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The Royal NoneSuch Gallery is pleased to present Taking Up Room on the Floor, an exhibition curated by Dena Beard in collaboration with Jeriel Bey and Hannah Ireland with videos by Siobhan Davies, Anna Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, the Swaggers, and others.
Dance is brutal and direct. Flesh hits floor to mark the limits of space and the body in motion draws attention to its demands. In the transition from physical to cyberspace, dancers are seeding videos to international audiences that make new claims on embodiment. Taking Up Room on the Floor is an exhibition that moves between ideas of occupation in the parameters of the artist studio, the dance floor, the city street, and the Internet. With original work by Hannah Ireland that responds to YouTube choreography, TURFIN dance demonstrations by Wally Sparks and the Architekz, and videos by Siobhan Davies, Anna Halprin, Yvonne Rainer, the Swaggers, and others, Taking Up Room on the Floor is a conversation about strategies of takeover. We move through space by flying, surfing, flashing, walking, bouncing, tweeting, steering, and linking, falling into a living room via webcam, onto a street corner on 90th and MacArthur, into an artist’s Brooklyn studio, onto the dance floor. These artists exercise a discipline devoid of leotards and traditional audiences, taking over floors at the intersection of aesthetic and political space.
Gallery hours: Saturday and Sunday from 1-4pm
