REDACTIONS (work in progress)
Saturday 6/22 at 6 PM
at Automata, 504 Chung King Court, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Join Automata and Los Angeles Performance Practice for this Development + Research Residency work-in-progress showing. Admission is free and if you’re so inclined, donations toward our residency program are warmly appreciated.
Part of Abigail Levine’s D+R Residency
June 17-23, 2019
ABOUT THE RESIDENCY //
Redactions began with a fanciful notion: what if I could ask an abstract form—what exactly are you saying? I turned this into an assignment—loosen the mind that makes shapes and colors and ask it to lay out, to pour out their meanings into words. Then place them side by side, abstract form and its supposed meaning. And why redaction? A redaction announces that something has been covered over, obscured. If I won’t say it, at least I wear the marks of what I won’t reveal. Redaction is in the air too, isn’t it? Maybe it’s the mark of our times—unspoken, possibly unspeakable acts covered over more or less successfully.
During her D&R residency, Abigail Levine begins assembling the materials of Redactions, a multi-disciplinary work that takes the form of a book, an exhibition, and a staged performance. During the residency, Abigail will be joined by dancer Sam Wentz.
ABOUT THE ARTIST //
Abigail Levine is an artist working between Los Angeles and New York. Rooted in dance but moving across media—performance, text, drawing, sound—Levine focuses on the poetics of our body’s work, how we record and value it. Her latest work, the Restagings series, has been presented at Fridman Gallery, Vox Populi and The Knockdown Center, supported by Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New Music USA, and residencies at The MacDowell Colony, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts. Past works have been presented throughout the US, in Cuba, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Greece and Taiwan. Levine performed with both Marina Abramovic (2010) and Yvonne Rainer (2018) in their retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art.
Image: From the series Redactions. No. 17: A Body Composite (2019)
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Collaboratively offered by Los Angeles Performance Practice and Automata, and supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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