"study now steady" is part of Ligia Lewis' first solo exhibition curated by Manuela Moscoso, Executive Director and Chief Curator, with production and exhibition design by Agustin Schang, and curatorial assistance by Marian Chudnovsky.
https://www.cara-nyc.org/program/exhibitions/ligia-lewis-study-now-steady
Images by Liz Ligon
https://www.contemporaryartlibrary.org/project/ligia-lewis-at-cordova-barcelona-27243
Live work presented at:
MUDAM Luxembourg (LU), La Casa Encendida (SP), Cordova (SP), Tono Festival (MX), upcoming Donau Festival (AT)
https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/bmw-tate-live-exhibition-ten-days-six-nights-2
curated by Catherine Wood, Isabella Maidment, and Andrea Lissoni
https://converso.online/en/archive/minor-matter
For the High Line, Lewis expands her solo work Sensation 1 into an hour-long performance for six dancers, scored and performed live by Twin Shadow. The figure of a vocalist who holds her concluding note forms the basis for Sensation 1/This Interior. Lewis stretches this climactic moment into a sustained articulation of feeling and affect across multiple bodies. An ecstatic choreographed form emerges into a collective experience.
Concept / Choreography / Light: Ligia Lewis Live Musical Score & Accompaniment: Twin Shadow performed by: Trinity Bobo, Jumatatu Poe, Miguel Guzman, Rebecca Gaul, Emma Cohen, Stephanie Peña
Ligia Lewis, Sensation 1/This Interior. A High Line Performance. curator: Melanie Kress
As part of Empathy Lab , Lewis reimagines her former stage work- Sorrow Swag, to further illuminate the politics of bearing witness to a body in flux and in a constant state of transformation. Relationally at play with the other objects in the room, Lewis uses monsters, understood culturally and racially, as a point of departure for this iteration.
Concept/Choreography : Ligia Lewis
sound: Twin Shadow
light: Joseph Wegmann
photo: Jennifer Bindman, on view at Jessica Silverman Gallery
Concept / Choreography / Direction / Light: Ligia Lewis performed by: Boglarka Borcsok sound design: Wynn
Water Pressure curated by Myriam Ben Salah for Jaou Tunis 2018
by Ligia Lewis, with performer Kenneth Nicholson, musical arrangement WYNN
This single gesture of singing extended through time explodes its references to singing as such and creates a different kind of affect altogether. A sculptural choreography takes form, what is left is an abstractly sensing body articulating a particular sensation of the sensational- Timothy Murray
Concept/Direction: Ligia Lewis
Performance: Ligia Lewis (Tanz im August), Martin Hansen (NGBK gallery, Art Basel Liste Program )
Music: Whitney Houston “I will always love you” (Divas Live, 1999 live performance)
produced with support from sommer.bar/TanzimAugust/Basel Liste 2014
“This single gesture of singing extended through time explodes its references to singing as such and creates a different kind of affect altogether. A sculptural choreography takes form, what is left is an abstractly sensing body articulating a particular sensation of the sensational”- Timothy Murray
The amplification and extension of a moment in time, the utterance and suspension of a final spellbinding note made mute, the gesture of a singing body in rapture is illuminated in total silence. Sensation 1 is a social study of the cult of the pop “Diva.” Over time the singular gesture potentiates the richness and expressivity of the body at work in sustained climax. The choreography is reduced to its essentials, as we witness the effort of a body wailing silence.
Concept/Direction: Ligia Lewis
Performance: Martin Hansen (NGBK gallery, Art Basel Liste Program 2014
Music: Whitney Houston “I will always love you” (Divas Live, 1999 live performance)
produced with support from sommer.bar/TanzimAugust/Basel Liste 2014
photo : Alex Coggin
