Maria Hassabi: STAGING (2017)

About

STAGING (2017) is the second part of a performative diptych, along with STAGED? (2016). The two works contain similar elements – choreographic material, color palette, light and sound installations, vivid pink carpet – and exist as separate entities, each reflecting the distinct frameworks of their presentation. STAGED?, created for theater spaces, considers the hierarchies of the theatrical apparatus, while STAGING, presented in exhibition contexts, destabilizes similar codes and relationships within institutions. While STAGED? has a set duration, a beginning and an end, STAGING is created in the form of a loop, with its duration determined by the venues’ opening hours.

STAGING unfolds as a progression of encounters, installed in multiple sites throughout the building. Apprehended in parts, the accumulation of bodies, colors, sound, light, and architecture, are reminders of multiple fractures of an event that is continually in progress, always STAGING, and which only finds completion in its STAGED? theatrical form.

*** Responding to exhibition contexts, various iterations of STAGING include all or combinations of parts. STAGING – undressed, is an adaptation for public spaces, represented solely by its performers.

Credits

Performers (STAGING: quartet): Jessie Gold, Hristoula Harakas, Maria Hassabi, Niall Jones, Oisín Monaghan
Performers (STAGING: solo): (varies by engagement) Kennis Hawkins, Niall Jones, Mickey Mahar, Paige Martin, Omagbitse Omagbemi, Nancy Stamatopoulou
Outfits: Victoria Bartlett
Composer: Marina Rosenfeld
Sound Design: Stavros Gasparatos
Lighting: Zack Tinkelman and Maria Hassabi
Production Assistant: Kate Scherer
Management: Alexandra Rosenberg

STAGING is a co-commission of Aarhus 2017 (Denmark); documenta 14 (Kassel, Germany); Evergreen/Don River Valley Park (Toronto, Canada); the Keir Foundation, with support from Dancehouse Melbourne (Australia); and the Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) with support provided by the William and Nadine McGuire Commissioning Fund, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and was developed during a residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center (New York, NY).

Performance/Exhibition History

upcoming
December 8, 2017 - January 21, 2018
STAGING: Solo #2 (2017-18) | K20, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen | Düsseldorf, DE

More info

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