Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, The Japan-US Friendship Commission, AIR Taipei, ADA, Theatre Thikwa, & TheOffCenter.

More Info

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http://www.tableaustations.org

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415-626-2060 (Box Office)