The Visitors

Exposición / Faena Art Center / Aimé Paine 1169, Faena Art District. Puerto Madero / Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Cuándo:
31 may de 2015 - 08 jun de 2015

Inauguración:
31 may de 2015

Organizada por:
Faena Art Center Buenos Aires (FAC), Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21)

Artistas participantes:
Ragnar Kjartansson

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Etiquetas
Arte en vivo  Arte en vivo en Buenos Aires  Performance  Performance en Buenos Aires  Video  Video en Buenos Aires  Video arte  Video arte en Buenos Aires 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Co-presented with Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21) led by Founder and Chairwoman Francesca von Habsburg, renowned Icelandic performance artist Ragnar Kjartansson’s 2012 work The Visitors is a nine-channel video installation occupying the entire Sala Catedral of the Faena Art Center. Ragnar Kjartansson (b. 1976) is an Icelandic artist whose video and performance work The Visitors, called a “hymn to the feminine” by TBA21 curator Daniela Zyman, entrances and envelopes the audience within cyclical manifestations of song and action. The “visitors” in this case are foreigners in a strange space— eight performers (including the artist), and one choir, who occupy nine different locations at Rokeby Farm in upstate New York to perform one song simultaneously. The eerie incantations of their “feminine ways” (taken from the lyrics of a song written by Kjartansson’s ex-partner Ásdís Sif Gunnarsdóttir) echo through the crumbling mansion, the weight of these appropriated words highlighting the indelible presence of the past. The Visitors is a feminist proposition in nine parts that engulfs the public in the song.

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