The Armory Show - New York 2010
4.3. - 7.3.2010Solo presentation by
JULIEN BISMUTH - MIMED
Pier 94, Booth 642
March 4th (Thurs) - March 7th (Sun), 2010
Performance daily from 5-6pm (preview performance, March 3rd, Wed at 1pm)
MIMED
by Julien Bismuth
featuring Gregg Goldston
Performance daily from 5 - 6pm (preview performance, March 3rd, Wed at 1pm)
For the Armory Show, Layr Wuestenhagen is pleased to exhibit a solo presentation titled Mimed, by Julien Bismuth. The presentation will feature a series of mimed works to be performed daily by the renowned mime artist, Gregg Goldston. A disciple and collaborator of the late Marcel Marceau, he will be performing a series of scripted mime works at the gallery booth.
These works consist of three distinct elements: scripts, material supports, and performances. The scripts determine and document the performances, the supports locate and delineate their contours, and the performances materialize the gestural intentions and directives of the scripts. This work can be experienced in two different ways: by reading the scripts and viewing the material supports (an designated space on the floor, a nail on the wall...) or by experiencing the performances. The first inhabits the space of language; the second dwells within the realm of theater and gesture. Though these works are fully actualized during their performance, their presence endures by way of the mute dialogue between their supports and their scripts.
Four works will be exhibited at the Armory, drifting between the different types of gestures, as well as the different understandings of the word “gesture,” that function and resonate within the visual arts (from the expressive gestures of the human body, to the evocative gestures of mime, to the contemporary notion of a conceptual or formal "gesture"). Like any gesture, these words are structured by an irrecuperable ephemerality. Yet these are not immaterial works, but rather works that aim to subsist in the exchange between the evanescent presence of a performance and the elusive materiality of the texts which determine and preserve them.
