Feiko Beckers - A disappointment you can rely on
06/04/2018 | Manifesta Office Amsterdam
Performance A disappointment you can rely on
As part of the opening of the project perform doc
Performance followed by the performance *** by Dora Garcia
On April 6th, 2018, from 19h to 21h, at the Manifesta Building, Amsterdam
Feiko Beckers - A disappointment you can rely on
06/04/2018 | Manifesta Office Amsterdam
Performance A disappointment you can rely on
As part of the opening of the project perform doc
Performance followed by the performance *** by Dora Garcia
On April 6th, 2018, from 19h to 21h, at the Manifesta Building, Amsterdam
Performance by Jeremiah Day
Details to come soon
Jimmy Robert
Cubitt Gallery, London, 2008. Courtesy Cubitt Gallery.
Kunsthalle Bern, 2009 Courtesy Galerie Diana Stigter © Dominique Uldry
6 things we couldn't do, but we can do now with Ian White, Tate Britain, London, 2004. Courtesy of Jimmy Robert.
Cubitt Gallery, London, 2008. Courtesy Cubitt Gallery.
Jimmy Robert (1975, Guadeloupe, France) works on the boundaries between various artistic media, his body, his identity and the several disciplines he uses. His practice simultaneously questions the delay and the relationship between images and language and considers gestures as shapes [1]. Jimmy Robert also focuses his attention on paper, which acts as a connection between photography, sculpture and performance. For him, the ephemerality of paper, because of its fragility, is very close to that of performances. Depicting movement in both the dancer's body and the installation of photographs, Robert demonstrates the ability of objects to become performative artworks [2]. His performance Abolibibelo, made at the Migros Museum in Zurich in 2015, is an example of his reflections on the physical qualities of paper [3].
Jimmy Robert takes his cues from cultural figures of the recent past avant-garde writers, filmmakers, visual artists - who were not only pioneers, but also deft at transcribing the traumas and effects of their social conditions. Although associated with his photography and sculpture practice, performance remains an integral part of Robert's work. Not trained as a dancer, but always inspired by movement, his performative works value gesture and chance over elaborate choreography, referring to Fluxus artists such as Yoko Ono and Yvonne Rainer of the Judson Dance Theater. Robert collaborates from time to time with other dancers, such as Juan Corres Benito, who was trained in the Forsythe technique, with the performance Metallica shown at Tanya Leighton gallery, in Berlin [4].
[1] Jeu de Paume. (2012) 'Langue matérielle'.
Available at: http://www.jeudepaume.org/index2014.php?page=article&idArt=1594
[2] Africanah.org. (2014) 'Berlin Biennial: Jimmy Robert'.
Available at: http://africanah.org/berlin-biennial-jimmy-robert/
[3] Stewart, J. (2015) 'The process - in which an artist discusses making a particular work - Jimmy Robert, Reprise.' The Believer, Summer 2015, p. 78-81.
[4] Tanya Leighton Gallery. (2015) 'Press release. Exhibition "Jimmy Robert. It's not lame… It's lamé".'
Available at: http://www.tanyaleighton.com/index.php?pageId=624&l=en