A contemporary of Joan Jonas, Sylvia Palacios Whitman creates fantastical live images that exaggerate the everyday through their simple actions and deadpan humour. She studied painting and sculpture at the Universidad de Chile in Santiago before moving to New York in 1960. From 1970 to 1973 she danced with Trisha Brown and The Trisha Brown Dance Company. Between 1974 and 1984 she staged her own performances in downtown Manhattan, and in museum spaces, including the Whitney Museum and Guggenheim Museum in New York and Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
In an evening of performance titled Around the Edge, eight key works from this experimental period are presented at ºÚÁÏÉç: Human Paper Coil; Cup and Tail; Cat’s Cradle; Mummies; Negatives; Cloud; Green Hands, and Elephant Trunk. Palacios Whitman will also present the premiere of Crossing Roads, a new work, created and performed in collaboration with photographer Christopher Rauschenberg.
At 22.00 London-based duo patten debut a brand new immersive live AV show. SS2018 will transform the cavernous South Tank into a hallucinatory environment somewhere between clubnight, installation, neurosci experiment and architectural intervention. Their new work is a fast-paced journey dialling through sequences of hyper modern and highly evocative sound and imagery with a multi-sensory hybrid of hi-tech sonics, synaesthesic lighting design and HD video projections.
On display throughout Ten Days Six Nights is Jonas’s Reanimation 2010/12/13: a mesmerizing installation scored by Jason Moran presented in the East Tank. On view in the Transformer galleries are three important early works by Jonas: Cones/May Windows (After Mirage) 1976/2011; Stage Sets 1977, and the video Wind 1968. The Tanks foyer hosts a newly commissioned installation and performances by Jumana Emil Abboud that draw on Palestinian folklore and fairy tales.
Programme
19.00 Installations open
20.00 Sylvia Palacios Whitman: Around the Edge
22.00 patten: SS2018
00.00 Installations close