Enacting Stillness: An Exhibition in Nine Parts

Curator: Sara Reisman
Opening: June 11, 7:30 pm
Exhibition duration: June 11 - August 28
Artists: Rehan Ansari, Nicolás Dumit Estévez  Brendan Fernandes, Yoko Inoue, Claudia Joskowicz, Kirsten Justesen, Clifford Owens, Jan Pfeiffer, Emily Roysdon, and Roman Stetina

Enacting Stillness includes a group of visual and performance artists who are engaged with stillness, stoppage, and slowing down in the context of performance. Artists in the exhibition employ gestures that involve turning away, inward, and upward, upending our expectations for the continuity of dance and theatrical compositions and lines of movement and thought. Enacting Stillness considers the political and emotional potential that these unexpected ruptures might mean to both the artist and the viewer.

The stage readings of Rehan Ansari’s play Unburdened directed by Viktorie Čermáková will be organised in collaboration with the MeetFactory Theatre on July 28 and August 26 at 7:45 and 8 pm. Cast: Ondřej Novák, Daniela Voráčková.

Listen to the interview with curator Sara Reisman on UMA: You Make Art.