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"Come On In" by Faye Driscoll
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New York-based choreographer Faye Driscoll (US, b. 1975) creates performances that activate the dynamic space between artist, performers, and audience. Often balancing poignancy and tenderness with irreverent wit and humor, her work as she describes summons “the unnamed forces that surge between the viewer and the viewed.”
Come On In, the artist’s first solo exhibition to date, creates a space of gathering that invites us to encounter, and carry forth, this intangible connection. Here, Driscoll simultaneously captures the sensation of being in the audience at one of her performance works, the intensity of being a performer in her work, and her own subjective voice as a director. By removing the performers and removing the theater, Driscoll gives the work to the body of the gallery-goer, leading us into an internal dance of our senses: of self and other, body and world, desire and abjection, communion and loss.
Upon entering the carpeted area, you’re invited to choose a listening station, each featuring a soundtrack spoken by the artist herself. Each listening station has a unique audio work playfully referencing prompts she might give to a performer. These are guided meditations, erotic power play, prayer, lamentations, aspirations, and longing that come together to ask: How are we alive to the non-linear symphony of our senses? In this time saturated in technology, where is the body? How far does it extend?