Gesture, Trace and Performance

'Gesture, Trace and Performance'

Leah Fusco, Nikolaus Gansterer, Robert Luzar, Wiebke Leister, Anastasios Logothetis. Curated by Azadeh Fatehrad.

Herbert Read Gallery, UCA Canterbury
Sat 18 Nov 2017 - Fri 15 Dec 2017
Private View: 17 Nov 2017, 5.30-7.30pm

Conference: Thu 30 Nov 2017, 10.00-5.30pm
Cragg Lecture Theatre, UCA Canterbury

'Gesture, Trace and Performance' stages a constellation of some of the most thought provoking contemporary works developed through artistic research, inquiring into collective notions of memory, time and space. The exhibition is organised around three thematics: disappearance, masks, and becoming. ‘Disappeareance’ focuses on the ephemerality of recorded memory via sound or image; ‘masks' expresses a presence that is invisible yet substantive, thinkable through touch; and ‘becoming' concerns the mediation between bodily drawings and the cohabitation in holding a certain space through limited time.
‘Gesture, Trace and Performance’ presents multidisciplinary art works by Leah Fusco, Robert Luzar, Wiebke Leister, Anastasios Logothetis and Nikolaus Gansterer in different formats from performances to artist books and multimedia installations. More particularly, the selection includes ‘Perambulations’ by Leah Fusco; ‘A-lighting Steps, Balls and Chords’ by Robert Luzar; ‘Echoes and Transformations’ by Wiebke Leister; ‘Psycho-Geographic Lines’ and ‘Animism or What? At the Ein-Gedi Kibbutz Garden’ by Anastasios Logothetis, ‘Denkfiguren/Figures of Thought’ by Nikolaus Gansterer.

Wiebke Leister: 'Echoes and Afterlives', performed publication (documentation), 2017; 2 inkjet prints, diptych, each 105x142cm. Performance with Masato Kakinoki, 30 Nov 2017.

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