2016 CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS
Installation views and performance, exhibition Embodied Absence, Chilean Art of the 70’s Now
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Curated by Liz Munsell
October 27, 2016 – January 9, 2017
La tierra pone en equilibrio los extremos, 2016
(In collaboration with Johanna Unzueta and Carmen Beauchat)
Cotton fabric, thread and hand embroidered cotton yarn
5 curtains, dimensions variable
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Excerpt from exhbition brochure: Two not One II (2016) is a dance performance by Beuchat staged in collaboration with visual artists Felipe Mujica and Johanna Unzueta. The work is a contemporary variation on Beuchat’s experimental choreography, Two not One (1975), and is the first “reconstruction” of one of Beuchat’s early works.
The live work is performed by two Chilean dancers, Carolina Escobillana and Paula Sacur, and staged amidst the installation La tierra pone en equilibrio los extremos (2016), which consists of a new series of fabric curtains by Mujica, designed and fabricated in collaboration with Unzueta, and recreations of two mobile structures that were part of the original dance piece in 1975, designed by Michael Moneagle. The various components of the work—dancers, sculptures, and fabric panels—function as temporary and fragile architecture that symbolically connects the dancers’ organic movements with the more rectilinear, Le Corbusier–designed gallery
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