Presenting Works By:
In Flash Forward, creator and performer interrogates feminist culture unearthing connections between art and everyday life. Sampling gestures, video, and popular music, she delves into an emotionally fraught terrain of how the female body is looked at, from both the vantage point of the viewer and the one being viewed.
Rachel Thorne Germond’s most recent photographs, paintings, and drawings are accompanied by performed monologue and audience interaction. Using notebooks, video images, small canvases—some framed on the walls and spread throughout the space—Germond will immerse viewers visually and viscerally.
Jil Guyon’s cinematic short performance-videos explore the contours of grief and transcendence through ritualized gesture. In each creation, a lone protagonist is driven by unconscious forces into an unexpected environment. Her defining black dress, heels, and unfurling belt form a visual leitmotiv that sets the stylistic and emotional tone throughout the series of works. Archetypal subtexts—the movie star; the femme fatale; the survivor; the lonely wanderer—arise and dissolve, creating a symbolic arena for the investigation of female agency in the wake of loss.
Karen, Rachel and Jil have been meeting through NDA’s Work Session once a month and are excited to share this work that is coming out of those sessions.
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ankita sharma, photo by Deming Haines
“The festival was such a wonderfully supportive community of artists to perform amongst and a generous audience as well. The performances were inspiring and exceptionally well-run, which I appreciated.”
– ankita sharma
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182 Duane Street
New York, NY 10013
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