LEMONISM Special – ‘The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely’
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The video installation of „LEMONISM X ACTIONSIM“ was on view from October 21, 2017 to April 15. 2018 in the Wellington-Hippodroom, Ostend ➤ Quick View_Snapvideo.
Akemi Takeya was not only presenting her video installation, her work series LEMONISM was also featured in Ostend’s public space. Afterwards she showed a live performance at Cultuurcentrum De Grote Post (Apr 11, 2018), which was related to her installation. * Curated by Jan Fabre and Joanna De Vos, commisioned by Mu.ZEE in Ostend, Belgium
The show is about art as a vessel and what it conveys. The Raft engages in a dialogue with Ostend, a city near the sea with a history and a particular perfume. Spread over several venues in the Belgian seaside resort, the dramaturgy of the exhibition departs from the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Mu.ZEE) with a careful research of Théodore Géricault’s painting The Raft of the Medusa (1818) and Jan Fabre’s utopian raft Art is (not) Lonely (1986). Two works that are separated by 170 years and that originated in completely different settings, yet that also tune in to each other through the imagination of the expedition and the destiny of the artist, a theme that is also a metaphor of the human condition.
➤ Watch Visual Work (Trailer)
➤ Watch Video (Full) *PW:lemon
” The body is the last frontier of art. Twenty men at the limits of human experience: fifteen still alive, five eventually dead. The connection between Akemi Takeya’s action and Géricault’s “The Rafts of the Medusa” lies in their extreme physicality.“ – Akemi Takeya, Performing artist picks eighteen actions and dedicated them to the shipwrecked in Géricault’s painting…” by Jürgen Bauer
History:
LEMONISM x ACTIONISM Theater Version (Performance) *PW:lemon
Premiere 11.04.2018 @ Cultuurcentrum De Grote Post in Ostend, Belgium
LEMONISM x ACTIONISM Installation
21.10.2017–15.04.2018 @ the Wellington-Hippodroom in Ostend, Belgium.
* Participation in a frame work of the project,“The Raft. Art is (not) Lonely”
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