Intersection/ Night
Saturday July 13 at 6 pm
2050 Imperial Street
Immersive installation of tapestry paintings by Iva Gueorguieva in the courtyard of Night Gallery.
Live performance by movement artists: Gretchen Ackerman, Friidom Dunn, Hyperbolic Q; performance artist: Silvi Naçi; and soundscape artist: Matt McGarvey.
Intersection is a site-specific project dedicated to exploring the interconnectivity of painting, sound, dance, and film. The goal is to construct a non-hierarchical entwinement of these traditionally separate mediums. The entwinement prioritizes sensation, embodiment, and synesthesia. The artists rely on improvisation, play, and dialoguing, and the let’s-say-“tactile” intertwining of one’s physical being with the spatio-temporal fabric in which one exists.
The project began during the Covid pandemic in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Emma Portner. After a year-long intense collaboration, the first performance took place at the Benton Museum of Art in Claremont, CA on May 3rd, 2022.
Intersection exists both as live performances and films. Gueorguieva constructs unique environments for each iteration and invites various “characters” to encounter, inhibit and activate the paintings. The films are the result of Gueorguieva witnessing, watching and recording with her camera, a practice of looking akin to “dancing” alongside each character and documenting what happens. Matt McGarvey constructs the sonic environment for the encounter during both the live performances and the films.
In the essay “Wind Daruma,” Hijikata Tatsumi describes a figure of wind which sweeps up and through identifiable bodies, transforming, erasing, “immolating” them. The Yupik word for “Self”, “Weather”, “other” and “wind” is the same Ella, a sort of motion that intertwines our interior space and the exterior world in an emphatic and enduring dance.