Stanley Love Performance Group premieres Tapestry Truths, a performance in which they inhabit Martin Gustavsson's screens—paintings affixed onto metal frames on wheels—as setting. Stanley Love Performance Group will utilize Gustavsson’s exhibition El Mirage as an open rehearsal space, a space of interaction, continually re-shaping itself. Working from social and modern dance idioms, the SLPG cast is built on an array of individuality, a large ensemble of diverse bodies. While highly structured and choreographed, the performance introduces movement that is wildly dynamic and open to past and future agencies. This collaboration reflects upon the daily occurrence of action, pictured outside and within the set of paintings, not as spectacle, but as an investigation into physiology: what is a body, what is an image, how do the two correlate and mutate? The exhibition foregrounds the un-boundaried image, one that originates and exists beyond the canvas, and poses the question: When does a painting become a body?

PERFORMANCES:

Jan 13-17, 2016, 8pm