Hagar Tenenbaum performance 'Abstraction end and things like that'

Hagar Tenenbaum, Abstraction end and things like that (30 minute performance)

This will be the first solo performance in the UK by the Brussels based choreographer and dancer Hagar Tenenbaum.

In Abstraction end and things like that, hand gestures, speech and gaze are distinct channels, which synchronise and resist each other at different moments. Tenenbaum’s movements are both receptive to and independent of her spoken observations, narratives and memories.

The artist writes “I cut and paste words, I break and adhere them, while a pair of oversized plastic hands grabs and dances through the air, changing its consistency as meanings disappear (and re-appear) into a chasm of ruptured words. I wonder whether I should understand or feel. I’m a collector, I’m an animator, I am as much a thing as the things that use other things to make things.”

For this version of the performance Hendrik Willekens has created a new soundtrack.

Abstraction end and things like that was originally produced by wpZimmer, Antwerp and supported by STUK and BUDA.

Tenenbaum graduated from P.A.R.T.S. Research Cycle in 2014. Her pieces include: Footnote, 2011, Swimming Room, 2012, Two Weeks Notice, 2013, with Bryanna Fritz, Shatter Clatter and Other Arrangements, 2014 with Rosa Omarsdottir and Christopher Schieche. Tenenbaum has also worked with internationally acclaimed artists and choreographers Shelly Nadashi, Mette Ingvartsen and Daniel Linehan.

This event is part of Hand and Mind, an exhibition and series of performances testing connections between the realms of speech and gesture, curated by Vanessa Boni.