With credit to Great Western Studio - New art complex in London's Westbourne Park. Luxor is the first collective of artists to accomodate this space 19.12.2009
Photos: Phil Tidy, Laurie Mayer
LUXOR - LIVE 30.10.2009 AT SHUNT
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IN THE MIDDLE OF CONTEMPORARY ART FUSION
Where is the energy behind a new creation? The perception of art as the admiration of pictures on a gallery wall has long gone. But what exactly do we define as art in the 21st century. Reflecting the vitality and challenges of how art is percieved today, has become the creative base for a new series of work. A three element collaboration - Luxor.
"Pauline paints as I interpret her lines into motion, dynamics are rythmically, creatively and energetically affected by the sound." - Anna-Mi
In October 2009, acclaimed artist, Amos, and classical dancer, formerly with the English National Ballet, Anna-Mi Fredriksson, paired up to present a unique exhibition and performance.
Accompanied by visionary composer, producer and performer William Orbit, the aim was to invent new work between them, as to letting ones creative energy and presence influence each other. The work takes the form of a provocative array of visuals. It is extreme, energetic, inspiring, shocking, skillful and interesting in every moment, you never know what is next.
Amos paints using motions in the dimension of human physique, with gestures of paint on her hands, shapes become a trace of her action, the canvas is left as a memory of the moment in which it was created.
Amos said: "It's interesting to see how different people percieve the art in various ways, and how each individual interprets its meaning, reinforcing the point that art can mean something unique to everyone."
Anna-Mi creates movement patterns out of Amos's art to become sequences of dance captured instantly only. In the classical shapes that can be read in her expression, with a physical quality she reflects the art and the sound surrounding her.
"Suddenly my appearance and physical expression becomes a proof of a subconscious influence, in and around Amos's art work. It is clear that these strong energies of creation can not remain solid, but will automatically de- and reconstruct in such intense space and time. All shapes and patterns become a path to a movement structure that generates emotion." - Anna-Mi
The sound and rythm of Orbit's work brings an excitement and energy into every move, as the work builds and varies in crescendos along the creation of the performance.
Anna-Mi re-enacts within the expression of the painting as Amos' work takes the shape of her energy, and an extraordinary complicite develops between the artists. Action and interaction, as they work off and with each other.
Amos works on the basis that art should be alive - the painting itself is merely a documentation of an event or a feeling and the living being is what makes it come to life.
At each performance Amos and Anna-Mi work and move differently, reflecting the space, sound and audience, each creation really is a unique captured moment in time, with each visitor as an integral part of that.
"I place myself within the painting and become a part of it, the art is the person - the life that is making the work. The paintings are documents and recordings of an event, an action that happened - they are not the work; the action, the performance, the improvised and impulsive moment is the work; the art is alive." - Amos
"We were given an incredible vault space at Shunt, and worked durational to find a creative platform. There is no pretenciousness, no staging, the energy in Luxor is in the tension of the unknown. Nothing is prepared or planned in advance, but what happens in the moment is what becomes the creation. It is very liberating, almost like you are creating subconciously. By the fourth day our work had completely changed." - Anna-Mi
"We are all really excited about the quick development of the work, and Shunt has been the perfect place to experiment artistically. It was very sad to see it closing down.”- Anna-Mi
Anna-Mi is concerned that dance is rarely interactive with other art forms and as an experiment, taking her performance experience to new grounds.
"In Luxor, my movement and expression has interfeared with someone’s creative energy, even influenced and changed another artist creation. A conversation in words would not have manipulated our minds in the same way, it is two silent art forms, and the language between them is not yet developed.’"
"To creatively develop, we charge for the unknown grounds, a new path to where risk is essential. Innovation is the adrenaline in a moment of creation." - Anna-Mi Fredriksson
LUXOR - IN THE MIDDLE OF CONTEMPORARY ART FUSION Sound. Art. Movement. One. New. Work.
"The energy lingers in the space and fills the room with an electric charge that infuses the performance and the work and the audience with a new excitement."
