Exposition-festival
AN ENCOUNTER
BETWEEN DANCE
AND VISUAL ARTS
21.08–13.09.2020
Aftermovie
Edito
The transdisciplinary exhibition Dance First Think Later – Encounter between dance and the visual arts explores an artistic field on the borders of dance and the visual arts, two fields that feed off each other but operate according to different production and presentation mechanisms. It proposes a hybrid form, somewhere between an exhibition and a festival.
From its central location, the Commun in the Bâtiment d’art contemporain, it also extends elsewhere, with events staged in collaboration with the Bâtie – Festival de Genève, the ADC – Association pour la danse contemporaine, the MAMCO, the Musée d’art et d’histoire, the Fête de la Danse Genève, the Cinéma Spoutnik, as well as in the public space.
The title Dance First Think Later is inspired by a quotation from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. The works, both material (videos, installations, sculptures, collages, drawings, photos, etc.) and performative, feature the human body, its movements and gestures, and their meanings and interpretations, through conceptual, sensual, political, social, identity and gender approaches.
Alongside a selection of existing works produced during the last 20 years, the exhibition presents new productions (Cechetti, Hominal, La Ribot, Manchot, Pajand, Stauffer), site specific installations (Gerard & Kelly, Mosset & Kassay), as well as new versions of works (Gerard & Kelly, Leguillon, Le Roy, Pirici, Senatore).
An publication with essays and new texts on each artist, richly illustrated with images taken over the course of the exhibition, has finally be published at the end of 2024.
Olivier Kaeser, curator of Dance First Think Later
Artists of this edition
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