Jen Rosenblit: Clap Hands (2016)
Jen Rosenblit: Clap Hands (portrait). Photo by Maria Baranova.
About
Clap Hands is a mating call, an over-crowded solo, looking to hail, disguise, displace, reveal and track the disappearance of the body. A large stack of fuchsia felt installs the space. Meaning hovers and a still-life emerges. Clap Hands is concerned with the politics of coming together as we maintain autonomy. Something is lost or forgotten, but we continue with the burden of carrying on. How can we consolidate a skeleton of logic through our individual labors? Can we locate intimacy in non-human forms? Clapping hands is a phenomenon we do together, to celebrate, mark or culminate. Clap Hands is something we have to sit alone with, to recall being together.
Credits
Creation: Jen Rosenblit
With the performers: Effie Bowen and Admanda Kobilka
Sound: Admanda Kobilka aka Snoggybox
Lighting design: Elliott Jenetopulos
Production and performance support: alexia welch
Management / Producer: Alexandra Rosenberg
Clap Hands is a commission of New York Live Arts, The Invisible Dog Art Center, and Atlanta Contemporary and made possible, in part, through a residency at the Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas; a residency at Tanzhaus Zürich; with support from the exhibition Greater New York at MoMA PS1; with funding from the Jerome Foundation; with support from Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory; through The Movement Research Artist-in-Residence Program, funded, in part, by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Davis Dauray Family Fund, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; and was developed as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Workspace program.
Performance History
April 20-24 & 26-28, 2016 | The Invisible Dog Art Center, co-presented with New York Live Arts | New York, NY
January 6-7 & 9-10, 2017 | American Realness Festival | New York, NY
Selected Press
"Linear thinking has no place in Ms. Rosenblit’s poetic world, yet her imagery gradually falls into place."
– Gia Kourlas, The New York Times [full article]
"'I’ll be the presence and you take note.' Sure, but I really start to take note days later. You are finished, you bow, and you leave. We all clap hands, and in your absence things can really begin."
– Rennie McDougall, Culturebot [full article]
More info
to request the full-length video, contact RosieManagement@gmail.com
for booking inquiries, contact Alexandra Rosenberg at RosieManagement@gmail.com