Boychild, Untitled hand dance, 2019. Performance, Carlos:Ishikawa, London
BIENNALE ARTE 2019: PERFORMANCE PROGRAMME
About
boychild (USA) is a movement-based performance artist whose work operates through improvisation as a mode of survival and world-building in the liminal, performative space where becoming meets representation. Adamant about the visceral experience of live visual performance, she makes a case for how the movement of form can communicate what remains impenetrable through images and language.
Performance
Untitled Hand Dance, 2019
boychild’s hand dances are notations, sifting compositions with the world’s moments enfolded. Hidden in the hands an alluvial transcription of reach and embrace. The final flickers of the body’s expression, caress and touch. Haptic grasp. Emphatic abandon, ephemeral betrayal. An atmosphere of messages.
Watch an excerpt of this performance here (from 04:43).
Credits
Presented with support from Spring Workshop and Carlos/Ishikawa.