Move: Choreographing You explores the interaction between visual art and dance. Focusing on major visual artists and choreographers who create sculptures and installations that direct the movements of audiences, making them dancers as much as active participants,
Move sets out to show that choreography is not merely about the notation of movement on paper or in film, but that it may be equally implied by sculptural works and installations.
Importance is placed in the everyday movements that have been a driving force in both art forms since the 1960s and presents some of the diverse yet interconnected ways that visual art and choreography have come together over the last 50 years in the works of artists such as:
Allan Kaprow and Robert Morris (1950s and early 1960s), Bruce Nauman and Yvonne Rainer (late 1960s), Franz West and Lygia Clark (1970s), Rosemary Butcher and Eleanor Antin (1980s), and Mike Kelley, Isaac Julian and William Forsythe (late 1980s and 1990s).
In the younger generation, artists with a specific interest in choreography and/or the deliberate blurring of boundaries between art and daily life include Trisha Donnelly, Tino Sehgal and Christian Jankowski.
Published alongside the exhibition at Hayward Gallery (13 October – 9 January 2011).
