IF I CAN'T DANCE TONIGHT: ARCHIVE
The sixth If I Can't Dance Tonight featured Keren Cytter. Cytter presented a selection of her films (some of them never shown before) that are related to her new project entitled 'History in the Making'. In this project, Cytter is investigating the relation between live-performance and cinema, playing out different approaches. read more
The fifth Tonight event featured Sarah Pierce. Sarah Pierce presented a performance that is part of her project 'It's Time Man. It Feels Imminent', in which she interrogates the emptying-out of the political gesture and the way we negotiate agency in public space. The performance is related to her interest in in the way we speak about the political in art and what bearing in this respect the legacy of the 1970s conceptual art practices has on the present moment. read more
The fourth If I Can't Dance Tonight featured Olivier Foulon. Foulon presented a lecture starting from his new work 'The Soliloquy of the Broom', presented at de Appel till the 9th of November. After this presentation, If I Can't Dance... curator Frederique Bergholtz and Olivier Foulon talked more extensively about the work. read more
The third Tonight event featured Joachim Koester. Koester presented a lecture focusing on his fascination for hypnagogia. During the event Koester read his work 'Nanking Restaurant. Tracing Opium in Calcutta (2006)'. After this presentation, writer and curator Lars Bang Larsen and Joachim Koester exchanged ideas and thoughts on the subconscious and related themes. read more
The second If I Can't Dance Tonight featured Suchan Kinoshita. Departing from elements from former works, Kinoshita went into the relations between the role of beholder, performer and artist/director. Several moments within the course of her professional life passed in revue. Interlocutors, like for instance dramaturge Igor Dobricic, seduced her into detours. read more
The first If I Can't Dance Tonight featured Jon Mikel Euba. Euba is fascinated by the performance of rockstars and has developed a series of videoworks of people interpreting these gestures and poses. During this Tonight event his One Minute works were shown, accompanied by a conversation between Jon Mikel Euba and curator/writer Peio Aguirre. read more
