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Comment by Laurel Jay Carpenter on May 25, 2011 at 10:36am

Comment by Laurel Jay Carpenter on May 25, 2011 at 10:36am

Longva + Carpenter reveal their Hunger

 

Tuesday, June 7, 2011  •  4 – 9pm

MICROSCOPE Gallery

4 Charles Place, Bushwick/Brooklyn NY

347.925.1433  •  www.microscopegallery.com

 

Collaborative team Longva + Carpenter presents Hunger, a new durational performance. Hunger uses the familiarity of the dinner table to isolate and augment the subtext of small talk between intimate pairs. Two women sit motionless, looking at each other from across a bare table. The women are physically connected by a banded form; their arms are linked in a single tube, as if they are wearing one piece of clothing. The knitted band suggests warmth and coziness, but also becomes a shared straitjacket, confining each to the unrelenting mirroring of the other. In this heightened visual metaphor, each woman has only a single sentence to offer. One is desperate for attention and approval (“Is it good?”), the other is withholding (“If I don’t say anything, it’s good”). Each woman is therefore isolated in her proximity to the other. Exploring the myriad relationships between two people: lovers, parent/child, teacher/student, friends, colleagues, clerk/client, Hunger considers all the ways we cannot communicate, but long to connect.

Comment by Mary Campbell on February 10, 2011 at 11:56pm

The Art Nurses are back!
Saturday, February 12th- 10pm
New Media Caucus Event
FREE
at University of the Streets, 130 East 7th Street,NY,NY

Comment by fredwillem on July 25, 2010 at 9:15am