Learning to Imitate in Absentia
by Yael Davids

Synopsis:
Learning to Imitate in Absentia is part two of an investigation that follows on from the first iteration Learning to Imitate, a performance that took place in the Picture This atelier space in May 2010.
Revisiting Learning to Imitate as a score for a new performance, Learning to Imitate in Absentia experiments with the emptiness that appears after a performance.
A central question to this new work is how grief manifests itself in art. Davids feels that performance, by its very nature, carries an element of loss - by it's temporality it progresses towards an end. There is an elegiac sensibility to her process, reinforced by the nature of the actual space - but also by a recent loss in the artists' own life. A notion of grief will inform this work.
Details
Year | 2011 |
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Duration | 40 minutes |
Medium | Performance |
Credits:
Supported by the Mondriaan Foundation and BKVB (The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture).
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Events
Yael Davids: Learning to Imitate in Absentia
27 - 28 May 2011
Learning to Imitate in Absentia is part two of an investigation that follows on from the first iteration Learning to Imitate.
News
Yael Davids at Kunsthalle Basel
Yael Davids: Ending with Glass
11 September–13 November 2011
Events
The Sensible Stage
25 - 26 May 2012
A programme of performances and a talk at the LUX/ICA Biennial of Moving Images celebrating the launch of our new publication The Sensible Stage: