.event.space. at The Cleaners

One of Portland’s most interesting choreographers, Tahni Holt, has been thinking about our almost universal voyeurism and our mediated culture, the ways we experience viewing others at a remove through the technology of recording device and screen.

Continuing work began when Holt was artist-in-residence at the South Waterfront in 2008, Holt stages .event.space. at The Cleaners at the Ace Hotel tonight and tomorrow night, April 9th and 10th at 7 and 9 PM with a live feed at tahniholt.com. As before, the performance takes place inside a space with generous windows; the audience watches from outside, separated from the action by the glass, a circumstance (monitor, television screen) to which we’ve become accustomed.

Holt says, “.event.space. ruminates on our voyeuristic tendencies in our everyday lives and how these tendencies manifest in modes of architecture and technology.” Expect strategies of recording and playback (fast-forwarding, rewinding and slow motioning) “lighting plots are powered by human form [lighting design by Malina Rodriguez], colored animation arises amidst black and white, and a song split in thirds [score: Thomas Thorson] becomes a place keeper of time.”

Don’t miss it.

POSTED: April 9th, 2009 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, contemporary dance, tahni holt | No Comments »

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